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Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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The fact that I was seeing Sliwa favourably speaks to the candidate quality in this race. > No dirt. Other that some stupid stuff he said while he was young Stupid stuff he credibly disavowed. I’m still blown away that after De Blasio he was the only one, when asked a foreign policy question, who said he’d put city priorities first.

It is unfortunate that, after the Spanish Inquisition, Jewish refugees were welcome in Istanbul, but the current receptivity is so much colder. This is exactly the point where the historic tolerance of the middle east is most direly needed, but common ground in so many contexts is absent. I hope that we can put ourselves back together. We've seen the consequences this year of its lack.

> Jewish refugees were welcome in Istanbul, but the current receptivity is so much colder.

We are all receptive of Jewish people. We are not receptive of our country, who cut off food benefits, cut people's flights, cut people's medical insurance subsidies, funding and enabling a state where of the native born population, only Jewish people get to vote and have autonomy, and other non-Jewish ethnicities live under the control of a state they have no rights in purely because of their ethnicity. No one supports that part

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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post #757

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> And lots of his dumb comments were from like 2 years ago, not 12 - he was not "young" when he said them. If you're talking about the "globalize the intifada" comment, he actually never even said that, but a whole lot of people (you among them, it seems like?) have been brainwashed into thinking he did through political maneuvering. The root of that whole drummed up controversy was him refusing to blanket condemn th…

It's so depressing that the entire Mamdani debate has become mired in Israeli politics. You can completely ignore that issue, and still have plenty of questionable stuff to talk about. He has repeatedly talked about defunding the police. Literally, not figuratively, and not that long ago [1a-c]. He said he wanted to close down Rikers Island, right in the middle of the debates [2]. He said that prisons are unnecessary…

[1] does not mean no more police. The NYPD has $11 billion in funding and has offices all over the world for some reason when they should really just be city-sized for NY. They are overfunded, and he believes they should not be.

[2-6] indicate that our current prison system is punitive and does nothing in the way of rehabilitation or reform. No, he will not close every prison. Yes, in an ideal world we would not need hundreds of prisons full to the brim because we would actually rehabilitate and release people. This is hardly a fringe opinion and it is in fact a very common criticism of our prison system. Interpreting these statements as "he is just going to stop prisons and let all the violent criminals out in one go!!!" with no further though IS reinterpreting his words uncharitably because obviously that would be stupid.

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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post #171

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The biggest takeaway to me is how ridiculous it is that the US considers Mamdani somehow "experimental" or even radical. His campaign revolves around three policies: 1. Universal Child Care 2. Fast and Free Busses 3. Freezing Rent for certain Rent Controlled Units In any other context these would be policies that basically every citizen, except for a handful of people making buttloads of money off the privatization o…

Rent control in particular is an economic basket case policy, the fact that it's popular at election time should have about as much bearing on it making sense as the fact that another "experimental" candidate was considered by voters in 2024 to be "better on immigration" As for offering free stuff, the problem that - if you look at relative population numbers - NY, CA, etc are already facing is that on the margin peo…

Eh, I live in SF. People are moving in in droves because AI startups are popping up. He might catch a tech boom and it might pay for all this

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

#994
post #165

The fact that people in here (who are richer than average) disagree with his policies makes his election more hopeful

He is also richer then average.

He was the least rich of the candidates running for mayor (not sure about Sliwa)

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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I’m not a New Yorker or even an American, but it’s interesting just how much coverage this election has gotten in social media. I think most of his major policies are pretty bad, but I also think the reaction against him has been over the top. He is going to need cooperation from the state legislature, if he wants to collect the taxes needed to fund his policies, and I’m not sure how successful he will be at that. A…

> I think most of his major policies are pretty bad, but I also think the reaction against him has been over the top.

Pretty similar. I'm not much of a socialist, but I'm shocked how extremely racist the opposition has been too. He cares. The opposition don't seem to care at all.

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

#996
post #268

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Mamdani will learn that you need to be friends with the people your voters hate to get things done. Developers are the single most important players in lowering housing costs, but they are part of the "landlord" contingent in voters minds. If he doesn't learn that, the city is going to be in bad shape. Impossible to get an apartment unless you want to get an illegal sublet at regular old $4500/mo prices.

The market isn't going to function ideally in a place like New York. In other cities, a significant market-based response to high rents and housing demand is to increase supply with another ring of suburbs. Is there anywhere within reasonable commute radius left to develop around NYC at scale? Uncapping rents might trigger some refurbishment of idle or marginal space by dangling enough money in front of landlords, bu…

> Is there anywhere within reasonable commute radius left to develop around NYC at scale?

Many many places, if we were willing to undertake large scale public transit projects again. But no one even bothers to run on that anymore.

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> ACA was the most radical package that could have passed, and it still cost Democrats the Congress. Bad casual reasoning. There is so little evidence that voters care about policies years before they go into effect.

Fox News made damned sure the voters cared.

Well sure, but do you think Fox News wasn't already going as hard as they could? Were they really rewarding the ACA we got versus a hypothetical public option by hammering it slightly less hard?

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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Fox News made damned sure the voters cared.

Well sure, but do you think Fox News wasn't already going as hard as they could? Were they really rewarding the ACA we got versus a hypothetical public option by hammering it slightly less hard?

Yes, that's basically their corporate charter in a nutshell. Fox News was founded to limit the damage that a future Watergate Committee could do. Later, the Republicans realized it was much more useful than that. It gives them a fulcrum to move the Overton Window by dragging wedge issues into the limelight and making sure they stay there.

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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post #757

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It's so depressing that the entire Mamdani debate has become mired in Israeli politics. You can completely ignore that issue, and still have plenty of questionable stuff to talk about. He has repeatedly talked about defunding the police. Literally, not figuratively, and not that long ago [1a-c]. He said he wanted to close down Rikers Island, right in the middle of the debates [2]. He said that prisons are unnecessary…

[1] does not mean no more police. The NYPD has $11 billion in funding and has offices all over the world for some reason when they should really just be city-sized for NY. They are overfunded, and he believes they should not be. [2-6] indicate that our current prison system is punitive and does nothing in the way of rehabilitation or reform. No, he will not close every prison. Yes, in an ideal world we would not need…

Re [1], he explicitly says the opposite in the posts I linked to. You're just ignoring what he literally says and writes, and substituting your own feelings on the matter.

Regarding prisons, again, he is explicitly talking about closing down prisons. He has moderated his rhetoric more recently on this issue, but no, your interpretation of the subject is not what he's saying here, and it clearly isn't what he means, even today.

He has a long history on these topics. I'm not misinterpreting his comments.

Re: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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post #989

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Absolutely, elect enough Mamdani’s and the powerful will not be able to stop the changes. It’s the expectation that a single Mamdani or Sanders can fix much that has lead to extreme apathy from much of the electorate.

There exists a power that no amount of political power will bend infinitely. Eventually, reality will stop bending and bounce back, and no amount of populists will be able to hold the backlash. That said, I'm sure there are lots of good things Mamdani can do that are not in conflict with reality.

What power?
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