Michael Magras
@michaelmagras@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Yes! A million times yes! This passage is from an interview with Zohran Mamdani in the September 2025 issue of The Nation. I've been making a similar point for ages. Somewhere along the line, "efficiency" became associated with the right. It should be identified with the left. There is nothing inherently conservative about efficiency. Mamdani beautiful explains why. #Politics #Economy#Economics#Democrats #Democracy #NewYork#ZohranMamdani #US #USpol

A quote from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: "The example of sewer socialism is one that I think of often. What we have seen in recent years is that the language that should be identified with the left has become associated with the right: language of efficiency, of waste, of quality of life. To fight for working people must also mean to fight for their quality of life. Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery. That means improving the services and social goods that working people experience each and every day: the sewers, the clean drinking water, the parks."
A quote from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: "The example of sewer socialism is one that I think of often. What we have seen in recent years is that the language that should be identified with the left has become associated with the right: language of efficiency, of waste, of quality of life. To fight for working people must also mean to fight for their quality of life. Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery. That means improving the services and social goods that working people experience each and every day: the sewers, the clean drinking water, the parks."
A quote from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: "The example of sewer socialism is one that I think of often. What we have seen in recent years is that the language that should be identified with the left has become associated with the right: language of efficiency, of waste, of quality of life. To fight for working people must also mean to fight for their quality of life. Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery. That means improving the services and social goods that working people experience each and every day: the sewers, the clean drinking water, the parks."
Michael Magras
@michaelmagras@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Yes! A million times yes! This passage is from an interview with Zohran Mamdani in the September 2025 issue of The Nation. I've been making a similar point for ages. Somewhere along the line, "efficiency" became associated with the right. It should be identified with the left. There is nothing inherently conservative about efficiency. Mamdani beautiful explains why. #Politics #Economy#Economics#Democrats #Democracy #NewYork#ZohranMamdani #US #USpol

A quote from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: "The example of sewer socialism is one that I think of often. What we have seen in recent years is that the language that should be identified with the left has become associated with the right: language of efficiency, of waste, of quality of life. To fight for working people must also mean to fight for their quality of life. Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery. That means improving the services and social goods that working people experience each and every day: the sewers, the clean drinking water, the parks."
A quote from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: "The example of sewer socialism is one that I think of often. What we have seen in recent years is that the language that should be identified with the left has become associated with the right: language of efficiency, of waste, of quality of life. To fight for working people must also mean to fight for their quality of life. Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery. That means improving the services and social goods that working people experience each and every day: the sewers, the clean drinking water, the parks."
A quote from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: "The example of sewer socialism is one that I think of often. What we have seen in recent years is that the language that should be identified with the left has become associated with the right: language of efficiency, of waste, of quality of life. To fight for working people must also mean to fight for their quality of life. Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery. That means improving the services and social goods that working people experience each and every day: the sewers, the clean drinking water, the parks."
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Trump is a son of Queens, a Northerner through-and-through. There’s no public record telling us when the light of the angel Jefferson Davis fell upon him and he knew that the Confederacy’s cause was his own, but it sure is now."

And not just Trump: scads of Northerners whose ancestors fought the Confederacy have now jumped on the Confederate train after the double election of the first Black president.

#Trump#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #racism#Queens #NewYork
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/who-asked-for-this-two-stories
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Stephen Robinson and Paul Waldman comment on Trump's curious attachment to a Confederacy to which he has no ties as a dyed-in-the-wool sool of Queens, New York, with recent immigrant ancestors:

"Trump’s fondness for the Confederacy has little to do with southern 'heritage' — he’s a native New Yorker who never lived below the Mason-Dixie line until he became a permanent Mar-a-Lago resident in 2020."

#Trump#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #racism#Queens #NewYork
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-confederacy-monuments-lost-caus
Preston MacDougall
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@baslow #NewYork governor Kathy Hochul should warn #Trump that he could be arrested on state charges of threatening #ZohranMamdsni if he comes to New York! #Resist#Fascism in #USpol.
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Let me tell you a little secret: most New York Jews really like New York’s diversity. We like that it attracts the Mamdanis of the world. We like sharing it with people of lots of different backgrounds. That’s what makes us feel safe and happy here. Especially when they are such a mensch like him: a nice college boy, his parents are professors, he went to Bronx Science, and to a liberal arts school."

~ John Ganz

#Mamdani #NewYork #Jews #diversity #immigrants
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-it-took-to-win
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Wolf [Glosser, Stephen Miller's 2-g-grandfather] arrived at Ellis Island on January 7, 1903. He peddled bananas in New York City and changed his name to Louis. 'One of the main things everybody wanted to do when they came to America was become Americanized,' recalled his grandson Izzy.

All their lives, the Glossers would strive to help the poor and persecuted."

#StephenMiller#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Stephen Miller is an immigration hypocrite. I know vecause I’m his uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration."

~ David S. Glosser

#StephenMiller#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

As the odious Stephen Miller tries to convince heartland Americans that immigrants and diversity have made New York City the enemy, it's worth remembering that he descends directly from Jewish ancestors who fled persecution and poverty for that very city.

Jean Guerrero tells the story in her book Hatemonger, excerpted at the link below.

#StephenMiller#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
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https://lithub.com/how-stephen-miller-abandoned-the-lessons-of-his-jewish-ancestors/
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Wolf [Glosser, Stephen Miller's 2-g-grandfather] arrived at Ellis Island on January 7, 1903. He peddled bananas in New York City and changed his name to Louis. 'One of the main things everybody wanted to do when they came to America was become Americanized,' recalled his grandson Izzy.

All their lives, the Glossers would strive to help the poor and persecuted."

#StephenMiller#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Fox News may present an endless stream of anti-urban fear-mongering to its viewers while it lionizes the allegedly 'real' Americans who live in rural America, but it isn’t not going to relocate its studios to rural North Dakota. Nor are the Wall Street titans going to leave the city, even if (heaven forfend) they have to pay a bit more in taxes. They will, however, keep whining."

~ Paul Waldman

#Mamdani #NewYork #diversity #immigrants#Fox#WallStreet
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/mamdani-win-causes-worlds-whiniest
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

As the odious Stephen Miller tries to convince heartland Americans that immigrants and diversity have made New York City the enemy, it's worth remembering that he descends directly from Jewish ancestors who fled persecution and poverty for that very city.

Jean Guerrero tells the story in her book Hatemonger, excerpted at the link below.

#StephenMiller#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
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https://lithub.com/how-stephen-miller-abandoned-the-lessons-of-his-jewish-ancestors/
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Fox News may present an endless stream of anti-urban fear-mongering to its viewers while it lionizes the allegedly 'real' Americans who live in rural America, but it isn’t not going to relocate its studios to rural North Dakota. Nor are the Wall Street titans going to leave the city, even if (heaven forfend) they have to pay a bit more in taxes. They will, however, keep whining."

~ Paul Waldman

#Mamdani #NewYork #diversity #immigrants#Fox#WallStreet
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/mamdani-win-causes-worlds-whiniest
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Let me tell you a little secret: most New York Jews really like New York’s diversity. We like that it attracts the Mamdanis of the world. We like sharing it with people of lots of different backgrounds. That’s what makes us feel safe and happy here. Especially when they are such a mensch like him: a nice college boy, his parents are professors, he went to Bronx Science, and to a liberal arts school."

~ John Ganz

#Mamdani #NewYork #Jews #diversity #immigrants
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-it-took-to-win
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"I’m sorry, but you are gonna have a hard time convincing liberal educated upper-middle-class Jews not to like a college-educated, left-leaning immigrant—and one who tried to make a career in the arts?! Forget about it. The guy is practically Jewish!"

#Mamdani #NewYork #Jews #diversity #immigrants
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Let me tell you a little secret: most New York Jews really like New York’s diversity. We like that it attracts the Mamdanis of the world. We like sharing it with people of lots of different backgrounds. That’s what makes us feel safe and happy here. Especially when they are such a mensch like him: a nice college boy, his parents are professors, he went to Bronx Science, and to a liberal arts school."

~ John Ganz

#Mamdani #NewYork #Jews #diversity #immigrants
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https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-it-took-to-win