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[–] 177 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani isn't over, and won't be over for as long as he's in politics, and then a little after.

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  • [+] 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 174 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    But Cuomo tried very hard to turn it into a referendum on Mamdani’s views on Israel and Palestine—and the media establishment took the bait.

    It's weird this is an issue in a mayoral campaign in the USA. The role has no foreign policy authority whatsoever, and Palestine/Israel is 5700 miles from NYC.

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  • [–] 135 points 1 year ago* (24 children)

    He’s about to raise taxes on ~350k millionaires, while increasing wages and lowering the cost of groceries and rent. It’s everything Trump promised in his campaign, but he’s doing it the exact opposite way.

    When it works, Trump is gonna look like a dick, and the nation will see that democratic socialism will get them what they were promised.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the nation will see that democratic socialism will get them what they were promised.

    What's that old saying like "none are so blind as those who will not see"? I feel like people are so emotionally invested in "socialism bad, democrats bad" that it's going to be hard for them to accept contradicting that.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's definitely true for many Republicans, but I think a successful term as mayor for Zohran has potential to really change things for the Democrats. If, after hearing from establishment Democrats for decades that the only way we can change things is so incrementally, not only can we not make progress, but we actually have to accept going backwards pretty often, you have a mayor who delivers some fairly sweeping changes, it could open the eyes of many Democrat voters to the lies that they've been fed by party leadership to excuse themselves for sitting on their hands while things fall apart around them.

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  • Trump is already deeply unpopular in NYC, so it’s not likely to change anything on the national stage. New Yorkers have been seeing Trump’s BS on parade for decades now. It won’t change New York’s opinion of Trump.

    Nationally, it might. But that’s only if the media actually runs with it; The big news orgs are all in bed with the established politicians, so they’ll likely be smearing him left and right to avoid having it turn into a national shift.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's a huge Jewish population in NYC, and many mistakenly assume that all of them support what Israel is doing. To a lot of people Judaism=Zionism.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Even if that assumption were correct, the mayor of NYC cannot meaningfully aid or hinder Israel's actions. A politician's position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they're seeking doesn't usually influence my vote.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    There might be some things the mayor could do, like joining boycotts, etc.

    Certainly he can stop or interfere with the crackdown on pro-palestinian dissent in the city which has been extreme under Adams and Trump.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Plus, Israel is super unpopular right now. Mainstream media and establishment politicians don't get this. The more they criticize Mamdani for his lack of allegiance to Israel, the more people will vote for him!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Yeah the most bizarre thing to me was seeing the debate and hearing a question about foreign nation visits

    Like wtf is a city mayor doing visiting other countries and why would we care

    That was super weird. It was trying to bait out mamdani and other progressive views about Israel but man what a word question for a mayoral race

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    NYPD has a field office in Kfar Saba. So, possibly more pertinent than it should be.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Media: "Everyone, this guy doesn't grovel for Israel!"

    Everyone: "okay that sounds good."

    Not sure if this was a smear campaign as much as the lobby getting high on it's own supply.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Doesn't he still have to win the general? So we'll see if it failed or not.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In New York, the Dem primary is MUCH more competitive than the general against (perennial loser and hyper-racist vigilante) Curtis Sliwa and whichever dross failed to achieve the backing of one of the parties but are still rich and/or corrupt enough to afford running anyway.

    Other than Sliwa, his opponents will be a corrupt as fuck compulsive liar who was probably days from being sentenced to prison when he decided to pledge his allegiance to the Mango Mussolini without joining the GOP, and possibly the sex offender he just beat.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are we expecting the Democratic party to actually support him? Seems the national leadership would rather see someone else in his spot.

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  • I for one am DEFINITELY not, no.

    Will be interesting to see what they do tbh, since Cuomo has already lost to him once and the other two candidates are openly sucking up to the Mango Mussolini. Makes endorsing anyone quite the tricky proposition..

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Remember when trump invited the taliban to camp david...

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Failed? It's been less than a week. They're threatening to denaturalize and deport him. Sounds like they're very frightened.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's no smear they could've done that's worse than what Cuomo had going on.

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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Am Jewish, am native New Yorker, no longer live there, would vote Mamdani. Fuck Israel.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    OK, so next it’ll be the an entrapment operation? And then maybe an assassination?

    I mean, if history is our guide…

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    On the one hand I'm surprised, but on the other I'm not since most political consultants are fucking out of touch idiots, but I think they were lazy and went for the more recent "hate Palestine or you're an antisemite" bit and found it didn't work.

    Next I'm worried they're going to use the much more effective "defund the police makes you unsafe" bit and lean heavier into the "communist" game, if he doesn't get deported first of course... I'm very happy he won the primary, but I have very little faith he's going to win the general election unfortunately :/

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago

    Have a little faith, he's the heavy favorite. The city's unions and politicians are in the process of rallying around him, while his opponents are all jokes who likely won't get as many votes combined as Zohran.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    it's not and it hasn't... keep fighting until he is mayor and starts enacting what he is promising

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