• pjwestin@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 day ago

    “You Europeans need to learn how to stand up to Trump and the far-right fascists! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to my podcast, where I platform people like Steve Bannon, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk, rest his soul.”

  • Asafum@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 day ago

    “You’re appeasing Hitler again” has a more impactful tone I would think, especially if Europe is your target audience…

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        Nah, no way in hell that cardboard cutout of a human will win.

        His job is to distract centrists with a candidate both the rightwing and leftwing hate and can tell is full of shit in order to doom Democrats to losing the next election by positioning a centrist, morally bankrupt politician to split the party and in the end only represent the interests of the rich.

        It would honestly be hilarious seeing center “left” liberals getting openly played like this if the consequences weren’t so legitimately scary.

        • Devolution@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 day ago

          I would have fallen for that trap, honestly as a black liberal, if it wasn’t for Mamdani’s win showing progressivism is actually possible and not some tankie talking point.

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            1 day ago

            This is exactly why the DNC and Democratic establishment was so incredibly hostile to Mamdani, figures like Newsom can only win in an extremely cynical environment where people openly accept corrupted, empty figureheads because there are no better options.

            Newsom can only win if the DNC’s corporate centrist thesis that progressive politics and socialist policies are just too scary for the US public to understand and this is an unchangable fact of nature remains unchallenged and becomes reified as common knowledge.

            All it takes is one example to disprove a rule, and Mamadani just did exactly that. This is an extinction level event for corporate centrist Democrats and Gavin is just too dumbly deferential to the status quo of the past to realize he is already a dinosaur and has been left behind in the dust by a new era.

        • dhork@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 day ago

          You’re 100% correct, except for the part about him not winning. A “cardboard cutout of a human” is exactly what America wants. (Well, one with a penis at least – that’s why the last cardboard cutout lost).

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 day ago

    T-Rex’s were born in the shit and had to take care of themselves their entires lives. Trump was born rich and is incapable of existing without servants. Make better comparisons.

  • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    It’s funny because Davos and Europe was looking to him to deal with an American problem. Now he’s blaming them. Also, Davos isn’t the image he’s going to want going in 2028.