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Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who was set to become the city’s most liberal mayor in generations.
In a victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing, Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises.
With the victory, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1.
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Based woke brown man. Cope and seethe chuds.
Based woke brown man
You talking about jesus??
He wasn’t based, he was nailed.
Nailed it
And I heard he was hung like this
It has been fucking glorious to see racist white men foaming at the mouths in a psychotic tantrum over this.
Their pain and tears brings good vibes and energy unto us all
My socialist heart feels hopeful, but my anarchist brain knows nothing will change.
Apathy isn’t revolutionary. We must fully support leftist candidates while also being critical of their platform and aware that electoral politics inside a capitalist system will only get us so far. But never losing hope that more people see the light and become class conscious.
He’ll spend all his time fighting off billionaires and their roadblocks
Better fighting to keep things from getting worse and worse then handing everything over to billionaires without any resistance. And if there’s one thing politics has been consistent on is that they don’t make our dreams come true, but they can make life even worse than it was previously. They got a real talent for that.
Maybe if we literally ate some of those billionaires it might help. Is the leader of our church Luigi Mangione freed from his unlawful religious persecution yet? And where are the Epstein files?
One of the more interesting polls out of this was whether voters were casting in support of or against a candidate.
86% of Mamdani voters were voting out of support of their candidate.
Half of Cuomo voters were voting against another candidate. (Mamdani.)
Voting against a candidate is a losing strategy.
Please tattoo this onto every member of the DNC
Or brand. Lets go with branding, after a good hog tie when they try to run away. They aren’t the best trained of critters.
Candidates control which way those winds go by having ideas or not.
ZombiFrancis is a great username.
Kudos. Francis wasnt perfect but he seemed to try harder than average popes.Thanks, though it is a username I have used variously for probably 20+ years.
A long-term losing strategy, yet short term it normally reliably drums up support in the kind of range that can tip an election. Quite eye-opening to me that an election can still be won with far-from-center politics.
This is great news. However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?
Mamdani could not have had a better campaign, yet, he had just ~8% more votes. If the other guy ran a just tiny bit better campain, things could have been very different.
I am trully happy that Mamdani won, but yet, I am left scared at the state of things. He should have had 70/80% of votes. After all that has been happening in the US for the last 9 months or so, there is only a 8% number of votes separating the two sides? Holly molly, that is scary.
However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?
because too many Americans still think “wE aRE NoT thEre YEt!”
I’m 100% for Mamdani, but wasn’t the sexual assault case dismissed against Cuomo? Some people really do get falsely accused of sexual assault and it ruins their life. We should not try to normalize calling him an assaulter if it’s not true.
It wasn’t 1 person that accused him. Are you saying 13 women got together and decided to lie? Also it was dismissed because the DA refused to prosecute. It didn’t even go to trial so these women didn’t even have an opportunity to tell their side in court.
“Investigators found the accounts of all 11 women to be credible and corroborated by a “mountain of evidence,” including emails and text messages. This report led to Cuomo’s resignation in August 2021.”
Yea, Clearly the poor guy was framed. /s
People who vote for law and order or over things like “crime” that are displaced from the real statistics are fucking morons and will always vote their emotions.
Look at biden’s election, a few hundred thousand people, three of those 5 states by 30k.
One would think they would have tried to be popular after that.
People do not realize what is at stake and how both sides will fail them generally, or how tjey will not fail them as with mamdani.
There is a lot of much racists, xenophobic, socialistophobe and communistophobe in the new york and the usa
It’s almost like the most hated man in New York endorsing his opponent helped him in some way.
Mamdani is a pretty good politician as well, not perfect, but good.
I am Trump’s malignant hernia and I endorse this result.
Malignate faster please
I’m spreading the good news throughout his body as fast as I can.
This is beautiful! I’ll be quoting you.
Godspeed
although I would prefer to see more secular politicians, if we are going to have a leader who’s religious its good to have more diversity so christians don’t gain too much of a majority
This is fantastic and I wish him the best. He’s going to need the best communications team any politician has had thus far. All the odds and big money interests are stacked against him. He’s going to be attacked from every conceivable angle, from every level of government. If he remains true and righteous, he’ll persevere.
If the dems are even half there at this point they will rally ny as a bastion and make that city shine. Show what proper government attention looks like. Unfortunately they will probably do absolutely nothing to help and many small things that manage to only hinder. Let’s hope he shines though it all.
Okay. Commentators have been saying for a while that a victory for him could be a signal of the American left learning that actually progressive policies and candidates can be successful and on the Democrats as a whole actually moving to the left. Let’s hope that that’s actually true, rather than it being dismissed as “New York’s different”.
Hopefully, the recent buzz around AOC will help, too. I’ve been seeing more of Crockett in the news, as well.
We’ll see. This is definitely a very positive move, though.
I do hope they’ll realize that concrete policy proposals are such a huge part of what won here, not just Mamdani’s ideology or personality. The interview where he was asked about the bus plan being feasible was amazing, he had examples and numbers to back it up. It wasn’t just an “it would be cool” idea.
Not even strictly policy, but the way he conducted the campaign. He actually addressed the people standing in front of him in their language.
It’s a good step. We need to see action now. I think the reaction from the rest of the country is not encouraging that this is the falling of small stones that will start an avalanche. Not yet. Let’s see him govern and let’s see others like him step up.
I’m jealous of NYC right now, wish someone had those sorts of policies in Portland.
I think this is the start of something much bigger. :)
They do: you! Run for local office and help infuse some vitality back into a tired, corrupt political system.
I don’t think anyone would vote for a tired, disabled trans woman with two strokes and two jobs, who has nothing more than an associates degree.
But I will do what I can.
Looking forward to see if all the people that announced they would leave NYC if he won are going to keep their promise.
Did you see that silly article with Gov. Abbot of TX indicating that people who left NYC would have to pay a tariff to enter TX?
Texas has a tiny net mirgation rate. Its not much of a threat. Its a shithole state, like most states with republican leadership. Musk is trying to get back into the bay area as we speak, and a lot of people who moved there from California for a cheaper life have found that its no cheaper than California, and less comfortable of a place in nearly every way-- so they are moving back again at great expense.
agreed, gtfo to all the people who said they’d leave, and dont come back.
Just like all those millionaires that left the UK…
and the UK was a better place for their leaving.
From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I’ll take it.
Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?
According to CBS and ABC, yes.
My fucking dipshit redneck county voted no, always fucking backwards.https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-prop-50-results-2025/ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/proposition-50-live-election-results-california-voters-weigh/story?id=126345346
The real concern is that with 8 million potential voters, NYC barely breaks 2 million.
This is why it’s always such a toss-up between fascism and normalcy - because too many people are complacent.
Maybe because voting in a week day is troublesome? In most countries, elections are held on weekends. I don’t understand why “the land of the free” does it differently.
Yep, and as always, the hardest working and least well-off are punished by a system that either doesn’t have them in mind or purposefully excludes them.
Would love to know shift-workers are expected to vote when they work 7-7 or whatever else. Night workers that sleep most of the day, etc.
First words in his victory speech were a a quote from Eugene Debs.
Let’s fuckin go
quote from Eugene Debs
I had to look that one up. Good reference.
