Apparently, Faux News calls him "Zohran the Destroyer". This is exactly the sort of name that I want with progressive leadership. 🤩
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They gave him a badass name by accident 😂🤣!
If fElon wielding a chain saw is a OK then Zohran the Destroyer needs a weapon, for symbolism.
I nominate the axe from the movie Mandy
He destroys fascism
and oligarchy too.
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The number of opinion pieces having meltdowns over Mamdani is simply off the charts. The fascists and neolibs are losing their minds about this. It’s incredible.
Mamdani isn’t even remotely radical as far as leftists go. What’s he’s proposing is just the bare minimum of common sense as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
They're acting like Luigi broke out and started making the world a better place one capitalist at a time again.
allegedly
One can dream
Right? I don’t get this at all. The guy gets elected, offers a couple things via social policy change, and everyone loses their shit. Even the title of the article this is about calls it “socialism” when it’s a far cry from it.
The status quo is garbage and has been degrading rapidly for most of my life. Here's hoping the rest of this country gets its shit together in time.
C'mon! Status Cuomo was right there!
Social Democracy is not the same as Socialism. But, I wasn’t following the race, maybe he does want the public to own the means of production.
I get the hesitation since in US politics they often get conflated and I can’t say I’ve followed him very closely but someone else shared this. I know he’s also advocating for city owned grocery stores.
Quite a lot of red states have state owned liquor stores,[0] so city owned grocery stores doesn't sound that radical. Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1] I hadn't heard of this idea before, but web search shows it is a thing. I'd consider it socialism if he also wants to close down the privately run grocery stores. He doesn't seem to be doing that
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state
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I'm OK with it because maybe when they realize he's just a guy making decisions to help his community, it will remove a smidge of the ZOMG SOCIALISM reaction to folks like not only him, but also Bernie, and maybe others who might like to call themselves social democrats instead of democrats.
If Bernie and AOC start the social democrat party tomorrow with Mamdani and others, I'm registering before the ink is dry.
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Everyone's talking like he's won the mayorship already.
He hasn’t technically but don’t stop the vibes. Fuck it, Mamdani FTW removed!!!!! Woot woot! LFG for round two! For the people!
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It's just a primary guys. Let's hope he wins the seat.
If Cuomo runs 3rd party and the Dem establishment supports him, I'm going to fling that back at anyone who tells me to not vote 3rd party in a presidential election, lol.
I'm going to flip out if the dems support Cuomo and I'm honestly half expecting them to
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That's what's fun about the whole establishment coming out swinging against him - he just won the primary. He's not even elected yet, and they are losing their shit.
(also, didn't notice until after posting that you'd posted 2 days ago - sorry for the necro post!)
Two days old post is still relevant on Lemmy. It's when someone responds to a 3+ month comment that I'm like, "how did you find me?!"
I think Cuomo is going to stay in the race, it will be interesting to see who wealthy establishment Dems support.
It would take a catastrophe for him not to.
His opponents in the general are as follows:
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The corrupt former governor sex pest he just beat, running as an independent in order to get a do-over
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Current mayor in spite of being a hair's breath from prison until he went full MAGA, always being a fascist cop (but I repeat myself) and genuinely unhinged, Eric Adams
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Perennial loser and hyper-racist vigilante lunatic Curtis Sliwa.
Not only are they all awful candidates in themselves, their core demographics also overlap to such a degree that it'll be an upset if more than one of them reaches double digits!
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"Socialism" lol
It is a win though, it shows people are willing to vote for change ~~through alternative parties~~ and thats fucking huge
He's a Democrat, not 3rd party.
Cuomo is the third party candidate
It never makes sense to vote third party, according to what the blue maga have told me.
Shit I will amend that. Forgot he won the democratic primary. He is still heavily associated with DSA though and this is well known.
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Keep talking in ways that highlight progressive values, and you'll get more of this.
They will rig the general. Look to the firms in control of the individual machines and the tabulation servers…
Looks like Cuomo is planning to run as an independent to split the vote.
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Reality proves big tent liberalism wrong at every turn, but still people advocate for it. Can't beat stupid, I guess.
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