Zohran Mamdani...

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Anonymous wrote:Dcum...where the people making $1M per year are "middle class" and just need some more billionaire money to make sure the poor get their free food. The height of generosity

Works in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries: pay 65% of the population to not work, do nothing, and keep voting for them.

Sounds good to me

Where’s our multi-trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund with decades of oil?

Well- begs the question, why don’t we have one? Individual Americans have become billionaires through oil in the gulf & Texas - why didn’t the American people tax some of that money & invest it like the Norwegians, saudis etc?? Oh you know why? B/c it’s a progressive idea!

We can’t even have national parks because republicans can’t wait to sell it off to corporations and billionaires.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe this has already been discussed. I just learned he’s the son of Mira Nair-a fairly famous filmmaker who did two great movies Monsoon wedding and Mississippi Masala at a time when female filmmakers (let alone Asian ones) were quite uncommon. Here’s to the sons of strong women!

She had one of the 100s of junior roles. She’s not a filmmaker. Learn to read.

There sure are some petty little people here…this really must have hurt your feelings.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize he is Mira Nair’s son!

He looks rich and educated to me!

He is! Millionaire parents, Bowdoin grad, doesn’t work w real job, hangs out with artists. Good times.

Tissue?

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Government-run grocery stores. Really?!? NYC voters have completely gone off the rails and that’s saying something. Well they will get what they vote for. These voters should be all required to stay in NYC during this lunatic’s term.

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A socialist mayor in the same city as the NYSE? Who woulda thought? There’s no such thing as free anything . Someone always pays and it’s going to be the people who voted for this lunacy. Businesses and the wealthy will either leave, or raise prices of the businesses they own to account for higher taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Israel/Palestine was the primary issue in this race, nor would you expect it to be, since New York City is in neither of those countries. Both right-wing Jews and left-wing pro-Palestinians tried to turn this into a referendum on Zionism, but wasn’t he mostly just running on… making the city affordable?

No. He was running on handouts and freebies.

And, most of those freebies he has promised he would not have authorization as mayor to give. That is up to the lawmakers. He is currently an assemblyman - someone who actually could make those things possible. Has he done any of those things? Nope.
He won't do them as mayor either. He can't.
He is a slippery snake oil salesman. And, the supposed "educated" elite fell for it.

Most Education Now = Indoctrination
Beware.

This.

This was the bulk of his voter targeting and turnout. Underemployed, indoctrinated, entitled young college grads from UMC east coast families.

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Anonymous wrote:Dcum...where the people making $1M per year are "middle class" and just need some more billionaire money to make sure the poor get their free food. The height of generosity

Works in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries: pay 65% of the population to not work, do nothing, and keep voting for them.

Sounds good to me

Where’s our multi-trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund with decades of oil?

Well- begs the question, why don’t we have one? Individual Americans have become billionaires through oil in the gulf & Texas - why didn’t the American people tax some of that money & invest it like the Norwegians, saudis etc?? Oh you know why? B/c it’s a progressive idea!

Sorry your relatives didn’t take the free TX prairie land deals and fight off the Spaniards.
Win some, lose some.

Also sorry they then didn’t go over to Saudi Arabia and literally teach and build the whole O&G industry in the 1930/40s for the Saudis.

Oh well. Go back to your protesting and whining career.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Israel/Palestine was the primary issue in this race, nor would you expect it to be, since New York City is in neither of those countries. Both right-wing Jews and left-wing pro-Palestinians tried to turn this into a referendum on Zionism, but wasn’t he mostly just running on… making the city affordable?

No. He was running on handouts and freebies.

And, most of those freebies he has promised he would not have authorization as mayor to give. That is up to the lawmakers. He is currently an assemblyman - someone who actually could make those things possible. Has he done any of those things? Nope.
He won't do them as mayor either. He can't.
He is a slippery snake oil salesman. And, the supposed "educated" elite fell for it.

We’ve all seen the last 10-15 years of college graduates’ lack of intellect, work ethic and common sense. It ain’t pretty and AI won’t save them either.

New age hippies have arrive, taught by the old school hippies who infiltrated the college systems.

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Mamdani seems like a well intentioned guy, but also extremely naive. He is one of these effete socialists who never grew up in the struggle but claims to have all these solutions for people who grew up in conditions he doesn’t even know about. On a personal level, I like my socialists to come from the environment they’re championing. Like Bernie Sanders and Jesse Jackson.

Mamdani is a socialist for rich brats. There’s a reason he lost Black New Yorkers by a lot.

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The problem with spending other people’s money…..

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They are going to have to reclassify “Escape from New York” as pseudo documentary.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani seems like a well intentioned guy, but also extremely naive. He is one of these effete socialists who never grew up in the struggle but claims to have all these solutions for people who grew up in conditions he doesn’t even know about. On a personal level, I like my socialists to come from the environment they’re championing. Like Bernie Sanders and Jesse Jackson.

Mamdani is a socialist for rich brats. There’s a reason he lost Black New Yorkers by a lot.

Yep. Well said. These rich kids playing bohemian is a tired old schtick. Takoma Park comes to mind. I like their ideas but they always sell out if things really get tough. Notice that they are always “leaders” but never seem to suffer the same hardship that they claim to understand..

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with spending other people’s money…..

It’s true.

Vote blue in 2026! Stop the billionaire welfare.

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Anonymous wrote:The mainstream democratic party is dead and gone and buried. What's left are straight up communists. Sane business owners and "elites" will move.

Remarkable that today caring for the poor rather than enriching billionaires with more tax cuts is considered “communism”. This country has drifted so far to the right that people become enraged at the very notion of reducing income inequality.

Yeah, this thread is sad. People are SO scared of change. What we had with the Dems wasn't working either. I'm a GenX all for this kind of change. As my 19yo reminds me, whenever there is a flaw in a socialist country, socialism is blamed. But, democracy isn't ever blamed. I thought it was an interesting point. He pushes me, and frankly I think it's exciting. I'm more scared of a trumpist dictatorship/technobro cities than young socialists up and down and all the ways.

Capitalism is always blamed. I keep hearing about late stage capitalist being the cause of all our woes.

What will happen is that these socialist efforts will fail, but we will be told that "real" socialism has never been tried or that we didn't throw enough money down the hole. Socialism never addresses the free rider problem.

Maybe.

But then again social security is the most popular federal program.

A socialist policy hard at work!

Sigh... Enjoy your monopoly money.

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We still have to get through the election. There’s no guarantee he’s going to win. Before people start making assumptions that this is the new future, let’s see how it plays out.