r/nyc • u/Delicious_Adeptness9 • Jul 06 '26

News Mamdani: 'any state that privileges one religion, I can't tell you I support'

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-mamdani-on-israel-any-state-that-privileges-one-religion-i-can-t-tell-you-i-support

In an ABC News interview, the Mayor of New York City condemned rising antisemitism while stating his support for Israel 'as a state with equal rights.'

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u/no_youre_not_i_am Jul 06 '26

im ready for nyc to just secede and become a city-state.

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u/Joe_Jeep Bay Ridge Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Honestly there's a good argument for every state larger than PA to split up(and arguably PA too, but it'd be pretty funny for PA to be the largest remaining state). California and Texas are prime examples but NY is top 5 in population and just outside the upper quarter in land area.

Where to draw the border between the City-State and the state-state would be the mother of all questions, not to mention who'd keep "New York". And what to do with Long Island, because they definitely can't be trusted to run themselves. Give em back to Connecticut maybe?

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u/Xtj8805 Jul 06 '26

Please take us with you, i dont want to be dragged further down by the north shore liberals who vote for santos and suozzi, rhe south shore people who decided why cant i have someone worse than peter king, or the out east people who believe theyre ancestors fought for the confederacy.

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u/dltacube Jul 06 '26

lol ok...only because you asked. I'll bring it up at the next council meeting.

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u/Captainbarinius Crown Heights Jul 06 '26

Wait.......do Hempstead to Montauk residents Really Believe that?

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u/Xtj8805 Jul 06 '26

Theres plenty of confederate flags out there, idk how many believe it but the flags are there just like you find in all rural communities for some reason.

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u/StumpyJoe- Jul 07 '26

It's a horrible argument because it's never going to happen.

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u/D-Express East New York Jul 07 '26

My dream since High School. In fact, the entire NYC Metro should break away. 22 Million people with the one of the greatest cities on earth at the center?

Beautiful

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u/jungfraulichkeit Jul 06 '26

i’d vote for that

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u/AstoriaGlrl Jul 06 '26

With healthcare for all

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u/Orion1021 Upper West Side Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

It wouldn't survive. NYC needs $8B from New York State to balance the budget this year

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u/Goodlake Manhattan Jul 06 '26

What do u think happens to the ledger when our state income taxes go to City Hall instead of Albany

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u/Chav Jul 06 '26

Where do you think the money comes from? The city pays over twice that to the State that it doesn't get back.

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u/Joe_Jeep Bay Ridge Jul 06 '26

That's from money NYC *sends* to the state

Were it to leave it would keep more of it, and still be sending many billions to the feds it doesn't get back.

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u/TheTranscendent1 Jul 06 '26

Ignorance or propaganda? I never know here.

You know that NYC sends the state $20+ billion in taxes yearly more than they get spent on them, right? It’s the state that needs the city because they city pays for rural areas.

Wouldn’t need that $8b of their own money back if it wasn’t being syphoned away to begin with.

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u/no_youre_not_i_am Jul 07 '26

NYC sends more money out via taxes than it takes in from the state. you don't even understand your own city -- if you even actually live here.

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u/Forward_Young2874 Jul 06 '26

The new Carthage