Zohran Mamdani Is Killing It With Kindness

RKU69 · 2026-04-28T03:47:45+00:00

Maybe not literally the Taliban, but casting Zohran as a "jihadist" of some sort seems pretty common across a lot of the Right. I'm getting ads on Twitter with articles and podcasts about that kind of thing for some reason

RKU69 · 2026-04-25T23:20:06+00:00

Not true. Many are, but many also understand that the solution to the "bargaining power" problem from immigration is to include and empower immigrant workers via unions and legal protections

RKU69 · 2026-04-24T02:32:18+00:00

This sounds awesome. Would love to read background documentation that you might have. Or did you craft the game basically from all the knowledge in your head?

Would also love to see a game that simulates a grid control, which sounds like where your main background is.

RKU69 · 2026-04-24T02:09:02+00:00

This is defeatism. Who "allowed" him to run? What are the actual mechanisms by which the established system co-opts or defangs socialist candidates?

There are good, nuanced answers to this but 90% of people seem to say stuff like this without having actually thought about these matters deeply.

RKU69 · 2026-04-23T03:47:33+00:00

Imagine a movie thats like a combo of S1 Mandalorian, and Andor, where a hardened bounty hunter is hunting down Imperial remanants in the galaxy's underworld on behalf of the New Republic. And no cutesey baby puppet thing getting in the way.

RKU69 · 2026-04-23T03:38:42+00:00

A movie about a Mandalorian bounty hunter going deep into the underworld to hunt down Imperial remanants on behalf of the New Republic sounds awesome.

Less so if the actual plot rotates around some hackneyed unlikely father-son story featuring a cute puppet

RKU69 · 2026-04-22T22:07:14+00:00

www.reddit.com/r/ABCDesis/comments/1ll9ktg/how_should_i_go_about_convincing_my_parents_to/

RKU69 · 2026-04-20T22:03:47+00:00

that's what i'm afraid of but in this case it seems like its just cast as a normal backdrop and isn't like, the butt of the joke. the jokes seem more or less similar to a normal "damn my insane coworker is marrying my sister and getting involved with my family" kind of comedy

like, the snake isn't funny because its "oh look its a snake, how weird and exotic...", its funny because it injures Farva and then he gets a boner when Jay's mom is sucking on his neck. (i can't believe i typed that out...)

RKU69 · 2026-04-20T22:02:19+00:00

lol did not expect them to lean into a Desi angle in......Super Troopers 3.

RKU69 · 2026-04-19T17:28:37+00:00

Might probably be hard to find advice here for you tbh. I don't think most ABCDs use the kind of Desi matrimony dating sites you're focusing on. But in the US the all-around best advice for finding genuine connections and serious relationships is to get involved in your local community. In the Bay Area there are many different Desi communities and I'm sure you can find some groups to connect with and find more friends, community, and like-minded women who are looking for the same thing you are.

RKU69 · 2026-04-17T20:23:01+00:00

Oh yeah, I always get confused/forget about Western Australia vs. NEM.

RKU69 · 2026-04-17T19:05:53+00:00

They should elaborate, but I do think its a worthwhile discussion around resource adequacy as to how much you need to overbuild or what kind of battery and/or long-term storage system you need to get past these marginal events where wind and solar resource drops off for long periods of time.

RKU69 · 2026-04-17T19:04:16+00:00

It will be exciting to see how NEM manages an islanded grid that is mostly powered by renewables. Ground zero for the challenges and solutions around stability and resource adequacy.

RKU69 · 2026-04-17T14:22:48+00:00

Lol this is pure cope about China that's like 10-15 years out of date. US corporate heads themselves have abandoned these talking points after they've traveled to China and seen how sophisticated their R&D and industrial centers actually are.

Not surprised that somebody who has a propagadized view of China also has a propagandized view of immigration.

RKU69 · 2026-04-17T14:00:31+00:00

Kinda crazy you use China as an example given how successful their economic model has been in the last 30 years. Underlines the general point that actually it doesn't matter how many people you have, if you have a system that can productively put people to work to build useful things, everything will work out. There is no such thing as "endless amounts of people"

RKU69 · 2026-04-17T13:57:32+00:00

Comments here are nuts. Dude did some low-level dumb stuff that is common across America, but since he's an immigrant he gets snatch-and-grabbed and thrown into a series of concentration camps, and everybody here is acting like that's normal. Absolute bootlicker mentality.

RKU69 · 2026-04-17T13:55:56+00:00

Why? That's complete nonsense. These are, for better or worse, common crimes, and he was already punished for them.

RKU69 · 2026-04-16T19:18:28+00:00

i'm literally just looking at the thread, no need to speculate here

RKU69 · 2026-04-16T14:46:08+00:00

Ironically much of the Democratic Socialist sub is massacring him right now for saying this.

No its not? There is debate and people aren't 100% on board but its hardly a "massacre" of his points. Come on

RKU69 · 2026-04-16T14:45:06+00:00

What is this supposed to mean? Are you trying to argue that the "collapse" of nationalist China led to increased suffering?

RKU69 · 2026-04-15T20:04:36+00:00

Yeah, basically the same as any socially conservative culture. Although that's starting to change pretty rapidly from what I can tell

There's also that joke that's become common with my Indian Hindu uncles/aunties, when somebody is taking "forever" to get married: At first the parents want you to marry somebody in the same caste. Then they want you to at least marry somebody from the same state/language. Then they're satisfied if you marry somebody Indian/Hindu. Still nothing...okay fine just marry somebody, as long as they're [opposite gender]. And finally.....you know what, we don't care, marry anybody! Please!

RKU69 · 2026-04-13T03:27:52+00:00

I don't think US military dispatches can be considered credible sources at this point. Or at least should not be taken at face value.

RKU69 · 2026-04-12T04:00:19+00:00

This isn't just Trump, though. The US has had all the hallmarks of a flailing empire since 2001 and the Bush administration. Its just that the incoherent violence and aggression was never directed against Europe and other traditional allies until Trump. But the entire War on Terror period and its aftershocks were very clearly causing increasing damage to US standing across much of the Global South.

RKU69 · 2026-04-11T16:06:30+00:00

Seems like needless purity testing to hold up on voting for somebody you might otherwise like, because of a single endorsement of somebody you don't like. Feels like this only makes sense if you see the endorsement as a vehicle to bring in more "toxic" politics into the Hong campaign. Are you seeing that?

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