No I didn’t lol, I’ve been skeptical of him since day 1

We should do this but for math:

Truly disgusting society

I mean he could say “we’re gonna fire the whole-ass NYPD on January 1st”. Because we both know he’s gonna get walked back from the most liberatory position, so you might as well start with the most liberatory position possible if you’re going into reformist politics, i.e. reformism benefits from the door-in-the-face technique.

What Mamdani can do, and I hope will do, is improve material conditions for enough new yorkers, that various city-council members will be replaced with workers that can actually start defunding the NYPD and reforming what policing is in NYC.

I mean if we replace “reforming what policing is in NYC” by “abolishing the NYPD and forming free community defense organizations in finite time” then yeah I’m with you. I always do hope that reformists like Mamdani get crumbs for the working class, but basically this always happens:

The power of Bogatin compels you!

nah, i’d rather not be harassed into silence by some ideaolog who is objectively wrong.

Yeah me too buddy, same with everyone else, which is why centrist ideologues like you pretend like you don’t have an ideology or that your views are just common sense.

Then go read what I posted and show us which part of what I said is a delusion, or shut the fuck up.

A.A., a 35-year-old Palestinian father detained from Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital for 19 months, described extreme torture, including being raped by a trained dog at Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp.

“One of the dogs raped me – the dog did it deliberately, knowing exactly what it was doing,” he told PCHR.

What the absolute fuck

You: Calls me delusional
Me: provide evidence that I understand the situation as well as you do
You: Yeah well I never cared, I just wanted to be a douchebag without consequences

I see ya

You’re arguing against a strawman. See the final chapter of Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams for more details on possible alternatives, including historical examples. And the whole book makes a compelling, intricately cited argument for police abolition.

The fact is, the police do provide an important community service—offering protection against crime. They do not do this job well, or fairly, and it is not their chief function, but they do it, and it brings them legitimacy.[1584] Even people who dislike and fear them often feel that they need the cops. Maybe we can do without omnipresent surveillance, racial profiling, and institutionalized violence, but most people have been willing to accept these features of policing, if somewhat grudgingly, because they have been packaged together with things we cannot do without—crime control, security, and public safety. It is not enough, then, to relate to police power only in terms of repression; we must also remember the promise of protection, since this legitimates the institution.

Because the state uses this protective function to justify its own violence, the replacement of the police institution is not only a goal of social change, but also a means of achieving it. The challenge is to create another system that can protect us from crime, and can do so better, more justly, with a respect for human rights, and with a minimum of bullying. What is needed, in short, is a shift in the responsibility for public safety—away from the state and toward the community.

It should be noted that Williams is working under a tweaked definition of “crime” in this context, a phenomenon that anarchists do not deny exists.

The point here is that the standards I want to appeal to in invoking the idea of crime are not the state’s standards, but the community’s—and, specifically, the community’s standards as they relate to justice, rights, personal safety, and perhaps especially the question of violence.

All emphases mine.

Can he illegally try? Can he approximate police abolition or set New York on a path towards it? Can he attempt to approximate that? Can he even attempt to approximate not being a pro-cop Zionist?

does not have to be FOSS

I’m basically not interested in software anymore if it’s not FLOSS. I don’t even mess with non-free source-available software or proprietary freeware anymore.

He doesn’t really have another option right now.

How about nobody? How about abolish the police? ACAB even when they’re controlled by social democrats.

Social Democrat betrays the working class. In equally novel news, the Sun rose this morning.

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I am crazy but the only help I need is the abolition of all forms of domination and hierarchy

Very cool! Apparently someone did an open-source implementation of this (OpenEvolve).

Do Bush next

Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

— Kwame Ture

All we have left is sustained non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience.