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Adam Johnson Profile picture
@adamjohnsonCHI
Jul 16 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Reminder that the wealthy are, at least in principle, not entitled to any more say in govt than anyone else. Mamdani meeting with these clowns is probably smart politics but “business leaders” are Just Some Guys with zero constituency and it’s bad journalism to act otherwise
The idea that “business leaders” need to approve of a mayor is a Fake Thing They Just Make Up. They are not a democratic body, no one elected them, they are Just Some Guys. To the extent they are influential it’s, by definition, the result of a corruption in democracy.
12 random teachers or sanitation workers or homeless people have as much right to vet Mandani as 12 “business leaders,” who, again, are Just Some Guys. This ring kissing routine is a distortion of democracy backed by an implied threat of campaign spending and media manipulation

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Adam Johnson Profile picture
Jul 13
New neoliberal front group just dropped Image
There’s been 90000 of these billionaire funded “we just want to win” “drop liberal orthodoxy” “big tent” front projects launched in the last six months. More consulting grifts designed to push the party right under the auspices of Savvy Pragmatism
Definitely need to do a break down. So much Silicon Valley and billionaire money funneling into the same consult class losers to “energize” “hard nose” “youthful” democrats who can “win in Trump country” who will courageously defend crypto and Israel
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Jul 11
This article is pure liberal revisionism.

1) relies on ex-Biden official sources reinforcing myth of Helpless Biden desperately seeking a ceasefire without addressing the fact that, according to Israeli officials, he NEVER demanded one. this key dynamic is hand-waved away 🧵
2) the idea that Netanyahu dragged on the war “for political gain” is partly true but misleading. Polls showing 50%+ Israelis prefer a ceasefire to more war ignore the common assumption they’d get captives back then RESTART the genocide. This is & was the Israeli “left” position
One April 2024 poll during the relevant timetable of this article shows only 19% of Israelis (and 4% of Israeli Jewish citizen) thought Netanyahu had “gone too far” in Gaza. The basic premise of the genocide, unfortunately, was and remains VERY popular. Image
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Jul 1
important to understand what pro-Israel lobbying org ADL is doing here: they are issuing a mob threat to continue demagoguing this issue and exploiting the public’s ignorance and racism until Mamdani “comes to them” e.g. toes the line on Israel. This is extortion plain and simple
It has nothing to do with him “condemning” anything. If he condemns “globalize the intifada” they will demand he condemn “intifada,” if he condemns this they’ll find some other expression for him to “condemn”. The point is for him to accept the minimum axioms of liberal zionism
The ADL is a libel-spewing shakedown racket that lets white nationalist antisemites like Elon Musk off the hook because he does the IDF press tour and censors to their liking. They explicitly believe any meaningful opposition to Israel is per se “antisemitism” and act accordingly
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Jun 29
Again this never a thing that ever happened I am losing my mind. Just pure racist libel.
Are any “fact checking” groups or reporters going to note Mamdani never said “intifada” anything but simply said, when asked about it, it wasn’t a call for violence against anyone, much less Jewish people (the thing he’s also being accused of saying that he never said)
Just so everyone’s clear here’s how these ginned up meta-scandals work:

Media hack: DO YOU CONDEMN X (thing politician A never said)
Politician A: No, [nuanced, thoughtful answer]
Other media hack: politician A said X

Rinse and repeat with new made up quotes

All smoke, no fire
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Jun 24
It’s funny how every article on Mamdani has to include a to-be-sure paragraph about his “impractical” redistributive policies or “tone deaf” Palestine positions. There’s always an air of menace, a “if only he didn’t do this things would be easier” message to any future Mamdanis
It’s the most brainless ideological disciplining, typically shrouded in “inviting controversy” meta discourse or, in the case of the NYT, an alleged “trouble with Jewish voters” horserace framing that’s basically made up. Editors view it as their job to gate-keep Seriousness.
The implication being Mamdani’s Unserious positions are holding him back rather than being fundamental to his appeal. Even if voters or his 45,000 volunteers don’t agree with him on these positions they respect that he sticks to them anyway. They respect he doesn’t triangulate.
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Jun 23
given what we know, and what’s currently happening in Gaza, it is deeply insensitive and glib to write “throwing around hot-button words like genocide”. It is near universal consensus in the human rights world—HRW, Amnesty, MSF—Israel is committing genocide, it is not a buzzword. Image
Dr Melanie O'Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the largest group of genocide scholars in the world has argued Gaza is genocide very conclusively. Among scholars it’s near unanimous. Yet it is repeatedly reduced to a fringe leftwing neurosis
Mamdani saying Israel is committing genocide isnt radical polemic or a fringe idea, it’s entirely within the mainstream of human rights and genocide scholarship. Louis is free to dispute this claim on substance but derisively framing it as an extremist position is factually false
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