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The End of Eric Adams (www.michaellange.nyc)

submitted 10 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Apologies, I do not mean to be discouraging anyone from actions that they can take. Whatever people in and around NY/ NYC can do on a practical level to facilitate his removal, I am all for.

We have ample reason to be discouraged, but I’m not sure targeting the only block of voters and potential activists who might actually both give a shit and be educated enough to get something to budge in order to inflict depression is a good strategy.

To be frank, I don't think that Beehaw is or can safely be a space for organizing activists, and I don't think it has the reach to be having any kind of external impact. Apart from it being at a very high level a space for left-oriented folks to talk, I think Beehaw is different things to different people, and that may or may not include being an impetus to real-world action. For me, it's definitely a space to escape from the stress of being surrounded by conservatives in my day-to-day, and sometimes that escape may end up being more venting than rallying. ~~I have probably been more negative recently than I could be, but I don't think it's useful or healthy to simply pretend at, or certainly enforce, positivity.~~

I have been pretty disheartened and negative recently, and I will work to not project that here because I don't want to and never intended to be pushing my own stress onto others (yourself included), and seeing as I clearly have, I apologize.

the kind of things we’re signalling to the rest of the left... may be actively making the situation worse.

Not to make light of the situation, but I can't tell if you or I think things are more dire. :P