Media: “Everyone, this guy doesn’t grovel for Israel!”
Everyone: “okay that sounds good.”
Not sure if this was a smear campaign as much as the lobby getting high on it’s own supply.
Remember when trump invited the taliban to camp david…
Bruh, no, I didn’t remember until you posted this. Holy shit. It’s been a longass 10 years.
it’s not and it hasn’t… keep fighting until he is mayor and starts enacting what he is promising
Failed? It’s been less than a week. They’re threatening to denaturalize and deport him. Sounds like they’re very frightened.
The smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani isn’t over, and won’t be over for as long as he’s in politics, and then a little after.
Definitely not over. Assuming he wins the election, I would anticipate a lot of sabotage stemming from establishment politicians and public servants. If they can’t win this election, they’ll want to make his term as mayor as discordant and ineffectual as possible, to make it easier for a more conservative/establishment candidate to win the next one.
Which is why I think everyone celebrating his victory are being naively premature
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.
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.
It won’t work because, like every socialist system everywhere, capitalists will seek to undermine and interfere.
Yeah but he’s doing it for those NYC liberal elites, so improving their way of life is a bad thing you see.
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.
He’s not implementing socialism. He’s using democratic socialism, an existing facet of our economy, on city-wide needs.
Social Democracy, really, but Americans insist on using the wrong name.
They’re both correct, depending on the context. A social democracy is a system of government. Democratic socialism is an ideology.
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.
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.
The oligarchs can’t win on the merits of their policies, so they desperately resort to identity politics to try to divide us.
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.
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
New York has a big Jewish population.
Am Jewish, am native New Yorker, no longer live there, would vote Mamdani. Fuck Israel.
Doesn’t he still have to win the general? So we’ll see if it failed or not.
OK, so next it’ll be the an entrapment operation? And then maybe an assassination?
I mean, if history is our guide…
I really wish he would win. But I’m not hopeful.
That’s the ticket.
Vote in the primary. Vote in the general. Write your representatives. Do everything you’re supposed to do but don’t assume it will ever work.
If I didn’t have that attitude I’d have given up on voting ten years ago.
What do you mean? The hard part is behind us, Zohran is now the heavy favorite in the general election.
