Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race
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Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who was set to become the city’s most liberal mayor in generations.PBS News
❝The state became neither “free market” nor “socialist” — it became a patronage machine run by insiders.❞
EDIT: Posted the link for the first paragraphs, but man, that article goes off the rails later on. 🧵
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Forget petty bribes, ‘state capture’ is corruption so deep it is shaping the rules of democracy itself
Beating the dangerous influence of private interests on governments requires independent judges, journalists and a courageous civil societyKenneth Mohammed (The Guardian)
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The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
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not really sure if this a more of a personal announcement.
If so: congrats.
If not: really entertaining alt-text (as usual).
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NYT, NBC, AP all calling it for Mamdani
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EU climate deal falters ahead of COP30
Environment ministers are running out of time to reach an agreement before COP30 opens on ThursdayNikolaus J. Kurmayer (Euractiv)
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Scientists Uncover Yet Another Reason to Sleep in Total Darkness
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Scientists Uncover Yet Another Reason to Sleep in Total Darkness
As if we needed another reason to put our phones down.Margherita Bassi (Gizmodo)
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Being inspired in 2025 is a radical act. Because the default setting has become irony and exhaustion.
Marc Trius
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Paul Cantrell
in reply to Marc Trius • • •I gave the first few paragraphs a light read. What was it you saw that rankled you?
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Marc Trius
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Paul Cantrell
in reply to Marc Trius • • •@alter_kaker
The examples in the opening paragraphs are Russia, Hungary, Tanzania, S Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan — and it was use the phrase “state capture” to describe those that caught my eye. It seems like a useful concept.
Israel is 10 paragraphs in, and yeah, it goes off the rails at that point. Editing OP to point to that.
Marc Trius
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •yes. I should have clarified that it's the only example they bring to illustrate state capture _by foreign interests._ Given the unfortunate wealth of examples (generally by empires such as the US and Russia) both historical and contemporary, I feel some type of way about this choice.
I keep thinking about the origin of the phrase "banana republic" and Russia's recent takeover of the Georgian state, not to mention the Ukraine war, which is Russia's response to Ukrainians' overthrow of its capture of their state... Given such examples, I feel that the choice to restrict examples of this phenomenon to Israel's alleged capture of the US, UK, Germany, India (India?!!) is something I'd expect from Nick Fuentes, not the number one most viewed article in The Guardian, which it was earlier today.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Marc Trius • • •Ah, gotcha. That’s a really good point: foreign influence is hardly a unique pattern. In my tacked-on thread to the OP, I went after the author for misusing their own terminology, but your point is just as damning.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Marc Trius
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •This idea of “state capture” — as opposed to corruption, bribery, propaganda, etc — seems to me a useful one. We can ask when and to what extent the machinery of the state itself •is• a patronage machine.
Take Enron as an example of something that is •not• state capture: there were corrupt politicians turning a blind eye, no doubt, but ultimately the state convicted people of accounting crimes and the market flushed the company down the toilet.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Compare that to countries in the first ~6 paragraphs of the article where it is the state itself committing the accounting fraud. No Russian oligarch is going to prison for actual fraud; the only reason they’re going to prison is if Putin wants them there.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •“The state as patronage machine” — that’s the concept here.
The article then does a weird pivot in paragraph 10 where it tries to shoehorn Israel’s international lobbying and propaganda efforts into being an example of this same principle.
It doesn’t work. The shoe doesn’t fit. What the Israeli government has done to find political covers for the horror it has committed in Gaza is an example of something else.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Why draw this strained, misaligned connection? Extending the phrase “state capture” as defined above to describe one state “capturing” another through diplomatic efforts makes little sense — until we remember all the deranged antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews secretly controlling world governments or whatever.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Dude, come on. The author could have ended the piece at paragraph 9 by saying “This is the danger the USA now faces,” and they’d have a banger. Instead…yeesh. Can we not?
If they wanted to bring Israel into it, they could have focused on Netanyahu avoiding corruption charges. There’s an argument for “state capture” being a useful lens there. But no, the writer just had to go full “secret world order.”
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I expect this thread to piss off absolutely •everyone•. Whatever.
It’s essential in these times of horror to see as clearly as we can, and aim true with our criticism.
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Greg Bell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Paul Cantrell
in reply to Greg Bell • • •And also we need to be careful not to throw wild punches that cause unnecessary harm. It’s all too easy to fight one horror by lending comfort to another.
Steve Gisselbrecht
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I still feel like the truth matters. Not as a means to an end, but *because* it's true.
Does that make me horribly naive?