Regardless of your thoughts on Mao and Deng, you gotta give the People's Republic some credit for Simplified Chinese and its time saving contribution to many speedruns.

Plato's The Apology sees Socrates really fail to say sorry but succeed at telling his accusers to post hog.

My skepticism comes from certain unforced errors like how he's moderating his message now that there's less pressure on him than during the primary. Walking back "globalize the intifada" after it had already played out and hadn't hurt him in the primary, meeting with NYC business leaders that the pigs were happy with, and similar worrying things (and yes, as you said, this could all be a disguise, but I don't know how many times I'm gonna allow myself to get burned thinking that). Obviously his campaign staff know the situation better than I do, but it seems more like the local Dems are letting him win then will screw him once he's mayor, it in which case there is little reason to triangulate now.

If he had the backing of an organization that didn't have DSA's bad reputation I'd give him more of a benefit of the doubt.

Also, hold on, he's never claimed to be anything but a DemSoc. I don't see why I should make a headcanon that he's a secret Leninist. Again, that doesn't mean that getting him in power isn't helpful to the broader strategy, but it's also not central.

Ultra" was a term coined to critique those that refused to work with electoral socialists on the mission towards revolution, ironically enough. Critique the viability of electoralism all you want, but some electoralists see that as a viable strategy to advance the militancy and political education of the working class in service to eventual revolution. Pitting electoralism and revolution against each other is misrepresenting their position.

You're misunderstanding me. When I said "electoralist strategy" I meant the strategy of using bourgeois elections to elect socialists and achieve socialism. The tactic of using elections to serve the needs of a revolutionary organization is 100% valid as part of a revolutionary strategy. Don't confuse tactics and strategy, that's also a classic Ultra thing.

Is anyone around here sating that this is a betrayal to the working class and a hindrance to the revolution? I'm among the most Zohran-critical users here who haven't been banned and I've just been saying that all the compromises he's made are compromises all the same, regardless of how reasonable they are in the context of his campaign. Once he's mayor he'll keep making more compromises because he'll want to be re-elected.

Does that mean people shouldn't vote for him and work for the campaign? Absolutely not. But obviously people need to know the difference between an electoralist strategy and a revolutionary strategy, and understand that if they're pursuing a revolutionary strategy they can't be married to Zohran either (as much of an outlier as he is).

while it's understandable for him to seek to validate his image by associating with whatever "American left" exists, it's obviously worth noting that the cost of pursuing an electoral strategy is that you have to constantly compromise on your principles for the sake of popularity, associating with ghouls like Alexandria "Defensive Weaponry for Israel" Ocasio Cortez and Bernie "I support Israel" Sanders. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

"to beat the allegations" means to dispel negative ideas about oneself by acting better. If there are rumors that someone is misogynistic but his woman coworker describes him glowingly, one may say that he beat the misogyny allegations.

In this case, there's a possibility Zohran will just be another AOC. He could beat the allegations, but he isn't beating them yet.

It definitely seems wrong to look at the guy without the full beard. He seems naked.

In the Talos Principle 2, the boss is capitalism

If I use beans to make more beans everyone on this website goes "based" but if I use money to make more money that's called "finance capital" and it makes me a fascist.

Maybe we gotta rethink all this stuff.

link because I'm not a lib