although I would prefer to see more secular politicians, if we are going to have a leader who's religious its good to have more diversity so christians don't gain too much of a majority
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I just hate how he promotes "affordable" housing and does nothing to advocate work from home. Every affordable unit is booked 10yrs in advance while developers build 150 condos and have 10 affordable. Literally tricky dickle down economics.
Can he promote work from home? Maybe for city employees. But what can he do about private companies that are paying for expensive Manhattan offices for the prestige and don't want them to be empty?
That we don't afford consumers luxuries to lure them in, they need to fill their own neighborhoods. If no one wsnts to work there, maybe they need more lucrative and exciting work.
Based woke brown man. Cope and seethe chuds.
Based woke brown man
You talking about jesus??
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I am Trump's malignant hernia and I endorse this result.
Malignate faster please
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This is great news. However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?
Mamdani could not have had a better campaign, yet, he had just ~8% more votes. If the other guy ran a just tiny bit better campain, things could have been very different.
I am trully happy that Mamdani won, but yet, I am left scared at the state of things. He should have had 70/80% of votes. After all that has been happening in the US for the last 9 months or so, there is only a 8% number of votes separating the two sides? Holly molly, that is scary.
First of all, it was a 3 way race, against far better known candidates. He was running an untested Socialist campaign, against ferocious propaganda from BOTH sides. The voters had to remain courageous, ignore ALL that, and tell the "experts" that they didn't care, something that they historically don't tend to do. By all standard political theory, he should have been crushed by 50 points.
In America, many races are within a few points. It's not at all unusual to have a race decided by only a point, or even less. In any race, an 8 point lead is significant. For an unknown Socialist, coming out of nowhere, against the most incredible bi-partisan smear campaign I've ever seen, to win by 8 points, is an enormous victory.
Both MAGA and established Democrats are terrified today. The Progressive Left just fired the first shots of the New Civil War, and hit every target.
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The enemies of progress own most of the major US news outlets. I think that is the biggest reason why so many people voted for a dipshit like Cuomo.
A second possibility is name recognition. Now that Zohran gets to run New York for awhile, his name and ideas will spread. That means during the next round of elections, he becomes the defending champ with all the advantages that brings to the table. If he is a good leader, he probably will have a much greater margin of votes than Cuomo ever did.
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I'm jealous of NYC right now, wish someone had those sorts of policies in Portland.
I think this is the start of something much bigger. :)
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This is fantastic and I wish him the best. He's going to need the best communications team any politician has had thus far. All the odds and big money interests are stacked against him. He's going to be attacked from every conceivable angle, from every level of government. If he remains true and righteous, he'll persevere.
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One of the more interesting polls out of this was whether voters were casting in support of or against a candidate.
86% of Mamdani voters were voting out of support of their candidate.
Half of Cuomo voters were voting against another candidate. (Mamdani.)
Voting against a candidate is a losing strategy.
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I'm enjoying the unhinged rants I'm seeing from conservative social media. They're not happy and it's a fantastic read
both the DNC(old guard, DInos) and the gop donors were going in with the propaganda against madamni for months
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From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I'll take it.
Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?
Now that the Dems won EVERYTHING, by WIDE margins, it is clear that the Dems have the upper hand. Here's what they should do now with the power they just took back:
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Double down on the shutdown, and demand even more concessions. Nothing less than full compliance will be sufficient. Otherwise, we'll see where we are a year from now.
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Adopt a true progressive agenda. What happened to these MAGA Traitors is going to happen to MAGA-appeasing Democrats, too.
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Primary every weak Democrat - Schmuck Schumer, Jeffries, etc. They are almost as much the enemy as MAGA. If they lose, we get stronger, and if they win, they'll know they dodged a bullet, and they better get with the new PROGRESSIVE program.
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Force their hand on everything. Make them reject even reasonable Democratic and Progressive demands. Don't let them off the hook for anything, then use it against them viciously in the Midterms.
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Okay. Commentators have been saying for a while that a victory for him could be a signal of the American left learning that actually progressive policies and candidates can be successful and on the Democrats as a whole actually moving to the left. Let’s hope that that’s actually true, rather than it being dismissed as “New York’s different”.
Hopefully, the recent buzz around AOC will help, too. I’ve been seeing more of Crockett in the news, as well.
We’ll see. This is definitely a very positive move, though.
It’s a good step. We need to see action now. I think the reaction from the rest of the country is not encouraging that this is the falling of small stones that will start an avalanche. Not yet. Let’s see him govern and let’s see others like him step up.
I'd love to see AOC win the nomination in 2028, but we're already seeing swaths of morons trying to get us to 'fall in line' for an establishment candidate.
I genuinely have no idea why people are still so stupid after all that's transpired, but it's really lowered my expectations of them going forward.
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I do hope they'll realize that concrete policy proposals are such a huge part of what won here, not just Mamdani's ideology or personality. The interview where he was asked about the bus plan being feasible was amazing, he had examples and numbers to back it up. It wasn't just an "it would be cool" idea.
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My socialist heart feels hopeful, but my anarchist brain knows nothing will change.
Apathy isn't revolutionary. We must fully support leftist candidates while also being critical of their platform and aware that electoral politics inside a capitalist system will only get us so far. But never losing hope that more people see the light and become class conscious.
He’ll spend all his time fighting off billionaires and their roadblocks
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Fuck yes!
Did you guys hear about the one time he broke up with his girlfriend in high-school?! Gave her the whole it's not you, it's me line. How could anyone vote for that!
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Beautiful news. Fuck off Cuomo, fuck off Trump. This is a win for the common New Yorker. I hope the high profile nature of this mayoral election has reverberations far beyond NYC.
The real concern is that with 8 million potential voters, NYC barely breaks 2 million.
This is why it's always such a toss-up between fascism and normalcy - because too many people are complacent.
8.8 million population, which probably means a bit less than 7 million potential voters because kids and others can't vote and it's a relatively young city. Only 5 million registered to vote at present.
So still 2 million is worryingly low, but not as bad as if there were 8m potential voters.
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Welp time to go grab a beer so I can toast to this! That is a kickass win.
Looking forward to see if all the people that announced they would leave NYC if he won are going to keep their promise.
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It has been fucking glorious to see racist white men foaming at the mouths in a psychotic tantrum over this.
Their pain and tears brings good vibes and energy unto us all
Finally some good fucking news
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