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    But Cuomo tried very hard to turn it into a referendum on Mamdani’s views on Israel and Palestine—and the media establishment took the bait.

    It’s weird this is an issue in a mayoral campaign in the USA. The role has no foreign policy authority whatsoever, and Palestine/Israel is 5700 miles from NYC.

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      He’s about to raise taxes on ~350k millionaires, while increasing wages and lowering the cost of groceries and rent. It’s everything Trump promised in his campaign, but he’s doing it the exact opposite way.

      When it works, Trump is gonna look like a dick, and the nation will see that democratic socialism will get them what they were promised.

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        Yeah but he’s doing it for those NYC liberal elites, so improving their way of life is a bad thing you see.

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        Socialism has failed every time it’s been attempted, for one very good reason.

        I fully expect the CIA to get involved. Probably before the general election even happens.

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      There’s a huge Jewish population in NYC, and many mistakenly assume that all of them support what Israel is doing. To a lot of people Judaism=Zionism.

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        Even if that assumption were correct, the mayor of NYC cannot meaningfully aid or hinder Israel’s actions. A politician’s position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they’re seeking doesn’t usually influence my vote.

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          The oligarchs can’t win on the merits of their policies, so they desperately resort to identity politics to try to divide us.

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        That’s a weird assumption. Many Jews strongly oppose it, including Bernie Sanders, Jon Stewart, Ben and Jerry from the ice cream, and probably millions of less famous Jews.

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      Yeah the most bizarre thing to me was seeing the debate and hearing a question about foreign nation visits

      Like wtf is a city mayor doing visiting other countries and why would we care

      That was super weird. It was trying to bait out mamdani and other progressive views about Israel but man what a word question for a mayoral race