Because it’s not. You can be critical of the government of Israel without making it about the Jewish religion.
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"Mamdani won because he got the support from more voters than me!"
— Sherlock Cuomo
I mean, the bigger reveal is him admitting that over half the Jewish vote probably voted for Mamdani.
He pushed the antisemitism HARD. Every outlet pushed the antisemitism HARD. He's admitting point blank it failed miserably.
"We don't address the concerns of young people because young people never vote!"
"It's not fair! Young people voted for someone who addressed their concerns!"
In entirely unrelated news, a man discovered that he only missed his flight because he went to the wrong airport, late and without his ticket.
My generation grew up in the US being condescendingly laughed at by older more cynical people saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that Young People Never Vote So Stop Trying To Be Optimistic And Push For Better Things.
Now Cuomo is the voice of the conservative element of the boomer generation that is deluded into thinking they are progressive or give a shit about younger people in any way and probably don't even consider themselves Republicans (though everything that comes out of their mouth sounds Republican-lite if not downright brainwormed authoritarian apologist).
The most jewish city on earth besides Tel Aviv has RESOUNDINGLY spoken against the genocide of Palestinians. It is that simple.
Andrew Cuomo's words are anti-democratic, they are anti-jewish in the sense that they vividly misrepresent the majority will of jews living in New York City and the US in general, Andrew Cuomo's words speak to a cancerous rot that is now exploded into the open in the US Colonial Empire's necessary conflation of Israel with Judaism.
Silicon Valley, the Finance Industry of the US and big business in the US in general has utterly consolidated around profiting off of the Palestinian Genocide especially as a means of delaying the popping of the AI bubble by using it as a means to obscure complicity in actors conducting the Palestinian Genocide. Blood is on all of our hands and in order to escape that horrific realization centrists will dive into the simple, relieving comfort of anti-semitism, conservatives that are PRETENDING to be the friends of jews right now are counting on it.
This is necessary for the next step, which is escaping complicity with the now undeniable Palestinian Genocide by turning the rightwing violently anti-semitic en masse through introducing a time tested "the Jews betrayed us again by fooling us into committing genocide for them!!!!!!!".
Any Jews still on the side of Israel here are openly inviting an era of mass violence and subjugation of the jewish people, Netanyahu is COUNTING on that.
Any Jews still on the side of Israel here are openly inviting an era of mass violence and subjugation of the jewish people
One only needs to look at the Middle East for a demonstration of that in action. Most Arab countries had Jewish populations in the tens or hundreds of thousands, but they were either intimidated into leaving or forcibly expelled during the 20th century as a misguided extension of anti-Zionism.
I would wager that in the primary, more than 50% of the Jewish people voted for Mamdani
I hate when people say shit like this. What a stupid way to spin being less popular.
"I think a key factor in my opponent winning was getting more votes than I did."
The demographics matter though.
the anti-semitic angle, labeling jewish people as the cause of your failings, classic nazi, and not like platforms that claim your nazi for criticizing israel.
“We played it safe,” he said. “I [Cuomo] didn’t engage him. I didn’t debunk him enough. I wasn’t aggressive enough.”
Zohran Mamdani reportedly tells business leaders he will ‘discourage’ the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’
Cuomo blasted Mamdani’s clarification, accusing him of “fueling antisemitism.”
“‘Discourage’ people, that’s a wink and a nod,” Cuomo said. “No, you should condemn people saying it. That’s hateful speech.”
I, for one, am glad that Cuomo will be more aggressive. The election showed that aggression is exactly what people don’t want. Also, equating legitimate criticism of the Israeli government with “hateful speech” is exactly the kind of idiocy that shows how out-of-touch Cuomo is.
This election has energized young voters. Some may have been indifferent before, but the news coverage since the election has been relentless. If anything, Mamdani will become more popular.
Or just that your messaging is old and tired and your track record spoke for itself?
Gee, ya think? Ya fuckin' moron? Really? Cause you nailed it, Mr Stopped Clock.
"Duh doy dum dee… Anti-genocidism is anti-semetism, doy!"
-ShitheadCuomo
Wait, you have to be an appealing option for people to vote for you now? Guess I won't get into politics then
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