Anonymous wrote:Cuomo got the very poor and very rich, ie people who pay close to zero in taxes.

Mamdani got a broad base of the W2 class.

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!

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Anonymous wrote:My kid who wanted to live in NYC after graduation now says nope. NYC is not
only going to lose people but also not attract young people who usually stay after making money. AOC is preening around but lives in luxury in the DMV

Your kid must be racist like you. Why are you freaking out? Just because a brown muslim guy might be mayor? His mom is not even muslim. She made racy movies about lesbians.

Anonymous wrote:The government already subsidizes all the entities that you think are private sector by way of massive tax breaks.

Tax breaks are welfare

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Anonymous wrote:Mamfani demands the elimination of the NYPD.

DeSantis will give solid NY cops a $5,000 signing bonus.

The wealth pouring into Florida from NY and CA is astonishing.

He doesn’t demand the elimination of the NYPD. He wants to tax Wall Street bros that work 4 hours/day and make millions so he can pay the cops more so they don’t have to slave away on 80 hours a week to make overtime pay. It’s sad that work life balance and fair pay has to even be explained. It seems people accept that public servants like cops or teachers deserve low pay

Anonymous wrote:Delish watching MAGA lose its mind over this. Between this and Trump’s meltdown over no one believing him about Iran, it’s been an enlightening day.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't say I blame them.

Good news! The Big Apple was a much better place to live before the wealthy came. Make NYC fun and vibrant again!!

Seriously. I lived there in 1997-1998 and it was so fun. And much more affordable than it is now.

Difference is, now people have guns. I’ll just leave that there.

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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.

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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.

No they didn't fall for anything. Everyone knows that campaign promises are aspirational and most can't be fully accomplished absent some incredible alignment in state houses. But they are voting for a vision and someone who inspires and excites them. That person is obviously not a has-been like Cuomo, nepobaby with tons of assault allegations. Get real.

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Anonymous wrote:How are governments grocery stores supposed to work logistically?

I heard Mamdani on a podcast. He is proposing one grocery store in each borough to see if this might work to help bring down the cost of groceries if profit can be removed as a prerequisite. He is proposing this as an experiment to see if it's workable. His willingness to try new ideas is what excites me the most about him.

Does he have business experience?
Where is his wealth from?

What scares you about 4 grocery stores as an experiment to see if they help improve nutritional access/grocery prices in food desserts? Why does the source of his wealth or his background matter at all? Rich businessmen are also encouraged to test out new ideas, but hopefully they realize not all great ideas come from those already established.

Of course they won’t.

Only wealthy leftist yuppies and hippies will show up and the poor, disabled, and unemployed will continue to suffer and eat soda and McDonald’s elsewhere.

It’s ok for Israel to have socialism and welfare systems but not the us

Ain’t it weird what cohesive, well-aligned, homogenous educated democracies with real borders can accomplish?

On MY back, with MY dollars.

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Anonymous wrote:He is going to have a rough time with Trump and the federal government. The Socialism experiment has to fail. We don’t know how well this is going to go, but if it works well it’s going to trickle to other cities and states, and the elite can’t have that. I’m telling you right now, they are going to make sure he fails.

Oh he’ll fail gloriously, but it will be up to NyC voters on how much damage and for how long they let him.

So glad we dumped our nyc commercial real estate holdings in our endowment a few years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't say I blame them.

Good news! The Big Apple was a much better place to live before the wealthy came. Make NYC fun and vibrant again!!

Yes, the AIDs, crime and slime decades!

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Anonymous wrote:He is going to have a rough time with Trump and the federal government. The Socialism experiment has to fail. We don’t know how well this is going to go, but if it works well it’s going to trickle to other cities and states, and the elite can’t have that. I’m telling you right now, they are going to make sure he fails.

Oh he’ll fail gloriously, but it will be up to NyC voters on how much damage and for how long they let him.

So glad we dumped our nyc commercial real estate holdings in our endowment a few years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't say I blame them.

Good news! The Big Apple was a much better place to live before the wealthy came. Make NYC fun and vibrant again!!

Seriously. I lived there in 1997-1998 and it was so fun. And much more affordable than it is now.

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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.