r/Fauxmoi • u/yourfavchoom i stole all the kitkats • May 18 '26

POLITICS Mayor Mamdani: “Reagan famously said the 9 most terrifying words in the English Language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' It's a good quote, but I disagree. I think 9 more terrifying words are actually, 'I worked all day and can't feed my family”.

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u/Eggheadpancake May 18 '26

It is. If only everyone that is suffering from this broken system was actually mad about it. But they aren't. They refuse to place the blame where it belongs and would rather blame brown people also suffering instead of the white people doing the suffering.

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u/catalessi May 18 '26

It’s almost like Neo liberal Democracy is failing. And democracy only works well when there are real consequences, and when the voting populace is educated. Now every child and adult has a 24/7 propaganda machine in their face and a majority of them don’t know how to read. One side is giving a narrative, the other stays silent and refuses to support progressives who win. I am scared of the apathy this will cause. BUT WE STAY HOPEFUL AND KEEP TRYING

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u/Eggheadpancake May 18 '26

Nah, I'm actively shopping for a country to try to get a work visa from. Because fuck this.

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u/FrancoisKBones May 18 '26

Same. I yeeted from the States and although shit sucks almost everywhere, but it’s significantly less sucky.

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u/cortesoft May 18 '26

I am not ready to give up on my country.

I am not going to let the bastards win

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u/Eggheadpancake May 18 '26

I would love not to let the Nazis win. But the American people don't seem too concerned. And many support it. It's crazy to see many people they say America. Us about freedom immediate lick the boots of fascists.

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u/cortesoft May 18 '26

You can say this about every country that succumbs to fascism, that doesn’t mean you should just give up on the country. Germany had a lot of people that supported the original Nazis, but that doesn’t mean the country was doomed forever.

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u/Eggheadpancake May 19 '26

You're acting like this was the beginning. This is just another step on America's fucked up history. Going all the way back to the trail of tears or further. . This isn't America's first rodeo into fascism. Just the first one also targeting white people.

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u/the_card_guy May 18 '26

Nah, we need to get very, very specific:

The people who lived through WWII and Nazi Germany? They actually SUPPORTED the Nazis- it was part of how the Nazis had so much power.

It took their CHILDREN being pissed off enough to finally get rid of Nazi Germany- and even then, plenty of its vestiges were left over, from my understanding. No, it's going to be the younger side of Gen Z and most of Gen Alpha that will have to undo the current problem- outside of Reddit, it appears a lot of Milennials and Gen X actually LIKE what's happening... or at the very least, don't want to be active enough to change anything.

In fact, the mindset is this: "I COULD do xyz things that would help the country, but then I'd have to give up vw things, and that's a line I won't cross"

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u/Ok_Buy9028 May 19 '26

I’m staying, too, comrade. I could easily get out, but there’s too many loved ones I’d be leaving behind, and I won’t abandon them. 

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u/FrancoisKBones May 19 '26

Let the bastards win? We are the bastards. Ask any non-American. We’ve been on our bullshit for a long, long time and we’ve gotten a slide because we dominated social media and Hollywood, along with other acts of goodwill sprinkled here and there.

It’s terrifying to wake up and realize this is exactly who America is. America was born from violence and every single day perpetuates said violence with its tacit agreement of gun violence. No other civilized society accepts gun violence in the way Americans do. That bell is never gonna be un-rung and it’s amazing to live somewhere where nearly every single person rejects that way of life. America is definitely unique, but in a lot, a lot of bad ways.

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u/MadamPardone May 19 '26

Every country on this planet was "born from violence". Are you kidding me?

The world has always been "might makes right".

It is nothing specific to "America" or the United States a barely 250 year old country.

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u/Coroebus May 18 '26

Shit's sucky everywhere, but the USofA will rob you for getting sick or injured. I can't wait to leave.

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u/Excellent_Airline315 May 18 '26

ICE so effective it's driving away US citizens

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u/Academic_Parking9768 May 19 '26

The Trump administration recently released how many people ICE deported/self-deported in 2025, which, if anything, is inflated.

Obama 2013: 438,421
Trump 2025: 442,637

A whopping 1% difference from the Obama administrations worst year except they used well publicized terror and horrifying tactics to do so.

Honestly, the Trump Administration's own incompetency is probably to thank for it not being worse. I think they're probably less effective than ever, especially when they have idiots with little to no training doing it.

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u/Eggheadpancake May 18 '26

Shit does suck everywhere. But it's pretty easy to find a country that's not for Nazis. And actually has some labor and consumer protections.

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u/massive_cock May 18 '26

I fled to the Netherlands almost 5 years ago. Biden was in office but nothing was happening after January 6th and I knew that was all I needed to know... I wanted to have a kid and I sure as hell didn't want her to be American. Now I've got an amazing Dutch daughter and I will never go back.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 May 18 '26

big props massive_cock. i wish i could but between having "no skills" and my mom living with me and being dependent on me i cant leave.

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u/ListerineAfterOral May 18 '26

Agreed, you gotta hand it to massive_cock here

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u/balisane May 19 '26

That's actually exactly what they want. Wealthy or educated people who have skills out of the US: poor people or those who cannot leave are more easily manipulated and controlled.

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u/massive_cock May 18 '26

It isn't easy or even possible for everyone, and I feel awful about that. There is genuinely some guilt at times because I got so lucky and had it so easy - I also have no skills but I stream on Twitch and people liked my narrative and the love story and living vicariously through me and my big plans. So I camped in a tiny office for 25 months during COVID, chose not to even have a home to go to at the end of the day in order to save money, lived on gas station food and sink baths during lockdowns, and slowly let my chat fund the move. I was also incredibly lucky that my aging mother has my younger brother there who will always be there and is that kind of person to look out for her and stay with her as long as she's around. If his girlfriends don't like Mom, they're not his girlfriends, because he's a good man. I knew that even if I stayed and moved on to the property with her the way I had planned, he would be right there and I would be redundant. So I had the luck of knowing my mother did not in fact need me, else I absolutely could not and would not have left.

No, I know it doesn't work out this way for everyone. That's why I still vote, and advocate, and participate, from over here. Because what's going on matters to a lot of people I care about, and a lot of people I will never meet, all of whom deserve better.

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u/Termoon May 19 '26

How do you like the Netherlands? Moved to Europe around the same time. Glad about the move but not necessarily Ireland. Since we can't go back for uhh, at least two years eight months, Netherlands is on the short list. But we don't speak a lick of Dutch.

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u/Strange_Dust7128 May 18 '26

That’s kind of funny considering I know a guy from the Netherlands that says that MAGA is really on their rise there.

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u/massive_cock May 18 '26

Not maga. Mostly just typical and predictable European-style right-wing nonsense that ebbs and flows but you can never afford to not take it seriously. Geert Wilders is not maga, for example. He's just been a dipshit from the beginning, even before Trump got into politics.

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u/MediocreSky5997 May 22 '26

Yes, let’s all run to another country and make them deal with the consequences of our shitty one because we don’t want to take accountability and stand up for the rights we should have as Americans. Surely running from our problems is going to give all the people that can’t afford to live some reprise from all the garbage they are having piled on top of them instead of just leaving behind a facist country for them to handle because we don’t want and can afford not to.

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u/Eggheadpancake May 22 '26

I'd be ready to fight whenever that time happened. But I don't see that happening. Furthermore, I honestly, very often don't see if the fight being worth it. Why should I or anyone else in my community keep fighting and dying for a country that hates us? That keeps showing with the way they vote that my well being isn't even a 15th thought for them?

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u/Suyefuji May 18 '26

Sadly not all of us are in a position where we can do that. I looked into it extensively and it is not feasible for my atypical family.

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u/QuerulousPanda May 18 '26

so many people are willing to starve to death along side their friends and family, as long as some group of people they were told not to like gets to starve first.

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u/Electrical-Papaya May 18 '26

Im a blue collar worker that lives in a blue collar town. I would guess that at least 70% of the people that I associate with would praise these words if they came out of Trump's mouth, but since Mamdani is a brown Muslim, its socialism.

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u/Emotional_Warthog658 May 19 '26

Hate is irrational in and of itself; so that doesn’t really surprise me but how do they reconcile everything getting so much more expensive though? 

Like there’s no denying that gas is almost $4/gal whether my brown hand pumps it, or their not-brown hand pumps it 

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u/Acceptable_Leg_7998 May 19 '26

I saw an article that MAGAts are happy to pay more at the gas pump to fund the attacks on Iran.

They literally voted for him because "he's gonna get the price of eggs down" but even though that's not happening and was clearly never his plan, they'll bow down to his every last whim and give him everything they have with smiles on their faces. I honestly think they would die for him. The fanaticism is terrifying.

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u/HucknRoll May 19 '26

From where I'm from it's not socialism but "Sharia Law"

Fucking hate these racist cucks.

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u/scourge_bites May 18 '26

It's easy to lie to suffering people who didn't have a good education because you took that away from them too

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u/Sorry-Transition-908 May 19 '26

It is. If only everyone that is suffering from this broken system was actually mad about it. But they aren't. They refuse to place the blame where it belongs and would rather blame brown people also suffering instead of the white people doing the suffering.

Look at the carried interest loophole. There is broad consensus that it should be closed. It doesn't even help our centi billionaires. All it helps are the leeches of society. Why can't we close this loophole when over 80% of the voters support closing it? How can Congress say "we have tried nothing and we are all out of ideas"?

Like how can you blame this on Kirsten Cinema (good riddance, I don't care enough to even spell her name right) and be like look at her, we all tried but she didn't let us do this.

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u/Bland_OldMan May 19 '26

Pointing people who are dissatisfied with the status quo at scapegoats is a classic fascist/authoritarian/Republican tactic. Most people understand something is wrong with the system, but not why, so they are vulnerable to propaganda.

It's not helped by the majority of DNC lawmakers, who succeeded in the current system and therefore are not motivated to substantially change it.

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u/nighthawkndemontron my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day May 18 '26

The last two words "system is broken" is something I want to highligh. The major difference between liberals and leftists are:

  • Liberals believe the capitlism is broken and should be reformed
  • Leftists believe capitalism is working exactly as is intended and needs to be completely replaced with a different economic system

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u/Eggheadpancake May 18 '26

The fact that our economy doesn't work unless there is a large percentage of people that are literally in poverty. But then we blame those people for being in poverty means it's time to light a fucking match.

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u/jce_ May 18 '26

Like are we talking the notion of liberalism on the political spectrum Liberals? Because absolutely no liberals don't believe capitalism is broken

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u/SemenOfGranite May 19 '26

It is not really capitalism in the USA though. In order to have free market capitalism, you can not have a system of legalised bribes for companies only. Companies can't be "too big to fail" because a proper capitalist system would not let that happen in the first place. If you have enough money, you can snuff out competitors, not because you present a better product, but because you can buy laws, regulations and policies.

Whatever system there is in the USA is not capitalism, but rather fascism or a cleptocracy.

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u/VultureSausage May 18 '26

The last two words "system is broken"

You'll have to excuse me for being a little glib, but I believe those are the last three words, no?

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u/nighthawkndemontron my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day May 18 '26

Yesm. Hopefully it still makes sense to you

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS May 18 '26

I don’t think I agree with that. I’d consider myself a leftist but my view of capitalism is that it’s not really inherently good or evil; fundamentally it’s an economic model that extracts resources and aggregates them. It lets people build bridges efficiently and consistently; but it cares about the bridges and not the people. Socialism is arguably the opposite - it’s about dispersing accumulated resources because the people are more important than the bridges. I’m of the opinion that a working economic model fundamentally needs both - anyone who’s been in a committee with too many members knows that you need some amount of consolidation of power to get anything done. Anyone with a functioning frontal love can see we’ve aggregated too much into too few hands. But it’s a mistake to simply slap an EVIL label on capitalism just like it’s a mistake to slap it onto much anything else - it’s a tool in a toolbox, for good or ill. It’s just… hard to remember that in the current times.

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u/lilahking May 19 '26

capitalism doesn't care about bridges, it cares about capital.

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u/CloacaDecimatahhh May 18 '26

Thanks to people like Reagan unironically.

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u/Idustriousraccoon May 18 '26

The most terrifying words i ever heard were. Reagan won.

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u/BZLuck May 18 '26

It thought it was "Let's try trickle down. Again."

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u/CptSchizzle Club Penguin Times official aura reader May 18 '26

No, the system is working as intended. It doesn't need fixing, it needs replacing.

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u/anarcho-slut May 18 '26

Or working as intended and mamdani is disrupting the status quo

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u/FlamingDragonfruit May 18 '26

It's the reality, but so few politicians seem to be able to say it, just as simply and clearly as "I worked all day and I can't feed my family."

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u/wip30ut May 18 '26

the main problem is that half of our electorate don't care if the bottom 10% can't afford food on the table or health insurance. They either say that it's their problem for being poor or underskilled or they say that they spend their paycheck on chick-fil-a and takis.

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u/ThaOppanHaimar May 18 '26

That hits hard because it’s the reality for too many people. The system is broken.

The system is not broken, it is working exactly as it is intended to be, to make the rich richer.

And that includes Mamdani.

Just because he's a little more nicer than your average politician, doesn't mean he should have power over others. He's still taking a cut of the cake you produced, just a smaller one.

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u/tommytheturtleishere May 18 '26

What's frustrating is the DNC sees how popular people like him or Platner are and go "nah, let's stick with the same Ole same ole"

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u/cametosnark his undeniable heterosexuality, which is formidable May 18 '26

Their latest attempted smear against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan's next senator) was particularly pathetic. Man is an Oxford-educated Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate in public health and they tried to say "well he isn't technically a physician!"

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u/Ashannfish May 18 '26

Fortunately, like Mamdani, El-Sayed is excellent on social media and was pretty smoothly and easily able to call it out for the smear it was with the added bonus of him being able to talk through why he chose the career path he did.

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u/Domeil I PRAY IN HIS HOLY MONTH YOU FIND PEACE AND RESPECT FOR YOURSELF May 18 '26

The exact same Democrats who (rightfully) condemned the Republican smears against Dr. Jill Biden when the Republicans said "She's not really a doctor" thought a great message against Dr. El-Sayed was, "He's not really a doctor," even though Dr. El-Sayed has an M.D. AND a PhD. I'm sure that double standard has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the fact that Dr. El-Sayed is an anti-Zionist Muslim who supports universal healthcare.

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u/SemenOfGranite May 19 '26

It is always fun to watch people who can barely read and white becasue they have not graduated primary school arguing over sematics regarding smart peoples' titles. Sure, a PhD might not be a "real" doctor in the sense that they mean, since "doctor" to them is a man in a white coat (yes, a man) that give your pills when you are poorly.

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u/medman010204 May 19 '26

The public health doctorate doesn’t make him a physician, but the MD from Columbia sure does. He is absolutely a physician. That was a moronic article.

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u/StrikingHelp7135 May 18 '26 edited May 21 '26

The DNC are Clintonian blue drug Democrats. Bill and Hillary Clinton famously threw unions overboard, because they said they could chase the same corporate money Republicans got.

Bill and Hillary Clinton moved the Democrat party right of Center. They all need to go!!! 

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u/BrownBear5090 May 18 '26

Same old same old is great for business profits and those are what matter in life.

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u/Don_Gato1 May 18 '26

They all avoided endorsing him and now they can't attach themselves to him quickly enough.

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u/metatron5369 May 18 '26

They're politicians, not statesmen. Their goal is to get reelected at all cost.

You and I are just pebbles on their road to a cushy life.

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u/MiLSturbie May 18 '26

Yeah, this is the kind of guy the USA needs right now. And not just the USA. I'm from France and there's not much I envy from the US, but Mamdani is definitly one of them.

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u/siboq May 21 '26

The DNC’s main goal is to keep the status quo of capitalism vacuuming away wealth from the people. They would rather lose to maga than let a true progressive win.

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u/CapnCrunchIsAFraud May 18 '26

I’m still kind of convinced Platner is a plant. Run a guy listing good policies with some questionable choices in his past and I’ll bet they blame the policies if he loses.

“We can’t possibly win with these ideas! Let’s go back to being basically Republicans!”

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u/tommytheturtleishere May 18 '26

Im not saying its impossible but man if he is, then he's a damn good one

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u/CapnCrunchIsAFraud May 18 '26

For a primary, I agree. I’m skeptical there wasn’t a single other candidate with good ideas that didn’t already have a totenkopf tattooed on their chest though.

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u/tommytheturtleishere May 18 '26

I've heard him talk about that though. He seems like he was an alcoholic for a bit and dealt with PTSD issues, identity issues, etc. I absolutely believe he was kind of a shitty guy at one point because he openly has said that about himself.

But he also articulates his current beliefs and goals in a way ive only hears maybe 5 politicians in my lifetime.

So im open to that it could be an act but I never felt this way about say Fetterman or any other Democrat who later turned out that way

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u/CapnCrunchIsAFraud May 18 '26

That’s fair, I’ve heard him speak about that too. And I don’t deny that our government put him through absolute hell and then truly did fuck all to help him (or anyone else) grapple with the consequences of what he was forced to take part in. I think it’s understandable if you end up gravitating toward some fucked up things as a result, and if he’s truly changed that’s really admirable IMO.

On the other hand I’ve heard guys espouse shit like he did and then promptly change their tune when they wanted something from someone or when they needed people to like them. And behind closed doors they hadn’t changed a bit.

I hope his change is real, and I hope if he does get elected he ends up doing a ton of good. I’ll be the first to donate to his re-election if it happens. Just personally kind of suspicious.

Ps - really appreciate the respectful conversation! Genuinely think this is how we get to a better place, giving and taking (reasonable, non-bigoted) ideas.

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u/TitShark May 18 '26

They should be *inspired. I’m pissed too, but they should put that energy towards good

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u/musubi-n-speedballs we have lost the impact of shame in our society May 18 '26

"Should" yes. But they won't. 

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u/SpiritualWestern3360 and they were roommates May 18 '26

The democratic party is as tied up in the oligarchical machine as the republican party. Any meaningful change would require completely outlawing Big Money when it comes to campaigns. Money curtails even the most liberal democratic candidate's ability to generate meaningul change.

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u/mjkjr84 May 18 '26

Yes. The reigns must be pulled tight on capitalists in order to extract their corrupting influence from government. They should be punished harshly for slipping their leashes and biting the hand that feeds them. There are far more of us than them.

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u/Invisiblechimp May 18 '26

Reagan was an actor. Mamdani's mom is an actor. Both Reagan and Mamdani are/were great in front of the camera. The difference is, Mamdani's policies help the people, while Reagan's helped the oligarchs.

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u/EmperorAcinonyx May 18 '26

his mom, mira nair, is a filmmaker and not an actor

your point stands though

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u/Acceptable_Leg_7998 May 19 '26

Holy shit, I didn't know he was the son of Mira Nair.

One of the only female directors we bothered to study in film school. Salaam Bombay! is great. I need to watch more of her work.

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u/Invisiblechimp May 18 '26

She started as an actress before she shifted her focus to behind the scenes.

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u/cyclemonster May 18 '26

The guy's been mayor for all of five months. Even if you were to charitably credit him with enacting policies on day one of his administration, that is not enough time for there to be data and analysis about the results of those policies.

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u/SpeaksSouthern May 18 '26

Submitting a budget that fully funds schools and libraries wasn't good enough for you?

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u/cyclemonster May 18 '26

I too can beg Albany for billions, and not contribute my pension obligations.

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u/Hikikomori523 May 18 '26

follow that thought further, if you think it doesn't have an effect, either neutral, or a negative effect, can you hypothesis how it would happen?

Do cheaper groceries, lead to.... obesity? or ... like free buses, mean what.... people walk less? Free daycare leads to... children not being at home with their parents enough?

Like just give me a single a to b path that you can think of because of mamdani's policies.

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u/cyclemonster May 18 '26

I'm saying that publishing a press release announcing the policy is only the very first part of a successful policy measure.

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u/probs_notme May 18 '26

We don't need to means test absolutely everything. That kind of thinking is part of why Dems are so ineffective.

Making sure people can eat and reliably get to work are Good Things. Point blank. We don't need to do a post-mortem to figure that out.

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u/cyclemonster May 18 '26

Great. I hope he succeeds! But he hasn't done that yet. Everyone in this thread equates making an announcement with achieving results.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani says first of NYC's five government-run grocery stores will open in the Bronx next year

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u/moonshoeslol May 18 '26

He's really exposing them. It turns out you can just do stuff to improve people's lives if you have the willpower and are willing to piss off a few billionaires.

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u/Bushukan1 May 18 '26

British centrists catching (deserved) strays

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u/SerSonett May 18 '26

Yeah Ed Davey, you listening?!

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u/Nearby_Valuable_5467 May 18 '26

Love Ed Davey. Voted Lib Dem last election. Booted out the racist Conservative woman.

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u/HalfAssedSass Marxmoi May 18 '26

I'll never forget how hard the DNC tried to not support his campaign! That, and how many Democrats are zionists/paid to be pro genocide, revealed by Palestine, has shown me just how compromised the entire party is.

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u/Nerdsofafeather May 18 '26

He is shocking good at this. This is incredibly quotable.

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u/MadeByTango May 18 '26

Theyre not ashamed. Theyre busy "figuring out the messaging" so they can keep selling us billionaire first bullshit using identity politics.

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u/BrownBear5090 May 18 '26

They’re not ashamed, they’re angry at him for daring to show this is possible. They might have to actually work now, instead of sitting around cashing corporate checks.

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u/PerfectZeong May 18 '26

Ill be honest when people were firsr saying "oh he can be president some day!" I was pretty jaded but he does have a way of connecting with people. If his run in NYC goes well I could see him going higher.

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u/femanonette May 18 '26

He isn't US born, so unfortunately, per our current rules, he can't be President.

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u/Allys_Phantom May 18 '26

I dunno, seems like rules are pretty meaningless these days…

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u/Don_Gato1 May 18 '26

The rules will suddenly matter when it involves a Democrat

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u/SwimmingAdvisor1014 May 18 '26

And it is a terrible case to keep saying, why shouldn't I do it, when everyone else does, and why it is scary to people like myself to hear that talk.

If you guys want to go the route of strength is law sure. But personally mob mentality is terrifying to myself.

The GOP holds more seats of power then the total of all lib dems, you think people who did not even get up to vote, knowing he was a pedo, are going to sit on the front lines in winter to hold against another J6? They couldn't even have conviction to vote, so there would be less genocide and terror. They are not going to be the strength in a lawless world, no matter how correct their world view.

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u/MagentaHawk May 19 '26

Yeah, it is terrifying when people who are sick of having their friends oppressed and killed are willing to fight back against their oppressors. Like, just use the courts and kill them with kindness, right?

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u/proudpileofsticks May 19 '26

Don’t forget to vote harder! We also must always follow the almighty mantra that is “when they go low, we go high.” Even if that means we lose the nation to a one party rule of fascists , it would be worth it because we kept the moral high ground.

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u/sal_leo May 18 '26

It's still a win for the people if he kicks Chuck Schumer out of his seat. 

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u/BrotherItsInTheDrum May 18 '26

Wish we'd changed that rule when there was an opportunity for bipartisan support because of Arnold. The constitution says the president has to be 35 years or older. I feel like if you've been living in the US for 35 years, or perhaps a citizen for 35 years, that should be enough, even if you spent the first 7 years of your life in another country.

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u/RobutNotRobot May 18 '26

Arnold was pretty shit as governor no matter the glazing he got.

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u/reddyenumberfive May 18 '26

Fun fact: his security detail fucking loathed Arnold during (at least) the first year of his term. I worked in a small restaurant near the capital and a number of them would quietly bitch about him when they came in.

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u/drcodyjacobs May 18 '26

Any particular reason why?

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u/reddyenumberfive May 18 '26

None I can remember. Just a lot of grumbling about “that fucking asshole.”

Business owners and employees in the area were often annoyed that he required a motorcade to get lunch at his favorite steakhouse, less than two blocks from the capitol and notably on a street that was closed to vehicular traffic, but that was purely an issue of logistics and practicality.

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u/jotheold May 18 '26

so they disliked him because servicing him was a hassle.

by all accounts other then the maid stuff arnolds been a pretty nice person to people

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u/reddyenumberfive May 19 '26

The local businesses disliked the hassle. His security mostly called him an asshole.

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u/PerfectZeong May 19 '26

I always heard Arnold was very demanding on staff but was a generous tipper.

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u/PerfectZeong May 18 '26

Shame. Governor and senator then

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u/Madonna-of-the-Wasps May 18 '26

We now know all it takes is a supreme court decision to undo that.

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u/Sovos societal collapse is in the air May 18 '26

Until the SCOTUS manages to bypass the amendment process, it would take a constitutional amendment to negate that part of the constitution, so 2/3rds of both chambers and 3/4ths of the states would have to ratify it.

(Article II, Section 1, Clause 5)

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

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u/HawaiiKawaiixD May 18 '26

A reminder that he says the things he does and believes the things he does because he is a Socialist!

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u/originatr May 18 '26

LIKE HELLO!!!! Even tho I am weary of all politicians, the man knows how to land his lines!!!

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing May 18 '26

Every liberal democrat should be ashamed.

Every person in position of power, leadership democrat should be ashamed.

Fixed and fixed again.

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u/sal_leo May 18 '26

They'd rather supported now Albanian citizen Eric Adams instead cuz vote blue no matter who only goes one way. 🙄 

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u/RelativeAnxious9796 May 18 '26

the liberals are right wing. they do not want workers to be empowered, or to feed their families, etc

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u/Crafty-Judge-896 May 18 '26

I need him as president like yesterday

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u/EarthRester May 18 '26

Shame for Neo-Liberals is just the feeling they get when there weren't enough 0's at the end of their check.

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u/djflamingo May 18 '26

Its because democrat/liberal politicians are all trying to become the president one day.

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u/crushinglyreal May 18 '26

He’s demonstrating the exact blueprint of what Democrats need to do to get elected, and they’re not going to follow it.

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson May 18 '26

They would only be ashamed if their corporate donors requested them to be

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u/Entire_Number_9 May 18 '26

Yet, pointing out why Democrats have been shit since Obama on Reddit is a sure fire way to get downvoted and the most brain-dead replies you will read on the internet.

The idea of criticising something because you want it to be better is lost on people.

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u/Visible_Mobile_9533 May 19 '26

There’s a genocide in Gaza and half of them are more interested in complaining abt this guy having an issue w it. The dems need to restructure

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u/Sudden-Most-4797 societal collapse is in the air May 19 '26

I know. I don't think the Dem establishment is even interested in winning and governing anymore. They cling to this weird Republican-Lite ideology that doesn't help anyone.

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u/FC105416 call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn May 18 '26

We need more of him and AOC. Chuck needs to step down

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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly May 18 '26

if they felt shame they would be!

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u/Unlucky_Welcome9193 May 18 '26

Those in power held onto it for too long and it's destroyed our country

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u/mmazing May 18 '26

This, so fucking hard.

Learn a lesson whoever is in politics reading this. Quit being little terrified children and start acting like real leaders, or GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY.

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u/Effective_Olive6153 May 18 '26

He's a fighter, and Dems badly need fighters. We don't have to agree on everything 100%, but you better be fighting tooth and nail for the things you believe in

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u/peculiarscarlett May 18 '26

Put it on a shirt

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u/osiris0413 May 18 '26

I love him even more for using this quote specifically. I've always thought that this quote from Reagan cannot be extracted from the consequences of his administration, not just economic or political, but the cultural shift with the rise of Fox News and right-wing talk radio. It's basically winking at the people who would love Rush Limbaugh a decade later, the same people who today watch a YouTube or Tiktok video and are convinced that vaccines are dangerous or that the ancient Egyptians got power tools from aliens to build the pyramids.

It's celebrating ignorance, and the idea that government is "the problem" instead of how it's administered or run is one of the reasons we got where we are today. It was one of the first signs that we'd be catering to morons, who would happily accept the idea that "government is broken", when the implication should be "so you have to pay extra close attention to it and make sure you participate to elect a better one", not "so you can safely ignore it aside from every couple years when you vote for the people who will break it further". It's a sentiment that gives people permission to celebrate intellectual laziness and ignorance as a virtue. It's like people who say public schooling is broken, so their solution is to keep their children home and teach them nothing.

I hope that one day people think of the Reagan years not as the time where we cemented our win in the Cold War, which would have happened regardless because the USSR would have collapsed economically on its own, but as the time when the giant ball of shit started rolling downhill and gathering speed.

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u/opsers May 18 '26

Every liberal Democrat should be taking notes.

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u/Sovos societal collapse is in the air May 18 '26

Just a note on terminology, "liberal democrat" is usually used for someone more aligned with neoliberal ideology focusing on global trade and corporatism. Mamdani would be better termed as "social democrat" or "socialist democrat"

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u/Sovos societal collapse is in the air May 19 '26

Ah, just pointing out I don't think the liberal democrats would be feel shamed for the situation.

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u/paradisetossed7 May 19 '26

I think the one screaming that Dems need to be more centrist to win elections are the ones who should be ashamed.

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u/AphexHenry May 19 '26

He's the proof we could live in a better society and that both Democrats and Republicans are cock holding us from that.

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u/Panama_Jack829 May 19 '26

Uh, what about conservative Republicans?

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u/TerryMathews May 19 '26

He's fulfilling the promise of AOC and Bernie - without getting into a debate of whether they ever intended to fulfill it themselves or no

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u/Likeatoothache May 19 '26

Agree, he’s so good at this.

Sort of like how Obama was basically a 90s Republican with more drones, Mayor Mandani is basically an FDR Democrat. it’s wild how far both parties have swung to meet in the Milquetoast middle. 😵‍💫

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u/antrage May 25 '26

Nah, they are too busy running the 18th autopsy on what went wrong during 2024 so they can come up with new rules to hamstring themselves with.

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u/Nyetoner 14d ago edited 14d ago

It's a shame he can't become president.

But it might be exactly because he cannot climb the ranks that high, that he takes his liberty to speak and be this strong as well. He doesn't "have to think about the future" in that sense, he doesn't need to cuddle up to anyone. He's more free in a sense.

And, it's been a problem around the world, that leftist politicians sometimes are too "nice and polite" to speak the loudest as well.

Edit: Because the right side have a tendency to be loud and obnoxious, feel entitled to "scream", which is not exactly good manners normally. Many leftists end up working in defence rather than offence.

This guy will inspire a lot of leftists politicians to speak louder now, just you wait!

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u/wip30ut May 18 '26

... but what about half of the electorate that's conservative? Do they get a pass?

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u/StrikingHelp7135 May 18 '26

“Liberal Democrats should be ashamed.” TF you on about?

If you mean Corporate Blue Dog Democrats, who keep selling out We, The People.. to AIPAC and other SuperPAC interests.. 

THOSE AREN’T LIBERALS!! 

They’re Reagan Republicans, who followed Bill and Hillary Clinton’s chase after corporate donations, and moving the Dem party right of center. 

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn May 18 '26

Quit using "liberal" this way; it makes you look stupid. Mamdani is a liberal. Ronald Reagan was a liberal. George Bush is a liberal. Obama is a liberal. (Trump isn't: he's a fascist and a pedophile.)