• TheFonz@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Hahaha the leftists have purity tested MAMDANI out of their circle. You can’t make this shit up, Lemmy

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      Mamdani would be like a center left politician in Europe. I guess for most Americans anything slightly to the left of a Hillary Clinton is the limit of the left spectrum.

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        1 month ago

        Anything that isn’t a total leninist commie is “center left”. I love it! You guys are so funny it’s sad. Once again, the left proving is exclusively good at one thing and one thing only: purity testing the left.

        Also, I live in Europe. Mamdani is a boiler plate leftist here. Nothing you said is true.

        The word “left” is extremely fluid on Lemmy, it seems. When Mamdani is campaigning, it’s a big tent word and Mamdani is definitely on the team. After the campaign, when the purity testing begins, “left” has strict leninist parameters in must adhere to. It’s fun, isn’t it

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          Europe is in decline. It used to have people much to the left of Mamdani who implemented the socialist policies, but neoliberalism has been slowly eroding all of Europe and it is turning into the USA.

          That is why Mamdani is now center-left in Europe. In the past he would just be a centrist or even center-right with his current policies. Everything is relative.

          Compare Mamdani for example to Mechelon in France and Mamdani is clearly far to his right.