cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38142040
Marina Dunbar in Forest Hills Mon 27 Oct 2025 06.00 EDT
For Mitch, the key issues facing NYC right now are “safety, the trains being safe, and affordability”, adding that while he’s skeptical about whether Mamdani can deliver on all his promises, he’s open-minded. “I don’t know who’s going to pay for all this stuff he wants done … but I’m going in open-minded, and just hoping somebody is offering some alternatives.”
Brooklyn, 30, also from Astoria, said their top priorities were protecting LGBTQ rights and tackling the city’s affordability crisis. “I think Mamdani is doing a great job of addressing everything I’m concerned about,” they said.
Nicole, 30, echoed that sentiment, praising Mamdani’s authenticity: “I feel like Mamdani is very genuine in his responses in a way that isn’t typically seen in most politicians. He’s a little less lip service-y than usual.”
It’s incredible to me how disingenuous and just… false… these people can be. And they still think they are doing the right thing? Or is this just soulless, paid astroturfing, I wonder?
Either way, they can’t fight reality forever.
I mean, fighting reality to create an alternate desired reality has a longstanding success rate including in the recent past in basically every Western democracy. I am starting to agree with folks like this person that the fundamentals of modern society are becoming incompatible with the fundamentals that a society needs to have in the modern world in order to survive. I wish I knew what the fuck to do about it.