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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.
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Billionaire will = thwarted
Billionaire funding = wasted
We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.
Happy to see the Cuomo campaign fail and waste all that $$$ in the process. Fuck him
Lol there wnk choice!
Yay!
Welp time to see Trump flail his arms and cry like the man child he is
Andrew Cuomo FaD 854,995 wtf new york? that’s 900k too many
Yep, some people hate muslims, socialism, stuff like that.
10 bucks says a lot of that was bum-ass
east jerseyStaten island.It’s hilarious as a Canadian, I’ve never been to NY but all the way back to watching shows like Seinfeld and other shows from back in the day based in NY, they all talk about Staten Island like it’s a whole different breed of crazy over there.
There’s just so many tears, we need more bottles to catch them all! Cuomo and his crooked donors alone are just zombie walking with mascara running down their face right now.
As someone who lived post 9/11 and saw what the Muslim community went through, this is wild and super cool
Congratulations to Americans and new yorkers in particular! Hoping real change for quality of life succeeds
If they would let him get to work it would be great, unfortunately a lot of his energy in the first year will be fighting off Trump and other billionaires trying to remove him or throw roadblocks in his way.
At least he’s not alone. Seems newsom has been battening down the hatches quite fine already on how to fight back
I will forever respect Sliwa for sticking it out. He’s a real one. Maybe Mamdani can make him the head of the parade department.
Curtis has great “confused but well-meaning Grandpa” vibes.
He was saying Zohran’s name wrong because he couldn’t remember it. Not because he was being an asshole.
He fell for the AI ad but still defended “cultural differences” as normal (and not a negative).
My point is, he’s wrong about a lot, but I’ll give him credit for trying.
Lowkey feel bad that he got crushed compared to Cuomo.
Thank him for his unnecessary service, again, in splitting the dickhead vote
Mr. Cardamom is now mayor of New York… The world may or may not be healing. I will remain cautiously optomistic.
That’s Mayor Cardamom now!
Im Canadian and I heard that some people in NY were peddling the idea that mandatory halal food was going to be forced on all New Yorkers. I doubted the veracity of the story at first thinking I was reading the onion, but I know a bunch of people are stupid and racist enough to believe a racist lie like that
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of elitists suddenly cried out in terror and suddenly clutched their pearls.
NY billionaires after getting home from their Gatsby weekend and hearing the news
Such a nice sound.
I started the day with the news that Dick Cheney is dead. Now I’m ending it with news that Zohran Mamdani is mayor. It’s been the best day in a long, long time.
Hold up, vice president headshots died? Howd I miss that?
So few people cared about him that nobodys talking about it.
Today most people I’ve seen online were “THE BASTARD IS DEAD, MARGARET THATCHER CAN FUCK HIM IN THE ASS IN HELL”
Except it’s been talked about everywhere all day. And I’m not even American.
I can only get so erect.
Prop 50 passed in California
archer reference? :p
Ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you.
why the fuck are they in bath tubs
G rated sexytimes implications
Especially their own separate tubs
If I remember the 90s/00s commercial, it’s advertising that cilalis is there when you’re ready for up to 36 hours. So you can enjoy other sensual experiences for the build up. In this case the couple is enjoying a romantic soak as they watch the sun set before sexy time.
Dick died on erection day
I don’t believe in prayer, but only an errant McNugget could make this day better.
Here you go
@[email protected] From your gifs to the grimrepers cold boney finger.
America’s 43rd President is dead? Wow, what a day!
VOTER FRAUD! There’s NO WAY someone who Campaigned on Helping the Middle Class could BEAT a Sex Offender with Billionaire Sugar Daddies! There’s NO WAY!
Working class, not middle class.
How could a guy that was forced to resign as governor fail to get elected as mayor?!?!
NYT editorial staff in shambles.
End of the world in 30 days!
Your satire is top notch ;)
Plot twist, he’s legitimately angry, and wearing a red hat.
…no, I’m just joking. Don’t flame him.
I bet Trump is already saying that
Chaney is dead, Mamdani wins? Good news for the nation as my personal life is shit.
Genuinely uplifting in a way. Thank you to all the NYC voters making a difference. And a big thank you to anyone to visits Chaney’s grave to piss on it.
Tonight, feel good. And tomorrow I hope things get better for you.
Hopefully they do. It’s bad news today personally, the person who’s been harassing my family since January, is now the manager of the place we live in. He’s tried to get us evicted before, and restrict things that other tenats use, and treat worse.
He’s harassed my brother, then me, then my dad. The management did nothing about his documented actions. Or his fistfights he has started and lost both times. Or this, or that. He’s genuinely a bad person.
And the new manager was going to be someone else, but the landlord kicked her out before she even stayed a full month.
The people of NYC have truly exercised their democratic rights!
Hell yeah. Hopefully this will contribute momentum to a larger nationwide socialist movement.
there kinda already is kicked off by bernie in 2015, The DSA (Democratic Socialists America) has made AOC and Mamdani big and also a number of less prominent figures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America
Almost as soon as Mamdani won the primary, the DNC chair did a PBS interview talking about the important part was the platform Mamdani ran on…
And Martin only waited till after the primary, because he legit believes a party shouldn’t be biased. But he ran Minnesota for a decade, and under his watch they went from purple to progressive as fuck.
The only way we lose, is if people pre-emptively give up on the party and don’t vote in the primary. So there’s going to be a lot of noise trying to convince people not to trust the new party
Going to be?
There’s already a shit load of that right here on Lemmy.
We got like 30 months till presidential primaries, and the billionaires are not going to talk about how they lost control of the DNC on the media networks they bought for propaganda…
Ignorance is the natural state, everyone is ignorant of everything until they learn it.
But it’s not gonna be a valid excuse for much longer.
But regardless of people’s opinion of the DNC, Martin is going to keep throwing money back at state parties, which is going to keep translating to wins downballot. And he’s not gonna stop a progressive from getting the presidential nomination.
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You have such a hard-on for Ken, despite the fact that he’s a typical centrist lib who in his own words is happy to continue taking money from “good billionaires”.
I cant wait for the day you realise what he actually is and stop spreading the propaganda.
How about we implement a progressive income tax, no loopholes, instead of fixating on an arbitrary number like fucking dumbasses? How much money CAN one have from which you’d still take money?
Drop the fucking buzzwords. This isn’t a game.
Oh hey it’s this troll again. Please you never answered the last time you made this bogus claim - What are these buzzwords you keep imaging.
This has nothing to do with taxation, the issue is money in politics.
Please before bothering me any more on this site, take the time to actually read what has been said you’ve now made this ridiculous completely unrelated statement twice now.
Lol, what’s a greater sign of one’s insecurity in their own argument than instantly labeling “troll”. Pathetic.
Please you never answered the last time you made this bogus claim
Is that how language works? One’s own claim requires an answer? I thought answers followed questions. What do you even think is “bogus”. Fucking income tax?
What are these buzzwords you keep imaging.
“Billionaire”. It’s fucking arbitrary and it removes the focus from where it should be. “Centrist lib”, you sound like a Trumper for fuck’s sake.
This has nothing to do with taxation, the issue is money in politics.
Oh and ONLY billionaires can put money in politics? Someone with a hundred million, you wouldn’t have a problem with that? What is your cutoff? A lot of rich people put money in politics precisely so they can get tax breaks. So no, they’re not unrelated. And every time you allow a Republican to come to power over the “centrist lib”, you do the super rich a massive favor.
Please before bothering me any more on this site, take the time to actually read what has been said you’ve now made this ridiculous completely unrelated statement twice now.
More pathetic posturing to obscure your weak argument. That’s all this is. It’s not my fault you’re too goddamn stupid to understand either why they put money in politics nor how you actually help them.
There’s no “new party”. Democrats won in Virginia by being centrist. Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
But they won. Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right. Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”, but it will be easier to field progressives in the future from Spanberger’s position, than from Winsome’s. And maybe next time, the magical lefty messiah Lisan al Gaib will be running and the choice will be between them vs the centrist democrat, instead of a centrist democrat vs a literal smoothbrained maga dummy.
But they won.
I certainly didn’t dispute that. Both won by running races that best appealed the majority of voters in their electoral areas. People here are somehow mad that we got the governorship of Virginia? The confirmation bias is ridiculous.
Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Yeah, welcome to much of America that isn’t NYC, a major urban metropolis. And Mamdani still had decent opposition from a sex offender. Gonna ignore that? If you try, you could downplay his victory as much as hers but why would you? They’re both wins. Winning shouldn’t divide us. Also, it’s bit easier for a Democrat to win the mayoralty of NYC than it is the governorship of purple Virginia.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right.
I’m happy in either case. All I care about is a pragmatic approach that moves society in the way I most agree with. Allowing Donald Trump to come to power doesn’t qualify.
Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Not to say there isn’t, because we’ve seen that doing so is how you get people like Trump and voter apathy.
A-fuckin-men! I hope the dnc also gets their head out of their ass and starts embracing the left side.
The DNC is owned by billionaires, the sort the DNC chair Ken supports and defends their right to play economic kingmaker.
There is zero chance the DNC gets their head out unless a leftist somehow takes over ala Mandani.
He’s mayor of NYC, not the head of the DNC. It’s not the DNC’s fault that you thought Trump would be better than Harris. That’s YOUR fault.
You fucking idiots are why we have Trump AGAIN.
NYC and Virginia are proof that different polities require different approaches.
“Proof”
You know how can I tell when I’m right? When this piss poor attempt at a response is all you can offer.
