New York Mayor Eric Adams did not mince his words about his disapproval of what he called the large number of “nasty” Gen Z voters supporting Zhoran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate leading the race for NYC mayor.

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[–] 239 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm not a Gen Z voter, so I certainly can't speak for them, but I hate our country. I hate that so many Americans are being left behind. I hate that we are falling so far behind other democracies. I hate that our democracy is so flawed and corrupted, that I'm not sure it's accurate to even call it a democracy anymore. I hate that so many Americans believe that being greedy, selfish, and indifferent to human suffering is not only acceptable, but somehow "rational." I hate the manipulation and the misinformation that is very intentionally disseminated to the American people. I hate the violence, I hate the war mongering and war profiteering. I hate a lot of what IS right now, because I DEMAND better for myself and ALL other Americans.

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    [–] 144 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If Eric Adams doesn't like NYC, he can just stay at home in his Jersey apartment.

    Even better, he can move down to Mar Lago and see how MAGA would really treat him.

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    He's been a fraud for a long while now (probably his whole career back to NYPD, which pains me a bit to say because iirc he got his start calling out their racism), if he keeps trying to delegitimize the will of the voters like this we can start adding things like "tyrant" and "traitor" to his titles

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    [–] 73 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    upvote if you're nasty radicalised and hate the us

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    [–] 64 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Why is Adams channeling Trump? He knows he's black, right?b

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    He hopes Trump can give him a presidential whitewash.

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    [–] 54 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo are closer to Trump.

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    [–] 53 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, yes, insult your potential voters, that will show them

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    He should just become a Republican already. He’s got the credentials.

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    [–] 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Actually Mamdani's government would improve the country in a lot of ways, and would also be a big win for the economy of the owning class. That is because if people have more money, that stimulates consumption and that drives the economy forward. It's like a big engine, you gotta put fuel in it to drive it.

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    [–] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    This reminds me of the famous post about estranged parents the missing missing reasons edit: fixed link

    In it, the author writes about how like one of the estranged parents will be like "My child yelled at me and said all these horrible things for 20 minutes. I've never heard such cruelty!" But when pressed for exactly what the child was upset about, no reasons are provided.

    So here Adams is saying these 'gen z" people are nasty and presumably have demands, but spends no time on what their demands are, on if they're reasonable. They're just nasty and wrong and to be dismissed.

    Maybe there are reasons people are upset at the country right now. Could be the fascism, the corruption, the economic chaos, the climate crisis being ignored, the anti-vaxxers in power, the economic inequality...

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    [+] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 35 points 10 months ago

    Nothing radicalizes you more than perpetual poverty, struggle, suffering and hopelessness. If the world wasn't a system of tortures built by selfish billionaires, maybe we GenZ wouldn't be so radicalized.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago

    That is some weak-ass rhetoric.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm Gen Z, and Mamdani is the better candidate. I don't live in NYC.

    In typical Democratic fashion, the Democrats blame the voters for not "Voting Blue No Matter Who™" rather that adopting progressive, popular policies.

    Vote these skeletons out

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    [–] 33 points 10 months ago*

    They hate your country, huh?

    Smart kids

    Who would want to live in the US right now?

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago

    When you can’t attack the opponent: attack the voters.

    That will work out

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    56381

    I wish Mamdani would lean more into this, but I also get why he's not.

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    [–] 28 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They hate your country? Just because its a fascist dictatorship exploiting the rest of the world and committing genocide every chance they get? How could they.

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    [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    nasty, radicalized and hate our country

    Man, wouldn't it be telling if that was a majority.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago

    Shit, he's getting his press releases straight from Stephen Miller's office now.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago

    Every accusation a confession.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago

    Bold thing to say for someone backed by a traitor. Its a patriotic duty for Americans to hate tyranny, that includes this administration. If you support this illegitimate administration, you are a traitor to the constitution and the enemy of America. For that matter, the "junta of 6" on the supreme court are also traitors.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Eric Adams is an evil sack of shit in a skin bag and should have been drowned at birth. And I'm not even a Gen Z.

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    [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Seems like Eric Adams is nasty, radicalized, and hates our country.

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    [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    If I was American, I would hate my country too and demand change.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    Bite our collective asses, fascist. The People don't want billionaires in charge of our lives.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago

    We certainly all hate Eric Adams I can tell you that

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    NEWS: 3rd gen of systematically disenfranchised citizens baffle leaded gasoline brained old guard and billionaire cronies

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    As a member of Gen X who breathed all the leaded gasoline and still finds these people appalling, I think blaming their shit on lead poisoning is giving them a pass they don't deserve. Lead may have made us all a little dimmer and angrier, but it didn't turn most people into raging assholes, crooks or fascists, or gullible MAGA cultists. These people would have done it anyway, with or without the lead.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, they hate what you turned it into. They want affordable living and politicians and the rich have no desire to reduce any of their massive salaries to help Americans.

    We are all just cattle to them. So it's surprising to them when the cattle get tired of the same pen and break out.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    Did he just switch sides? He has to know that a corrupt scumbag like him condemning Mamdani is an endorsement.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    That'll win them over for sure!

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    I dare you to try and make Mamdani sound more based. I fuckin dare you

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    He’s got such low numbers that it looks like the only people left supporting him are churchgoing old ladies. This would play to that crowd.

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    [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    How the fuck did this idiot fool an entire city?

    Why did so many people vote for adams?

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    [–] 17 points 10 months ago*

    "Corrupt mayor condemns political rival and his supporters over fear of being held accountable for his many crimes"

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    Wow, Adams. I read that in Trump's voice.

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