“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”
The NYPD will not comply and will actively undermine his entire stint in office.
Even if they were to comply, the feds will find a way to release him.
The feds will 100% try to off him for doing it.
And this is all assuming Mamdani is sincere here and is not just doing a populist gesture that he will immediately backtrack once in power.
Just like the first space race, the US imposed this supposed competition on themselves while their peer rival (the USSR and now China) never actually cared about racing anyone and just wanted to do space exploration for the benefit of Humanity.
And it can be argued the US didn’t really “win” the first race either, because the Soviets achieved many more milestones in space exploration before the Americans, it’s just that they got someone on the moon first and decided themselves that the race was ‘won’ and over.
There’s a very sweet irony behind Xi promoting the achievements of the CPC and the merits of Marxism-Leninism with people like Putin and the Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (who personally oversaw the murder of millions of Chinese-Indonesians under the pretext of being suspected Communists) sitting next to him. It’s almost like a humiliation ritual for them lol.
Just came back to reply to your comment that a Youtube channel has already done it. Enjoy!
It was Mao who once said that the party should never move too far ahead of the masses, to quote:
Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means.
This is also why Stalin (unfortunately) recriminalized Homosexuality after Lenin legalized it; because he recognized that the masses of the USSR were still mostly socially reactionary and moving too far forward socially risked tearing apart the nascent Soviet state and turn said masses against the party. And he was right: see how many soldiers in the Ukrainian SSR alone willingly joined the Nazis the moment they had a chance.
This is not to say a socialist state shouldn’t strive to push the masses towards social progress, women’s rights were advanced far more quickly in the Socialist bloc than the Capitalist world last century for example. But such social progress must be organic and done within a framework that will be appropriate to the material conditions of the socialist society. If Burkina Faso had their stonewall moment today this law would probably never pass. But they didn’t, because the masses aren’t ready for it yet.
I love the outfits of these female soldiers in the parade, they look like Communist Cowgirls haha.
I’ve noticed a lot of Western outlets have tried downplaying the importance of the event by just calling it a “military parade” in the title without mentioning historical context at all until way further down the article
It’s basically Orientalism combined with Western media refusing to give what is essentially an assembly of all of their designated enemies an inch of positive coverage.
Hopefully the Iranian reformists have learned their lesson this year and will never take the Americans for their word again. Even if a future Democrat President tries wooing them again, a “25-year Comprehensive Cooperation Plan” cited by Pezeshkian sounds very hard to break away from.
I’ll look into Mullvad, but my desktop browser keeps pulling up SSL errors whenever I try accessing the official site…probably my router is blocking it, but I only need a VPN for mobile devices while I’m away, so I’ll just download the app.
I’m also quite aware of Proton’s reputation for being pro-imperialist, I’ll likely avoid them unless it’s last resort.
So, I’m going to China next week for a little holiday break from my surplus value being stolen (also very excited to be visiting during the WW2 Victory Day celebrations and hope to catch the tail end of that), but I quickly realized I don’t really have a VPN atm to access this site while I’m away.
Anyone have any cost-effective suggestions I can use for less than a month?
Because there is no organized left in the west and the only avenue left for public advocacy of unmitigated left-wing ideas in the west is independent streamers doing rage bait to make a living. It’s unfortunately yet another consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He also spent the last week shitting on Morales for not engaging in bourgeois electoralism enough and how MAS losing the recent election was entirely his fault and nothing to do with MAS under Arce losing revolutionary energy and the support of class conscious workers. And has voiced heavy opposition to Venezuela in the past. The guy has always had a bit of an anti-AES stance and felt like a Trotskyist to me.
I recall recently coming across a self-proclaimed Estonian “socialist” on YouTube that not only claimed that Estonians suffered terribly under “Soviet totalitarianism” but were actually better off and happier today than they ever were under the USSR. They also said that Soviet-era boomers who were still nostalgic for the Soviet Union were all reactionaries that only liked it because it was supposedly more socially conservative (particularly towards women, which was the video topic) compared to Eastern Europe today 
Suffice to say, not even “socialists” in post-Soviet states are immune to anti-communist propaganda from the successor neoliberal states.
I chuckled at the Qing flag being added. These libs really don’t know jack shit about Taiwan.
“the IDF weren’t dedicated Zionists and didn’t want to commit genocide, they were just brave, loyal soldiers following orders” - something I guarantee people will say 70 years from now.
I’m ok with this definition if Cambridge applied it to every single western neoliberal organization that exists today, but they obviously won’t do that 
They believe a new age is coming that will put regular people at the top of the social hierarchy.
Example #567 of anti-establishment reactionaries almost getting it but then going completely off track with batshit crazy conspiracy theories a second later.
“Barack, you washed your hands this time right?”
“Yes and uhhh, let me be clear, I keep hand sanitizer on me now.”
Why would the US government wants to persecute the most renowned fedposters on Lemmy?