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TannyTheLad's avatar

What would you say if they had Donald Trump or Elon Musk on the Pod?

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If you think comparing Zohran Mamdani to Donald Trump or Elon Musk is some kind of gotcha, you’re either terminally online or so ideologically captured that you’ve lost the plot entirely. This isn’t about ‘who gets a mic’ it’s about what kind of power and platform someone holds and what they plan to do with it. Trump is the head of state, Musk is a billionaire industrialist. Zohran is a local politician trying to pass rent control being spoken to by two members of his community. If you genuinely think those three are interchangeable just because other terminally online people disagree with these guys in some way, you’re at the bottom of a deep dark chasm of ideological captivity screaming to a deaf audience.

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TannyTheLad's avatar

Just get ALL politics off the pod. Let alone radical, antisemitic politicians (both sides).

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again, being pressed on live tv about a geopolitical issue and saying israel has the right to exist but should probably be considered a nation state and not a jewish state (the only sane and diplomatic take btw) is not antisemitism.

if the NYC podcasters want to have the 30 year old guy running for mayor of NYC on their podcast they should go ahead and do that. because people in that community who listen to the pod want to hear his ideas laid out in a candid format.

you act like he’s campaigning on jewish hate. just stop it. log off.

zionists need to remember that advocating for the rights of palestinians ≠ antisemitism nor does it have anything to do with religion or ethnicity.

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TannyTheLad's avatar

Brother...1) I just don't want politics on the pod, I'm not reading your essays 2) Just say Jews not Zionists...

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the boys constantly talk about local politics though. do you even listen to this podcast? did they discuss israel and palestine or exclusively new york city?

funny how you “don’t want to hear politics on the pod” but you can’t differentiate between jews and zionists. a religious, ethnic and cultural identity and a political identity are not even remotely interchangeable.

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