CoolerOpposide

I had no idea he was in the caravan wow

Wait WHAT? I had no idea he got arrested holy shit that slipped under my radar

I 100% agree with everything you said, and in short what I said in a reply elsewhere is that reform is not the end game answer, but if I have the ability to put somebody in a position of power who is legitimately amicable to reform, I might as well do it to get the boot off the neck. No good is coming from a mayor actively collaborating with ICE, at least some good might come from a mayor who replaced cops with social workers and decreased the direct capacity of armed officers to do harm both socially and physically

Don’t get it wrong, I totally understand the punitive justice system is not how you deal with hate crime, but dispute mediation is actually a serious tangible improvement over the current solutions we currently have in hand like sending an armed cop. I don’t think the solution is the carceral system, but I think that it’s a hell of a lot easier to fundamentally change how the carceral system functions and what it’s goals are when the people we actually task at restorative justice projects aren’t literal cops and are trained in how to do restorative justice. I also think that a mayor who is at least a democratic socialist will be far more amicable to working to dismantle the worst parts of the carceral system than, I don’t know, literally any of the other options we have on the table. We do actually get to vote, whether or not the candidate is perfect, and there will be a mayor, whether or not they are perfect. I at least want a mayor that understand materialism and can normalize the idea of socialism while doing what is possible short of an actual proletarian revolution to take the boot off of the neck of the working class.

There are conditions I’d rather organize in, and it isn’t under literal mayor cop Eric Adams. To call what I’m doing “shilling” is funny because I’d rather “shill” to get a democratic socialist elected and give my community a nucleus to organize around than “shill” for ideological purity when there will be a mayor regardless. It might as well be a better mayor if it’s possible. I’d rather not sit tethered to a lead and not test the limits of how far I can push improving conditions short of the actual revolution.

understood

Oh idk if you were responding to me but I just wanted to be funny in my reply

It was a materialistic campaign. The entire focus was on improving the material conditions of New Yorkers. It won’t be a red terror, it’ll be an improvement of material conditions to allow the working class to better organize. Free childcare is really one of the major cornerstones here

Ok but if his mayoral campaign tanks he should just say it

No but I’m already mad that he wants to hire more cops and increase policing because I made it up, and I am such a principled leftist that naturally I didn’t actually take the time to understand the policies I am arguing against

Call me crazy, but funding hate crime prevention and expanding the social safety net is good, actually. To call social workers cops as if they are truly one and the same is so fucking disingenuous it’s almost unbelievable. Yeah, sending in the guy with a degree in deescalation to settle a dispute is exactly the same as sending in an armed thug with a gun and anger issues.

Please say you are not serious.

They’ll call anybody a communist. Might as well be one and show people it’s good to be a communist

He wants to hire social workers and expand the social safety net, not increase police funding. Please at least attempt to familiarize yourself with the material you are discussing before making sweeping statements about it