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New York’s Democratic socialists want a revolution — but does anyone else?
nypost ^ | 09/21/2020 | Michael Benjamin

Posted on 09/22/2020 10:41:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Fresh off of surprising upset victories in this summer’s Democratic primaries for state Assembly and Senate, the city’s Democratic socialists are targeting the City Council primaries next year, when 35 of the 51 seats will be without an incumbent.

The Democratic Socialists of America-NYC is planning to back a slate of council candidates who, if elected, would create a “socialist caucus” down at City Hall.

According to the strategy document obtained by The Post, one litmus test will be agreement to “defund the police” by 50 percent, slashing the NYPD’s budget by $3 billion.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democratic; newyork; revolution; socialists
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Defund the cops by 50 percent and budget by 3 billion? Let me guess, use that money to build glorious housing projects and more goodies for the good little socialist boy and girls? I am so sick of this garbage.
1 posted on 09/22/2020 10:41:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

New York is doomed. Then, after they’ve had their fun, and assuming idiot American voters don’t elect Biden, the bill for the devastation of NY will be turned over to the feds.


2 posted on 09/22/2020 10:43:20 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should make a movie, Escape from New York....


3 posted on 09/22/2020 10:44:56 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

i say ‘Let them have it’!!


4 posted on 09/22/2020 10:45:55 AM PDT by SMARTY ('Calling a thing by its right name is the beginning of wisdom.')
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hitler’s party was the Democrat Socialists party wasn’t it?


5 posted on 09/22/2020 10:45:55 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What AO-C needs, is to not get her old job back.


6 posted on 09/22/2020 10:47:13 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even John Lennon didn’t want a Revolution...................


7 posted on 09/22/2020 10:48:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Just can't imagine NYC looking like Detroit, or Baltimore..

Queens and Brooklyn...abandoned...housing..decay..blight...turning into a shithole...

NYC is so much more than Manhattan..

say it isn't so...&^(

8 posted on 09/22/2020 10:50:30 AM PDT by SGCOS
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New York’s Democratic socialists want a revolution — but does anyone else?

You really should take this ongoing coup, or revolution, more seriously.

Democracy, popular sentiment, feelings don't count in a revolution.

What counts is violence, and who gets there firstest with the mostest.

The opposition to this enlarging revolution is weak and uncoordinated.

That has to change, or there is some risk that revolutionary forces will prevail.

9 posted on 09/22/2020 10:54:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: Red Badger

Revolution 1
The Beatles

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be
All right, all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can

But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be
All right, all right, all right

You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know it’s gonna be
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right


10 posted on 09/22/2020 10:54:18 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a true John Galt situation...

I actually hope NYC goes 100% socialist and destroys the city to the point where Snake Plissken has to save the day.

We need to let the cities get completely destroyed, laying ashes, in order to rebuild them....

Keeping them alive with Federal Bailouts don’t work they only delay the inevitable...


11 posted on 09/22/2020 10:54:34 AM PDT by srmanuel
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All they need to do is a get an unshakeable hold of New York and California. They they can work to get a hold on other states, until they have a defacto 38 state majority. Then they can change the Constitution any way they want.

I think America is in more danger than we think.


12 posted on 09/22/2020 10:56:26 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
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To: Yo-Yo

John and the boys nailed this one. Can Trump play this at the rallies?


13 posted on 09/22/2020 10:56:31 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: exnavy

In the 70’s there was a book a lot of people on the subway were reading. Not sure of the name, it may have been ‘Siege’ but I cannot find it under that.

It was about the blacks blowing up all the bridges to NYC and taking over the city.

I was reading it on the subway and a pretty hip looking (disco type guy on his way to work) black guy standing next to me looked down, saw my book, and said, ‘yeah, right’.

Was so funny. Because back then we were all pretty much enjoying the craziness of NY and the blacks at the disco’s were not like todays radical blacks. They were fun and just like the rest of us, slaving away and heading to the disco at the end of the week for a good time.


14 posted on 09/22/2020 11:00:59 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Yo-Yo

All right!................................


15 posted on 09/22/2020 11:02:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger

Number nine, number nine...


16 posted on 09/22/2020 11:05:03 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: exnavy

“They should make a movie, Escape from New York....”
We will NOT allow them to escape.


17 posted on 09/22/2020 11:05:42 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: exnavy
Found it. It WAS called Siege. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1797911.Siege
18 posted on 09/22/2020 11:05:47 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Yo-Yo

The Beatles
“Back In The U.S.S.R.”

Oh, flew in by Miami Beach B.O.A.C.
Didn’t get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man I had a dreadful flight

I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.S.R. (Yeah)

Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee it’s good to be back home
Leave it ‘til tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone

I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.
Back in the U.S.
Back in the U.S.S.R.

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Aw come on!
Ho yeah!
Ho yeah!
Ho ho yeah!
Yeah yeah!

Yeah I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boys
Back in the U.S.S.R.

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Oh, show me ‘round your snow-peaked mountains way down south
Take me to your daddy’s farm
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm

I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
Hey you don’t know how lucky you are boys
Back in the U.S.S.R.

Oh let me tell you, honey
Hey, I’m back!
I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
Yes, I’m free!
Yeah, back in the U.S.S.R.

Ha ha


19 posted on 09/22/2020 11:10:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Beowulf9

I will check it out, they did make a movie with that title.


20 posted on 09/22/2020 11:38:38 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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