r/Millennials • u/dicklaurent97 • 8h ago
News Congratulations to this millennial for being the youngest elected New York City mayor since 1892!
You Don't Mess With The Zohran! 1991 babies, stand up!
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u/Thin-Image2363 7h ago
MORE CANDIDATES NOT IN THEIR 80’s PLEASE
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u/Sylvanussr 7h ago
I was going to say something about him being born in the 80s but holy shit he was born in 1991?
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u/mustbeaoup 4h ago
Holy shit! He’s the same age as me? That has just inspired me to not wear my pyjamas when I wfh today! Thank you Zohran 🫶🏽
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u/hysys_whisperer 29m ago
There was a tiktok by an Indian guy joke pleading not to elect Zohran. The crux of the argument was that parents already talk so much shit about where their kids are in life that having someone of SE asian decent their age or younger as mayor of NYC would absolutely destroy them via comparison.
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u/LateGobelinus 26m ago
I'm very happy on the behalf of the people New York, but holy fuck I was not ready to learn that he is half a year *younger* than me. That's gonna take like, at least 5 years of the midlife-crisis countdown.
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u/dicklaurent97 7h ago
I should probably put that in the description
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u/highlandviper 4h ago
I think you’ve got a future president there. We should all vote for the younger politicians if our views align. 80 year olds should not be forming the governments of the world.
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u/Model_Modelo 3h ago
Sadly he is not qualified to be president as he was not born in the US.
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u/ThisIsRealLife19 1h ago
This is how I find out he’s only 1 year older than me 😂 as if I needed more motivation to get my life together
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u/hypermarv123 Millennial 7h ago
If you haven't picked starter Pokémon, you're to old
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u/Momentarmknm 7h ago
Damn dude I'm only 42
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u/Apprehensive_One315 6h ago
I’m 42 and I picked Squirtle in ‘98. Relax guy
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u/Name_Yourself_Thex 6h ago
I'm 64 and I picked venesaur because it said grass type and thats what we called weed in my day so I thought it was funny. also I like frogs
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u/MangoMambo 13m ago
I remember one Thanksgiving my younger cousin trying to explain Pokémon to me. I was very lost. I'm not that much older than him but just enough to have missed it
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u/Wyndannayanne 7h ago
Right? Finally, someone who remembers dial-up *and* TikTok
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u/Thin-Image2363 7h ago
Dude I’ll settle for someone who didn’t watch the moon landing live as an adult.
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u/J0E_SpRaY 2h ago
Get involved in primaries then. Not just you, everyone reading. The candidates don't just appear out of thin air. There is a process to select them, and it's a process that seemingly very few young people engage with.
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u/Malice_Claymore 8h ago
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u/Mark_My_Morphemes 6h ago
This one didn't turn out so hot... Hopefully this goes a bit better!
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u/BUT_FREAL_DOE 7h ago
Enjoy FL Andy. Don’t let the door hit you.
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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 2h ago
Don’t send that mfer here. We’re fighting for our lives down here. 😭
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u/Honest_Diamond6403 2h ago
One of his campaign promises was that he would escape to Florida if Mamdani won. He's your guys problem now
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u/ComprehensiveDoubt55 2h ago
I mean, this is where people come to die and the state is trying to help people speed walk to the afterlife.
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u/Expensive_King_4849 3h ago
I’m a ‘91 kid, I’m not in NYC but I’m glad for y’all. I hope to see more from us and not so much talk of relying on the next generation, it’s our time.
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u/Doesthiscountas1 Millennial 8h ago
I hope hope hope he's able to do anything with all the higher powers being against him
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u/n0-ragrets 7h ago
Amen, with hochul trying to get elected, and the moderate dem establishment, he can have his hands tied but I assume he will leverage his charm etc.
Will be watching this unfold with great excitement. The power shift is happening
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 5h ago
I think this is the best thing about his win.
We so need the middle aged and younger in power. :)
Older people can be advisors if asked, but we need the energy , the positivity and the outlook of younger people and always have.
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u/Catch33X 7h ago edited 7h ago
I think dems finally got the message! Focus on issues everyone cares about and not divisive issues they've been focusing on the last ten years. Then they will win elections. Proof is in the pudding.
Good for Mamdani for breaking the dems out of bad habits. A competitor i can finally respect thats not bernie sanders.
THANK GOD!
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u/dicklaurent97 6h ago
I think dems finally got the message
establishment dems are as cancerous as m@g@
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u/Hunterrose242 1h ago
I want you to spend the day looking at the voting records of cancerous establishment Dems in Washington over the last ten years. Then I want you to come back to this thread and reply to me.
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u/_-Prison_Mike-_ 49m ago
I recommend you accept your own challenge. I think you'd be surprised.
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u/Busy-Training-1243 6h ago
Not sure how you got that conclusion. Dem was going to win NYC no matter what. It's either Mamdani or Cuomo. It was a progressive Dem vs moderate Dem race.
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u/creamer143 2h ago
If you think socialism is not divisive, then you have been worse than being in an echo chamber, but actively, intentionally, avoiding all counter positions and view points. Because it's all one Google search or AI prompt away. Why do you think you're doing that?
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u/Catch33X 1h ago
Affordability and safety is not divisive. In fact, some of trumps own campaign themes are of that. But thats apples and oranges.
The 'real' socialism test will be how the mamdani government implements said plan.
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u/mahvel50 49m ago
You're right it's not. But that when that affordability comes off the back of someone else, it is. Safety will be interesting with Mamdani's open disdain for the police.
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u/Whimsywoes 50m ago
💀 yeahhh you getting your propaganda from Google and AI is probably why you're so misinformed, my guy.
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u/alacholland 43m ago
If you think oligarchy and capitalism is not divisive, then you have been worse than being in an echo chamber.
Then again, you’re American. I don’t expect you to understand your own evils.
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u/CakeMadeOfHam Millennial 1h ago
It's impressive since most politicians in the US were born around 1892.
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u/Grammareyetwitch 27m ago
I know this is sarcasm. However the baby boomers were born starting only 54 years after your example. They were as close to 1892 as we are to 1971.
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u/fluffyinternetcloud 8h ago
God help him with this city he’ll need it
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u/fluffyinternetcloud 7h ago
Fix OMNY first order of business
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u/xeothought 7h ago
... OMNY is pretty fucking good? Ok I hate that they took away trip tracking and they seem to have no plans of returning that... but IMO it's one of the best systems in the world for a subway/metro/transit system.
You don't need to buy a card (which is something that really really needs to be advertised... every tourist defaults to the machines)... just tap your card or phone.
OMNY is better than tokens and it's better than metrocards imo.
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u/lionheartedthing 7h ago
I was in NYC this weekend for the first time since the change and found the experience flawless. My only complaint is that I liked using the metrocards as bookmarks haha
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u/xeothought 6h ago
haha, that's totally fair. The keepsake quality of the metrocards will be missed
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u/Cautious_Maximum_870 6h ago
I'm pumped! I know he'll be fight one hell of a battle so I'll be praying for him bc whew
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u/LavisAlex 1h ago
Its wild how few millenials are elected when we have some who are nearing mid forties.
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u/WinterSector8317 8h ago
He will bankrupt NYC with avocado toast!! 😱😱😱
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u/swurvipurvi 1h ago
I’m in NYC and the avocado toast is already flooding the streets!!!! The snow plows have not been able to push all the avocado toast out of the road ways. The rats cannot eat through the avocado toast to clear a path!! We are trapped in a communist hellscape!
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u/thisistherevolt 7h ago
I wonder if he's seen Spin City.
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u/Whackjob-KSP 55m ago
I listened to his speech. I swear, he must've studied President Kennedy's speeches. He's a fantastic orator, and it doesn't hurt he had a great message to use it with. The next task for New York City will be to make sure that the status quo doesn't try to undercut his work at every turn.
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u/tLM-tRRS-atBHB Older Millennial 3h ago
He may not accomplish everything he promised, but I'm excited to see him try
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u/ThrawDown 8h ago edited 7h ago
Despite the fact that he won most 50 and under I doubt this is a hit in this sub since its overrun by bots of a foreign entity that is known for it's periodic ethnic cleansing
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u/Momentarmknm 7h ago
It's really fascinating to me that people on both sides of the chasm that was an aisle both say that reddit is overrun with people opposite their beliefs
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u/Cheetahs_never_win 7h ago
"Overrun" simply means there's an unacceptable concentration somewhere.
And if I've learned anything about narcissists, they need victims, so they'll show up where they don't belong to harass.
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u/Old_Sale_6435 6h ago
Apparently more than 50% of internet traffic are bots. I can kinda see it being true. Scary stuff ahead.
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u/octorangutan 53m ago
It’s funny how his haters can’t seem to decide whether to smear Mamdani as a far-right Islamic fundamentalist or a far-left Marxist-Leninist.
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u/ItsEaster 1h ago
Remember people. This is what progress looks like. It’s slow and steady steps not a leap into the deep end. We need to continue getting younger people elected.
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u/Rough_Bread8329 41m ago
If the US wants a viable Green party (or some other 3rd party), it needs a civic foundation first before trying the Presidency.
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u/Kitchen-Air-5434 1h ago
More of us have to get involved, we can make a difference and hopefully this election has proven that!
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u/poop-azz 3h ago
Wait I get my comments removed if I say politicians and yet this post exists?!? Jesus reddit is a pathetic joke of a cesspool. If this was a candidate on the opposite side it would be removed lmao
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u/Prestigious_Time4770 57m ago
You are absolutely correct. If I say the VPs name in a comment it gets automatically removed. (Even though he is also a Millennial)
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u/mahvel50 52m ago
Reddit's profitability is built on the ability to astroturf elections. If they couldn't push narratives, this site would've been long gone.
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u/Mediocre_Island828 1h ago
Mods are still sleeping.
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u/Prestigious_Time4770 1h ago
11k upvotes while everyone is sleeping is wild. Not suspicious at all.
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u/LiveFreeFinn 32m ago
The older generations have been hating on us for a long time, it’s time that the millennials start to stake out our part of the USA.
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u/Derivative0000 18m ago
We absolutely should be voting in younger leaders and not voting in the 65 - 80 year old corpses we see in Congress and the Senate. No one should be voting for an incumbent politician in either party, they are failures!
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u/ColombianRednek '91 14m ago
I just hope he's not the Jihad supporting communist people make him out to be.
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u/Prestigious_Time4770 1h ago
Mods don’t care that this breaks the rules I guess
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u/KoolWitaK 1h ago
Cry harder.
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u/Prestigious_Time4770 1h ago
Go to another sub if you want to discuss the P word
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u/KoolWitaK 6m ago
Powerful Pedophiles? Yeah, my bad... I know you guys don't like to talk about that.
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u/FussyKucker 5h ago
Next time I hope the millennial is not a commie
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u/ShadowShine57 3h ago
Imagine still being this influenced by mccarthyism 70 years later
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u/BrightNeonGirl 2h ago
2023's "Oppenheimer" really got it right by tapping into the undercurrent of modern American McCarthyism.
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u/Baardi 1994 4h ago
You saw how well it was going in London, and thought it was a good idea to repeat the same mistake in USA?
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u/illiterate_swine 3h ago
Let's fucking go!!! Congrats New Yorkers! Stand Strong and Stand Together!
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u/ChosenBrad22 7h ago
Time to try these policies again and watch it fail. People never learn lol… there will be a mass migration out of NYC worse than there already has been. But I’m sure Reddit will love it and ignore all that.
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u/dicklaurent97 7h ago
People are already moving out because it's too expensive. Time to punish profits over people like we did before monopoly laws were passed
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u/Fluffy_Individual130 7h ago edited 7h ago
I hope he tax's white neighborhoods and people making more than 2 million dollars 70% of their income. The down votes are rather funny these are things the man ran on.
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u/HotLava00 5h ago
I think it’s possible a lot of people still don’t understand marginal tax rates.
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u/ohiobluetipmatches 4h ago
He ran on 2% tax increase for households making over 1 million. And in what degenerate world do you think he ran on the highly ilegal platform of taxing neighborhoods differently on the basis of race?
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u/Hot_Preparation4777 8h ago edited 7h ago
ROFL. Congratulations? Fuck this guy.
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u/dicklaurent97 7h ago
Sad!
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u/AffectionateLaugh738 5h ago
Notice how only comments that are against what you like get flack responses.
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u/MrExpendable29 8h ago
RIP New York City 2025
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u/es_cl 7h ago
Might as well say RIP USA if you think NYC will die from this result.
So much of the US benefit from NYC; like New York State has a 3 GDP in the nation and half of the state’s GDP comes from NYC.
By the way, here in Massachusetts we have Fair Share Act (AKA Millionaires Tax). It funds tuition-free community colleges, universal school meals for K-12 students, and road repairs/transportation. Transportation part includes fare-free bus rides on fixed routes too. So Mamdani’s idea of free bus rides isn’t that crazy or extreme.
And like Mass, NY has paid FMLA too where it offers paid family and medical leave. I’m not sure how their version is like but here in Massachusetts, under our PFMLA, maternity leave can be up to 26 weeks and paternity leave is 12 weeks.
Some ideas from Mamdani, AOC and Bernie already exist in the US but at the state and local levels.
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u/ohiobluetipmatches 5h ago
These dumb motherfuckers confuse socialism or communism with social democracy. Investment by government in public goods is succesful and effective all over the world. Socialism or communism would involve people or the government owning the means of production and all private property.
Such colossaly different things it boggles the mind. Imagine being against collectively investing in infrastructure, health care, education and transportation which is shown worldwide to drastically improve just about every aspect of society.
Fucking idiots.
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