• @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        What an awful graph… Looks completely made up.

        If it isn’t complete bullshit, they did a really bad job of making it appear legitimate in any way whatsoever.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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      -131 month ago

      Not a presidential election. Or a senate election. Or even a house election.

      A mayoral election.

      And this should scare the DNC?

      Baloney.

      • @usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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        They poured millions and million and massively outspent Zohran and still lost. Zohran had no name recognition, and was virtually a nobody in February. The establishment worked hard against him and still lost. They rolled out shameless endorsement of Cuomo after shameless endorsement (like Bill Clinton, apparently). The establishment didn’t lose for a lack of effort. This could happen anywhere next

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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          Oh goody, one good thing could happen anywhere while a million bad things could happen a million times in a million places.

          You’re not gonna trick me into having hope over one dumb mayoral election. We’re too fucked for that to make a difference.

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            Hope does not mean blind hope. It does not mean you will always win. It means knowing that you can

            Always try. No matter how hopeless it seems, you always have the possibility to win a seemingly impossible fight. This a shining example of overcoming and winning big

            Giving up is a guaranteed loss. That is what they want us to do. Never give in

            • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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              -21 month ago

              Politics is one of those claw games where they rig it to barely be able to win. Just enough that you keep shoving quarters into it, but not so much that you get something you actually want.

              Except I’m forced to play and get berated when I say it’s a stupid game designed to frustrate you.

      • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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        Mayor of the biggest city in the nation is pretty damn important. Higher population than half the states in the nation. Most governors are small potatoes in comparison.

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          Oh you mean like Rudy Giuliani? Mayor of the biggest city? The Mayor of America?

          Unless we’re going to back to polities like the ancient Greeks NYC thinks too highly of itself.

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              He had influence because of a terrorist attack and being a dumb lickspittle to a con man with Russian mob contacts. New Yorkers hated Giuliani before it was cool.

              I refuse to have hope.

          • @ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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            These are his policies:

            rent freeze, making city buses free and raising taxes on the most wealthy

            If this goes ahead in NY, you can be damn sure that it’s going to stir the pot.

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            Oh you mean like Rudy Giuliani? Mayor of the biggest city? The Mayor of America?

            I mean, yes? What point do you think you’re making here by bringing up someone who hasn’t been mayor for nearly 30 years?

    • magnetosphere
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      This won’t affect me directly, but I’ve been pulling for Mamdani anyway. I know that basically amounts to “thoughts and prayers”, but still.

      • Sylveon
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        Yeah same, I’m on another continent but it’s great to see good news out of America for once. I’m happy for New Yorkers!

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        If New Yorkers manage to elect a Mayor that’s not a bootlicker it’s a sign that everything has a chance to get better.

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    So it’s him against Eric Adams now. Shouldn’t be all that hard, and I wish him the best.

    Long time supporter of incremental change and centrist policies here. Saw the way the Democratic party crumbled to dust after the election, saw the way Schumer and Jeffries went AWOL. It’s time for change. Not just generational, but also political, social, and philosophical.

    Let Mamdani win, and let him turn New York into a better, more humane place.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Cuomo still might run as an independent, and the DNC might back him given how terrified they are of someone like Mamdani

    • @solrize@lemmy.ml
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      No idea who Mamdani is but they are sure to blame ranked-choice voting and keep trying to get it banned.

      • ViatorOmnium
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        Cuomo’s speech seemed to go more into the direction of sitting this one out and wait for a safer way to attempt a comeback.

        He’s probably going to do some polling but unless there’s some big advantage for him in a realistic scenario, trying to run and risking losing can damage his political career beyond repair. And yes, on an ideal world it would already be dead beyond saving, but we have the world we have.