• PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
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    23 hours ago

    the crossing of which, everyone understands, will result in negative coverage and editorial scolding

    Not really that. The crossing of which will result in this massive narrative-shaping machine being put to work and simply engineering you out of place like a Twilight Zone episode.

    I saw it in action when I ever talked to some of my relatives about Bernie Sanders. These guys are a little on the back foot because of Mamdani’s genuine popularity, and his face-to-face approach neutered some of the ways they like to do things, but they’re extremely well-funded and they’re good at what they do. I am completely sure they will figure something out.

    The most obvious possibility is just to talk to a few key people in the city and make sure that things turn into a disaster in ways that are out of his control (or maybe just pick out a couple of real issues and inflate them into massive evidence of what a disaster all this socialism stuff is).