The next 24-48hrs is going to be an entertaining meltdown.
The next 24-48hrs is going to be an entertaining meltdown.
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It's quite fascinating that, on the one hand they think everything he tries will fail and he won't achieve any of the things he promised, and at the same time they also think his policies will destroy New York City and all the business will leave.
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The enemy is both weak and strong
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Schrödinger's Politician ..
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Well, in a general sense (meaning, to be extra clear, I am not referring to Mamdani specifically), "these ideas won't accomplish what he intends" and "these ideas will mess everything up" are not mutually exclusive at all. They're essentially the same sentiment, if you think about it.
I think the confusion is in the incorrect assumption that only the successful execution of a policy/idea/etc. can do the latter, but the same level of damage could easily happen in the course of an ultimately-failed attempt, as well.
That's enough pedantry from me for now, though, lol.
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Lol bet
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Busses can't be free if his radical left wing agenda breaks all the busses. Checkmate commie.
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Those aren't mutually exclusive though
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They can stay in the Mississippian trailer park. Leave the rest of the country alone.
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Reverse secession - can we force them to secede? I'm really tired of all progress in this fucking country being attacked by idiots.
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Exile?
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Republicans are scared shitless that people will get another taste of socialism like they did with the wildly popular FDR..
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The race was rigged! The people of Kentucky will not let this stand!
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LMAO. TBH I don't blame them [people in Kentucky confused the polls were closed] because 1 - civics education = no; 2 - the way the NYC election was covered, you'd think it was a national race.
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It was a national race, spiritually
It wasn't Mamdani vs Cuomo, it was Mamdani vs Trump
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I hope what we take most from this is that 2026, 2028 is NOT "too early" or "too high stakes" for an ACTUAL progressive campaign. The DNC has used that argument 3x with Trump and lost said elections twice (only winning 2020 because Trump bombed w/ Covid-19). I'm certain we'll hear it again in the next two national elections.
Having a competent populist leftist politician is not a detraction. Quite the opposite. NO to Gruesome Newsom
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If AoC wins the primary I'll vote for her.
If Newsom wins the primary I'll vote for him.
I'll be donating to AoC's campaign though.
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That's definitely the praxis here.
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By any chance do you have a good link that explains all the terrible stuff Gavin has done? I know some of the stuff but my memory is not like it used to be and my wife was asking and I wanted to explain to her that even though he's making some funny Trump jokes he's a piece of crap himself
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No good link, but there definitely should be one at some point. That's an idea to consider.
Here are some of Newsom's worst decisions:
- CARE courts, violating the 14th amendment rights of all residents (not just the homeless)
- Pioneering destruction of homeless encampments, similar to Trump's "Ending Crime and Disorder..." executive order
- Vetoing a passed bill to allow stockpiling HRT
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It would be next to impossible to find a video like the one you're asking for without MAGA pollutants.
I can name off one thing, his partying with incredibly expensive wine and food at the height of the pandemic after the mask mandates. That was the big thing for me that convinced me he's a differently colored snake.
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Fucked over the homeless in Cali, thrown trans people under the bus rhetorically.
He's not wrong that he has signed a lot of legislation protecting trans Californians, but he's been going into right wing talk show spaces and nodding soberly saying yeah, you have some good points about their moral panic about us.
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Just to be very clear, the DNC leadership is antagonistic to our (I assumed) shared goals.
The Democrats are obviously what needs to be supported in a 2 party system, so regardless of the DNC antics, the sacrifice for not choosing them will be more severe, and they know that.
I'm saying this all to say, absolutely support a progressive candidate if you can in the primaries, but when it comes election time, fall in line.
Also, there is a big problem where Mamdani is supremely clever and fast on his feet, having practiced every comeback a million times in the shower, ready to let them rip on command.
At the federal there is no one with that level of natural charisma or wit.
That's something important to point out.
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I'm saying this all to say, absolutely support a progressive candidate if you can in the primaries, but when it comes election time, fall in line.
No.
A candidate campaigns for MY vote.
The Democratic establishment can prove they aren't an obstacle to progress, me blindly voting for them is no longer a grace I automatically extend to a party hellbent on sabotaging progressives even if it means losing to literal fascists.
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Shit, we'd be lucky if they went with someone as marginally craptastic as Newsom. We can't put any candidate in if they have any chance of getting any of our agenda in; they have to be 100% right-friendly or they won't even try.
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My bet is they kill him. (I don’t like it I’m just saying)
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And then they blame it on "left wing political violence" and then the shooter's family will be like "look at all these pictures of him wearing maga hats" and then the media will be like "but he had a high school class with someone who's cousin was bisexual so he's obviously a left wing lunatic".
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lol. It’s almost Word for Word
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Complete with a completely fake made up text log with children talking like love sick ww2 soldiers.
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"NEW YORK WILL BE DESTROYED JUST LIKE PORTLAND!!!!!!!!!!"
Logs into all the public webcams in Portland and sees that everything is fine and, oh my, what a beautiful city.
Buys a plane ticket to Portland just in case the webcams were fake news. Oh yes, oh my, what a beautiful city.
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I know it's a tangent, but oregon has one of the best Webcam setups I've ever seen. Tripcheck
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Wow. Thank you for sharing!
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And our parks levy ballot measure just passed!
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Sadly, they aren't all old. The alt-right recruitment drive that's been running for the last decade or so has borne a lot of fruit.
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Yup.
Starting to think GenZ/Alpha aren't going to save us. Not the men anyway. They're buying into that dogshit hook, line, and sinker.
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Millennials are the last generation to not be raised by an algorithm, and also seemingly the only generation that doesn't get more conservative as they age, so I guess it's up to us to save the planet.
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Tbf, Gen Z just has a more "doomer" mindset, they don't care anymore, they'd happily vote for a far-right, or even a socialist or a communist. I mean 60% of Americans have a positive view of Socialism. Its not really Gen Z being right wing, they are tired of the current system and is deparate for change, ANY change. So... lets hope they don't choose change into the wrong direction.
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Young men need mentors and someone to help them un-weave the confusion that media sows. Give them someone who listens, can relate, and sets an example; so they stop running to extremists voices who are more than willing to accept them and talk to (at) them
Listen, teach, be an example for other young men. Nobody should be in this alone and we can't allow young people to slip through the cracks, because someone will be waiting to "help them", for better or worse
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we know schumer, and the rest of the old guard dnc also melting down.
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“What are we going to do when an actual liberal does the job we were supposed to be doing?!”
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he said he will continue supporting israel, and then add some wierd boomer talk like as the "left"
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Unfortunately, it's not just old or white people. Just look at the young GOP Nazi club or all the latinos that voted for Trump
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Watch the 20 v 1 where Mehdi from Zeteo takes on a bunch of MAGA folk. They’re all 20-30 years old and it’s fucking crazy how many of them are blatantly racist and/or fascist. I’ll have to come back with the video link for you guys.
Edit: here you go https://youtu.be/2S-WJN3L5eo
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Jubilee - Surrounded is a completely twisted version of reality where they have been called out for deliberately finding and paying people to take the most extreme positions to represent the worst of humanity.
I'm not saying that there aren't open fascists out there, many of them are now running our country in fact, but we all HAVE to start shutting the door on this kind of pandering rage-porn that makes us all hate each other for clicks. It's making it all worse. Jubilee is not how people talk, it's not how we reach each other and make change.
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That was wild, thanks!
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or all the latinos that voted for Trump
It's like fire voting for water. It's honestly hard to wrap your mind around.
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I don't know how true this is.
I read recently that when Trump's speeches have been translated for non-English speakers, they are wildly different than what he is actually saying.
And when bilinguals translate for them directly, they aren't believed because the literal translation is pants on the head crazy.
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Enjoy it while it lasts.
Having lived through 2008 and 'Hope and Change', I don't expect much out of Mamdani. I'd love to be wrong about that.
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Here's hoping a democratic socialist turns out to be more progressive than your standard "not actually liberal" democrat.
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I'm hoping a democratic socialist outperforms a corporate Democrat. He's going to face a lot of push back so it's going to be a struggle.
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I think it won't be for lack of trying. He will be stymied at every turn by the city council, oligarchs, feds, etc.
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I don't think he can bring hope and change, overcoming the status quo is decades of work at muitiple levels of government supported continuously by voters.
Cumo could make it worse though.
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Watch "Yes, Minister" for more background.
It's ancient but it totally still applies.
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You're right. They all get absorbed by the corrupting blob.
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You should see the racists from my shit hole county. In northeast Pennsylvania. Legit going out of their minds. And saying shit like their 20k a year income could ever afford them a life in NYC. Like sit down Tony. No one cares what you and your 41bmi has to say. Maybe take care of your health before you open your mouth.
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What are the young racists doing right now?
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Putting on blackface for Instagram instead of going out for Halloween
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Every 60 seconds in New York, a minute passes.
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New Yokers with beards are just New Yorkers without beards with beards.
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They all said they'd leave if he won. I'm waiting for them to do just that.
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"I feel a disturbance in the billions"
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Whats happening?
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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate for mayor of New York City, won his race with more than 50% of the vote, even though every prominent right-wing personality including Trump and Musk endorsed his challenger, and millionaires and billionaires throughout the city and the country dumped truckloads of money on Cuomo's head.
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Don't forget he's the first Muslim mayor of New York, a city with more Jews than anywhere outside Tel Aviv!
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The old guard Dem national leadership also refused to support Mamdani when he won the primary over Cuomo the sex pest. Fucking Schumer refused to endorse Mamdani.
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Yessss. Zohran congrats
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He won every borough... except Staten Island, where said millionaires and billionaires live.
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Pass me that bottle of copium
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People who have never set foot in a big city, let alone NYC
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I'm not remotely entertained by shot like this and find it weird people are. It's a weird sort of cope exactly like the meme is portraying. People are hurting everywhere because of the regime and you're here laughing it up like we dun won it.
I hope Mamdani does well because he's going to be under a magnifying glass and behund a wall of anti person propaganda.
Hell have to exceed what any mayor should have to be able to do and even then the media will call him mid.
This is not a cakewalk.
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This would've been a weak troll in 2001. In 2025, it's just sad. For you, I mean. Try harder.
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/s I fucking hope
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I like the Islamic ones better than the white Christian ones that have been attacking America for years.
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That's fair. Appeasement worked really well for Neville Chamberlain, so we should follow his lead and just give Trump this one thing. I'm sure, based on his track record, he won't demand anything else.
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Downvoting you not because I think you are wrong... the MAGA crap band will certainly sink to a new low
But because you seem to imply it would have been best to just put your head down and keep sucking...
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Let him dig the GOP an even deeper hole then. The more people he hurts the weaker he becomes. It's unfortunate that Americans were dumb enough to even get into this situation in the first place.
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True, but like that famous saying goes, we do not negotiate with terrorists.
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R/conservative is really funny right now. They're clawing their own eyes out over literal NYC just because it's Daddy's favorite place
NYC hates trump, which makes it funnier
Psyched for Mamdani and NYC but is hard to believe how many people voted for a sexual harassmer who is also openly corrupt
Is it "hard to believe" when the Americans voted twice to elect a full on rapist for President?... with the added qualifications of convicted felon, fraudster and 99.99% likely a pedophile?
I think it's time to accept Americans could not care less about sexual assault, women or kids rights.
Yes, that is a generalization with a nasty connotation but that is what Americans have shown to be
I am sorry, do you not know who run the presidency?
You say that like it isn't the totally normal thing that seems to happen more often than not
If you think that's wild wait till you hear about all the law enforcement officers across the country that voted for a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.
"People"
the russian mods have to reorient the sub soon enough.