wonder if the DNC can still ratfuck this somehow
Kinda hope they do and then he runs with WFP and wins anyways
There’s like a possibility a bunch of party Dems freak out and vote for Sliwa I guess because they’re afraid of the socialism word
Endorse an independent candidate and pull campaign funding I guess.
Can they get the city council to block most of his agenda? Idk what the faction breakdown there is like.
they will and they will succeed; eventually.
The opposite of having a ton of money and lots of endorsements is being a young socialist.
I guess it holds up
Do we know that Zohran isn’t gonna be an op like AOC? I’m glad that he’s done so well in the primary as an out and open socialist or whatever but I really don’t trust anyone that gains any sort of notoriety in US politics anymore
we don’t but if that’s the case at least he bothered to lie about wanting good things instead of bad things, most of the ghouls don’t.
i’m expecting rent control not maoism anyway.
Lol good point
I mean yeah we should always be cautious about overestimating how much the electeds will do for the socialist movement. However, a big part of AOC’s faltering was that she was one rep in a sea of bloodthirsty establishment dems and she didn’t have the spine for it. Mamdani would be the executive, which would give him way more leverage at the City government level, even if it’s lower on the hierarchy than AOC.
Oooo okay, damn well then when you put it like that I’m really curious to see how this pans out and will hope he doesn’t sell out. Will not hold my breath though
His mother is an award winning film maker.
His father a storied international scholar and writer. Perhaps others can fill in because his history is outside my understanding.
In other words he comes from a certian pedigree and prestige. The potential for
is there. Just going to have to wait and see but at lesst he isn’t Cum-o.While IDK if Mamdani is a true leftist. Remember that historically many of leftism’s figures are nepo babies that reject their privilege and betray their class.
Lenin is a perfect example. His whole point of a vanguard is for mutual education, while he organizes and educates the masses on socialism, him and others like him are then educated on the struggles of the proletariat and their conditions.
Yeah I thought of Lenin, Castro too. I hadn’t really looked anything up about the guy so I was under the assumption he might be an AOC character where she billed herself as a working class waitress but seemed to have some fishy CIA-adjacent background or something, but that seems to not be the case
Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator of Indian ancestry, based in New York City.
Putting his race in the first sentence of the page is pretty wild even for Wikipedia
Ah, of course that’s the case. But it’s not like you can’t have correct politics because of that but it’s not very convincing to me when he was endorsed by Bernie and AOC. I have heard that he has some real lib takes on Palestine as well but he might need to bend his real feelings on it to court more voters.
In any case I think he will win the general election. All of the other candidates including the one Republican eho was uncontested, want to increase police budgets which seems to be broadly unpopular, and Zohran also has cross endorsements from two other candidates. If he gets the large majority of those votes, that will push him over 50%. I will be so curious to see how this shakes out
He’s not a communist, but good social programs are good social programs
True, we will see if he puts his money where his mouth is. Here’s to hoping
He has a long history of canvas since as a community organizer. Knocked on thousands of doors. He’s legit.
don’t mess with the Zohran
Kids are done with the bullshit.
Cuomo is also a sex pest
"I’m not a sex pest I’m Italian "
“I’m an Italiano sex pesto, with garlic.”
someone get the agent orange
As Italian, I approve this message.
what was it Cuomo was famous for again? Dem insider, resigned due to several credible sexual harassment allegations, well known rivalry with DeBlasio that supposedly led to him purposely mismanaging elements of COVID and loading shipping containers with dead people?
According to one of the latest TrueAnon episodes, managing the dredging of luxury marinas for a NY real estate magnate who used to be close with uhhh disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein
mama mia!
New York says NO to Italians! geddafuck-ouddahere!
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Okay so I did a little digging (looked at his Wikipedia lol) and I am much less skeptical now. His dad gave I’m the middle name Kwame after Kwame Nkrumah. He founded the Bowdoin chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine in like 2014 so that leads me to believe he may have a stronger stance on Palestine than he admits publicly. He joined the DSA in 2017 so at least he has been left of “progressives” for a while. He is getting people to be less afraid of the word “socialism”, and possibly “intifada” which are like, forbidden words to the average voter (this is my opinion). Seems pretty promising so far.
Another comrade also made the point that even if he fails, that may very well push his user base more left, so it may be a win regardless. Crossing my fingers
Lol user base
Lmao that is not what I meant to type, I’m on mobile
Cool
Pokémon gaba-go back home to Sicily you fuckin lasagna hog
It took me several reads to understand this comment but the effort paid off. Go hang a salami!
(I’m a lasagnahog)
I’m unreasonably happy somebody picked that up
I was just concerned that when I said go hang a salami it wouldn’t be misconstrued lol, but yeah love to see that asshat get pwned by Mandani, it’s a great moment.
It was a debate between that or calling him an oozy rat in a cemetery zoo but the lasagna/italian connection was too strong to ignore
