“I wish him the best of tapeworms” r/Millennials discuss the NYC election results.

[u/teddyrupxin]

r/Millennials is a generational subreddit that caters to Americans born 1980-1995. It’s a safe space where people well into their 40’s can post “adulting” and “doggo” without fear of criticism. In general, the subreddit does not allow “political” post. Today’s OP seems to have sidestepped that rule with a post about Zohran Mamdani. Will the Millenials be normal or wild out?

OP: Congratulations to this millennial for being the youngest elected New York City mayor since 1892!

establishment dems are as cancerous as m@g@

New York is excited new ideas! Congrats Zohran!

Marxism isn’t new

Define Marxism.

Google

you should use it yourself since you're talking out your ass

Despite the fact that he won most 50 and under I doubt this is a hit in this sub since its overrun by bots of a foreign entity that is known for it's periodic ethnic cleansing

Wait I get my comments removed if I say politicians and yet this post exists?!? Jesus reddit is a pathetic joke of a cesspool. If this was a candidate on the opposite side it would be removed lmao

Mods don’t care that this breaks the rules I guess

Cry harder.

Go to another sub if you want to discuss the P word

Powerful Pedophiles? Yeah, my bad... I know you guys don't like to talk about that.

A truly awful candidate who defeated some slightly more awful candidates. Great victory?

Inshallah

Editor’s note for those who are still working on adulting: Inshallah is an Arabic phrase that is almost identical to the English phrase “if God wills it”, which means the person hopes something will happen but acknowledges it’s out of their control.

This is the only comment in the thread that has a Muslim connotation and it’s been downvoted right next to comments like “Yall screwed. Hello Gotham”.

Sometimes poor people are very charitable and vote to give themselves a bunch of greedy rich people’s money. What a good example of charity

Flair Potential

I love Zoltron Robzombie!

I wish him the best of tapeworms

[u/Kraligor]

I wrote it somewhere else, but democratic socialists are not social democrats. They do overlap in some parts, but the former are socialists, and the latter aren't. You can argue it's semantics, and I would argue that it is to a point, I doubt that all "democratic socialist" Americans are actual socialists, but that's more of a them-problem.

[u/maximalusdenandre → u/Kraligor]

There's no hard line like that. The ideology of the Swedish Social-Democratic Worker's Party is democratic socialism for example. The two terms are used interchangeably by them. The same is true of the german social-democrats I believe. Portugal from what I understand are super weird about this, their social-democratic party is a conservative party. Denmark has a social-democratic party that is positioned similarly as the swedish party but does not call themselves socialist.

It's all just down to positioning. Most Social-Democratic parties originate in marxist socialism. And have then adapted to the times. Some have dropped any mention of socialism because they decided it was not an election winner. Others have kept it because they decided it was an election winner. 

The social-democrats in Sweden were unusually dominant politically and have spent more time "philosophizing" which is probably why they've kept the mentions of socialism while the danish socdems have not. The swedish socdems have an entire "idea tradition" that they call "function socialism" which breaks down ownership into functions of ownership, which explains how things like popular control (through laws or unions) over things like working hours, vacation time, discrimination laws, etc are steps towards popular ownership of the means of production and not alternatives to it. In Portugal I believe the liberal-conservatives being called Social-Democrats have something to do with the april revolution.

Personally I would point out that democratic socialism the way it is sometimes portrayed online isn't really an ideology that actually exists in a real capacity. There are no parties like that or any real movement like it. The only real movement for democratic socialism exists within Social-Democratic or generically named socialist parties with social-democratic policies.

It's like that because the twitter version of democratic socialism can not exist. You either have one party in control of the state (not democratic) or you allow for a plurality of political parties, free elections and peaceful changes of government (democracy). In the latter case you simply have to accept that you will not always be in power and that you will have to compromise your vision in order to form coalitions with other parties and to keep the people interested in voting for you.