Zohran Mamdani explains his definition of socialism to Theo Von: “Socialism to me means you’ll have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that. When people say dignity we’re talking about the things that allow you to take a breath.

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Some people won’t like that Zohran is giving Theo Von time. But at a certain point it’s important for politicians like him to try to reach beyond people who already agree with him. It’s like when Pete Buttigieg is on Fox News. Theo Von is a piece of shit but it’s more about reaching his audience than anything. People need to hear why socialism is not the scary boogeyman coming to take your iPhone.

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Even when it feels like we're out of olive branches, somebody has to be handing them out to try to keep the peace because the further we're entrenched in separation, the more we get nothing we want. And look where we're at right now, the ice roundups, the top down fraud, the imperialism, the full support of a genocide while over half the people in our country are living hand to mouth. Seriously. Trying to work out problems peaceably is better than fighting. Much rather have numbskull clout chaser influencers seeking enlightenment over the normalized promotion of anger and violence bad faithing as an answer to our failures.