Benjamin Tisch’s shot at Mamdani during the Met Council gala comes just two weeks after his sister accepted Mamdani’s offer to remain at the helm of the NYPD.
“The two of us will not shy away from the fact that we hold disagreements on certain issues … but I also believe that these disagreements are not only reconcilable, but they are the sign of a healthy partnership to come,” the mayor-elect said in an interview with The News last month.
These are the kind of ghouls you want to work with if your plan is to sabotage yourself out of the gate. 
In this case, it appears that Mamdani is the one who fell for it.
Mamdani is making the same mistake Corbyn made with the Labour right.
He should purge every single last person that would be unloyal. They will all work against him behind the scenes otherwise.
Mamdani refusal to act against Tisch and her private army should have laid to rest any “leftists” hope of him enacting any real policy that could challenge the status quo.
This is my stance on Mamdani. I don’t really care about the latest thing he did or did not do, because he’s already done enough to prove to me that he’ll ultimately be ineffective. It sucks, but it’s entryism.
I’m pretty much the opposite. Until he actually gets into office, we’re just talking about takes.
Until he actually gets into office, we’re just talking about takes.
He has committed to keeping Tisch as commissioner, that’s not just a take.
As others have pointed out, if you’re going to piss off the police, at least get in power first. His commitment isn’t indefinite, either, and firing her after an inevitable police screw-up could better minimize reaction.
he’s not in office yet and he needs to not get murdered by them lmao
Then he should probably not leave the person who seems to want him and everyone like him dead in charge of them lol.
Yeah great point firing her should be a priority when he has the legal authority to do so.
Would you want your enemies to know you’re coming for them? Or would you prefer them to be at ease?
I’m agnostic on the matter. It’s to be determined as far as I’m concerned. Some people say it’s to avoid a kind of first strike from the police, others say it’s obvious lib shit. Could literally be either at this point so all we’re doing is arguing about something we’ll have definitive evidence for soon enough.
I’m agnostic on the matter. It’s to be determined as far as I’m concerned. Some people say it’s to avoid a kind of first strike from the police, others say it’s obvious lib shit. Could literally be either at this point so all we’re doing is arguing about something we’ll have definitive evidence for soon enough.
That’s fair. It’s just that all the arguments for why it doesn’t matter that he’s been walking back rhetoric tend to feel like “he’s hiding his power level”. It makes much more sense that he was never actually very radical, and some of the people who supported him were, so that radicalism was projected onto him (not just by his supporters). I suppose, as you say, we’ll see.
just fire her man
Keep staking out that bold campaign promise of free frog transit for scorpions
Yeah he’s definitely Dinkins 2.0 will probably also lose reelection to a cop
Idk maybe they just need a few more compromises and he’ll get the respect of the nypd and Zionists in ny
When are prominent Jews going to speak up against Israel, the Zionists, fash with these talking points, or even say a single critical thing?
The libs love their two state solution, their both sides nonsense, right? So when will they standup? Now? Never?
And it’s going to be up to us to save them when they have their faces eaten by the leopards, isn’t it? Save them when all the marginalized people will have already been gassed, when there will even bigger existential problems to face I’m sure
Aren’t there many prominent jews saying critical things? Just off the top of my head, Naomi Klein, Norm Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Mandy Patinkin and his wife. Also, these 150 actors, directors, etc? https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/09/lhqn-a09.html
Many of those who do are prominent outside of Jewish communities (as in, prominent in general) because of their left-wing politics (some because of their anti-Israel activism, like Professor Finkelstein). It seems like Jewish institutions are dominated by Zionists - not surprising, they have all the funding and CIA backing. A similar thing happened with Ukrainian community institutions in the diaspora.
I don’t think there’s a single antizionist Jewish organization of meaningful size. The best you get is mealy mouthed twostatism or “peace for all” energy, never addressing the colonial nature of the state
Jewish Voice for Peace has 750,000 supporters. Is that not a meaningful size?
Edit: changed “members” to “supporters” based on their annual report
While many members are actual anti-zionists who understand the colonial nature of Israel, JVP as an organization does not take a stance on Palestinian statehood.
JVP is explicitly anti-Zionist
I didn’t say they were zionists (though I see I may have inadvertently implied it - not intentionally, sorry), I said they take no stance on Palestinian statehood. IIRC neither does BDS. It’s just not part of the purpose/tactics of JVP, who are an organization for American Jews to oppose American support for “Israel”.
Edit: coming back to this comment, you didn’t say that I called them zionists so it’s slightly beside the point as a direct reply to you. My bad.
I was very specific in my language, does JVP support the decolonization of Israel and an end to the Jewish state?
They have 4 “FAQs” on their website and one of them is explicit that it is opposed to Zionism. jewishvoiceforpeace.org/about/#faq
does JVP support the decolonization of Israel and an end to the Jewish state
JVP takes no official stance on Palestinian statehood, it’s not really part of their purpose/tactics. Neither does BDS, IIRC, so it doesn’t make them zionists. JVP’s purpose is to oppose American support for “Israel”, since they’re an American Jewish organization.
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Yeah, in the US, the “Jewish institutions” of the 20th century all were or became Zionist institutions over time, so if anyone prominent within them turns on Israel, they get systematically excluded from institutional life. Which happens all the time.
mamdani is robert baratheon
this exact thing happened in game of thronesRobert managed to remain a unifying figure from the rebellion all the way up until his death, shit only went to pieces when he wasn’t around anymore and his successors started fucking things up. There were a lot of schemers in his court to be sure but he slapped them down whenever they got too threatening.
rly mks u thnk
charismatic leader
keeps enemies close
brother hates him
every lord hates him
just wants free
winebuseshis best pal is a washed norm enjoyer in far away frozen land
Whens mamdani gonna get incredibly fat
2nd term
what would be his breastplate stretcher
bodega stretcher?
But imagine if she WASN’T in charge of the world’s largest domestic military! Wouldn’t that be so dangerous for Mamdani?
Imagine how dangerous it would be for him to actually act against his political opponents? Unthinkable! Then the Democrats might actually purge him, and it would be harder for him to do entryism into the “graveyard of social movements” party.
