Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.
But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.
The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.
I’m not going to sell myself like a product on a dating app while simultaneously doxxing myself. I’ve tried that anyway, regrettably, and it doesn’t work. Real women filter me out cause I’m not 6’ or because I can’t take a good selfie (it’s not the sort if thing I practice), or because I can’t contain my entire personality in a few sentences without sounding either cliché, phony, or cringe, or because I can’t say anything witty and unique that stands out over text without also sounding contrived, or without info-dumping. Literally the only matches I ever got turned out to be either trying to sell me crypto or recruit me as an instagram follower.
And I’m not gonna go out in public looking for someone to try to get numbers, because then they’ll label me as a potential predator and spread my description around on social media. Even if I join a hobby group and decide I like someone there, one wrong move could destroy all the goodwill I’ve cultivated with the entire group. It could be as simple as asking someone out for coffee, and then suddenly I’m being shunned. It’s not worth it.
Anyway, I digress. It’s impossible to organize the left because everyone has their pet causes and favored interest groups, no one wants to work together on a unified front. Plus, most leftists are allergic to effective leadership because it smells too much like hierarchy. You can already see self-proclaimed “socialists” trashing Mamdani online. As soon as he gets elected to a leadership position where he can actually make a difference for the working class, tankies come out of the woodworks to call him a fascist or a zionist or whatever else. Some of them might be russian bots intentionally sowing discord, but unfortunately they’re effective and when I call it out I get labeled a conspiracy theorist.
I’m fucking done. Fuck this shit.
Well don’t give up, you are hardly alone, society has really gone to hell these last few decades for everyone that’s not hooked into a good group of friends that help them meet people, get the right jobs, etc. You are right, on your own you are particularly vulnerable to people trashing you online, local fb groups, nextdoor, whatever it is.
The “left” comes across as you say by design of entrenched interests, not the least the democratic and republican establishments, both of which that see the left, and popular reform, as the true enemy. The dems don’t care about losing to republicans, they care about losing control of the party to progressives, or other popular reformers.
So while the right groups are nurtured and tooled by entrenched interests, the left ones are subverted, misdirected. It’s nothing inherent that makes the left incapable at all but a lack of leadership I can assure you. And this left and right talk is all rather off the mark in the first place. We have popular reform or no. Then we have if they are susceptible to Fake Popular Reform or no. The president is fake popular reform obviously, he blames scapegoats not the true villains.
Hierarchy or no, leadership isn’t even about that, real leaders’ authority doesn’t stem from their position, but from themselves, from their character and deeds. People are desperate for someone to follow in that regard. It would only take a few real leaders to start a movement. And it would only take a modest amount of organization to start a chain reaction from that and build a political machine to take the country by storm.
The time has never been better for it in some ways. The mask is off, no one is pretending anymore, and the face of our rulers is ugly. We want a better way his path is clearly to ruin whether you are comfortable or not. The divisiveness we see online and in person is amplified by those that oppose us, and only possible to gain the traction it does because of the lack of leadership. Those criticisms would melt away, be drown out by the resounding chanting of millions of voices in unison for a common purpose that we all believe in.
I’ve already given up, long since. Now I’m just bitter and cynical. I don’t care. It’s easier not to. Caring hurts too bad.
The left already shot itself in the foot. I saw things coming for years in the making, and I tried rousing people to action, to prepare, to get organized before it was too late. I got ostracized. Some people even called me a fascist. They thought I was trying to control them. They never wanted to hear harsh truths like “Your enemies are preparing to destroy you. If you don’t prepare to respond accordingly, you will be destroyed.”
Any potential leaders have been chased out of left wing spaces. All you have left are auth-comm propaganda bots shaming people and calling them cowards for not doing enough. Generally the same auth-comm propaganda bots that shamed people and called them names whenever they were trying to do something.
It’s too late now. It’s hilarious seeing people scramble trying to make up for lost ground. It’s too fucking late. I hope they’re all happy that Kamala Harris lost! I’m sure Palestinians in Gaza are so relieved…
Fuck this shit. I could’ve cashed in my white privilege for a cushy job, but I chose not to because I had fundamental disagreements with the systems in place and the status quo. I refused to be a part of that machine. No one cares. Now I have enemies on all sides of the political spectrum, and no one going to bat for me. My life is in a rut that I’ll probably never escape. I can’t do shit to change the world.
Fuck this.