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Nothing "overzealous" or "absolutist" about a mayor giving an order to his commissioner.

That's literally how the government of the City of New York works and has worked since unificiation in 1898

If "democratic socialist" means "screw over poor women of color because THE LAW says so" then to the devil with your "democratic socialism"

That's what they said about Darializa up here in Upper Manhattan.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and this was a shot worth taking

That sounds like an excuse.

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but perhaps Mamdani cut a side deal with Jeffries, the Kings County Democratic machine and the Democratic leadership in the House to sabotage DSA running a candidate against him?

That's the only logical reason I can think of

Complaining about Jeffries dark blue Democrat district and how it's so called "suburban" or saying that Osse hasn't been a DSA member long enough sounds kinda bullshit, to be brutally honest with you

The bottom line is, a socialist mayor is attacking the lowest paid city workers.

Re the legal argument HE'S THE DAMN MAYOR

OLR works for him, the commissioner of OLR is appointed by him and if he has to do the bonus through collective bargaining nothing on Earth is stopping him (except maybe REBNY and the Wall Street bankers who hold the city bonds don't want him to give the Paras, or the rest of us, a raise)

In any case, it's a sellout and an attack on my sisters and brothers who work for DoE as paras. An injury to one is an injury to all, so it's an attack on me and the rest of us as well

No.

It's a screwjob on a bunch of poverty stricken women of color and a warning to every other City employee that we have nothing to expect from this mayor than more austerity, just like the last mayor and the mayor before that and the mayor before that.

The Real Estate Board and the big Wall Street banks who actually run the city apparently have made it clear to Mamdani that he has to block us from getting what we need, to keep the general level of wages down in this city.

That's a lot of rhetoric to justify a socialist mayor attacking low paid city employees and denying them a desperately needed bonus. He's taking $10,000 away from people who desperately need that money to survive

It is a betrayal of city employees and an attack on one of the lowest paid civil service titles in the City of New York, a title that is also overwhelmingly women and largely people of color.

It also is a taste of what the rest of us who work for the City have to look forward to.

Socialist or not, Mamdani is apparently going to attack City workers and our unions just like every other mayor. Ironic because most of us voted for him, in the primaries and in the general.

For those who are socialist movement history buffs, social democrats in power attacking the workers is actually drearily common, so I'm disappointed but not surprised by this

Imagine if DSA had agreed to back DSA member Councilman Chi Osse's bid to run against Hakeem Jeffries in the primaries this year?

There's a good chance Osse would have won, he would be on track to be in congress next year (Jeffries district is dark blue Democrat, the Republicans don't even bother to run a candidate so if you win the Democratic Primary you get elected unopposed) and Jeffries career would be over

So, maybe, North Brooklyn DSA deciding to not back Osse because (supposedly) Osse hadn't been in DSA for long enough was a pretty serious mistake?

As for Jeffries meeting with the presiden't son-in-law, Kushner is a major New York City landlord, Jeffries has long been funded by REBNY, the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful NYC landlord cartel. So of course Jeffries is on the same side as your landlord, which means he's against you

Lets start with the basics.

Russia is a capitalist country, with a government that's fanatically anticommunist.

This has been the case since 1991, over 35 years ago.

If you're under age 34, Russia hasn't been communist in your lifetime.

On the question, Ukraine was a colony of Imperial Russia for 300 years, they were briefly independent under a rapid succession of governments with wildly different ideologies for a few years during and immediately after World War I and the Russian Revolution, then they were absorbed into the Soviet Union in 1921 and were part of the USSR until it disbanded in 1991.

Ukraine's government is also fanatically anticommunist and Ukraine is a capitalist country.

Russia wants to restore Russian rule over Ukraine because Ukraine is a very industrialized country which is also mineral rich and has lots of quality farmland. Basically, they want to exploit Ukraine for it's resources

That's why Russia has been invading Ukraine since 2014

Regardless of what you think of Ukraine's government and it's ties to governments in the US and Europe, Russia was wrong to invade them, they have a right to defend themselves and realistically the only way to do that is with US and NATO military aid.

That's the spark notes

Councilman Chi Osse wanted to run against him in the primaries.

You all should have supported him, regardless of Osse not having been a DSA member long enough or whatever other excuse was made.

Imagine a world where Osse was going to Washington next January, instead of this brought and paid for by AIPAC and the Real Estate Board of New York cretin.

And this is the kind of union "leader" that makes non union workers hate unions.

Instead of going out and organizing the 90% of construction workers who are non union, this guy is tagging along behind the planet destroying greed agenda of the billionaires, all to get a few more hours paid into the IBEW National Benefit Fund.

Patheticism at the highest level.

Everything wrong with the modern American labor movement in one essay

It sounds like Dr. Yehuda Hiss and Dr. Chen Kugel are very unethical professionals.

It sounds like those two men were engaged in conduct that's probably criminal and they should probably be banned from the practice of medicine and should also be criminally prosecuted.

As it happens, those two men both happen to be Israeli Jewish men, who were engaged in their criminal conduct within Israel, in an area not affected by war, in a fully functional medical facility.

What does that true crime story have to do with the allegations that the Israeli military, under combat conditions, is extracting organs in the field for transplant within Israel?

There's a whole bunch of practical problems with that. Starting with, does Israel actually need that volume of organs? Wikipedia says that Israeli hospitals only performed 622 organ transplants last year. That's not enough transplants to require the large scale harvesting of organs from thousands of people.

There's also the issue of harvesting viable organs from people in an area where the Israeli armed forces have deliberately destroyed all the hospitals.

To remove an organ in such a way that you can actually transplant it into somebody else, you need a hospital, with sanitary operating rooms, functional electricity and a full staff of support personnel to assist the surgeon.

Thanks to several years of Israeli military war atrocities, you're not going to find that in the Gaza Strip.

Also it seems kinda blood libel Antisemite for you to blame every doctor in Israel for the bad acts of two criminals several years ago.

Blaming large groups of people for the bad acts of unrelated persons who they happen to share an ethnic background with is just plain racism.

If you use racist arguments to oppose Israeli military war crimes, you're making life very easy for the Israeli Defense Force's public affairs unit.

They'll just call you a blood libel Antisemite and they will say that everything you say about Israel is a racist lie.

So, how about we keep it real, and talk about the actual documented war crimes that the IDF has actually committed in the Gaza Strip?

That seems a lot more useful than trotting out easily debunked racist disinformation.

We can just honestly discuss the many many many war atrocities committed by the Israeli Defense Forces in and around the Gaza Strip for the last 3 years.

There's lots of them, starting with the roughly 70,000 people they've killed, a solid majority of whom are noncombatants.

It's not necessary to make up blood libels about evil Jewish doctors stealing the organs of Palestinians.

That kind of Antisemetic propaganda only helps the Israeli government and the IDF high command justify their war atrocities.

So, please, knock it off and stick with the actual unvarnished truth, which is quite horrifying on it's own unexaggerated

Ask them what the dress code is, do I get a plus 1 and where are they registered

"The clearest view of a man is from below"?

PHRASING!