@chigowk He didn't pivot. This clip has been taken out of context. He was talking about "socialism" no longer being a scary word when it comes to electability, because the Reps already did the "boy who cried wolf"-thing by misusing it against establishment Dems like Obama.
@kalinyx8@trappychan@NaziaKaziTweets I don't think it's his role to be a revolutionary. Others should take up that mantle. His main role is to do a good job as mayor and to use his rhetoric talent to promote socialist ideas to normies and therefore move the overton window to the left, which has been working so far.
@kalinyx8@trappychan@NaziaKaziTweets I don't think it was necessarily a lie when he said it the first time, but just that he was naive at the time about what the Mayor could do. Then he had to do damage control around the subject because the media kept bringing it up to do divide & conquer around a failed promise.
@Red_Snow_36@wardinpal When it comes to normies in the US, there is no better way to brand socialist ideas than to bring up the New Deal. Much more effective in the country that elected Trump than pretentious rhetoric by socialist academics.
@theboywonder77@Bd_irB_ll Yeah, what he really means is "struggling". We don't have in the Portuguese language a direct translation for that word, so we use instead "sofrer" ("suffer") in that context.
@RustyShack187@comrade_casey Yeah, this clip has been completely taken out of context. He was not suggesting that Obama was a socialist, but pointing out that he was branded as such by Republicans and that this didn't hurt his electability.
@Princez2593@ShaeZChannel Ok, so this is basically victim blaming. If you don't want to be targeted by an authoritarian government, then just don't dissent.
@roycearonie He never said that he is a capitalist. This clip has been taken out of context. His point was about dismissing that being branded as socialist would hurt their electability, because they already have been (wrongly) branded like that for decades. It's like the boy who cried wolf.
@Princez2593@ShaeZChannel Isn't the US supposed to be a "free country"? Nobody denies that Hasan engages in rage bait. But this doesn't make it acceptable to be targeted by the freaking government.
@DanMKervick Yes, and he still does in the same interview. This clip has been taken out of context! He was asked about supposed lack of electability in swing states around the term socialism, so he debunked that concern by bringing up that even Obama was called socialist and he still won.
@JacktheFate No, he is making the point that Dems shouldn't worry that being labeled "socialist" would hurt their electability because Reps have already been wrongly calling them that for decades. So it then loses the effect against real socialists. It's like "the boy who cried wolf".
@liverpxxl9 They are taking it quiet well (with a few exceptions). Klopp is so popular in Germany that he is the only one who can get away with stuff like that.
@RevolverJerm NYC has record low crimes rates. If you take this as a standard,then this makes Tisch the most successful NYPD-commissioner ever. So just imagine how the mainstream media would potray it if a Muslim Mayor would fire a successful Jew just for pure political disagreements.
@kalinyx8@trappychan@NaziaKaziTweets It's totally fair to say that he should have never mentioned it in the first place if he couldn't keep it. But his BiBi-video is now his most watched yet and triggered a debate around it. So things like that are also useful when it comes to winning the propaganda-war.
@kalinyx8@trappychan@NaziaKaziTweets He mentioned in once in an interview when he was polling at 1%. But it's not like he campaigned on it and included it on his campaign slogans like freeze the rent, free childcare & free buses.