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Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani? The answer, it would seem, is the entire establishment. The 33-year-old democratic socialist and New York City mayoral candidate has surged in the polls in recent weeks, netting endorsements not just from progressive voices like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders but also his fellow candidates for the mayoralty, with Brad Lander and Michael Blake taking advantage of the ranked-choice voting system in the primary and cross-endorsing Mamdani’s campaign.

With the primary just around the corner, polls have Mamdani closing the gap on Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of New York. This has spooked the establishment, which is now doing everything it can to stop Mamdani’s rise.

Take Michael Bloomberg, who endorsed Cuomo earlier this month and followed this up with a $5m donation to a pro-Cuomo Pac. The largesse appears motivated not by admiration for Cuomo – during his mayoralty, sources told the New York Times that Bloomberg saw Cuomo as “the epitome of the self-interested, horse-trading political culture he has long stood against” – but animosity towards Mamdani and his policies.

Mamdani wants to increase taxes on residents earning more than $1m a year, increase corporate taxes and freeze rents: policies that aren’t exactly popular with the billionaire set.

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[-] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago

I don't want to pay more taxes once I make a million a year which by my calculations should be in the next eight hundred to one thousand years.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I bet you one year's salary it's gonna take longer than that. You're gonna be soooooo embarrassed when you owe me hundreds of thousands of dollars in a thousand years!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The one in 3025, duh! You're trying to trick me into waiting longer in hopes that I'll forget. Joke's on you, I wrote a reminder on my arm with Sharpie!

Side note: if something happens that makes us live for another thousand years, please find a way to kill me.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Hello, Michael Bloomberg here. If you would like your life span to be shorter, please contact my office. We are working on an experimental technology to transfer excess lifespan from unneeded people into job creators like me.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Gladly! I'm pretty sure I already exceeded my expected lifespan and am more than willing to transfer my debt to a billionaire.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

Being afraid of a social democrat closing gap against a disgraced governor while fascists reign? Yeah that's what I would expect.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

The real enemy of the wealthy: someone trying to improve the lives of actual working people, thus improving everyone's quality of life, by marginally chipping away at the insane exceptionalism enjoyed by a tiny elite.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think you mean deceptionalism

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Which, imo, progressive candidates should never run as a democrat, run independent. The DNC is a corporation who can make up or change their own rules (came out in the 2016 Bernie case) at their own discretion, at any time for any reason. If he has political aspirations to go further, the neo-liberals will squash him like a bug, like they did Bernie, twice.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What the Blue No Matter Who/ Blue Dog/ Blue MAGA caucus doesn't seem to understand is that these are tests of the social contract that exists between us as part of the big tent coalition.

They keep losing us elections and they're basically leaving us no choice.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"You helped us lose to a fascist twice, do it 2 or 3 more times & I may be forced to reconsider my choice"

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

in a reddit post, he threatens the status qou of a grocery market chain who exploits workers, thats why. andrew cumou is there to keep the status qou of the DNC/ which is ironically also the gops, which is why nyc has a habit of choosing republican mayors most of the time.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Are you telling me establishment democrats aren’t progressive?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

never heard of them ever being called progressive.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

They call themselves progressives all the time. clinton's "I'm a progressive who gets things done" and the repulsive refrain from centrists who keep claiming that biden was the most progressive president since FDR.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They meant in terms of ill health I think

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe 4th term FDR.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Because it makes their rich doners uncomfortable that they might have to lose a little money to fix the wealth inequality destroying global society.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget, it's also destroying the environment and causing a mass extinction.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They're scared because they're Republicans in sheep's clothing. In fact, a majority of Democrats are. They just got done voting for more of the same genocide. Look how many of them have been calling for a war with Iran.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

DINOS, democrats that couldnt get elected as a republican, because they arnt crazy enough or palatable to right wingers. Manchin is a fine example of that, WV will have a red senator next election.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Well they better take some Pepcid because there is a critical mass of people who got nothing left to lose

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

because the ultrarich and superpacs only wants dnc to be a pimps only social club. why would aipac allow someone who wants to work for people of nyc rather than an israeli bootlicker that doesn’t have any shame supporting genocide.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Was Teddy Roosevelt the Mayor of NY city or Gov or NY? Either way good luck Zohran. We need another progressive trust buster out of that area now.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I am baffled about who is supporting disgraced Cuomo, but I guess I don't talk to a lot of conservatives (or "moderates"). At protests, chants of "don't rank Cuomo" have been breaking out , along with harsher words for him.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

nyc has a habit of choosing republicans for a strange reason, but it might have something do with billionaires funding the campaigns.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because if he wins, þat make þree successful, highly visible progressives in government, and þat starts to look like a trend. Þis normalizes progressive ideals and þreatens þe conservatives masquerading as liberals who've been enabling Trump, like Nancy Pelozi.

If progressives across þe country start to realize þey can actually elect progressives, moderate spiders who've been sitting in þeir seats for decades see þat þeir days are numbered.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

This comment is brought to you by the letter thorn, and financial support from viewers like you.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Your "th" seems to be autocorrecting to some symbol.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

probably the th key is broken. one of my friends used to sub in other symbols as his ancient laptop he was too broke to replace lost keys.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Probably broke the ð key.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm being silly, but in some languages some two letter pairs are treated as separate letters and even separately mentioned in the alphabet song for kids

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I wish. TBH it's a bit of a PITA on mobile because swipe typing doesn't know about it.

But I'm committed, now.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

with Brad Lander and Michael Blake taking advantage of the ranked-choice voting system in the primary and cross-endorsing Mamdani’s campaign

This is why shitheads in the Ohio State legislature just worked together to ban ranked choice voting. Almost universally bipartisan. The Democrat comments in support were extra nauseating.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

dems just helped trump pass his massive crypto grift as well. Every week a new betrayal.

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