Mamdani won the House minority leader's district by double digits in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, prompting one critic to ask, "Do those voters not matter?"
Mamdani is a populist and is basically a left wing Trump.
People are unhappy and easily manipulated into supporting someone that just says the popular internet things. There’s also the assumption that he hates the same ethnic group that’s it’s popular for his base to hate. See the other comments in this thread saying Hakeem Jeffries not endorsing Mamdani is probably something to do with the Jews.
There were many Republicans that were “never Trumpers” and refused to endorse him. A few even stuck with it. We know what can happen when someone’s support is based around policies based on internet memes mixed with racist conspiracy theories.
The question is whether Mamdani is a true believer or just saying the things he does to get elected. If he’s a true believer and actually implements the half baked internet meme based policies, it will be a disaster. Much like how Trump’s dumbass policies are a disaster.
Wouldn’t be a good political move to endorse a politician that winds up creating a mess of things.
Yeah, I guess we should just keep electing the same corrupt losers who promise nothing, and do less.
Zohran is offering real changes, when everybody else seems to be perfectly comfortable with business as usual in MAGA Nazi America. Maybe they’ll work, maybe they won’t, and more likely it will be a mix of the two, but at least he wants to try something different than the usual losing strategies.
And that’s why Mamdani won, he wasn’t promising vague platitudes. He was promising very specific actions that are entirely within the power of the mayor’s office to enact. A lot of his agenda will simply be signing legislation passed by the City Council that Mayor Adams vetoed. He convinced people to vote for him because he not only had a ideas, but a very specific and tangible plan on how to achieve them. And Mamdani’s changes are good.
What made you come to that conclusion? That’s a perfectly fair minimum wage for a place as expensive as NYC. And it could be passed by the city council and signed by the mayor. Adams just vetoed a bill trying to raise the app worker minimum wage to $22/hour or so. $30 is only 1/3 more than this, and Mamdani proposed implementing it over several years. I think you may just be suffering from jealousy, and ignoring that this is in the context of NYC, where $60k/year is not a lot of money.
You’ve gone out of your fucking mind to compare Mamdani to Trump. Lots of people are convinced Trump is the literal antichrist, for good reason. Trump is a murdering psycopath who increases taxes on the poor and decreases them for the rich. Trump is waging a war on minorities to provide labor to the prison industry. Trump is offering USA resources to Russia in exchange for taking slightly less of Ukraine, which the Ukrainians have not and will not agree with.
At current NYC prices, businesses could afford to pay decent wages to their employees, except every business is hamstring by ridiculous commercial rent.
Almost every block used to have its own pizza joint, bakery, and deli. Then rent went up, and they all combined into one. Then rent went higher, and they finally all went out of business.
The primary problem with the NYC economy is rent. If rent could be regulated properly, and greedy landlords could be corralled, living and working, and especially operating a business in NYC, would increase spectacularly.
Mamdani is a populist and is basically a left wing Trump.
People are unhappy and easily manipulated into supporting someone that just says the popular internet things. There’s also the assumption that he hates the same ethnic group that’s it’s popular for his base to hate. See the other comments in this thread saying Hakeem Jeffries not endorsing Mamdani is probably something to do with the Jews.
There were many Republicans that were “never Trumpers” and refused to endorse him. A few even stuck with it. We know what can happen when someone’s support is based around policies based on internet memes mixed with racist conspiracy theories.
The question is whether Mamdani is a true believer or just saying the things he does to get elected. If he’s a true believer and actually implements the half baked internet meme based policies, it will be a disaster. Much like how Trump’s dumbass policies are a disaster.
Wouldn’t be a good political move to endorse a politician that winds up creating a mess of things.
That is the dumbest shit I’ve read all day
Dumbest shit I’ve read on Lemmy. Period.
I’ve seen Hexbear before, but this one is certainly a top 10.
Yeah, I guess we should just keep electing the same corrupt losers who promise nothing, and do less.
Zohran is offering real changes, when everybody else seems to be perfectly comfortable with business as usual in MAGA Nazi America. Maybe they’ll work, maybe they won’t, and more likely it will be a mix of the two, but at least he wants to try something different than the usual losing strategies.
Trump offered real change. That wasn’t a good thing. Turns out, your changes need to be good
And that’s why Mamdani won, he wasn’t promising vague platitudes. He was promising very specific actions that are entirely within the power of the mayor’s office to enact. A lot of his agenda will simply be signing legislation passed by the City Council that Mayor Adams vetoed. He convinced people to vote for him because he not only had a ideas, but a very specific and tangible plan on how to achieve them. And Mamdani’s changes are good.
$30 an hour minimum wage is peak politician fake promise
What made you come to that conclusion? That’s a perfectly fair minimum wage for a place as expensive as NYC. And it could be passed by the city council and signed by the mayor. Adams just vetoed a bill trying to raise the app worker minimum wage to $22/hour or so. $30 is only 1/3 more than this, and Mamdani proposed implementing it over several years. I think you may just be suffering from jealousy, and ignoring that this is in the context of NYC, where $60k/year is not a lot of money.
Because it would never happen. Only one third more?
Listen, if you “only” got one third more money next paycheck you’d be pretty stoked
You’ve gone out of your fucking mind to compare Mamdani to Trump. Lots of people are convinced Trump is the literal antichrist, for good reason. Trump is a murdering psycopath who increases taxes on the poor and decreases them for the rich. Trump is waging a war on minorities to provide labor to the prison industry. Trump is offering USA resources to Russia in exchange for taking slightly less of Ukraine, which the Ukrainians have not and will not agree with.
Change is not always good. Young people think change for the sake of change is good
You’re right. They’re both the same so I will protest by not voting. That will show them I mean business…wait I’ve heard this before.
Didn’t say that
Mamdani is not Trump by any standard. Mamdani seems to actually understand how to govern.
His stupidest policies will not be taken up by the city council eg no one is getting$30/hr for minimum wage because most could not afford to pay that
At current NYC prices, businesses could afford to pay decent wages to their employees, except every business is hamstring by ridiculous commercial rent.
Almost every block used to have its own pizza joint, bakery, and deli. Then rent went up, and they all combined into one. Then rent went higher, and they finally all went out of business.
The primary problem with the NYC economy is rent. If rent could be regulated properly, and greedy landlords could be corralled, living and working, and especially operating a business in NYC, would increase spectacularly.
Landlords are always greedy. The issue is when there’s not enough supply the prices increase.
“BoTH sIDeS aRe The SamE!!!1!”
Didn’t say that either