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Zohran Mamdani Stuns Andrew Cuomo In NYC Mayoral Primary

It likely will require some fees, lower cost would be fine with me.

More taxes probably. On the NYC-based corps. Which will cause them to dump their staff levels in the city & move elsewhere. Which will ruin the city.
 
Honestly, I am surprised nobody has accused the guy of wanting to install Sharia law.

That was the big one on the forum when Barack Hussein Obama was running for president.

He was both a black Marxist Christian socialist or a covert Muslim working to bring Sharia law to America.

Now all we have is verbose defenders of Western civilization cornballs screaming about wokeness.

Some progress, I guess.

😇
 
More unfortunate than Dems supporting Israel's genocide and a war with Iran? I would say the Dem Socialist is only a knock if the party itself fights against it, rather than actually explains why it's good. Dems have no intention of doing that, and will attack him from the right. They already are.

If the choice is a Social Democrat calling themselves a "Socialist", vs a MAGA, virtually all Dems will pick the Social Democrat with the unfortunate self-identification. And, rightfully so.

And quit mischaracterizing. Dems don't support genocide.
 
More taxes probably. On the NYC-based corps. Which will cause them to dump their staff levels in the city & move elsewhere. Which will ruin the city.
RV, are you familiar with Denmark's tax structure? Low corporate taxes, but no cut outs for capital gains, and a high rate on the income of the very wealthy.

Companies are not incentivized to leave, and Denmark's high standard of living offsets the inability of the wealthy to dump their burdens downward.
 
More taxes probably. On the NYC-based corps. Which will cause them to dump their staff levels in the city & move elsewhere. Which will ruin the city.
Corpos really hate paying any taxes we know. They dont feel like they have any civic responsibilities towards the cities that made them wealthy.

This is something that Americans have been conned into believing is right even as Adam Smith taught us that the rich should pay more in taxes because they benefit the most from public infrastructure.

On the other hand, businesses will still invest if there is a profit to be made. As far as fees go, i didnt say taxes for a reason, there might still have to be bus fares.
 
The ADL is a 501(c)(3) organization. They don't (can't) comment on political campaigns.
Because Jews are not the monolithic,
Israel-obsessed block that you believe them to be (that would be the Christian Right - gotta clear Jesus' landing strip).

My entire family (we are Jews) - and pretty much every Jew I know in NYC - voted for Mamdani.



Again - where is the "hypocrisy?"

What??? Are you saying they're not keeping Kosher???
 
More taxes probably. On the NYC-based corps. Which will cause them to dump their staff levels in the city & move elsewhere. Which will ruin the city.

I've been hearing this same line from the right about NYC for 20+ years now, and yet we're still the most economically powerful city in the country, if not the continent.
 
Corpos really hate paying any taxes we know. They dont feel like they have any civic responsibilities towards the cities that made them wealthy.

This is something that Americans have been conned into believing is right even as Adam Smith taught us that the rich should pay more in taxes because they benefit the most from public infrastructure.

On the other hand, businesses will still invest if there is a profit to be made. As far as fees go, i didnt say taxes for a reason, there might still have to be bus fares.
I remember an interview with the CEO of a German automaker who was obviously amused at the question about how their board was constituted (half labor). It was like he was having a hard time taking seriously the assumptions in the question from the American interviewer, about how having line workers on the corporate board must hurt the company. He had to explain that they were good for the whole company, were constantly improving operations, that they would not be changing the structure, and that a lot of innovation came from listening to the workers on the lines and in production.

I can't think of any visible US CEO making this case. We just assume that merchant princes have a right to shape everything, benefit from everything, and pick the sides, the refs, and the rewards.
 
Here’s some good old-fashioned Roger Stone rat-****ing that ‘progs’ are inhaling.
Both conservatives and centrist dems are going to be saying a lot of racist and self-humiliating things over the next few months.
Thanks for getting us started.
 
Finland specifically, may be a touch further. But generalized "Nordic" sounds about right.
It has a fairly right wing government right now. They aren't threatening to dismantle what works.
 
You claim anti-Zionism is anti-semitism as if all Jews are Israelis or loyal to Israel. Accusing Jews of having dual loyalty is anti-Semitic.

Where has Mamdani opposed Israel’s “right to exist”? Are you claiming Israel can’t exist without committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing?

The Israel I supported was Yitzhak Rabin's Israel, not Netanyahu's vision for the country.
People who accuse those who oppose Bibi's politics of being antisemites sound a lot like Yigal Amir...which isn't surprising....ANYMORE.
 
It has a fairly right wing government right now. They aren't threatening to dismantle what works.

Because in most of Europe, their “right wing” parties are still further left than mainstream Democrats.
 
It is for those that want to appeal to the majority of Americans.

I do not want to appeal to the majority of Americans as they stand right now, RaleBulgarian. I want to help change the minds of the majority of Americans and bring them back to the side of righteousness.

For Democratic Socialists.

And for pretty much every developed European country and East Asian/Oceanian country with robust social safety systems, housing and healthcare, from France to Germany to Scandinavia to Japan.

Socialist Democratic supporters had opportunities in ‘16 and ‘20.

And they did not win the Democratic primaries. So, by your logic, if they win the Democratic Primaries, they should have the opportunity right?

Progressives and Leftists problem isn’t being prevented from getting on the field.

Progressives and Leftists problem is that their platforms/candidates do not appeal to the majority of American voters.

That would presume that people cannot be moved or their minds changed over time, either positively or negatively. Following Obama's presidency, if you had asked most Americans a decade ago if lawless xenophobic nationalist authoritarianism would appeal to the majority of American voters, who would have guessed the answer would be an emphatic "YES"?

Obvious false assertion.

Who are you thinking of, RaleBulgarian? Certainly not Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries I imagine?
 
It is for those that want to appeal to the majority of Americans.

For Democratic Socialists.

Socialist Democratic supporters had opportunities in ‘16 and ‘20.

Progressives and Leftists problem isn’t being prevented from getting on the field.

Progressives and Leftists problem is that their platforms/candidates do not appeal to the majority of American voters.

Obvious false assertion.

The majority of Americans support democratic socialist policies when you poll them on the policies without using the scary phrase “democratic socialism”.
 
If the choice is a Social Democrat calling themselves a "Socialist", vs a MAGA, virtually all Dems will pick the Social Democrat with the unfortunate self-identification. And, rightfully so.

What if MAGA and the corporate media just calls the Social Democrat a Socialist? Zohran won by not taking a backward step and defending his policies.

And quit mischaracterizing. Dems don't support genocide.

No one supports a genocide, but many support giving unlimited weapons to Israel to commit a genocide. So... what's the ****ing difference?
 
The majority of Americans support democratic socialist policies when you poll them on the policies without using the scary phrase “democratic socialism”.
The problem is getting them out to vote. If people got out to vote 100% or close, we could actually see representation.
 
The mere existence of trans people seems to be very unpopular. In the UK every single trans organization was attacked mercilessly.

There is a greater proportion of ARBY'S employees than trans people so why can't the world just leave them alone?
It's tough enough to make such a life-changing decision in the interest of feeling comfortable in one's own body without complete strangers trying
to cram their views down one's throat.

Getting gender affirming medical care is not a trumpet charge for some imaginary fifth column invasion on "the children" of the world.
It's a desperate attempt to be what your mind insists is your true identity and it is a very serious decision, not some "fashion statement".

People who decide to surgically alter their bodies to confirm their gender identity are no different than Ludwig Von Beethoven sawing the legs off his piano
in order to aid bone conduction hearing so that he could continue to write music that the world wanted to hear, with one major difference:

Trans people do not do what they do as a public performance, they do it for private sanity and peace of mind, and they don't give two shits what the world thinks.
 
But they're socialist solutions to problems, not capitalist solutions.

They are not becaus the "socialist solution" is funded by a Capitalist economy. Your brand of Socialism is like a Lamprey that is convinced it's the shark.

A capitalist solution is to let the free market solve the problems that government and social spending address. A nation that is loaded with SOCIALIST SOLUTIONS to mitigate the impact of CAPITALISM... is not a capitalist nation.

And the Capitalist economy in these countries DO let the free market solve the problems for the most part. All that most of the "socialist" programs do is determine how much money the consumer has to spend on themselves which determines how much things costs and what is available for that consumer to buy.

You want those nations to be capitalist, not socialist, because your ideology cannot accept the success of those programs -- which also produce the happiest people on Earth.

Because they are capitalist. With few exceptions (Norway's majority ownership of Equinor, for example) the means of production are privately owned and the government is funded by taxes on private income and trade.

Accepting that public spending and taxation can mitigate the harm of capitalism is like a 30,000 lb bomb to your ideology.

Capitalism becomes a "harm" when there is a monopolistic control of production by one company or a small number of companies in co0llusion. Socialism fast tracks straight to the problem by creating a government monopoly on production.
 
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