The Ruthless podcast: Mamdani on how to deal with escalating altercations
This is astounding (the clip I’ve selected is about three minutes long):
Those instructions read something like the advice a therapist might give to deal with a verbal spat between friends or acquaintances. They would be absurd to use in a violent situation. Anyone recommending such a thing is either divorced from reality or malevolent, or both.
Were these recommendations really meant to deal with criminals or others threatening violence? Finding a legible copy of the instructions wasn’t easy, but I found this. The recommendations discussed in the video are under a heading that reads, “Are you encountering a conflict that appears to be escalating?” And “call the police” is certainly not one of the choices for a response. The document is put out by Mamdani’s Public Safety Team, and is addressed to small businesses.
What I could read of the action-card at Neo’s link isn’t entirely useless, especially in terms of thinking ahead for some types of conflict that you might experience under general conditions in every-day affairs or at businesses.
They aren’t very helpful if you are confronting a sicko with a gun in your face.
The headline to the instructions:
“Never Forget: Zohran Mamdani and Tiffany Caban put out this flyer urging you to distract violent criminals by “spilling your soda,” or asking if you knew them in high school.”
And so forth.
To be fair, sometimes it is possible to distract people who want to harm you, but the circumstances are very limited, and IIRC are generally hostage situations where the victim has time to interact with the criminal. And the criminal is not hard-core and intent on wreaking havoc more than extorting ransom.
See October 7.
The criminals who are planning on committing violence per se are not going to be listening to you, and won’t care what you say if they are.
i’m reminded of demolition man, that curious darkly comic take on Brave New World, where the authorities are told to address ‘maniacs in a calm tone of voice’
yes that works out in a world without morlocks, when they are present,
the flipside is the dystopic purge where they peculiarly suggest one night of violent nihilism, will settle all accounts, I think that would spiral out of control as we saw in 2020, yes there were restrictions on use of force, but I don’t think that would work, the four of the last six years have illustrated how far chaos can result,
As a Muslim who supports the fundamental transformation of America into a fully collectivist nation, Mamdani seeks America’s dissolution, a necessary precondition to its transformation. Rampant, uncontrolled crime is simply a means to facilitate the societal transformation of America into the United Socialist States of Amerika.
@ miguel > “one night of violent nihilism, will settle all accounts”
As you say, once you open that spigot it’s hard to turn it off again.
The equivalent in the right-wing internet is warnings against pushing too hard against “those who just want to be left alone.”
Or Kipling’s “When the Saxon began to hate.”
And the maxims “Liberals are playing with fire and they don’t know it’s hot” or “liberals think violence is a dial and conservatives know it’s a switch.”
A projection on the part of liberal, of course what happened since 2020, is quite close to how the purge would really work, in the blue cities, the police have been demoralized, and criminals empowered, lives lost by the scores, seemingly with the indifference of the rulers, who if they were imposed by an enemy power, would they do anything different, in red states like tennessee you have memphis and nashville, which have clearly deteorated, in blue states, we don’t need to repeat the litany,
I’m cracking up, imagining the scenario where I am being held up by someone who is a minority—me, so pale that my husband says I make snow look beige—“Hey, didn’t I go to high school with you?”
When I attended a progressive Episcopal church, the standard metaphor for problems, including crime and the Middle East, reduced life to a kindergarten playground.
No one is right or wrong. It’s just a matter of good teachers breaking up silly squabbles. One member’s solution was to ask “What Would Dumbledore Do?”
My impression was that many Episcopalians led sheltered lives.
I found, ” SHERIFF’S OFFICE! KNOCK IT OFF, OR YOU WILL GET SPRAYED! ” And then spraying them with Fox, ( 5,300,000 Scoville Heat Units ), if they didn’t, generally worked.
I finally got around to catching up with my favorite intel analyst, J. E. Dyer, with her “round up” post on 8/14. In addition to observations on a variety of topics discussed at Neo’s, and many that are not, she had this warning about the dark side of Mamdani’s intentions.
https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/toc-ready-room-14-august-2025-gaza-et-al-russian-missiles-perspectives-on-qatar-iran-mental-health-more/
Her observations on the other topics are, as always, worth reading, although not everyone will be interested in the full menu.
One caveat: the post was written before the latest murder by the clearly mentally ill trans shooter, so a few of her comments in re gun control are out of date.
The mental health related killings are still a very minor fraction of the whole, and the vast majority of gun-related injuries are still accidents and suicides, but the mass murders get more attention in the press, even if the Regime Media refuses to acknowledge the causes.
AesopFan,
Thanks for the quotes above. I guess if I thought more about Mamdami in terms of 1984, I would have caught on to the “community intervention” as a method to declare anyone who disagrees with the government as “mentally incompetent”. Not only did Orwell point this out, but we’ve seen it in action in the Soviet Union and in China. Classic Marxist ploy.
The bloc committee which sounds more menacing in Spanish Comite de Defensa de la Revolucion idi probably had an analog, mamdani quite a borrower
https://www.declassified.live/p/the-george-floyd-ing-of-kilmar-garcia?
The flipside
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/the-week-in-pictures-societal-suicide-edition.php
I also thank AesopFan for the J.E. Dyer quotes. The FBI under the previous administration already labeled Catholic traditionalists as threats to the state. How many conservatives of all kinds could be stuffed into a “mental health” box as a danger to the state?
As a further example of the use of “mental health” to enforce compliance with progressive diktats, consider the policy under consideration by the Temecula Valley Unified School District in California. The policy (apparently tabled for now by the school board) stipulates that any girl who does not wish to share a bathroom or locker room with a transgender girl (that is, a biological male), must complete a Mental Health Accommodation Request Form to use a private space. In other words, the girl is judged to be mentally ill for wanting a private space free of biological males.
@ Yukon > “must complete a Mental Health Accommodation Request Form to use a private space.”
We are moving into a new version of “1984” written by Franz Kafka.
One of the original excuses for allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms of their claimed gender (not their biological sex) was the alleged discomfort they felt because of the discrimination that they were experiencing by being allowed to use the bathrooms at a nurse’s office, or even staff facilities.
IOW, instead of the trans persons being on some kind of private list (too few to have a register, and certainly not filling out a mental health form), now the greater number of distressed persons have to do that.
@ RigelDog ” … [ I am] so pale that my husband says I make snow look beige.”
Your husband sounds like a great, clever, funny guy — hopefully a keeper!
If you like this stuff, hand over your lunch money.
Yeah, distraction is a great start to your first, lethal, strike. Oh. Not that? Sorry.
To be less snarky, there is a location in the escalation before the weapon comes out in which some kind of similar distraction might reduce the temperature.
“You staring a my girl?” Not that you were but you glanced in that direction and they guy was looking for a fight.
“I thought she was Lydia Anderson, went to high school with her.”
Can’t hurt, but long before anybody’s going to call for mental health distraction professionals.