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With Mamdami's promise of the "warmth of collectivism" in his inaugaral speech, I am guessing he hasn't read much Solzhenitsyn or even Shalamov's "Kalyma Tales."

I am guessing the inmates of the gulag in the sub-arctic Kolyma River camps found the "warmth of collectivism" to be a pretty threadbare blanket in the depths of winter.

>>>""Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov is a profound collection of short stories detailing the horrific realities of the Soviet Gulag system, focusing on extreme suffering, dehumanization, and the pervasive power of brutal cold, hunger, and forced labor, with "cold" being a central, constant tormentor that strips prisoners of their humanity, making warmth a luxury and a symbol of life itself in the Kolyma region's sub-Arctic conditions. The stories vividly depict how physical deprivation, especially freezing temperatures, reduces individuals to primal states, often showing guards using the cold to justify prisoner suffering and prisoners desperately seeking any meager warmth, illustrating the depths of human endurance and cruelty. "<<<<

Oh, but that's right-Mamdami is going to do collectivism right this time.

Well, at least New Yorkers can finally escape being subject to an extremely small government and rugged individualism and will be able to enjoy a big government for the first time in their lives and enjoy the comfy, warmth of collectivism.

Grab the popcorn-because NYC is going to be one hell of a show to watch.

I agree that it was a doubly foolish thing for him to say. He could’ve used the word “community” and conveyed close to what he wanted to say. And I thought the same thing about the word warmth.

More broadly, sometimes the individualism works great. At the same time, sometimes we have people worth $400 billion voting themselves trillion dollar raises while others starve. So it cuts both ways.

Still, I don’t give a fucking shit about some rando who doesn’t live in NYC, predicting that everyone’s gonna be thrown in the Gulag, when at the same time that same guy has no problem with masked soldier, grabbing people off the street.

Spare me your freedom bullshit, you hypocritical cow. You can’t act like a guy who just got elected is gonna throw everybody in the communist prison while also cheering alligator Alcatraz.

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 05, 2026 6:50 am

I agree that it was a doubly foolish thing for him to say. He could’ve used the word “community” and conveyed close to what he wanted to say. And I thought the same thing about the word warmth.

More broadly, sometimes the individualism works great. At the same time, sometimes we have people worth $400 billion voting themselves trillion dollar raises while others starve. So it cuts both ways.

Still, I don’t give a fucking shit about some rando who doesn’t live in NYC, predicting that everyone’s gonna be thrown in the Gulag, when at the same time that same guy has no problem with masked soldier, grabbing people off the street.

Spare me your freedom bullshit, you hypocritical cow. You can’t act like a guy who just got elected is gonna throw everybody in the communist prison while also cheering alligator Alcatraz.

LMAO! And how are those free buses coming along?

tlynn78 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 05, 2026 12:55 pm

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 05, 2026 6:50 am

I agree that it was a doubly foolish thing for him to say. He could’ve used the word “community” and conveyed close to what he wanted to say. And I thought the same thing about the word warmth.

More broadly, sometimes the individualism works great. At the same time, sometimes we have people worth $400 billion voting themselves trillion dollar raises while others starve. So it cuts both ways.

Still, I don’t give a fucking shit about some rando who doesn’t live in NYC, predicting that everyone’s gonna be thrown in the Gulag, when at the same time that same guy has no problem with masked soldier, grabbing people off the street.

Spare me your freedom bullshit, you hypocritical cow. You can’t act like a guy who just got elected is gonna throw everybody in the communist prison while also cheering alligator Alcatraz.

LMAO! And how are those free buses coming along?

LMAO! I’m not a New York City resident and I didn’t vote for him. Given that he’s been on the job for about five days, I have a hard time holding anything he has done against him. I even criticized him a little bit above, but that of course went over your head (you’re practically Warwick Davis at this point).