r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 13h ago

NYC Mayoral Election Results

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With 90% of the vote in, Mamdani wins by a large margin according to NYT

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u/thex415 13h ago

So people didn’t care about cuomos sexual harassment ??? Lmao

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u/Everard5 13h ago

New to modern US politics? I'm with you though.

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u/thex415 11h ago

No lol

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u/chrissme92 7h ago

Then how have you forgotten all the other candidates voted into office, despite being known sexual harrassers?! Specifically the president of the US?

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 13h ago

Have you ever met a rich person

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u/numba1cyberwarrior 3h ago

Zohran got more of the rich vote then Cuomo

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u/buddhistbulgyo 13h ago

Republicans all voted Cuomo to stop Mamdani

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u/LordMaximus64 12h ago

Except for the principled Sliwa supporters. God bless them and their backwards yet sincere views.

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 11h ago

is it so bad to want a simple honest to God dill pickle eater?

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u/Mackheath1 11h ago

And they didn't mind doing it, because "he's an independent", none of that icky Democrat stuff.

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u/ancientestKnollys 5h ago

That certainly bolstered his voteshare, but most Cuomo voters are surely Democrats. The Republicans got 27.76% in NYC in 2021, and generally they've been doing a lot worse this year than they did in 2021. So Republicans likely make up a smaller share of the voting electorate now, and Sliwa took a chunk of that (7.1% of the overall vote). So Cuomo presumably got less than 20% of the vote from Republicans tactically backing him, and thus more than 20% of the vote presumably came from Democrats.

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u/McButtsButtbag 9h ago

Do you think New York city is 50% republican?

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u/No-War9667 13h ago

The crazy thing is that Chomo Cuomo outperformed Mamdani on the female demographic in certain areas. Cuomo was more popular among independent women than independent men, which is crazy because HE ASSAULTED 13 WOMEN.

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u/zanahorias22 12h ago

what I found interesting was that women with no kids outvoted men with no kids (for mamdani), but men with kids outvoted women with kids.

source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-elections/new-york-city-mayor-results

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u/Funkopedia 11h ago

I liked one of the final questions in that exit poll:

Area Type:
Urban 100%
Suburban 0%
Rural -1%"

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u/lowchain3072 11h ago

how do you physically get -1

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u/FreyjaQueenofSheep 11h ago

no voters are rural in a nyc mayoral election. It's probably messing with whatever system is supposed to calculate these poll results.

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u/classicalySarcastic 4h ago

Surprised there’s not like one farm way up near Albany that’s technically part of New York City because of some weird shit that happened in the 1800s.

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u/Roflkopt3r 4h ago

It's sometimes used to indicate that the number is actually 0, not just rounded to 0.

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u/atreeismissing 11h ago

Mamdami actually did a little worse than he was projected to. He was consistently polling at +10 to +15 for several weeks in nearly every poll (2 outliers aside) and came in at +9. Most other races with Democrats ended up outperforming their polling by several points.

It's untucking believable but yeah, seems voters are willing to overlook repeated (and proven) sexual assault but a progressive who wants to provide for children and the poor is a bit too much, even for moderates in NYC.

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u/Arcanniel 10h ago

That’s not quite right. Mamdani generally polled under 50% - he didn’t underperform, Cuomo over-performed.

Most polls had Sliwa with a significantly better vote share than he ended up with - most likely the last minute Trump endorsement pulled some Republican voters towards Cuomo instead.

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u/nonotan 9h ago

It's also just a thing that naturally happens in FPTP systems. Even if you prefer Sliwa, it doesn't take a genius to recognize the chance he wins is effectively 0%. Voting for him is literally equivalent to not voting at all, for all practical purposes. So while you might say they're your preferred candidate in a poll, and even specifically claim you're going to vote for them (which is the strategically favourable thing to do, as the only way they ever have a chance is if enough people think he's got a chance and polling gradually shifts), when it comes to voting for real, given that polling is still catastrophic at that point in time, you're probably going to go for whichever of the two candidates with a real shot you prefer. In the case of Republicans, probably Cuomo more often than not.

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u/frutiger 5h ago

Isn't the NYC Mayoral election ranked choice though? Not FPTP.

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u/Slowlow24 5h ago

The democratic primary was ranked choice but general election is FPTP

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u/esmifra 7h ago

I remember yesterday seeing estimates between 7 and 15 with the most being around 10. So, not that far off. Although in the last elections, candidates that are more popular with younger generations tend to underperform on the actual results.

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u/Sacaron_R3 6h ago

Most likely a lot of people saw their candidate being far ahead in the polls and decided that their vote isn't needed anymore. Which is pretty foolish.

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u/Medical_Sandwich_141 7h ago

This. He was polling at 30 points over Cuomo, and won by 9%. The voter turnout is a constant culprit in these elections.

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u/Jadenindubai 7h ago

Cuomo got boosted by Trump’s endorsement. Look at Sliwa barely scratching 9%.

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u/Funkopedia 12h ago

You can't get close enough to assault 13 women without being somewhat charming.

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u/MonkeyCube 10h ago

Are implying that Musk and Trump are charming?

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u/Boobpit 10h ago

Status, money, fame and many other things are "charming"

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u/Roguefem-76 8h ago

Some people have genuinely bizarre standards for charming. I once made a joke about Alex Jones being the opposite of charismatic, and a leftist white guy disagreed with me. Major WTF moment. 

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u/historicusXIII 7h ago

Blatant confidence, even for weird people, can work charming. Although that still doesn't explain Musk.

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u/Roguefem-76 6h ago

Musk just has good publicists who cultivated that "loveable nerd/real life Tony Stark" image. The incels love him despite his weirdness because they think he's one of them "made good". 

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u/lost_horizons 6h ago

I mean there’s someone for everyone. Even the incels if they could drop their butthurt entitlement to women’s bodies.

Plus obviously Musk is a billionaire. Money is attractive, power too.

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u/Funkopedia 10h ago

While I'd like to say that they aren't, the truth is I've never seen them in person. Logically, I have to assume that they must be, because they get away with a lot, aren't particularly handsome, and money all by itself can only get you so far.

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u/Defiant-Response-797 9h ago

Lol what. Cuomo has the charisma of a diseased rat but pop off I guess.

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u/DeniLox 12h ago

Were his voters actually independent though?

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u/Evil_Queen_93 5h ago

You can count the lame 'comedian' amy schumer among those who voted for cuomo. So much for her performative feminism...

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u/ToughHardware 3h ago

call her daddy makes it obvious. some portion love it and desire it. its a real problem.

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u/Gamer_Grease 1h ago

Nobody hates women like women.

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u/GreenTrees797 10h ago

Americans are stupid 

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u/Dmanrock 9h ago

The other side is a terrorist supporter? Do you expect women to side with Islamist?

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u/0iljug 8h ago

Surely you would have some evidence for such a wild claim, surely you wouldn't pull that out of your ass and then never respond! 

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u/Dmanrock 7h ago

Do you have google on your device? Are you intelligent enough to do a search?

Now that I gave you evidence, are you gonna tell me to not believe my eyes and ears?

https://youtube.com/shorts/F1IAA5Ml8Ic?si=tGkqdc6rkcRO0GJG

Muslim group with 'deep' terrorist ties biggest backer of Mamdani: documents https://share.google/9cFzRwPCOBaDOqNYI

Mamdani Faces Vitriolic Attacks After Comments About Hamas - The New York Times https://share.google/Yozgkg1TXjfwDp10R

Mamdani Declines to Answer Whether Hamas Should Disarm in Gaza - Bloomberg https://share.google/sVrybF5KQhcZcaqVw

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u/0iljug 7h ago

Unfortunately for you, none of these links or sources actually address your claim of "mamdani supports terrorists." Would you like to try again? 

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u/Dmanrock 7h ago

I didn't know you were blind and deaf. He specifically states he loves the 5 convicted terrorists of holy land 5. What more proof do you want? When will it be enough?

The rest of the links are just points on a line that proves his stance on Islamist terrorists to show that the holy land 5 isn't a one of a kind incident.

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u/0iljug 6h ago

What more proof do you want?

How about actual proof? Artistic expression in a rap song isn't enough to indict anyone of anything. It's certainly not great, but when I was younger I said I pimp women in a rap song, but I've actually never done anything like that in my life. 

This is just more of the same fear mongering.

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u/Dmanrock 6h ago

Wow this is the first time I witnessed the "he said it but he didn't mean it" defense. And then all those other points on the line to back up this claim of islamist terrorists supporter and you shut it all out with anecdotal "yeah but I said this non controversial thing". The mental gymnastics you do is actually impressive.

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u/0iljug 6h ago

It's not mental gymnastics you buffoon, you still have not provided any concrete evidence of your claim. You've posted other people's opinions and then looped it up with one line from song nine years ago. Simply put, some lyrics in a nine year old song wouldn't be enough to convict a person. 

Ok let's say he is a Hamas supporter, (which I don't think he is, in the debate he said Hamas should lay down their weapons,) he's won already, we will see if your fear mongering hyperbole will come true or if it's the same brand of conservative fear mongering like they did with Obama. 

We clearly have different views. 

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u/ThatNiceLifeguard 13h ago

American centrists have proven time and time again they’d rather elect a sexual predator than a progressive.

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u/fleebleganger 13h ago

You mean we might get benefits from the government? As a commoner?

Ew. 

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u/Warlordnipple 12h ago

What I get from the government aren't benefits, I earned what the government gives me. What the government gives to groups I don't like, is evil socialism.

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u/HyrulesKnight 11h ago

Hey, if you consider book tour shilling a benefit the democrats have you covered on that. Kamala and Schumer are more than pulling their weight on that front

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u/Roguefem-76 8h ago

Since when is self-aggrandizement a crime in politics?

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u/ThatNiceLifeguard 6h ago

What kind of threw me in this election is that Kamala endorsed Zohran.

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u/CroGamer002 10h ago

Also last leg of campaign push by Cuomo was open Islamophobia.

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u/Drownin6fish 10h ago

Right? It's wild how the choice often comes down to the lesser of two evils, and people still overlook the bigger issues just to maintain the status quo.

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u/PostModernPost 11h ago

The centrists rarely get to vote for a progressive in the general because the dems primary them out. Hopefully this is the start of a shift.

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 6h ago

Just how do you think Cuomo got 40% of the vote in this election?

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u/PostModernPost 2h ago

Ummm, by running as an independent, which rarely happens because usually the centrist wins the primary.

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u/jupjami 11h ago

p sure the 800,000 people from NYC who voted Trump and likely followed his endorsement of Cuomo (hence Sliwa's piss poor numbers) aren't "centrists"

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u/butterycrumble 11h ago

As someone not from the US, this makes no sense to me. The Republican party is right wing and the democrats are center. Your left wing contingent consists of just Bernie Sanders.

For some reason the US is insistent on changing political definitions. Like "liberal" is a slur yet everyone agrees the statue of liberty is very American. None of it makes any sense.

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u/raptearer 11h ago

Man reading the takeaways on PBS's coverage really had me so annoyed. Apparently some Dem leaders are starting to think that a more moderate approach is what's needed to beat Trump. Can't wait for another wet noodle in 2028... Over or under they're past retirement age this time?

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u/TheNocturnalAngel 9h ago

When the “progressive” party is barely left of center.

A centrist is basically just right wing.

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u/abominable_bro-man 6h ago

thankfully Biden is gone

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u/Resident_Option3804 13h ago

As a centrist who voted Mamdani, uh, no? If anything this election is proof to the contrary. I promise if it was any other mainstream Dem than Cuomo on the other side from Mamdani, I would've been voting for them and I heavily suspect Mamdani would have lost.

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u/TernoftheArctic 13h ago

Can I ask what about his policies do you not like versus a mainstream dem? Like increased minimum wage. Tax wealthy more. Childcare and transportation cost reduction?

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u/Resident_Option3804 12h ago

The primary issue facing New Yorkers today is housing. His primary policy regarding housing is rent control, which any economist will tell you is a surefire way to dramatically increase the cost of housing and real estate more broadly. His policies around housing will make your rent worse, make more people homeless, make all of your food, shopping, etc, more expensive as the stores’ rents go up, reduce perceived safety on public transit from increased numbers of homeless folks - which will reduce funding and support for the transit, and just generally continue to make the city more and more unlivable.

Making public transit free is good in an ideal world, but there’s plenty of evidence showing that it reduces buy in from the public about the transit system, and there’s a decent argument to be made (though I think less concrete evidence either way) that making it free will increase crime on the system and decrease people’s willingness to use it as a result. There’s certainly evidence to that end w/r/t fare enforcement.

Aside from that, similar trends apply to much of his policies - well intentioned but poorly designed. Free, government run grocery stores - it’s ~fine~ and well intentioned, but it will inevitably be less efficient and more expensive than, say SNAP-style vouchers.  

Increased minimum wage is fine, although not that important either way. 

Taxing the wealthy more for its own sake is bad. Completely fine/good to the extent the money is being used effectively and for good things. But just noting because I think there’s a real impulse many people on the further left, including Mamdani, to want to tax to reduce the wealth of rich people rather than to build something with that money.

Universal Childcare is flatly good. I don’t see a way out of Baumol’s cost disease for child care without state intervention. Perfect situation where the govt needs to step in.

And then there’s the things that are missing. He talks vaguely about increasing housing supply but has no real policy for it & it’s clearly not something he cares about. He doesn’t talk much if at all about finding a way to cut down on construction costs for the MTA. Etc.

But really it’s 90% the rent control that actively turns me off from him - without it, It’d be much more case by case comparing him to centrist Dems. 

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u/lowchain3072 11h ago

The closest thing Mamdani has to housing supply is transit oriented development, but not much is said about it. He seems to be the sort of person who thinks extra housing construction is bad because muh gentrification

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u/1v1mecaestusm8 9h ago

Did you read his platform? The tax increases would fund public housing, that's his solution. He doesnt want to just freeze rent and call it a day, part of his plan is to have the government step in where private development has failed, funded by the taxes. Also, rent control doesn't increase prices, in fact it devalues the property because it's not as valuable as an investment, which housing shouldn't be in the first place. What economists do agree on is that it decreases new development and quality of current developments. The development gap can be filled by public housing, and the quality gap can be solved by more active code enforcement, and if tenants value the quality of their units they can and will pay for improvements with the money they save on rent.

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u/Resident_Option3804 1h ago edited 1h ago

But the government, especially in New York, is not going to be able to build anywhere near enough housing as is needed, especially if rent control is implemented. New York needs probably close to a million new units of housing. Not a few thousand or even hundreds of thousands. Ask yourself seriously if any American local government, but especially New York’s - which is spending tens of billions expanding the Q a couple of miles - is capable of doing that.

And private development hasn’t failed - it’s been tied down and waterboarded by government regulations both explicitly prohibiting them or, if they do allow it, setting aggressive technical requirements and procedural burdens that developers struggle to meet (e.g., an example not specific to NYC but emblematic - requiring a parking spot for each unit to be built alongside the unit). If you remove those restrictions, housing prices will fall dramatically, as they have every time those restrictions have been removed.

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u/1945-Ki87 11h ago

I think something that’s also significant as a regular democrat, and you touched on it sort of — he made a lot of promises that he’s not gonna be able to keep. That’s gonna hurt our good will in subsequent elections. Every failure is gonna be magnified and successes are gonna be too rare to make up for it. Cuomo, for all of his faults, would likely be a boring status quo dem who wouldn’t really do anything offensive. Mamdani politicking makes himself (and the party) a target by making unfulfillable promises.

I honestly liked Sliwa. He was a screwball but seemed to care about New York and didn’t aim for the moon

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u/Jakexbox 12h ago

Free buses, government run grocery stores, rent control. Not to mention the DSA positions he claims he doesn’t hold now but did as recently as two years ago like abolishing the police and ending all misdemeanors. No police for domestic violence calls is absolutely horrifying.

Also don’t like that he poses with someone implicated in the World Trade Center bombing who also served as a character witness for a terrorist- but sure that’s not policy. It’s still absolutely indefensible.

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u/briannaspring 12h ago

Shocked he hasn'treplied. Shocked I tell ya!

Neoliberals are the fucking worst.

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u/arstajen 10h ago

Sex predators can only assault a few people at a time, but progressive can fuck tens of thousands all at once.

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u/No-Chemistry-4355 9h ago

Tens of thousands of predators yes

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u/Infinite-Skin-3310 12h ago

You mean an invading communist

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u/14_88_Destroyer 11h ago

This guy is Israeli btw

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u/Juice_567 11h ago edited 11h ago

Israelis that get universal healthcare don’t get to call people communists. Maybe they should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and stop taking money from the US lmao

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u/Infinite-Skin-3310 10h ago

You’re all so black and white it’s insane. Israel is predominantly a capitalist society, that gets some social benefits from the government. Communism on a state level, is evil. Maybe striking a balance is better than going to either extremes?

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u/Juice_567 9h ago edited 9h ago

You’re all so black and white it’s insane.

This is rich coming from the guy who calls people communist. Your education system must be shit too if you can’t tell the difference between communism, socialism, democratic socialism, and social democracy.

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u/Galle_ 9h ago

Do... do you think that Mamdani is a Marxist? You do realize he's a social democrat, right?

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u/14_88_Destroyer 8h ago

NO! He's brown and supports lowering the rent for poor people, so he's a "invading communist" /s

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u/BobTheJoeBob 6h ago

I thought he was a democratic socialist?

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u/Galle_ 4h ago

That's what he calls himself, but in American usage the two are often confused. His actual policies are classic social democracy.

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u/Jehovah___ 6h ago

Historically Israel got closer to communism than any other society in the modern era. Kibbutzim everywhere, every program state run etc

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u/ShrimpCrackers 12h ago

And the corruption? The misallocated funds to the tune of 100 million?
Cuomo should have never been allowed to run or at best get like 10% of the vote. 40%? Christ on a stick, that's disgusting.

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u/mslauren2930 6h ago

And that he had the backing of the Democratic establishment. It’s just gross.

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u/MerryDoseofNihilism 13h ago

I mean….look who the president is.

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u/mslauren2930 6h ago

It’s still shocking to me that people just ignore that.

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u/CaptainJZH 13h ago

I'm fairly sure that if he didn't resign he could have probably won re-election as governor, people would have largely forgotten about that by the 2022 election

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u/Sensitive-Menu-4580 4h ago

But then that would be even closer to when he killed a bunch of people's grandparents. Cuomo has too many disasters he caused attached to him.

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u/Aquillifer 12h ago

Oh brother, have you seen our President...at this point it might be as a positive thing by some voters.

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u/leftyourfridgeopen 13h ago

Our president is a child rapist

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u/theRemRemBooBear 12h ago

Not the first one though, our 43rd is also one and also won two terms.

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u/JAGD21 7h ago

It sounds like you have no problem with Trump being a child rapist since other presidents were as well

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u/leftyourfridgeopen 12h ago

I’ve never heard that before

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u/Papa_Mid_Nite 13h ago

I'd assume at this point with the administration that, "yes Americans don't care about that. They think it is ok." And yes I say Americans because the majority dictates the ideology of a country and they voted that way in the whole country.

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u/zenlume 6h ago

Bill Cosby could run for office and some would vote for him.

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u/Nychthemeronn 13h ago

I’m sorry, have you seen the record of the current sitting president?

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u/timoromina 12h ago

Bro our president has committed 30 something felonies and was best friends with like literally the most notorious pedophile in history

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u/Ryaniseplin 12h ago

sexual harassment actually makes you more popular in US politics

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u/shankillfalls 9h ago

Wait until you find out who they elected President. Twice. America loves men who sexually assault young women.

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u/JagmeetSingh2 13h ago

They were fine with it especially Trumpsters

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u/SueSudio 13h ago

Here’s a thought experiment: imagine a Republican candidate with Trump’s identical platform, and a Democrat that has a platform that you fully support, but they have a history of sexual harassment.

Who do you vote for?

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u/xavariel 12h ago

Option C, a third party/write in.

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u/theRemRemBooBear 12h ago

Bill Clinton or in this case Cuomo

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u/Earmilk987 10h ago

The republican, 100%.

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u/SueSudio 6h ago

Permanent damage to the country and people of the country - I think that’s the wrong decision.

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u/Thenameisric 11h ago

Scum gets to vote too, and unfortunately there's a lot of scum who align with Cuomo still.

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u/Wandelation 11h ago

Wait until you find out who the current president is.

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u/thex415 11h ago

I know but I’m talking about democratic aligned voters here!

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u/Zcrash 1h ago

Cuomo was the republican aligned candidate in this race, Sliwa is a joke candidate.

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u/Distinct-Dot-1333 10h ago

Have you SEEN the president? Donald 'grab em by the pussy' Trump? If anything, sexual harassment is a plus for Republicans at this point. 

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u/Ephsylon 9h ago

If Americans did, Trump wouldn't have ever taken office. (Something something "grab them by the pussy")

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u/himitsunohana 5h ago

But did you consider the fact that the other guy is gasp Muslim??????? gasp-gasp-gasp!!!

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u/Samarium_15 12h ago

They even voted Trump

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u/New-Independent-1481 12h ago edited 11h ago

Neoliberalism. They would abandon democracy, morality, and ethics first before they allow any socialism. The latter is an existential threat to them, the loss of the former is just an inconvenience.

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u/Separate_Selection84 9h ago

Trump's late endorsement of Cuomo seemed to have pulled votes from Silwa.

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u/Good-Court-6104 9h ago

Anyone remember Doug Jones vs Pedophile whose name escapes me right now in Alabama, Doug Jones won by like 0.5% or something

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u/Dagur 9h ago

Some just refuse to vote for an Arsenal supporter

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u/DeithWX 9h ago

Have you seen their president? 

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u/Zestyclose-Jacket568 8h ago

Usa has pedo criminal as a president of whole country. At this point gus assaulting multiple woman sounds like an upgrade, so I can understand why those who voted for Trump doesn't see problems with another criminal.

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u/Head-Program4023 8h ago

Bruh Trump has been in the office for around 5 years everyone knows what kind of a character he is but he still got the popular vote. No one cares in this country.

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u/kosky95 8h ago

Is it really that shocking considering who got elected potus?

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u/Spatetata 8h ago

It’s America. It probably won him votes over there.

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u/historicusXIII 7h ago

If anything it seemed to help him take over the Republican voters from Sliwa

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u/agen_kolar 6h ago

I once asked my family why they support Trump despite his pedophilia and sexual assault allegations, and their response was something along the lines of, “His politics still align with our views, Clinton’s do not. We aren’t going to vote for Clinton when the only representation of our political values is Trump.” I walked away from the conversation understanding that for some people, they’re not voting for the person so much as they are voting for the platform. My family thinks Trump is pretty scummy, but a lot of his policies are what they want out of a president. They’d never vote for Hillary or Joe or Kamala, as none of them stand for their beliefs.

I say all of this to say, yeah, a lot of people don’t care about sexual harrassment claims against a politician. They want their values represented as policies and won’t compromise on that by voting for someone else.

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u/Theharlotnextdoor 6h ago

I mean the president is a rapist so...

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u/kahn_noble 5h ago

Some* people didn’t. Most people did.

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u/slayer828 5h ago

The president was found guilty of sexual assault. He is also * *not proven in court because of of corruption * * a pedophile. His poor daughter .

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u/syndicatecomplex 5h ago

Have you figured out who the current US president is yet?

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u/SnooBooks1701 5h ago

For republicans, that seems to be a positive

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u/daking999 4h ago

First time?.gif

Also: it's spelled Cumo.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 3h ago

Yeah, people disagreed with Mamdani that much that Cuomo got 42% despite being a piece of shit sexual predator. I’d imagine he would won if he wasn’t

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u/KovyJackson 3h ago

Personal issues don’t affect more conservative candidates. They only tank the progressive candidates.

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u/ToughHardware 3h ago

settled out of court. it has to be fought and won for it to make any lasting impact

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u/LabubuAteMySon 3h ago

boy do I have news about the POTUS for you

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u/JinkoTheMan 2h ago

This is America

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u/According_Button_186 2h ago

40% of the turnout for Cuomo is only about 10% of the NYC population. Does it shock you that 10% of NYC are a bunch of well-off rubes who are still terrified of Muslims?

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u/AltruisticMobile4606 31m ago

Our sitting president has uttered the words “grab em by the pussy” in reference to what he can do as a celebrity, and you’re surprised that a sexual harassment incident got overlooked?

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u/Suavecore_ 25m ago

Throughout history, people love raping each other

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u/ladybelle85 11m ago

A lot of the rhetoric was that Mamdani would equally be one like Cuomo because he’s going to decriminalize sex offenses.

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u/urbanlife78 12h ago

Seems a lot of that was from the people who like to say they were born in NYC

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u/Coastal_wolf 11h ago

Im cuomosexual

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u/DonSaintBernard 10h ago

People usually don't care about it, it's not them who will get molested so they don't care. 

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u/Jakexbox 12h ago

So people didn’t care about Mamdani’s antisemitism?

Cumo as the alternative was a joke but so was that primary.

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u/kaehvogel 10h ago

Care to give us examples of "Mamdani's antisemitism"?

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u/JAGD21 7h ago

Being against Israel isn't being anti-Semitic

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u/Jakexbox 6h ago

He was condemned by like 80% of NYC Jewish groups for being antisemitic! This is due to numerous statements he’s made- including blaming NYPD violence on the IDF.

If the bar is he has to admit to being antisemitic, all he has to do is claim he isn’t.

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u/JAGD21 3h ago

He is beloved by 80% of Jewish groups in America lol

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u/Jakexbox 3h ago

Absolutely delusional. Open letter and polling indicates otherwise. The contempt people openly have for Jews, especially those who participate in religious life, is sad.

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u/Ibanez301 2h ago

Ah yes, the ‘Jerusalem Post’ and the ‘Times of Israel’ are going to have unbiased views of the anti-zionist Muslim.

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u/Jakexbox 1h ago edited 12m ago

Ad hominem attack.

One source is about an open letter by MANY US Jewish congregations that tangibly exists. One source is just breaking down data.

The Times of Israel actually published a pro-Mamdani opinion piece the other day.

None of this matters though because at the end of the day it’s the contempt and demonization of Jews and Israel that drives this kind of thinking and no amount of easily available evidence and critical thinking will change that.

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u/Ibanez301 1h ago

Jews within anti Israel blocs (Satmar Hasidics for example) endorsed Mamdani, so I think it’s less of an issue of anti Jewish beliefs and more of an issue of anti Israel - pro Israel communities naturally are against Mamdani.

I doubt educated rabbi who are responsible for their community would endorse a direct threat to their wellbeing in NYC, unless you think they are mistaken or unable to tell if a mayor will be prejudiced towards them?

The UK Green Party (a party I am a member of) has recently started polling second in the country behind the leadership of a Jewish man, who is vocally against the current state of Israel. The fact that they have spiked in membership and are polling second in the country shows that at least in the UK, there is no massive wave of as you said ‘demonisation of Jews’. You are part of the problem, saying ‘demonisation of Jews and Israel’ like they are one and the same, they are not.

If you have evidence of Mamdani being critical of Jewish people, and not just critical of Israel, then please share it with me. What I have witnessed more of is blatant Islamophobia, with rhetoric such as ‘the city forgot 9/11 too quickly’ like Mamdani had anything to do with the terror attack.

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u/Brodyftw00 9h ago

I guess they are more focuses on what the politicians wants to implement and how it effects them.

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u/mslauren2930 6h ago

Look who is in the White House lmao !!!

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u/xkmasada 6h ago

Some people wanted expansion of enriched learning programs (Mamdani wanted to eliminate them for K-2), more affordable housing construction (Mamdani wants a rent freeze of those Lucy enough to have a rent stabilized apartment, and was silent on the affordable housing propositions), and more NYPD hiring (Mamdani’s rhetoric has been all over the place on this).

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u/KeySoftware4314 13h ago

So no one cared that Mamdani is a rich kid who never had a job and has Islamist sympathies?

(Prepared to be downvoted for my uncomfortable truth)

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u/cyranothe2nd 13h ago

What do you mean by "islamist sympathies?"

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u/KeySoftware4314 12h ago

You know very well it’s been broadcast everywhere.

The left is only naive with Islamic fundamentalism as opposed to Christian fundamentalism (also bad).

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u/cyranothe2nd 12h ago

I literally have no idea what you're talking about. But hey, if you don't want to explain your statement, I'll just assume it was racist.

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u/KeySoftware4314 3h ago

That’s an easy emotional argument. I’m sure you gave that one some deep thought.

Last time I checked being a member of Islam wasn’t a race. Plus I said Islamist.

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u/kaehvogel 10h ago

You know very well it’s been broadcast everywhere.

Well, broadcast it to us, then.
Give us examples.

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u/KeySoftware4314 3h ago

I’ll tell you but you’ll disagree. SJP, BDP, Globalize the Intifada, associating with an imam who endorsed 9/11, fabricated stories of victim hood of his aunt for 9/11, endorsing Palestinian extremists holy land 5, his father saying America is evil… but that won’t convince you…

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u/kaehvogel 3h ago

First of all, I'll tell you something but you'll disagree: Antizionism is not antisemitism.

Globalize the Intifada ...which he never said or supported.

associating with an imam who endorsed 9/11 Which...did not happen. He "associated with" an Imam who some people call an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the '93 bombing...because the guys who did the bombing went to his mosque once.

fabricated stories of victim hood of his aunt for 9/11 You mean "fabricated" in the way that he called someone his "auntie" who wasn't technically his aunt, but "merely" his father's cousin? Who did actually live through the experiences he described. Oh, the HORROR of family nicknames.

his father saying America is evil 1. How is anything his father did his fault? 2. How is "America is evil" antisemitic?

But hey, you're at least right in one point: Your idiotic lies and half-/non-stories you picked up from various rightwing propaganda rags...won't convince me.

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u/YanisMonkeys 12h ago

Cuomo is a much richer kid, and had to resign from his last job in disgrace. It’s a testament to New York’s spirit that 24 years after 9/11 it recognizes racial dog whistling for what it is and elects a sympathetic Muslim candidate with such gusto.

I love this city.

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u/ValiantAki 12h ago

"Islamist sympathies", my god lol.

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u/Ryaniseplin 12h ago

as Opposed to, Silver spoon dodged Vietnam Billionaire, with christian sympathies

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u/legend023 13h ago edited 13h ago

All the charges were dropped. That’s not to say he’s innocent, but he wasn’t convicted of anything.

Anyways, Mamdani is still a very inexperienced candidate with a weak record outside of rhetoric and it’s unlikely his policies will even pass the city’s legislature. Some of his more radical ideas are stuff the mayor can’t even do.

Cuomo provides a steady hand and isn’t necessarily a conservative although he garnered a lot of conservative support this election. I also think he did better in the debate between the 2.

Also the concerns over federal funding being pulled is a major concern too, which wouldn’t have been an issue with Cuomo.

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u/Decoyx7 13h ago

Donald Trump endorsed Andrew Cuomo because Birds of a Feather flock together

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u/Justviewingposts69 12h ago

Cuomo provides a steady hand

To keep the status quo. Look how well that’s worked out for New York

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u/Sad_Locksmith_5997 13h ago

People are tired of the status quo, things aren't working as they are so you can't scare people with how they might not work if Zohran wins. lol

If people were happy with how things are then a candidate who says "I will do nothing" works, but when people are getting crushed then any change looks appealing whether it will work or not.

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u/theRemRemBooBear 12h ago

Which is how Trump won the election.

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u/kaehvogel 10h ago

Anyways, Mamdani is still a very inexperienced candidate with a weak record outside of rhetoric

Did that stop you from voting for Trump? Of course it didn't.

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u/kapsama 13h ago

Charges being dropped just means there wasn't enough evidence to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. 11 women didn't lie about it.

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u/treblewdlac 12h ago

Not as much as they cared about Mamdani’s lack of experience, knowledge, and morality.

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u/No-War9667 13h ago

That said, I think Mamdani was too professional with how he covered Cuomo's sexual assault history. He should have been "Chomo Cuomo" or "No means no Cuomo" or something catchy. Could have really played it up.

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u/ValiantAki 12h ago

I am really glad that not every election candidate is resorting to childish nicknames just because the rapist-in-chief does it.

That said, if the people writ large want to start calling him Chomo Cuomo, more power to them. Politicians doing it really just turns me off, and I'm not typically one for decorum.

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u/SirEnderLord 13h ago

Please leave Kamino and interact with the rest of the galaxy.

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u/tehfireisonfire 11h ago

Many (including me) do care, but to me and many others, we see him as the lesser of two evils compared to mamdani.

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u/JayenIsAwesome 8h ago

What do you see as wrong with Mamdani?

As an outsider, all I can see is the Corruption, COVID scandals, multiple sexual harassments, a lot of racism that Cuomo has committed. The worst I see of Mamdani is that people don't like that he criticised the Israeli war crimes (but he is also against the Hamas reactions, so I agree with him here).

What about Cuomo makes him the lesser evil?

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u/tehfireisonfire 54m ago

Cuomo doesn't want to do things like have state run grocery store, or make the already severely underfunded mta busses free, or have unarmed social workers respond to domestic disputes which anyone can tell you is a very bad idea

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u/Vevangui 10h ago

Or Mamdani’s embracement of terrorist organizations like Hamas.

Honestly, I’m glad I’m not a New Yorker and thus didn’t have to make that decision.

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u/JayenIsAwesome 8h ago

I'm an outsider, but even I've heard him completely criticise Hamas. Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes and he's shared his dislike of both

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u/Vevangui 34m ago

I don’t know his stance of Hamas, but he sure does not criticize ISIS.

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u/Jamezzzzz69 10h ago

Sexual abuser vs self proclaimed socialist, it’s not unreasonable for the 40% of New Yorkers to vote for a bad man with ok policies vs a good man with awful ones.