Zohran Mamdani...

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Anonymous wrote:All working people should be taking note of this. Why exactly are BOTH establishment parties so very threatened by this guy and this win in particular? He was democratically elected/nominated by a majority of voters, and BOTH parties are having a meltdown.

Whether you agree with the feasibility of Zohran's policies or not, he ran on a platform of helping the average person. Ask yourself why that is such a threat that the Dems are supporting 3rd party candidates. Ask yourself how they would've reacted had Bernie pulled the same crap. Ask yourself why we're discussing stripping him of his citizenship and deporting him. Ask yourself why both parties are terrified of a candidate with a platform to give something to regular people instead of more handouts to corporate donors.

Hopefully this will open some folks eyes to the reality that our entire political system has become hostile to the very people it is supposed to represent, and that it is not in fact red team vs. blue team, good vs. evil, etc. In reality, it's a bunch of rich liars serving the interests of even richer people and lying their pants off to you about it. One person comes in rejecting those rich people, saying he wants to help regular people, and the system wants him destroyed.

His victory was based on college educated male voters and higher earners. Blacks and Hispanics and lower income voters broke for Cuomo.

I think the freak out is over the fact that he espouses luxury beliefs. For example, yes, rent freezes are great *for people fortunate enough to be in rent stabilized units* but it is accepted consensus that rent freezes are terrible for everyone else and overall increase the cost of housing.

His proposal on corporate taxes carries the potential to either drive out business or be inflationary as corps pass the tax cost to their customers.

His policies are likely well intentioned, but just misconceived. They are Bill de Blasio 2.0 and will be interesting to see them play out.

That's not true. Cuomo won poor and higher earners. Zohran won the middle.

It seems like he's working with smart people, and they are open to trying things and shifting strategies if they don't work. I'm sure their policy ideas aren't merely a rehash of policies already known to not work, but Cuomo and Adams' definitely are.

Nope.

He and his official party are full on Marxist socialists. Dont bother with BS posts here anymore. He’s not doing anything new from the Marxist angle. He’s new.

You know what’s socialist? Public
Libraries. We can all tell that you’ve never used one, so kudos to you for sticking to your ignorance as a belief system.

Nobody uses public libraries anymore unless they’re homeless.

Teens do where I live.

Huh? I do to the Brooklyn Heights public library and NYPL all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Met 3 mos ago.
Syrian
Unclear visa or pay status. She’s an “artist.”

Who met 3 months ago?

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I don't know of Zohran is antisemitic. His wife looks like an aged progressed Anne Frank, so there's that. My main concerns with him are:

1) he said on his campaign flyers that he wants to tax people who live in white neighborhoods more heavily. This is a civil rights violation. It's also not something the Mayor has any authority to do, so it's just randomly attacking white people for no reason. And I'm generally against racism.

2) strangely, only white districts fell for this. He massively underperformed among less wealthy, less white neighborhoods. If the democrats want to appeal to the working class, this isn't the right approach. Working class people are not the ones who benefit from things like rent controlled apartments.

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Anonymous wrote:From a big smile “sexy” male dancer surrounded by men, to a promise-the-moon politician? Hence, the new wife out of nowhere. Brilliant playbook, no?

Just as Zelensky is crushing Ukraine, Mamdani will crush NYC. AOC is already his right hand, screaming TAX the RICH. But he’s even more radical in saying, up the taxes for rich WHITE people.

How is he not a blatant racist?

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Anonymous wrote:Met 3 mos ago.
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Unclear visa or pay status. She’s an “artist.”

Who met 3 months ago?

The new wife. She’s a prop.

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Anonymous wrote:Met 3 mos ago.
Syrian
Unclear visa or pay status. She’s an “artist.”

Who met 3 months ago?

The new wife. She’s a prop.

Interesting. Well she's very camera-ready. Fashionable and huge eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani's base of voters is rich, highly educated and white while he claims to stand for working class people of color. What do you all make of the fact that the people he allegedly represents did not vote for him and do not want him?

(A recent Emerson poll projects him winning 57 per cent of white voters, but only 26 per cent of Black voters and 35 per cent of Hispanic voters. While 57 per cent of college-educated voters support Mamdani, only 23 per cent of those without a college degree do.)

DCUM posters love to portray that Mamdani’s voters are ignorant and naive and don’t know what is good for them. They cannot fathom that his voters want to help their neighbors and raise the standard of living for the working class in NYC even if that means paying more in taxes. All the unions are behind him. He’s going to win in a landslide for mayor.

The ignorant and naive part is because communism doesn’t work not because we don’t think the intentions are good.

Define communism for us, without googling. My guess is, you can't. A democratic socialist is not a communist. Stop throwing around words you do not even understand.

Hint: it involves government run grocery stores.

Spare me the idea that we don’t know what communism is.

You obviously don't if you think it’s defined by how the grocery stores are run.

If you don’t understand the link, then you are the uneducated one. It’s tiresome that when we want to debate the merits of a candidate, you all fall back on definitions. You played this game with DEI too. When we debated whether it’s appropriate for someone to be hired based off their status as an underrepresented minority, the game of “you can’t even DeFInE DeI” began. Knock it off. Tell us why Mamdani’s proposals that have been tried elsewhere and failed will suddenly work in Manhattan.

Because definitions and the way you use words matter. You're so busy being reactionary, you've not even taken the time to actually understand what it is you're screeching about.

Have you read Mamdani's proposals? Why are you so convinced there is nothing new to them, that they are mere rehashings of failed policy? And can you point out what your preferred candidate has proposed that IS different than what has already been tried and has failed?

You need to learn about human nature and character, human behavior, and how people act when certain inducements are provided. Learn the unintended consequences of them.

We don't need to go down this well worn path again because you are a poor student of life and can't think for yourself.

I notice you didn't answer my question yet again. You just continue to resort to insults and tired tropes.

Not everyone operates like you. It is not actually human nature to exploit and hurt each other. Research into our history and our behavior in dire emergency has repeatedly borne out that we are collective and cooperative by nature. Given the opportunity, most of us choose to help. It's the scarcity and competition demanded by capitalism that drives most antisocial behavior.

Don't tell this joker read about the scarcity in the soviet union, I guess.

Go read a book kid. Until then, please don't turn my grocery store into the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani's base of voters is rich, highly educated and white while he claims to stand for working class people of color. What do you all make of the fact that the people he allegedly represents did not vote for him and do not want him?

(A recent Emerson poll projects him winning 57 per cent of white voters, but only 26 per cent of Black voters and 35 per cent of Hispanic voters. While 57 per cent of college-educated voters support Mamdani, only 23 per cent of those without a college degree do.)

DCUM posters love to portray that Mamdani’s voters are ignorant and naive and don’t know what is good for them. They cannot fathom that his voters want to help their neighbors and raise the standard of living for the working class in NYC even if that means paying more in taxes. All the unions are behind him. He’s going to win in a landslide for mayor.

The ignorant and naive part is because communism doesn’t work not because we don’t think the intentions are good.

Define communism for us, without googling. My guess is, you can't. A democratic socialist is not a communist. Stop throwing around words you do not even understand.

Hint: it involves government run grocery stores.

Spare me the idea that we don’t know what communism is.

You obviously don't if you think it’s defined by how the grocery stores are run.

If you don’t understand the link, then you are the uneducated one. It’s tiresome that when we want to debate the merits of a candidate, you all fall back on definitions. You played this game with DEI too. When we debated whether it’s appropriate for someone to be hired based off their status as an underrepresented minority, the game of “you can’t even DeFInE DeI” began. Knock it off. Tell us why Mamdani’s proposals that have been tried elsewhere and failed will suddenly work in Manhattan.

Because definitions and the way you use words matter. You're so busy being reactionary, you've not even taken the time to actually understand what it is you're screeching about.

Have you read Mamdani's proposals? Why are you so convinced there is nothing new to them, that they are mere rehashings of failed policy? And can you point out what your preferred candidate has proposed that IS different than what has already been tried and has failed?

You need to learn about human nature and character, human behavior, and how people act when certain inducements are provided. Learn the unintended consequences of them.

We don't need to go down this well worn path again because you are a poor student of life and can't think for yourself.

I notice you didn't answer my question yet again. You just continue to resort to insults and tired tropes.

Not everyone operates like you. It is not actually human nature to exploit and hurt each other. Research into our history and our behavior in dire emergency has repeatedly borne out that we are collective and cooperative by nature. Given the opportunity, most of us choose to help. It's the scarcity and competition demanded by capitalism that drives most antisocial behavior.

Please explain how the iPhone or advanced computers or advanced medicine get built in this "collective" world without competition or profit motive.

Oh, wait. They don't. Because history tells us that is the case.

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Anonymous wrote:Met 3 mos ago.
Syrian
Unclear visa or pay status. She’s an “artist.”

Who met 3 months ago?

The new wife. She’s a prop.

Interesting. Well she's very camera-ready. Fashionable and huge eyes.

He had to fix his rapper gay image.

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Anonymous wrote:What was his wife’s citizenship and job? What visa was she on?

Wife is Syrian, but her family reportedly lives in Dubai. He just recently supposedly found her on a dating app. Sounds arranged by his handlers.

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Anonymous wrote:What was his wife’s citizenship and job? What visa was she on?

Wife is Syrian, but her family reportedly lives in Dubai. He just recently supposedly found her on a dating app. Sounds arranged by his handlers.

Who do you think his handlers could be?

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Anonymous wrote:Met 3 mos ago.
Syrian
Unclear visa or pay status. She’s an “artist.”

Who met 3 months ago?

Married 3 months ago but engaged last year and met year before that.

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Anonymous wrote:What was his wife’s citizenship and job? What visa was she on?

Wife is Syrian, but her family reportedly lives in Dubai. He just recently supposedly found her on a dating app. Sounds arranged by his handlers.

Who do you think his handlers could be?

Certainly not the same as Trump's handlers.

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In which country was she born?

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Anonymous wrote:What was his wife’s citizenship and job? What visa was she on?

Wife is Syrian, but her family reportedly lives in Dubai. He just recently supposedly found her on a dating app. Sounds arranged by his handlers.

Who do you think his handlers could be?

Mbrotherhood?