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Doom wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:45 pm

anawim wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:25 am At this point I'm hoping a third party candidate will split the Democratic vote, and a Republican will get elected.

Not a realistic scenario. The only possible way to beat him is for all third-party candidates, and Republican Curtis Silwa, to drop out and endorse Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is corrupt, a liar, and a creep, but at least he is not an antisemitic Islamist communist.

Making a separate thread not to derail the previous one. In what sense is he an Islamist, and how can he an Islamist and Communist simultaneously?

I know this is a cheap shot, but ...

Because he is politically progressive and is thus able to hold and espouse two simultaneously contradictory and mutually exclusively positions ... and have those positions enthusiastically accepted by the like minded.

I can only repeat my position that nobody should be allowed to vote unless they understand the content of Econ 101, Econ 102, and Stat 101.

Jack3 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 12:41 am

Doom wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:45 pm

anawim wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:25 am At this point I'm hoping a third party candidate will split the Democratic vote, and a Republican will get elected.

Not a realistic scenario. The only possible way to beat him is for all third-party candidates, and Republican Curtis Silwa, to drop out and endorse Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is corrupt, a liar, and a creep, but at least he is not an antisemitic Islamist communist.

Making a separate thread not to derail the previous one. In what sense is he an Islamist, and how can he an Islamist and Communist simultaneously?

Islam is in no way incompatible with communism or any other form of totalitarianism

What policies related to Islam are he advocating for?

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 12:43 pm Islam is in no way incompatible with communism or any other form of totalitarianism

They both espouse absolutism, but when one form of absolutism rubs up against the other, they'll fight like two scorpions in a jar. The beginning of the end of Soviet rule was the invasion of Afghanistan.

Riverboat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 11:20 pm The beginning of the end of Soviet rule was the invasion of Afghanistan.

They didn't learn their lesson the first time, so they had to go back and try it again.