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    8 hours ago

    Let’s fucking GOOOOO!!

    This is so refreshing. A publicly self described democratic socialist. Sends a great message to the conservative democrat establishment.

    A Muslim socialist. Maga is gonna seeth and I’m here for it.

    More socialists please. Keep em coming.

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        He’s gonna fail spectacularly, though. Adams is also running and him and Cuomo appeal to pretty much the exact same base so are highly likely to cancel each other out.

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        I hope he does. It’ll be nothing but a vanity run that will waste a ton of money belonging to the worst people in the world.

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      I hope Mamdani can lift the red scare over the US. Socialism is a fucking great thing, greetings from Germany! <3 Best of luck to Mister Mamdani

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    I THINK the Problem is that Andrew Cuomo didn’t have ENOUGH Billionaires backing Him! That OR not Enough Sexual Assault allegations! We need to FIND More Billionaires and Sexual Harassers before the Midterms to STEAL back ALL the people that Voted for the Socialist!

    -The DNC!

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      Minor nitpick: Cuomo is accused of harassing so you don’t need to find more harassers, you need more harassees.

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    8 hours ago

    Wow! What a huge win.

    Is the left finally unified and rising? This is pretty stunning.

    A candidate that offers real help to the working class.

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        Then it’s time to create one.

        I’ve never considered myself super “left.” But MAGA and feckless Dems have me radicalized.

        It’s either this or guillotines. Time to stop playin’. Let’s fucking go.

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        The US has a “left” it has just been beaten into submission and told to vote for D or it gets the hose again. And I think now it’s realized it’s not alone, and it’s fighting back. This country fought a war to depose a king. This country fought a war to end slavery. This is a country that has spent basically all its history trying to protect itself and others from what exactly is currently happening. Yeah obviously they didn’t do a great job stopping this earlier, but this is not a country that is going to let itself be taken over by conservative right-wing religious fascist authoritarianism, despite the current evidence to the contrary. The country just needs a little time to remember who it really is and shake some of the rust off, because yeah, it’s been quite awhile since any of us in the west actually needed to fight for anything significant in our lives. But I also think it’s silly to expect we won’t. I don’t think the great American experiment is over, I think it’s going to continue and we’re going to see how that actually works.

        Maybe I’m wrong, but there are still way too many good people down there, and there are good people outside the US who want them to succeed too. The real fight will come eventually. It’s anybody’s guess when, where, and how. They may be down right now but don’t count the US out just yet I think they’ve still got lots of rounds left in them.

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          this is not a country that is going to let itself be taken over by conservative right-wing religious fascist authoritarianism

          Doubt

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        The US does have a left, but it’s atomized, disorganized and has a severe case of Stockholm syndrome towards liberals.

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        It seems like it might finally be materializing. I don’t know every detail of Mamdani’s politics but they do seem genuinely left by American standards. I can’t think of a further left candidate that has won a prominent election in this country.

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          Maybe about 150 years ago. Now, as far as I’m concerned, there’s 4. Chicago, LA, Atlanta, and NYC.

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            NYC is more than twice the size of any of those cities. It’s still the city.

            e: And Atlanta proper is only half a million people. It’s the metro area that’s got the population. Lots of mayors.

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              The LA metropolitan area is well over half of New York’s in terms of population. And I’d argue that it’s significantly more important to pop culture today. In this thesis, I will-

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                Oh no you’re right - Atlanta, Chicago, LA metro areas are all on par with NYC.

                But … the NYC metro area agruably stretches beyond DC now.

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    Holy shit cuomo sued for the gyno records of his accusers??? I really hope he lost that but I don’t want to look and be disappointed…

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    great win. hopefully this result empowers aoc & bernie to take over the dnc from the rotten elites like pelosi and schumer.

    but now watch aipac pour everything in the elections for a republican stooge.

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    I saw the early reporting come in and I was sitting here like Ronin in Endgame going “don’t give me hope…”

    There’s still a chance for this to turn into a nightmare but I hope it’s for real

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      Statistically, no. Not even at the time of your writing; it’s ranked choice and he cross promoted #3 guy who had 10ish %. Man it’s so lopsided Cuomo threw in the towel.

      I guess the real nightmare is whatever happens in the general, but even if Cuomo runs it’s likely only going to hurt Adams.

      That said, “don’t give me hope…” applies to changes in the DNC nationally, lol.

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    I look forward to his single term fighting against every entrenched power structure in the city and also the procedural bullshit that will hamstring anything good he tries to do.

    Or losing to the Republican.