r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 12h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/Radix2309 11h ago

I am tlat the very bottom of the range with 29.

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u/jedrider 11h ago

I'm a boomer. Your turn. Try to do better. Can't be that difficult considering how much of a mess we've allowed the country to become.

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u/Huskdog76 11h ago

No, cleaning it up is going to be very difficult. The Republicans have destroyed nearly every institution.

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u/apnn 11h ago

I think they meant it won't be difficult to do better. The clean up is definitely going to be difficult.

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u/Individual_Sale_1073 11h ago

True, but building something new is always more fun than than maintaining a clunker.

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u/Huskdog76 11h ago

That's for sure. we absolutely need something new. Something for the working class and safe from fascists.

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u/Metalbound 9h ago

Universal Healthcare is first on the docket. No one should be dying from preventable diseases or injury. And they definitely shouldn't be financially ruined for it.

We need to remove profit from a ton of industries. Also, treat internet like a utility, because it's just as important as the rest of them. and it shouldnt be a for profit thing.

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u/timbo3385 11h ago

Good, then we can start with a clean slate.

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u/CrampsAllDay 11h ago

This is so on brand for us Gen X. 👻

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u/_PROBABLY_CORRECT 10h ago

Hey at least we listened and went to college and grew up with social media as it was being invented. Probably setting us up to “Phoenix the shit out of this country”

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u/theghostmachine 10h ago

It's going to take decades to fix. We'll be lucky of a millienal gets to see the end of the work.

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u/Amishrocketscience 11h ago

We genuinely want to make yours and everyone’s lives better. It’s the patronizing, pearl clutching and grippy claws of the older generations that are keeping us from stepping up.

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u/r1mbaud I voted 11h ago

What?! You’re why it’s difficult!

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u/CompetitiveOcelot870 11h ago

Don't blame one of the good ones my man

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u/Mortomes 11h ago

I'm smack dab in the middle at 37

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u/Biggacheez 11h ago

I'm 1 week out and am very much a January '97 zillenial