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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. There was also some speculation of a personal element.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?
  7. Ok. Two questions 1) but is is true? and if it is; 2) does the source matter?
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. $1950?
  11. 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.
  12. 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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  14. Thomas Kinkade is the Normal Rockwell of Tophet
  15. it means a lot about NY, but nothing about the future of Democratic Party outside of NY. It’s just a local election.
  16. It’s not likely, but saying a Republican or independent could never get elected is like when people said Donald Trump couldn’t get a truly fair trial in New York City. The opposite is true. It’s probably the only place where he could get one. Likewise, NYC is probably the only huge city that is local enough for a Republican to win a partisan election for mayor. That’s why these takes about what the Mamdani win means for the Democratic Party so silly. It doesn’t mean anything. NYC is not representative of the rest of the country.
  17. 2013. But look, here’s the thing with NYC- the voters there are very diverse, very transactional, and vote on a very local basis, and the political structure rewards those who break from their party to get ahead. The default is Democratic but it is ALWAYS possible for a Republican or an independent to be elected mayor. It’s been that way for over a century.
  18. One of the Republicans was Rudolph Giuliani, so not really? if anything, the GOP has nationally drifted towards Staten Island.
  19. Two of the last four mayors of NYC were Republicans and one of the Republicans also won the office as an independent.
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  21. And a good day to you too, sir. If you want to experience a small slice of the shit women deal with every day, tell people you don’t like Inception, and some middlebrow type will pop out of nowhere and start explaining Inception. Sure, it doesn’t help that Hans Zimmer decided to make the Oboe player the Oppenheimer of the woodwind section, but Inception didn’t suck because Hans Zimmerman is a bad composer. Inception sucked because at some point after the Prestige, Christopher Nolan apparently lost whatever trust he had in the audience to understand movies based on the combination of moving images and realistic dialogue between well developed characters. As a result, he uses expository dialogue and music the way less gifted directors use voiceovers: as a substitute for competent narrative filmmaking, which in turn makes him a little lazy in terms of pacing and plot points. Consequently, Inception drowns in self-evidence. Basically, the shouting ruins the visuals. It’s like porn for the blind, as described by Frankie MacDonald, cue Oboes on the money shot: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
  22. The irony of Rick Perry is that the two things that killed his career were the two best things he tried to get done.
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