Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, condemned online attacks on trans people after it emerged that the shooter, born male, identified as female.
“Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity,” he said. “We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating out of a place of love for our kids.
It’s not about winning or losing. A loss for a politician is an opportunity to make money the next election cycle. Mamdani making positive changes would only hurt their ability to fundraise from the poors as they’d support more left wing candidates, and endorsing him would only draw the ire of who their actual base is.
And my father committed state sanctioned murder. I remember asking him during my early elementary school years if he had ever killed anyone and he dodged the question.
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.
Those same exact people who will use it as ammunition against us, too.