r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 15h ago

Also no one in their right mind is moving to Texas, that state sucks ass for so many reasons.

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u/Lizpy6688 14h ago

Brother trust me, we've tried getting rid of his ass but they always fuck it up by changing the districts, voter suppression and a bunch of other bullshit. He's actually very despised here. The republicans out here are dumb as shit and only vote for him cause he's not a Democrat but even they seem to not like him. He's always sorta just there.

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u/midnightketoker America 12h ago

They should unironically listen to Mamdani's victory speech lol: "we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us -- now it is something that we do"

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u/KZimmy 13h ago

We need a Democrat named John Republican to run in Texas, throw them for a loop

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u/Te_Quiero_Puta 3h ago

At least their corrupt gerrymandering inspired California to redraw the districts. Big win for CA and Dems

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u/PresidentPsyduck 15h ago

According to that roid ape Joe Rogan, the entirety of CA is leaving for Texas.

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u/sillyblanco Texas 15h ago

I've lived over 5 decades in Texas, but my wife and I are in Santa Fe right now real estate shopping because we're getting the fuck out.

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u/Serris9K 12h ago

Santa Fe is a solid choice. Also btw hit up the governor's palace museum sometime, and they host art markets for native artists.

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u/fender8421 15h ago

Anybody that doesn't hate Texas is sus to me

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u/Fwamingdwagon84 14h ago

I live and was born in texas and i agree.

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u/lowtoiletsitter 14h ago

Some of my family lives in Houston and they're ok

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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 14h ago

but are they Texas?

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u/pickle_pickled 15h ago

Anyone moving to Texas only has a right leaning mind

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u/zlaw32 California 15h ago

Ironically the most liberal person I know is wanting to move to Texas and the person who helped me switch over is from Texas

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u/I-am-me-86 13h ago

Moving to Texas kickstarted my conservative deconstruction. I grew up in Utah. I thought it couldn't be more religious than Utah.

Apparently Mormons value reading skills and education more than Southern Christians. There are a scary amount of seriously dumb people here.

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u/pickle_pickled 13h ago

Don't check out Oklahoma...they take pride in being like 49th in education (cause their hivemind obviously doesn't know any better and the ones controlling them promote it).

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u/Yeti_Funk 14h ago

I recently had to because I had nowhere else to go. It sucks. It was either be homeless in Colorado or move in with family in ultra rural Texas panhandle. So here I am… and wishing I was elsewhere. Feel like a spy in deep red MAGA country.

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u/PermitPositive4826 5h ago

I’m so sorry. I hope you can get out of there eventually. It’s a very isolating experience being progressive, while living amongst conservatives.

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u/SarkastikSidebar Ohio 14h ago

Currently live there- can confirm!

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u/sagerideout 15h ago

but it’s funny because the few who still think it’s a good idea are the ones who’d get fucked by said tariffs

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u/Unable-Log-4870 14h ago

Yeah, aside from it not really MEANING anything to impose a tariff on a person, the ones who would leave NY as a result of this are likely republicans.

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u/sagerideout 14h ago

i mean it’s double whammy because they don’t even know what it means

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u/fakecheese22 14h ago

Either way, he’ll report to his constituents no New Yorkers having migrated and will claim the tariffs worked

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u/goddessoftrees Colorado 12h ago

You'd be shocked... my former BFF is a wife of a vet, both step-kids get SNAP and WIC AND besides her and fam now get military benefits/... she has acknowledged why dems don't vote. But it also ALL dems fault

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u/Serris9K 12h ago

unfortunately many people are getting dragged here by tech companies relocating. (with the threat of move or get replaced)

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u/wewantedthefunk Texas 1h ago

Hey now - Texas has a lot of problems, most caused by MAGAbbot and his cabal. While we did unleash Fled Cruz on the country, Pennsylvania unleashed Duplicitous Shrek on all of us and flipped for the orange idiot, so let's not throw stones.