They don't like electoralism, prefer to LARP revolution while doing nothing to actually lay the groundwork for one.

One thing I've learned as a socialist is that there is always a purity test by people who consider themselves purer socialists.

Karl Marx himself could post on here and people would accuse him of being a neoliberal stooge.

Tankies don't like anyone, they'll never be satisfied. I'm fairly certain most of them are russian trolls tasked with sowing discord and fracturing the left.

Historically, a socialist holding an elected executive office of a capitalist government is a precarious position fraught with contradictions. You can only meaningfully govern by making massive concessions to the ruling class and betraying some supporters. Communists will stake out the "he will betray you" position.

FWIW the Mamdani administration is very aware of this contradiction and deliberately made promises that he can do by decree, such as the rent freeze. But there's also been some rather heinous concessions, like keeping on a bunch of Zionists in the admin, and also keeping on the NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch.

I'd say they're skeptical that Mamdani will keep to his promises or that electing him isn't enough. But dislike? I bet every one would've voted for him.

Is that a real headline? If so, that's extremely dishonest journalism...

Not the first time I read that kind of BS. In Cadiz (Spain), a left wing major said 1 month after being appointed that the previous right wing major left nothing but spider webs in the accounts. The right wing tried to push that as "only a month and he has broken the city".

trump will literally agree with anyone he spends an hour talking to. He said he and walz had similar thoughts on what to do in ministota.

Trump is barking seal that agrees with any man that is in the same room as him.

Trump is ridiculously easy to manipulate. Just use the right words and butter him up and he'll think you're his buddy.

I genuinely think its because Trump, and all of his supporters, are colossal pussies when actually challenged and defeated by someone willing to fight them.

If Mamdani made any concession, you'd never hear Trump and his cult not talking about it.

Instead Trump publicly sucked Mamdani's cock and MAGA is pretending it never happened.

Expanding on what others have answered, Trump is extremely suggestible due to dementia. He literally just agrees with whoever told him something last because he can't think on his own anymore.

That's why it's even more vital to get rid of fascist advisors like Steven Miller than it is to get rid of Trump himself.

trump will say anything. he doesn't support mamdani, at least not in action. but trump wants to be popular and for people to like him, so he will attach himself to anything successful. he loved the new england patriots until the kansas city chiefs became the dynasty to beat. suddenly he was talking about patrick mahomes constantly.

the criticism for that meeting should purely go on mamdani allowing his brand to be attached to a fascist. but that gets into that electoralism will never save us because politicians who play political games to curry favor are inherently compromised. however, the value of electoralism is that it can help us put people who will allow us to organize on the margins in office as we grow our movement

Trump can't afford to dislike anyone overwhelmingly popular.

What's a "tankie"?

Where are these tankies that hate Mamdani so much? What do they hate him for?

I have seen a few, here is one I saved from some time back.

https://lemmy.ml/post/39249375

A lot of things get removed from .ml so its hard to go back find things sometimes. If you are around lemmy a while you will find quite a few takes from tankies.

They don't.

There's two main criticisms of Zohran that come from the left.

One is that while good, his victory is going to be limited because the mayor has little power to enact systematic change. The keeping of Tisch (likely to avoid a war with Hochul he can't win) is a point for this

The second is that it reinforces the Democratic party which actively opposes socialism, by giving it a face of that. And that in that way it also serves to dilute actual revolutionary energy, etc.

You don't have to agree with those arguments - I don't fully. But those are them. But considering the person here is hitting a shitlib trifecta - screaming about tankies and horseshoe theory, conspiracy theories about Russian bots, and claiming "nuance" when caught in obvious contradictions - theyre not going to make an actual argument. Just claim ownership of the left for the center, again.