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you mean to tell me the guy who issued a personal apology to the NYPD for having called them racist once is a massive lib?
See that one I can at least understand as “The NYPD murders people and I like being alive”
anybody in NYC municipal politics who isn't struggling against the NYPD isn't doing anything meaningful at all. That is their battle to fight, and Mamdani seems to not even want to engage and wants to surrender before he's even begun the struggle
what if he's just saying this to get elected?
smart money is on
but just wondering. wouldnt you basically have to act like a lib to get elected? does he lose more voters calling cuba a dictatorship or by praising communism?
that argument holds no water for complete self-owns like this one. It has no bearing on the race or the job he wants to do or the policies he promised. He either truly believes this shit or someone (the democrats) has a gun pointed at him or his family.
I mean it's probably just a cynical ploy to win votes from Cuban and Venezuelan immigrants to NYC, no position he has ever held nor the position he is running for has any influence in foreign policy
it's a cynical ploy with dangerous ripple effects though. if Bernie Dems like Zohran are what the average working person thinks of when they think "socialism," then their vision of socialism (and their potential participation in it) is one where imperialism continues to operate unabated. he also didn't need to do this whatsoever, even from a cowardly electoral optics perspective - he's on track to win basically no matter what.
extra grotesque when you consider the very real currently ongoing escalations toward Venezuela from the Trump admin and the brutality that could lead to for their people. there's no justifying this whatsoever.
100% agree
yeah i can't imagine the polling or demographics work out where "i'm running for mayor" isn't the best answer to any question about foreign countries or even other US states
acting is being. If you're "acting" like a lib in politics, you are being a lib in politics
well, i guess since he's a state rep already then he's "in politics". if he were not elected to any position yet it might be different. i forgot he's already elected. sigh
politicians always get worse and sell out and move right once they're in office. While they're running and campaigning they're at the most "radical". It's only downhill from here
that's just describing one of the processes by which the dem machine consumes people, IMO. I don't think it's a meaningful distinction.
Like, it doesn't matter if Zohran is the greatest dude ever in his personal life & the sentiments of his heart are Super Communist and he's just hiding his power level. if the pressure from the dem machine forces him to take a public position & actions that are aligned with imperialism, then he's just being an imperialist. extra perplexing/spineless in this case since he's slated to win handily.
He was already leading the polls and pretty much guaranteed to win with a more revolutionary rhetoric
Wait, do you have the source of this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/nyregion/mamdani-police-apology-floyd.html
He reiterated he was apologizing to "individual officers" on the view