Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.
Why do you have conservative acquaintances?
You shouldn’t exclude people from your circles for different political views.
How are you going to reach them and get some sense back into their boggled minds if you distance yourself only?
Because thats what adults do, they are capable of communicating and being near people with different values and opinions.
Demonizing people “not like us” is exactly how we got Trump. Not every conservative is a racist monster, most of them are just confused, or heavily gaslit from years of Fox News style propaganda. I’ve personally got a few of my conservative friends and family to see the problems with Donnie Cheeto and openly rebuke his decision making. “Punching someone in the face” for making a poor choice isn’t going to do shit for us when shit gets real, changing their minds will. Not saying everyone on that side of the fence is clear, and I sure as hell hope people complicit with these horrific ice raids etc get locked the fuck up for a long time. Same with all of trumps lap dogs.
“if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.”
The “acquaintance” needs a punch in the fucking face and a goodbye.
Thank you.
You do realize that having witty quotes doesnt change anything right? It might be rhetorically effective at face value, but there is no value other than hate at display here.
Good, because I fucking hate nazis. Do you?
If hating nazis is wrong, I don’t want to be right
You’re kicking off over an acquaintance?