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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I do. Our power got turned off a lot and sometimes taxes didn't get paid either. Mostly self-inflicted bad decisions, though. That said, I was also a member of the economic working class and then lower middle and middle class as an adult, with kids. I've just caught a huge number of undeserved lucky breaks, starting from the moment of birth, for which I am endlessly grateful. I'm very concerned and have posted about it. But that doesn't mean this isn't a real story that progressives can just handwave away because he is theirs. I think what I said was that he had good national Democratic messaging and that he was a bad vehicle for it. FIFY. Look man, I pay part of the rent for an 4th floor, 2BR 500sf walkup with no AC in a precinct Mamdani won handily. It's as much as my mortgage in Austin. I care a LOT about the cost of rental housing in New York City. There is no substance based on what I've seen. Based on the choices as they are, if I was eligible to vote in NYC I would likely hold my nose and vote for him, since the others have disqualified themselves one way or the other. That's the best thing I can say.
  2. Yes, that’s how entitlement works. Maybe they should have hired someone to photoshop his head onto a rower! Sure. The REAL scandal is how the voting public got this true and possibly salient information. He should start calling it “the Columbia Columbia Columbia hoax.” There was no admission!
  3. Man I would get high as fuck with 10mg, especially on top of the whiskey and Mexican quaaludes.
  4. Are you not entertained?
  5. Oh yeah, I get it.
  6. He’s bad in all the ways normal politicians are bad, plus he’s super green, and plans to spend a great deal of political capital on things that won’t move the needle much. I like that he’s young and willing to try new things or at least moot new ideas. I don’t see any reason to expect he can navigate all the competing interests and bureaucratic antibodies though. Brad Landers was a better option in every way.
  7. My high school days? You mean the year I got called white trash by kids at St Marks and a kid’s mom told me she was “embarrassed” for my grandmother based on my family and my other grandparents? I had my nose pressed against some nice windows for a while. That’s about it. But, it’s not a contest- we were never poor. Working class people aren’t poor.
  8. Of course it isn’t a bigger story. You sound like Sean Hannity.
  9. Well I said it wouldn’t matter, Mamdani will probably win and he’s the best bad option. But I’m not ready to count either Cuomo or Adams out, either. And for the record, Doctor, once you get enough dirt under your fingernails you’ll never get it out. I can be high income and inshallah could maybe even be wealthy at some point. I’m certainly rich in all the ways that matter. But I’ll be working class until the day I die.
  10. It won’t make it worse or it won’t matter? It probably won’t matter, but how do you figure it won’t make it worse? Signed, a working class person who spends a lot of time in NY.
  11. People vote against their own interests all the time for dumb reasons, but who gets to decide what their interests are?
  12. Mmmm. That's MAGA-grade whataboutism right there. Are you saying I shouldn't care about children of privilege cutting the line? Because that's very likely what Trump did, it's what Bush did, but Mamdani should get a pass because ... he comes from a "different background?" My dude, he is the son of a very famous Columbia professor and an even more famous and successful movie director. Are academic and media nepobabies suddenly an underrepresented or disadvantaged minority at elite universities? Again, I don't think Mamdani will win or lose because of this, but y'all seem to object to this story being out there and you sound like Republicans.
  13. Get over yourself. I can't vote there, but I do pay rent in NYC, my daughter lives in the Lower East Side, and I spend 5-10 days a month in the city for work as my company is based there. So yes, I have an interest in this race - particularly housing affordability. Honestly, all the options they have at this point are bad, Mamdani being the least bad option.
  14. There was also some speculation of a personal element.
  15. Well he didn’t get in but it certainly reflects poorly on his character. More importantly, however, it undermines a core part of his appeal. That’s not to say he will lose, he’s still the front runner but not by a lot. He already had a problem among black voters and working class people. This will only make that worse.
  16. That’s sophistry. It was certainly politically motivated hacking, but since we unfortunately live in an era when literal Nazis are out in public again, we probably shouldn’t say it was “Nazis” unless actual fascist white nationalists is who we are talking about. That said, it really doesn’t matter. Mamdani has presented himself as a champion of working people and minorities, and while this this has clearly made him appealing in NYs affluent and well creative class, his support has not been very strong with black and working class voters. Claiming to be “black or African American” as a person with two Indian parents will make that worse. It looks like an attempt to access a racial preference that was made available at Columbia to address the long term structural inequities that resulted from black African slavery, and you know that. And he almost certainly knew it when he checked the box on a technicality. I know a rich white guy who was born in Nigeria. Is he African American? I know multiple Afrikaans people whose parents fled when apartheid ended- should they be able to access affirmative action? Of course not and you know that too. Speaking as the kind of person who comes from a working class background that Mamdani needs to win the general: this looks like yet another example of the children of privilege attempting to cut the line.
  17. Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?
  18. Ok. Two questions 1) but is is true? and if it is; 2) does the source matter?
  19. Mr Mamdani, call your office. It didn’t work apparently despite the fact that his dad is a professor at Columbia, but maybe those South African farmers’ kids should try this.
  20. This but unironically. Part of why Democrats need to center their identity around middle and working class economic interests and not on social issues is because there are core elements of the base that can be quite homophobic, transphobic and racist. And this is at least as true among black and Hispanic democrats as it is for white union democrats. those groups are tolerant enough to vote together with LBGTQ+ and other minorities, but the co-belligerents can’t stick together without working and middle class economic interests to glue them together.
  21. $1950?
  22. Black children being used as bait for gator hunting definitely wasn’t common in practice, and may not have even actually ever happened. But it was certainly a VERY popular and extraordinarily racist and dehumanizing trope. I like to believe that if Florida fans knew what the ‘gator bait’ chant referred to they wouldn’t use it, but I’m probably kidding myself.
  23. If by “swinging for the fences” you mean proposing to spend a lot on relatively few deeply affordable housing while tying up actual solutions to the housing shortage for years with the activist flypaper of comprehensive planning, you are right.
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