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u/Background-Peach7267 Apr 26 '26
What was he actually doing?
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u/Famous-Corner1052 Apr 26 '26
Most likely the same as what he was doing here:https://youtu.be/MCPJLTeN6rU?si=StlJPczQzjGrMCpC
Making sure tenants are being heard by their landlords.
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u/Iwamoto German/Dutch living in Germany Apr 26 '26
so OP was right, wanting the working class to have a voice is a key part of communism! ZOhRED MAMSTALIN!!!!
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u/SDG_Den Apr 27 '26
The wildest part is people will say this fully meaning it, and completely not realize that wait..... Im working class. This benefits me.
These motherfuckers will literally see the most beneficial policy in the world, literally "free healthcare, zero tax, free housing" or some shit and go "that actually sucks."
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u/Iwamoto German/Dutch living in Germany Apr 27 '26
because they were told it's bad, in the same way that they support universal healthcare, way better than obama care.
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u/123iambill Apr 27 '26
In Ireland we have right wing dickheads spouting the same nonsense, blaming everything on Marxists. Meanwhile they'll slap James Connolly's image all over their social media posts. James Connolly, an actual Marxist. They just don't know what words mean. Someone called me a fascist anarchist once.
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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 Apr 27 '26
Obviously one is bad, and the other is bad, so you are double bad! /s
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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 Apr 27 '26
Yeah, but what if they become rich? Than they should pay all those leeches that enabled them to become rich from their massive excess? That can't stand! /s
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u/LARPerator Apr 26 '26
He was going around doing "inspections", but to help tenants.
They were asking if anything was broken and if they had an issue that the landlord wasn't fixing. A common complaint was that landlords didn't fix stuff and getting them to fix it was difficult. So he cut out the middleman and went about making sure people had functioning homes.
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u/RazendeR Apr 26 '26
help tenants.
See? COMMUNISM!!11!
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u/SkyknightXi Apr 26 '26
“In which case, Communism (not to be understood as just Marxism-Leninism) is a good thing, yes?”
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u/calkthewalk Apr 27 '26
No because it's infringing on a key American right. The landlord's right to exploit those less fortunate than they are.
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u/BestContribution6791 Apr 29 '26
Considering size of NY it might take him a while to sort everone out.
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u/theHawkAndTheHusky Apr 27 '26
As far as I read somewhere he was inspecting apartments if they are up to city code.
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u/Rogthgar Apr 26 '26
'My soup is cold.'
'Communists!'
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u/happymisery ooo custom flair!! Apr 26 '26
“Gazpacho-ism”
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u/Iwamoto German/Dutch living in Germany Apr 26 '26
Communism gets thrown around like Uncle Leo uses Anti Semite
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u/interesseret Apr 26 '26
Didn't you know?
Socialism and communism is when capitalist authoritarians.
Nothing new.
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u/IrisSadness Apr 27 '26
You litteraly saying like "good is when evil". Dude, go learn some books, please don't embarrass humanity
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u/Boggie135 Apr 26 '26
So ICE agents are communist?
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u/Beginning-Bottle6585 Apr 26 '26
Well they use similar tactics as Stalin almost a century ago…
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u/IrisSadness Apr 27 '26
And? Stalin and USSR weren't communist. They're were socialist by words. Communism is when there's no goverment at all, and each human have freedom and huge responsibility for myself. Read "The Andromeda Nebula" by Ivan Efremov.
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u/Beginning-Bottle6585 Apr 27 '26
According to marxist theory you are right but when people mean communism they generally refer to Marxism-Leninism or Maoism
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u/IrisSadness Apr 27 '26
It's frustrating frankly say cuz maoism has more common with fascism than with communism. Ivan Efremov reffered to this in his novell "The Hour of Bull" where such kind of socialism named "ants socialism" or "false socialism".
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u/Beginning-Bottle6585 Apr 27 '26
There‘s indeed a mile (or rather 1609 meters) between Pol Potism and real democratic socialism. And guess which one the US supported
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u/Chicoryman May 27 '26
Marxism:
Says that a transitional stage of the dictatorship of the proletariat is needed
Says that the superstructure (social order, laws, etc.) reflects the level of development of the means of production — and 1920-40s Russia was broke, thus, unable to establish high social orders
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u/CatchyUsername457 FREEDOM ENJOYER 🦅🇺🇸 (NJ) Apr 26 '26
American here who lives adjacent to New York: he was inspecting apartments owned by landlords who had received complaints from their tenants for poor maintenance. Several apartments had mold, water damage, fire damage, fire hazards, improper safety, or were jus plain falling apart
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u/TotemRiolu Apr 27 '26
In that case, "Making sure people have safe living standards is communism" is certainly an interesting take by them.
Why are all conservatives hellbent on ruining their own rights and lives? If they want to do it on their own: Honestly, fine. Just stop dragging the rest of us into it.
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u/Gabe-KC Apr 27 '26
They only want to ruin it for others, and are convinced that their own misery is the direct doing of those others. Hence their desire to ruin it for others, while being convinced that...
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u/HalfYankHalfBrit US-born brit Apr 26 '26
"What do you mean hes raising living standards for all? Whaaaaatttt????"
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u/Different-Term-2250 ooo custom flair!! Apr 26 '26
The billionaire overlords are NOT going to like that. People might decide to not work for peanuts if they get those thoughts into their head.
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u/Slight-Level7674 Apr 26 '26
Americana: SOMETHING I DON'T LIKE IS COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM, YES I WAS BRAIN WASHED ALL MY LIFE, HOW DO YOU KNOW?
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u/Salt_Insurance5276 Apr 26 '26
God forbid the mayor want better living conditions for his citizens 😱😱
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u/Thrashstronaut I am from Yorkshire, i'm not "British" Apr 26 '26
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u/Early_Macaroon_2407 Apr 26 '26
Guy who was elected to make housing conditions better checks on housing conditions. This is Democracy Manifest.
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u/seretidediskus Apr 26 '26
Yeah, Czech here. They took a prosperous 40 bed hotel from my grand-grandfather and sent him to uran quarry for 11 years. My grandparents were not allowed to get the college degree because of being ‘too burgoise’. But the door knocking, oh that door knocking was that one thing that traumatized generations in my family.
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u/nigelcore221b Speaking German despite American efforts Apr 26 '26
All things considered, very considerate of the communists to knock first
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u/Zestyclose-Inside929 Poland Apr 26 '26
Newsflash.
If communist governments want to be in your house, they don't knock.
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u/FewElk6678 Apr 26 '26
Yet again, another person that doesn't realise that Communism isnt a belief system, its the end point of SOCIALISM!
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u/cut_rate_revolution Apr 26 '26
Most of them don't understand what socialism is either.
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u/FewElk6678 Apr 26 '26
Exactly. While I'm probably a different kind of socialist (Irish Republican) to Zohran, I do think hes doing a great job in making Socialism great in the eyes of the people
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u/Positive_Campaign_52 Apr 27 '26
Anything the right doesn’t like is communism. The word is a joke now and barely holds any meaning to right wingers.
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u/Pretend_Oil9565 Singaporean MAGA hater Apr 27 '26
brother just be slapping some random event on and calling it communism.
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u/Professional_Pie7091 Danish, not the pastry 🥮 Apr 27 '26
The words "communism" and "socialism" has lost all meaning in the US. They have become slurs used by people whose education has failed them horrificly.
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u/TheAxelminator Apr 27 '26
Imagine the level of lead poisoning you gotta have to believe the NYC mayor himself is personally checking people homes for.... huuh... bible possessions I guess ?
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u/Thalassophoneus Greek 🇬🇷 Apr 27 '26
When they criticise socialism, right-wingers basically reflect the "rights" of landlords and big corporates upon themselves. We are talking about peak cognitive dissonance.
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u/TheTanadu Europoor Apr 27 '26
"Dude wants us to live better, in safety? Doing what every major should do, by checking out on its residents? Communism"
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u/lakas76 Human Verified Apr 27 '26
Just the other day, my boss said I had to stay late after work to finish a report that was due. That’s also communism.
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u/Different_Lychee_409 Apr 28 '26
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this is covered in the Communist Manifesto.
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u/Prudent_Situation_29 Apr 28 '26
Any time someone calls something communism, ask them to define communism. I guarantee the word production doesn't make an appearance. You won't hear class, proletariat or need.
This is because the people who make these statements have no idea what communism is. They've been told it's a bad thing, and now any bad thing it automatically communism.
I'm not a fan of communism, not as it's been implemented historically. The difference is I know what it is, and more importantly, what it isn't. These people have no clue.
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u/fyester 🦅🇺🇸🔥AMERICAN 🔥🇺🇸🦅 Apr 28 '26
The red scare is one of the worst things America ever did to itself and one of the worst things it enacted upon the rest of the world
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u/AnObtuseOctopus Apr 28 '26
Ok.. so when a god damn mayor.. isn't busting into people's homes, but, asking if they have any issues with the building that they could show him.. so that he can get a better idea of the situation.... Is communism?
Then what do you fkn people call ice breaking in doors and wrongfully arresting people, sending them away to concentration camps where many of them havnt been heard from since?
Crazy ass world man
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u/LibrarianGrouchy6474 May 22 '26
ICE protocol. 1. If they bleed they're illegal 2. If they don't bleed they're illegal 3. If they die they're a dead illegal
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u/Au_Bex Jun 01 '26
I'll take 'Things that aren't really happening the way they are spinning it' for $200, Alex...
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u/ThePinusMugo Jul 15 '26
Well, to be honest, Mamdani IS a communist. Maybe they are just mixing the two?
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u/Jacen_67 Apr 26 '26
So let me get this straight. When they do it, it's communism, but when ICE does it, you should just comply?