Jim Walden on X - "Want some history? Here are past regimes that used offices or ministries of mass engagement after taking power:
Fascism Examples
• Nazi Germany (1933): Shortly after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933, his new administration established the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda on March 13, 1933. Led by Joseph Goebbels, it controlled media, arts, and education to promote Nazi ideology and build mass support. This office centralized efforts to engage the public and suppress dissent.
• Fascist Italy (1937): Under Benito Mussolini’s regime, the Ministry of Popular Culture was created in 1937. It handled propaganda to foster acceptance of fascist ideals, including through film, radio, and press. Though the regime started slightly before 1926, this specific office falls within the timeframe.
Communism Examples
• People’s Republic of China (1949): Following Mao Zedong’s victory in the Chinese Civil War, the new communist administration formalized and expanded the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (originally founded in 1924 but restructured under the new regime). It focused on “mass line” campaigns and media control to promote communism and engage the populace in ideological education.
• Cuba (1959 onward): After Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government took power in 1959, it established bodies like the Institute of Ideology and the Department of Revolutionary Orientation (later integrated into the Central Committee’s Ideology Department). These promoted communist principles through mass media and public campaigns to build acceptance.
Socialism Examples
• Venezuela (1999 onward): Under Hugo Chávez’s new administration after his 1998 election, the government created entities like the Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information (2004) and emphasized “Bolivarian” socialism. These offices used media and community engagement programs (e.g., “missions” for social outreach) to promote socialist ideals and build public support, often framed as mass participation."
Thread by @rupasubramanya on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I’m originally from India, where Mamdani traces his roots. In many ways, he and his family remind me of India’s post Independence elite who embraced socialism and imposed Soviet style five year plans inside a democracy. The elites were anglicized and well educated, and did very well for themselves. The rest of the country did not. The damage was profound, and in many cases unforgivable. That collectivist experiment is one reason India still trails China, which acknowledged the failure of that model more than a decade earlier. I was born in socialist India. A foreign-exchange crisis forced the country to open its economy. My world changed almost overnight, and I discovered freedom, choice, and rugged individualism, things I’ll always choose over "warm collectivism," with its shortages, hunger, and poverty. So imagine the unease of watching this destructive and failed ideology resurface in the heart of American, and global, capitalism: New York City. This will not end well. India turfed out the party that championed the kind of socialism Mamdani espouses. Rahul Gandhi (no relation to MKG), the half Indian, half Italian political dynast, son, grandson, and great grandson of three prime ministers is an out of touch elite who will never taste power. He makes Justin Trudeau look smart and accomplished. His party hasn’t done well electorally since being voted out in 2014, despite having ruled the country for most of its post-Independence history, because Indians have moved on from this collectivist nonsense. Yet it seems many in the West whether on the left or the right are now eager to experiment with the same ideas. What an incredibly stupid time to be alive."
Zohran Mamdani is every bit as bad as many New Yorkers feared - "How on earth did a man, barely 34-years old, with an Ozempic-slim resume and practically zero managerial experience, rise to lead the cultural and economic heart of the United States, if not the entire planet? And how will his populist, socialist, anti-Zionist worldview translate into governing a city of nearly nine million residents and overseeing a workforce some 300,000 strong?... Some will have been reassured that he is retaining Jessica Tisch, New York’s popular police commissioner, a billionaire heiress and long-time public servant who, under Eric Adams, New York’s outgoing mayor, has helped usher in the largest drop in violent crime in New York City’s recent history. To most voters, keeping Tisch makes obvious sense, particularly given Mamdani’s own reputation for being soft on public safety. Mamdani’s base, however, isn’t so happy. Last week, more than 3,500 public defenders and legal service attorneys released a statement demanding Mamdani send Tisch packing. Rather than laud ongoing NYPD successes, the Left-leaning group claims she has led a campaign against political protest – particularly when it comes to the violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations which have roiled New York City for the past two years. So far, Mamdani insists that Tisch is here to stay. But few should be confident that he will stick to his word. The police commissioner’s fate – and the fate of New York safety – stands as the first test of Mamdani’s ability to face down New York’s increasingly fractious “progressive” voters for the good of the city. My guess? Tisch will be out by springtime. Mamdani’s other major challenge will be convincing New York City Jews – or at least the two-thirds who did not vote for him – that they need not be afraid. Again, the signs are not promising. According to a late December Anti-Defamation League report, 20 per cent of Mamdani’s administrative appointees have ties to anti-Zionist groups. Some have gone on record as describing Hamas’s October 7 attack as “justified” and “resistance”; others backed pro-Palestinian campus encampments. The fact that Mamdani has also appointed celebrity anti-Zionists such as actor Cynthia Nixon and YouTuber Ms Rachel to his influential inauguration committee is adding to the community’s feelings of unease. Mamdani has insisted that he will prioritise combating anti-Semitism, boosting anti-hate violence programme funding by 800 per cent. But he also intends to dismantle the NYPD’s strategic response group, whose specially-trained officers responded to the waves of pro-Palestinian protests, as well as mass-casualty incidents such as July’s Midtown Manhattan office shooting. Backed by a promised $1bn (£745m) in funding, Mamdani says his new department of community safety – which will focus on prevention-based anti-crime strategies – will keep the city secure. He’s also repeatedly distanced himself from his paper trail of “defund the police” rhetoric. But he appointed Alex Vitale, a Brooklyn College professor, to his transition team, a sociologist and author whose best-known book is literally titled “The End of Policing”. Perhaps Mamdani believes that none of this really matters. He remains a master at the charm offensives that won over his mostly young, white and affluent voters. Aided by his equally intriguing wife Rama Duwaji, he continues to beguile the mainstream New York media, which so uncritically enabled his election. Like Trump, Mamdani understands that politics is theatre – and in New York he has a potential hit on his hands of truly historic proportions. For nervous Jews and ordinary families concerned about law and order, hope remains that New York’s new mayor will see value in preserving at least some of the status quo. But Mamdani rose as a protest candidate, a fighter – albeit a privileged and pampered one. You’d have to be very naive indeed to believe that power will mellow him."
"Qualifications" are only essential when they push the left wing agenda
Zohran Mamdani: I'll show world whether the Left can govern - "Zohran Mamdani said he would show whether “the Left can govern” in his inaugural address as New York mayor. Mr Mamdani declared he was not scared of being seen as “too radical” and vowed to “audaciously” embark on “big government” plans that critics have warned will bankrupt small businesses and endanger the public... One former City Hall official previously told The Telegraph his plans would “put every bodega in New York City out of business”... The mayor went on to announce a return to “big government” policies and blamed the private sector for providing mediocre public services."
Get ready for the excuses when things come crashing down
Tiffany Fong on X - "Zohran Mamdani doing multiple Nazi salutes. We can’t let him get away with this!!! 😤"
It's only a Nazi salute if done by someone the left hates
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY CRAP! Zohran Mamdani just did the EXACT SAME gesture as Elon Musk When Elon does it, it's a "Nazi salute." When communist Zohran does it, the media is silent. The media is the enemy of the people."
Matt Van Swol on X - "Here’s a list of all the news networks who have not covered Zohran Mamdani’s salute:
- NYTimes
- CNN
- Washington Post
- MSNBC
- NPR
- USA Today
- Reuters
- Axios
- ABC News
Every single one of them wrote stories on Elon Musk’s “salute”… …do you get it yet?"
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 on X - "“The individual is nothing; the collective is everything.” - Stalin
“The interests of the individual must be subordinated to the interests of the collective.” - Mao
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” - Mussolini
“We’ll replace rugged individualism with collectivism.” - Mamdani
Don’t be afraid to call out objective evil when you hear it."
Dominic Pino on X - "A hilariously bad metaphor, if you know how collectivist heating worked in the USSR. In Soviet Moscow, they had a centralized heating system for the whole city. Heat was centrally generated and then distributed through a network of pipes to houses and other buildings. The service was very, very cheap to the end users. Hooray! Workers of the world, unite! But people got what they paid for. A thermostat in your house would be too individualist, so they didn't exist. The level of heat was set collectively by government administrators. They had to base their decisions on weather forecasts because it would take about 12 hours for a temperature change to work its way through the system. So when the forecasts were wrong (which was often), the heat level was wrong too. On top of that, every building is different. So no matter what heat level the government chose, some people would be too cold and others would be too warm (except for the times when the heat ran out due to shortages, then everyone was cold). People in buildings that were too hot would open the windows, even in the middle of winter, wasting heat that could have been used by others. And because there were no price signals, they hardly faced any costs when they did so. The heating system didn't even have meters for individuals to measure their usage. Officials in post-Soviet Moscow estimated that the whole system used about as much natural gas per year as all of France. The collectively owned underground pipes that carried the heat suffered from the classic problem: If everyone owns them, then nobody does. The pipes fell into disrepair and would be replaced by above-ground temporary pipes (which could go anywhere since nobody owned the land either). And they would stay that way for years. That is, if you were one of the lucky ones who got temporary pipes in the first place. Others were just left out in the cold. So yeah, if I was trying to promote collectivism, I probably wouldn't use a heat metaphor in winter. There are a lot of people who lived in collectivist countries who would dispute its association with warmth."
Chris Freiman on X - "On the “frigidity of rugged individualism” versus the “warmth of collectivism”: Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had this week compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in this week"
Jen Brick Murtazashvili on X - "Capitalism requires an extraordinary amount of cooperation. It depends on trust, shared norms, voluntary coordination, and people choosing to work together across firms, communities, and borders. Markets function because individuals are embedded in social relationships, not because they act alone. Collectivism, as it is implemented, relies on coercion. Coordination is enforced through centralized authority rather than secured through consent coercion. Community emerges from voluntary association, reciprocity, and mutual responsibility. It is a precondition for a functioning market economy."
Meme - Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen: "PICTURED: the warmth of collectivism *Dark North Korea from space vs bright South Korea*"
signüll on X - "let me get this straight… socialism is the belief that you can siphon resources from the most productive people, sell the masses a warm story about collectivism via redistribution & free shit, & then still expect everyone to remain productive & continue to generate real output. all while willfully & systematically erasing & misunderstanding incentive structures. ignoring almost all of human nature, indeed almost all of nature itself. & substituting vibes for any sense of economics. what a beautifully packaged crock of absolute shit. it’s beautiful because tons of humanity tends to prefer to learn lessons the hard way when history is totally forgotten. & this is being pitched to americans by someone who voluntarily left another system to come here. this is how you know america is different because these types of regarded ideas would never even be tolerated in many places."
Spike Cohen on X - ""We don't mean collectivism like North Korea, we mean collectivism like Norway!" Ok. Their corporate tax rate is lower than the US. They also heavily exploit all of their fossil fuel and natural resources. Is that what you and Mamdani are proposing? Or are you proposing much higher taxes and regulatory hurdles, which would bring us that much closer to North Korea?"
Alex Berenson on X - "Hey Minnesota? New York would like a word. NY now spends almost $120 billion on Medicaid, $6,000 PER RESIDENT, far more than any other state. About half of New York City is on Medicaid, and there's basically nothing it won't pay for, including trans surgeries that cost millions."
Charles Gasparino on X - "This is why Mamdani is so absurd; NYC, the epicenter of the affordability crisis, provides more free stuff to people than anywhere in the country from free health care to subsidized housing. Its tax rates reflect that largesse as does the lack of affordable housing for the middle class. Yet lefties like Mamdani want to double down on that formula. And college kids are dumb enough to believe hm"
Left wingers tout the higher GDP of blue states, but a lot of that is driven by government spending
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "The ~$1B DeBlasio CARE NYC scam that everyone was scandalized by a few years ago is hilariously small potatoes compared to the routine nonprofit corruption of our city currently. Like 20% of the city budget goes to nonprofits — around $20 billion dollars annually. How much of that do you think is pure graft at this point? They don’t even try to hide it. Our comptroller Brad Lander — who is supposed to be managing this money — is married to one of the most prominent nonprofit barons in the city, who has been made tremendously wealthy by the public money her husband oversees. And now Zohran is promising to open the door to tens of billions more for these nonprofits through ‘universal child care’ (sound familiar) and the new COPA law that will make these politically-connected nonprofits NYC’s new real estate barons by granting them right of first refusal on every land deal in the city from now on. They will rapidly accumulate hundreds of billions in real estate, vastly enriching the allies of the administration, while locking out ordinary people from property ownership. This is pure corruption from top to bottom and they just don’t care who knows it."
London is a warning to Zohran Mamdani - "The two cities were once so closely aligned that they even had a nickname. NYLon was shorthand for New York and London, two finance and media driven economies that at the start of this century were among the most prosperous and dynamic urban hubs anywhere in the world. From this week, however, they will be aligned in a much more unfortunate manner: with the self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani taking power in New York, both will be governed by the far-Left. New York may well be about to match London’s decline. Mamdani comes to power with a far more radical agenda than Sadiq Khan. He is demanding higher taxes on the rich, although that has to be agreed by the state’s governor, tougher rent controls, transport subsidies, and even state-run grocery stores to help with the cost of living. And yet Khan’s record in London tells us that meddling from City Hall only makes a city harder to live in. On Khan’s watch, house building has collapsed, making rents even less affordable, while house prices have also started to fall. Petty crime has soared out of control while the police have concentrated on virtue-signalling instead of keeping the streets safe. Investment has declined as new building projects have been refused: it is a long time since London had any new skyscrapers to match The Shard or The Gherkin. Meanwhile, the super-rich have been hounded out of the city by Khan’s colleagues in the national government, and with them jobs and spending power have disappeared. From this side of the Atlantic, we wish New York well under Mayor Mandami. But London’s bitter experience under Kahn suggests that it is going to prove a very tough four years, and New York will be a lot poorer after his term ends than it is now."
Zohran Mamdani: The private school beginnings of ‘communist’ mayoral candidate
Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous 'block party' inauguration with no food, bathrooms
Meme - George Takei: "Think about it, MAGA. Take all the time you need."
Annie @AnnieForTruth: "If you care that Mamdani is Muslim. But not that Dr. Oz is. Your issue is not his religion"
Brian Goldberg: "There is a flip side to that argumenr. Maybe the objections to mamdani are based on actual policies and/or concerns about what his policies may be."
The "empathy" crowd are unable to understand how people who they disagree with think. If reality runs up against the straw men they have created in their heads, it shows how evil their opponents are, not how deluded left wingers themselves are. It's amazing how clueless they are
Meme - Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma: "I don't think it's particularly "right wing" to criticize someone for calling a convicted Al-Qaeda financier a hero"
Omar El-Ayat @oelayat: "Amazing how far into right-wing reaction you can drift and still be accepted as "liberal" This kind of 20th-century-antisemitism-redux-to-punch-left routine used to be Fox News-crank material"
"l am not happy about the growth of Islamoleftism in America. We're following the UK down this path and it's not good."
Drew Pavlou: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani just endorsed a candidate for New York State Assembly who described a convicted Al Qaeda financier as an "imprisoned hero" and an Algerian man convicted of plotting to bomb New York City synago..."
The left support most terrorists after all, so criticising terrorists is right wing
Meme - Common Sense Extremists: "Isn't it funny how I'm supposed to believe these people are what make America great when they couldn't even make the below mentioned countries great..."
End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "Zohran Mamdani thanks "Yemenis, Uzbeks, Mexicans, Senegaleses, Trinidadians, and Ethiopians""
Meme - Seth Rosenberg @SethGRosenberg: "My experience voting in NYC:
1. No ID required
2. Zohran on the ballot twice in the top row
3. Eric Adams, who dropped out to avoid splitting the vote, still on the ballot
4. Cuomo in the bottom right corner, 2nd row"
Matthew Schmitz on X - "In 2016, Zohran Mamdani’s director of appointments wrote, “It’s important that white people feel defeated.”"
Thread by @TimmyFacciola_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW: Zohran Mamdani's Director of Appointments Catherine Almonte Da Costa has an archive full of anti-semitic posts. "Far Rockaway train is the Jew train,” she wrote in 2012. After I reached out to Mamdani's transition team for comment, she deleted her X account... Da Costa is out:"
Damn Zionist conspiracy to undermine Mamdani!
New York Post on X - "Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team misspelled names of two controversial picks — including ex-con rapper tapped as criminal justice adviser"
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "These misspellings are deliberate. It’s a very old trick to thwart Google searches for/about controversial names."
Zohran Mamdani explains appointment of convicted armed robber to transition team - "New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday he appointed a convicted armed robber to advise him on the criminal justice system because he wants to take experience and analysis from all New Yorkers into account to "build a city for each and every person."... In 1999, a Bronx jury found him guilty in two armed robberies of taxi drivers... Linen’s defense argued he had no reason to commit the crimes because he was earning money writing songs for artists such as Lil’ Kim and Mase, and his music was slated to appear on an all-star album featuring LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip. He faced up to 25 years in prison and ultimately served seven years. Linen maintained at the time that he had been falsely accused, according to reports. "
Shaun Maguire on X - "Zohran living in a rent-controlled apartment, despite being rich Is exactly the same thing as lying about his ethnicity on his Columbia app. He has no problem taking from people that actually need help. He’s not a socialist, he’s a sociopath"
