Do you know how often bourgeois democracies elect “socialists”? Hell, many of them even elect “communists” on the regular. It’s normal. Get over it. Please.
EDIT - there are basically two main genres of Mamdani poster, both of which keep scrawling MAMDANI on the wall in their own excrement for different reasons, and they all seem to be assuming I am from the other side lol
you already know the answer lol
We MUST REMAIN PURE!!!
YOU CANNOT EVEN SLIGHTLY LIKE THE DEM SOC!!!
HOW DARE YOU THINK HE MIGHT BE A GOOD MAYOR!!!
YOU MUST HATE ANYONE WHO ISNT LENIN OR MAO
You should dislike any American who’s a chauvinist and an imperialist.
I think people are allowed to be happy that they may be getting free busses and cheaper groceries.
expecting anything else from a mayor is fucking stupid
If he does the grocery and free bus thing he will make the lives of working class people better
Nobody is expecting him to do communism
You have to have reasonable expectations
I’m not from New York, and I’ll dislike him for manufacturing consent for the slaughter of the third world even if he does good things for New Yorkers.
I read this as “free busses and cheaper genocides” at first…
That is something that you can expect from social democrats, to be fair.
And if electing democrats can bring positive domestic change, how does that help socialism other than the national variety?
IT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT I BE ON RECORD AS CORRECT
We’ll see if he will be a good mayor. However, given what I have seen from him so far, and my experiences in the past, he will cave under even moderate pressure if it means that he can achieve a higher office or get into a lucrative speaking circuit gig. If they stone-wall him completely, even for his personal career, we may actually see some real attempts at completing his campaign promises, if only to attempt some form of self-preservation.
If he actually flips the script and uses his real-politik to accomplish his campaign promises, I will change my tune accordingly and happily admit I was wrong. But for now, it looks at though he has done his best to hack away at his roots so he can float along with the current, with nothing to show for it.
I agree
but way to much energy is put into caring about a mayor
As has been mentioned previously, when there is nowhere for the energy to go, it goes to things like this.