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- politics@beehaw.org
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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facebook is going wild. they are circulating an image from (what they propose) is ISIS endorsing zohran for winning. the best comment was “this is like 9/11 again!”
My man opens his speech with a quote from Eugene Victor Debs! ✊
The Empire will strike back folks. Brace yourselves and don’t self-congratulate too much, the real fight starts now. Good luck, American friends!
Did anyone else read, “Mamdani wins,” in the mortal Kombat voice? Now we just need a cartoon animation of Mamdani ripping Cuomo’s spine from his body.
So happy to see a clean sweep on EVERY major election across the country for dems and freedom. We cannot take the foot of the gas, the white house is currently working HARD to find ways to take away Mamdani’s win and hurt New Yorkers because they voted against the king.
We need to maintain the pressure.
A win for the people! Cuomo’s campaign expenses were $56 million, 2.5 times higher than Mamdani’s. Cuomo was mostly funded by billionaires, while Mamdani had mostly small sum contributions.
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?? Weren’t they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?
Truth is that this sort of thing has worked out for them before. Trump would not be in office right now if he wasn’t bankrolled by Musk and Thiel. There were reports in early 2024 that the GOP was basically broke.
A few million to a campaign can be converted into billions of tax benefits. Just think of how much they got out of the Trump tax credits from the first term. Pile on top of that cases where they get sweet government contracts (like Palantir). It’s all a direct shift of money from the working class and into capitalists with the government as an intermediary.
Which is to say that, yes, it is good investment for them. They can afford to miss a few sometimes. Generally, they play the game to win more than they lose. If you win every time, it’s actually an Enron-style red flag.
Weren’t they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?
Like Mamdani said. They’re spending a lot more than what he’s planning on taxing them.
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?
Because it’s actually worked. The wealthy have become outrageously more wealthy in the last several decades because of their interference in elections.
Mamdani is a setback for their plans, but honestly 56 million dollars is effectively nothing compared to the money the elite, donor-class holds and uses to influence society. The only way we topple their stranglehold is to have more “Mamdani Events” in every major city and state while we still have democracy and can launch grass-roots elections to remove corruption and money from politics.
Well, that’s the only peaceful way. Revolution is always an option. But also, as long as the economic system allows individuals to hoard vast properties, the wealthy will use their power to influence politics.
56 million dollars is pocket change for a single billionaire. It’s less than that for a multitude of billionaires.
Historically and even now, it works. The ones who spend the most, gets the air time, and the George Carlin Americans eat it up and form their opinions after “doing their research” which is nothing but watching TV and facebook from other people who are George Carlin Americans.
It’s super effective and that amount of money where looking at is chump change to these guys.
Wait, what’s a George Carlin American? He was pretty progressive afaik.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
The funniest part is that I never, at least from the clips, got the idea that George Carlin was a conservative but he did always have an air about him that I think made conservatives believe he wasn’t talking about them.
Now, I’m sure this will prompt me learning some things about Carlin but hey, I’m open to that too.
He was more anti-establishment than anything else. He was also famous enough to be in the big club we’re not in.
I’d like to point out feckless Democrats that while Citizens United is bad… money ain’t everything.
Don’t worry. There is a small army of well paid McKinsey consultants right now reassuring the DNC that while economic populism won for Mamdani it would never work outside of New York. They will tell the ghouls bought and paid for by big money donors that yesterday wasn’t a complete loss, Liz Cheney could get some sympathy votes on the ticket if the DNC is just brave enough to make her the VP nom and pivot to the center.
Wait till they invent mind control and add shit to the water supply.
Never Forget, Flint, Michigan.
Hell yeah
It is crazy what giving people to vote for something, instead just voting against someone can produce some great results. Mamdani had to take on a class on billionaires and the old DNC leadership he who didn’t want to back him. It is funny af to see Chuck the leader of Dems show vote blue no matter who was fake. He most likely voted for Cuomo.
My country’s (very politically aligned) public news station described Mamdani as “communist” and “anti-Semitic”.
I am always a bit disgusted by Italian public service news station, this one was particularly telling at how biased it can be.
described Mamdani as “communist”
If only it would be true
TG2, right? The other day they were saying that there was no genocide at all in Gaza, just “extremely targeted attacks against terrorists”
It’s so extremely targeted that it kills kids before they can become terrorist… /s
Pre-targeted strikes
I think you dropped a letter
Pre-K-targeted strikes
🤣🤣
It’s funny until it’s not. They literally called our kids “children of the darkness”, “little snakes”, and “future terrorists” to justify dropping 100 killotons of explosives as of August 2025, the equivalent of 66.67 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima.
And the world is mostly silent, and Democrats telling us to shut up and vote blue no matter who.
Hopefully it should give you some insight into who that news station is meant to serve.
Here’s a hint: it’s not the public.
Is he not a Communist? :(
Americans don’t even know what that is, they think halloween is communism.
Have you ever McCarthy? There are lots of American communists
No, he’s a democratic socialist.
Damn :(
I wish!
No. Democratic socialism is a philosophy that believes in democracy first, socialism second.
Democratic socialists believe in social programs within capitalism, they do not work against capitalism in any meaningful way.
the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization Zohran is apart of, is a big tent left organization that Includes everyone from reformist socialists to Marxist Leninists, to Anarchists and Maoists.
Not even close.
“Trump signs executive order that Cuomo actually won and that Dick Cheney is still alive.”
Trump seems pretty checked out lately, as expected for someone at the very end of the effective human lifespan who already has everything and anything he wants.
I would just love to be a fly on the wall to witness Stephen Miller’s implosion right now. He’s the sack of maggots and feces wrapped in human skin who has been effectively running the country for the last year or so because he has no qualms about taking Trump to the hilt and has earned the old man’s trust that way. He has no power on his own because he’s not liked and can’t capture even a shred of political capital like Trump has, on some level he knows when this whole thing folds he will be completely shut out of politics and may even face prosecution.
Seeing something like Mamdani happen, as well as the blue wave that just crashed over major cities and states yesterday, is a reminder that his clock is ticking and running out faster than he would have liked. Expect to see some wild missteps from the administration over the next several months as Miller goes on an absolute bender and tries to accelerate all his half-baked nazi plans.
Miller might even prefer the outcome where the regime falls around him. He’s a mediocre man with delusions of adequacy, and he’s not at the very top of the pyramid.
There’s something that tends to happen to men like that in regimes like this. What generally happens is that they are “given the courtesy” of being allowed to shoot themselves in the head after a major fuckup. Which will happen, because he isn’t actually good at anything except yelling at people and acting tough.
The worst the democratic socialists are likely to do to him is a trial and prison time. Even if he’s executed, he’ll at least get a trial.
Aye, that is the one silver lining of this fascist take-over: Miller et al. have attached themselves to a demagogue who has a looming expiration date, so they are speed-running the creation of the fourth reich. Our best hope is that they’re doing it too quickly to really take root. (And that they can’t find another demagogue to step in when the orange one bites it.)
I’m not particularly worried about any current members of the administration or any prominent figures on the right taking Trump’s place. They have been trying for years now to recapture the bottled-lightning that is Trump’s unique blend of authentic contempt and straightforward dishonesty.
Instead they keep parading JD Vance around, but the guy can’t hold anyone’s attention, he’s boring and talks like a politician even when he’s saying authoritarian bullshit. Trump’s base will wander off, disinterested. Or at least, not be inclined to respond to him the way they did with Trump.
Remember, Jan 6th capitol riots were just Trump “weapon testing” his political capital, showing the party that he had a tight leash and control over his base. Having even a minority constituent base who is loyal to your every word without question, and are armed and loyal voters, is worth more than swing states and policy debates. This is why Trump has been able to walk all over everyone and everything.
I cannot picture that crowd being “tamed” by anyone else. They’re going to fracture into a thousand pieces when Trump dies, and Vance will be a well-funded but useless Lame Duck, unable to make traction in Congress and Senate.
Lol
Trump already threatened to withhold funding for the city. Something I have no doubt he’ll make good on.
I’m still surprised he hasn’t been lynched already based on his name alone.
Lovely news to wake up to, thanks.
The first thing my conservative acquaintance wrote was “I hope you re ready for another 9-11” because now its coming" They are really scared eh
Is that a threat?
So in conservative brain damaged logic, Giuliani was a Muslim, Socialist Democrat somehow responsible for 9/11.
You need better acquaintances.
This was my comparable train of thought… Giuliana was elected so 9-11 could happen! He is fully responsible no? /s
Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.
Or just jail them even when quoting their supreme pedo leader.
(Probably not the best source link but a quick search will surely find more)
To be fair, this is a personal 9/11 for every conservative piss baby who lives in an imaginary world where every paranoid delusion they have about Mamdani is real.
They don’t even think of New York City as “real America” in the first place. Connecting this to where 9/11 actually happened doesn’t occur to them.
Did you ask them why they think that would cause it?
That would be because of photos with the Imam Siraj Wahhaj… Who according to conservatives was organizer of the 1993 wtc bombing… but was not indicted or convicted of anything related to it.
Why do you have conservative acquaintances?
Because thats what adults do, they are capable of communicating and being near people with different values and opinions.
“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.
If hating nazis is wrong, I don’t want to be right
Not every conservative is a MAGA cultist nor a nazi, it’s ok to have friends and acquaintances with different political views and belief systems from yourself. You’re doing the “everyone I disagree with is a nazi” thing.
Not every conservative is a MAGA cultist nor a nazi,
Never said they were.
it’s ok to have friends and acquaintances with different political views and belief systems from yourself
Unless their beliefs say that others are lesser, or wrong, like LGBTQ people shouldn’t exist.
You’re doing the “everyone I disagree with is a nazi” thing.
Really not though, not sure how you think that is the case
Good, because I fucking hate nazis. Do you?
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.
Nah, at this point there’s no excuses. If you’re uninformed today, it’s malicious. If you actively support a party of traitors and domestic terrorists, you’re super malicious. All nuance has been strangled and trampled down to mush about 9 years ago.
You’re kicking off over an acquaintance?
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?
Kinda expected. He was the only good option
This is what happens when you have rank choice voting. A democracy where progressive win.
Honestly election reform should be the absolute highest priority in this country. Everything will trickle down from there. Sadly, too many people are caught up in the symptoms to see the disease.
Nice job NYC!
