Really, the amount of derangement I see from the GOP over Mamdani winning is hilarious. THis is what I wanna see. Inject that crap straight into my veins. Your tears make me strong. But, at the same time, the amount of derangement I see makes me realize just how out of touch with reality that the GOP and its supporters are. As such, I would like to correct the record at least a little bit on this one.
1) "OMG WE FORGOT ABOUT 9/11!"
What, because we elected a socialist, muslim mayor? Way to show your racism.
Im gonna tell you a story. On 9/11, later that night, my parents came into my room and told me, hey, if there are any Muslim kids in your class, dont give them crap for 9/11. They had nothing to do with it. Their families had nothing to do with it. I didnt know why they were telling me this, I mean, it seemed kinda obvious, but looking at the GOP today its open racism toward Muslims, yeah, this is something that some of you MFers need to hear.
Just because someone is Muslim...doesn't mean they did 9/11. Just like just because someone is a white male Christian doesn't mean they blew up the Oklahoma city building in the 1990s. Extremists be extremists. Not everyone is an extremist. This guy didn't do 9/11, and you're showing your racist butt if you start talking like this. Really, this is just racism.
2) "OMG NYC IS GONNA BE AN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NOW!"
....what? Okay, where in his platform did he talk about ANY of this? Because I looked at his platform and I just saw a bunch of stuff in there about lowering the cost of living and making New York more affordable. Heck, if he were gonna usher in Islamic theocracy, I would NOT be supporting the guy. I would be just as scared as you guys. Keep in mind, I'm a secular humanist. I don't like Islam, just like I don't like Christianity. Religious fundamentalism is a scourge on our society regardless of what form it takes, and I am strongly opposed to the interminging of church and state. I want a secular society, with no "establishment" of religion, and all the "free exercise" you want as long as you dont harm others in the process. In other words, I support the actual US constitution here. And yeah, Mamdani might be a muslim in his private life. So what? As long as he keeps it to himself and isn't trying to force it on others, who cares?
If anything, that's where I have an issue with you guys on the right. You guys have this mentality that is the world doesn't revolve around conservative, wealthy, white male Christians, it's doomed, DOOMED I TELL YOU! And you guys are the weirdo fundamentalists trying to push your views on everyone. Quite frankly, I'm more scared of the Christian nationalism of the republican party, than I am the Islam of Zohran Mamdani. Because Mamdani has the good sense to keep it to himself, whereas you guys on the right literally want all of society to bend the knee to your religion.
Speaking of which...
3) "OMG IF SOCIETY DOESN'T REVOLVE AROUND WHITE MALE CHRISTIANS IT'S DOOMED, DOOMED I TELL YOU!"
THis is where I start sounding like an SJW, but the amount of great replacement crap I'm seeing from the right over this is gonna bring that out of me. I know I've mocked it as hyperbole that the SJW left sees the right as a bunch of people who think if society doesn't revolve around Christian white males that it's doomed, but given how openly fascist the GOP base is these days, they are literally saying this crap in their own spaces. They're saying "demographics is destiny" and talking about how they need to have 5 kids in order to offset the flood of brown people coming in and changing society. And now I just got why they posted Halo stuff about stopping the flood in DHS's page. Because they're literally treating brown immigrants like a literal species of space parasites that destroy everything they touch. It's a dog whistle!
Okay, breathe, people, breathe. The world isn't gonna end if it doesn't center around white males any more. And I say this as a white male myself. If anything, given political lines as of late, it might be better if it doesn't. Because what is all this focus on preserving whiteness really preserving? Racial and economic hierarchies I don't believe in? The protestant work ethic, which i DEFINITELY don't believe in? Religious fundamentalism? I mean, I'll be blunt, the right these days look more and more like fascists to me. You know, the guys we beat in WWII. We're losing what REALLY matters, our democracy, our freedoms, over all of this nonsense. Screw your values.
And guess what? We're not gonna have a race war just because you aren't in charge all the time any more. You're not gonna be oppressed. Minorities aren't gonna be doing to you what you do to them. I mean, on the left, we want multiculturalism, we want tolerance, we want people to do what they want. Yes, the woke people overcorrect and get annoying and insufferable, I get it. I think the left is learning its lesson though on that to some extent. For a multiracial society to work, we need a society of freedom and tolerance. Those are the American values worth preserving. What we don't need is fascism and all of this hierarchy crap the right is for. I hate to say it, but the more the right lets themselves talk, the more they're proving the points the woke people were trying to make all along.
4) "NYC IS GONNA TURN RADICALLY COMMUNIST!"
*sigh*, I'll let the daily show take this one.
He's a democratic socialist, and to put it a little differently, based on this, he's more a social democrat. And his policies reflect that. We're not gonna have stifling authoritarianism. We're not gonna have bread lines, at least not from HIS policies. If we get that, we're gonna get it from Trump refusing to stock food banks or give people SNAP. Really, the real "communism" we gotta fear comes from Trump and his brand of retributive authoritarianism.
5) "OMG HE'S FOR BIG GOVERNMENT!"
This is where I'm gonna tell you guys to cope and seethe. Really, the way the right is freaking out over this in particular is what I've been wanting for the past decade or so. Because sometimes government does good things for people. We're not talking authoritarianism here, that's YOUR thing on the right (although yes, literal communists can do that too). But yeah. We want to use government to help people. We want you to have a good life where you can afford to survive and thrive, the horror, right?
If anything, I wanna set 2 things straight here. First of all, in modern politics, authoritarianism is YOUR thing on the right. We're at the brink of LITERAL FASCISM, and you're freaking out about a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST who wants to have free public transportation and government run grocery stores? Really? If anything is a threat to the American experiment and our freedoms, it's YOU!
Second, due to the direction the trump administration has gone, as well as my own personal development during this time, I've come to realize that past a certain point, smaller government just means a government that favors the wealthy. Get rid of all those checks and balances, anything the government does that helps people, and what you're left with is some monarch's army that he uses to enforce his conception of property rights on the people. The right, at its core, is basically neofeudalism these days. We saw it with DOGE. Rich oligarchs cutting everything to the bone to preserve their privileges and property rights, and to use force against the people. That's authoritarianism if anything, but yeah, you get small enough government and it just regresses to authoritarianism. An out of touch and out of control institution controlled by the few to protect their privilege against the many. That's all "small government" really is here.
Again we on the left want a society that works for EVERYONE. Rich and poor, white and nonwhite. Christian and otherwise. Men, women, AND the trans people in between and otherwise. You guys, you want a society that works for some at the expense of others. So yeah, COPE AND SEETHE. We're a threat to your values. Because your values are trash. I hope you lose control of the country for good, and permanently.
6) "IF WE DON'T STOP THIS, THE LEFT IS GONNA GET BACK INTO GOVERNMENT AND UNDO ALL THE STUFF WE DID!"
I heard Mike Johnson say this today. GOOD, I HOPE WE FRICKING DO! And I know that the right's end goal is permanent minority rule. They know their time is coming, their time to dominate politics is likely coming to an end, and they've been fighting it since 2008. And at this point, they're trying to prepare us for permanent minority rule as the country descends into fascism. And you know what? I HOPE YOU FAIL! I HOPE WE RETAKE CONGRESS! I HOPE WE RETAKE THE PRESIDENCY. I HOPE WE PRESERVE AND EXPAND VOTING RIGHTS. I HOPE THAT WE MAKE PUERTO RICO AND WASHINGTON DC A STATE, I WANT YOU TO FAIL! I WANT TO SEE 1930S STYLE ELECTORAL MARGINS AGAIN! I WANT THE FUTURE YOU FEAR! COPE AND SEETHE, FRICKERS, COPE AND SEETHE!
With that said, I'm gonna end that here. Keep coping and seething.
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