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    Fuck Cuomo and honestly fuck the Democratic leadership to and fuck Democrats in general.

    Blue no matter who right? You bunch of hypocritical assholes on par with Republicans.

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      Yes, Dems have to get flushed, but other than that, this is fantastic news, this is another hubristic blunder by narcissistic political demagogues.

      This will guarantee some level of split vote from the people that were going to vote for Adams again or some Republican challenger, whoever that was going to be. And there will be a lot of brainwashed median voters who have no clue what’s going on just hear the facebook warnings that Mamdani is going to enact Turbo Gay Muslim Socialism that will force everyone to stand in breadlines to get their gay muslim rations.

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        Turnout is ridiculously low for the general election because everyone just assumes the Democrat will win. I’m not sure taking votes from Adams even matters. How many people are actually motivated to turn out for fucking Cuomo or the incredibly unpopular current mayor, in an election that famously has low turn out?

        The most likely effect Cuomo will have imo is spooking people to turn out for Mamdani. I’m pretty sure his entering the race as a third party candidate will turn out a lot of young people to vote against him and almost no one to vote for him.

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        some Republican challenger, whoever that was going to be

        Pretty sure that it’s gonna be perennial loser and insanely racist vigilante Curtis Sliwa again.

        Either of my cats stand a better chance of becoming mayor of New York than that infected scrotum.

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      Blue no matter who right?

      In this case there’s a better Dem to vote for. But yes, if the option is a Republican or a Democrat, I will 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% vote blue no matter who. I’ve seen enough treason from Republicans to know to default blue if it’s blue or red.

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        They aren’t.

        And only an idiot would say so unironically after everything we’ve seen.

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    DNC normally: “3rd parties don’t function in our two party system, there’s no point in voting for them”

    DNC after losing their own primary: 3rd party it is

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      “Vote Blue No Matter Who” reverts to “Party Unity My Ass” as soon as centrists don’t get 100% of everything they want.

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      DNC normally "3rd parties don’t function in our two party system, there’s no point in voting for them

      That part is just reality.

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        That’s why they sued to keep De La Cruz off the ballot in swing states.

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          It’s almost like mayoral politics in one of the most populous cities on the planet is somewhat different than state and federal level politics.

          Who knew

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              No, we are talking about both. Go re-read the thread for context.

              The original comment was comparing the DNC’s behavior at the national level, with a mayoral primary with ranked choice voting in one of the bluest cities in the US.

              I’m saying it’s not even close to a 1:1 comparison

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      A 3rd party won’t be viable in our lifetimes.

      Welcome to reality.

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        “We’d really recommend that you use our product. You want to use an alternative? Well… we’ll leave our product right here anyway.”

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    Failed at being governor, and now he wants to tank the duly elected mayoral nominee for the Democratic party by attempting to split the liberal voting block in NYC. Meanwhile, Trump’s buddy corrupt Eric Adams is doing exactly the same as a favor to his buddy in the White House.

    There needs to be a poster on every street corner in NYC explaining this.

    Preferably with pictures of both Cuomo and Adams photoshopped into the clowns they are.

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      It’s insane to me they would rather split the vote and put one of Trump’s puppets in office rather than move their platform slightly left of center.

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        It makes sense when you think about how they are closer to Trump policy wise than they are to being left of center.

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          “But, them democrats is all libuhruls!” ~ Most of MAGA.

          But, there are some MAGAs who know it’s all a ruse but don’t care because they want the bigots to win. So, they stoke the fire under the ignorant masses.

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            Modern Liberalism claims to be for individual equality but that’s kind of a lie. It has the same mechanisms to distribute economic and political power than Classic Liberalism, Libertarianism or Neoliberalism. Capital rules everything.

            MAGAts understand that the Democrats believe in inequality just like the fascists do, just inequality based on class instead of on identity. So for them it’s perfectly logical to choose identity instead. They are not wrong about the hypocrisy of liberals, pretending to care about equality for some specific group but ignoring the inequality for all. It was fine until prosperity started to plummet.

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            Sane-wash? Buddy, get offline. I’ve literally just explained why it isn’t insane. The interests of the democratic party are better served (not perfectly) by the right when compared to the left. They can get tax cuts with the right while really only sacrificing the comfort of the underclasses or tax increases and accountability with the left. It’s completely rational. It’s the ruling class best serving its interests. Nothing insane about it.

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      And after Mamdani hired one of the DNC’s consultants to nerf all his policies appeal to the centrists who have thus far refused to endorse him.

      It’s almost as though the centrist wing of the party does absolutely nothing in good faith and will do everything they can to ratfuck anyone to their left.

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      I’m not sure this is party desperation so much as it is Cuomo’s ego. I’d call it 75% ego at least.

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        That’d be blaming the one bad egg, not the the institutions. Neoliberals will ally themselves with fascists to fight socialists. But I guess it’s possible. Also good strategy, blame the rogue politician instead of their moral bankruptcy.

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    This screams “I am corrupt as fuuuuuuuck!!!” so hard…like that time that Bob Dole got Elizabeth Dole elected from a state she didnt live in so he could get lobbyist access again after losing the Presidential election.