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  • I think the thing that doesn’t make me think that was that if you watch the press conference, Mamdani never backed down on any former criticism of trump, while trump basically just glazed Mamdani. Sure, Mamdani expressed willingness to work with trump on affordability and such, but never compromised his core beliefs or denied that they have plenty of differences.



















  • Okay so I did actually watch it, basically what I’m getting is that purity testing is good and the only true leftists are the ones he agrees with, and only the furthest of the left deserve that label.

    How is this productive? Is coalition building not valuable at all? Id even agree platner isn’t a leftist, just progressive at best. But even still, is there no value in supporting him against his conservative opponent?

    Also, his comment about the amount of people who have military skeletons in their closet being miniscule is simply wrong. I looked it up, 6% of the population in the US are veterans. In Maine, where platner is running, it’s 9%. That’s a lot of people, for whom platner being a vet is a massive plus, and on top of that the general culture of respecting vets in the US cannot be discounted, as bad as you may see it.