Naw, I just live here and stuff and actually follow local politics, as opposed to cults of personality and attention-grabbing headlines.llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Oh I am fully expecting your next Mamdami post to be as insane as the others. A lot of people here are plainly annoyed by anyone to the left of Amy Schumer, whatever, it’s just part of the fuckin’ ecosystem.
Once again, I voted for the dude. He was the best option by far. But I guess the party line (or is it non-New Yorkers on the internet?) frowns on being critical of or slightly disappointed in one's choices? Trump is already praising this so-called socialist re: Mamdani's police commissioner (Jess Tisch) and making concessions to big developers (an underhanded move that the City Council has warned against). That stuff matters a lot if you live in NYC. So the taking-a-plane-instead-of-a-2.5-hour-express-train-trip is just a bonus. The guy isn't even in office yet, so we will see.hyljetronic wrote: Your Homeland Security tweeted about the answer being remigration. Your country is rapidly slipping into facism and your democrats are goose stepping, so please please please, vet your socialists properly so that they don't use aeroplanes instead of trains. Times line these, those things really matter.
All you can do is vote for the best, or least bad option every time.OrthodoxEaster wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:13 am
Once again, I voted for the dude. He was the best option by far. But I guess the party line (or is it non-New Yorkers on the internet?) frowns on being critical of or slightly disappointed in one's choices?
Yeah, I get that Mamdani can't do anything to DHS, but where I'm getting at is that "the left" there doesn't have many strong figures, and when you finally get one people will purity test them to oblivion before even taking the office.OrthodoxEaster wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:13 amOnce again, I voted for the dude. He was the best option by far. But I guess the party line (or is it non-New Yorkers on the internet?) frowns on being critical of or slightly disappointed in one's choices? Trump is already praising this so-called socialist re: Mamdani's police commissioner (Jess Tisch) and making concessions to big developers (an underhanded move that the City Council has warned against). That stuff matters a lot if you live in NYC. So the taking-a-plane-instead-of-a-2.5-hour-express-train-trip is just a bonus. The guy isn't even in office yet, so we will see.hyljetronic wrote: Your Homeland Security tweeted about the answer being remigration. Your country is rapidly slipping into facism and your democrats are goose stepping, so please please please, vet your socialists properly so that they don't use aeroplanes instead of trains. Times line these, those things really matter.
But signs are pointing to just another politician making promises he either can't or never intended to keep. Or, more charitably, getting molded by the system.
Perhaps those are just early gaffes? I do appreciate that he's dismissing a bunch of the previous mayor's cronies.
Also, Homeland Security is federal, so Mamdani's not really gonna make a huge dent there even if he wants to. B/c he's a city-level mayor. But never mind the details...
I like what the guy represents a lot. I'm just not sure he'll be able to deliver is all.
I don’t know, it seems like you spun out and made a few posts over an article.OrthodoxEaster wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 8:36 pmNaw, I just live here and stuff and actually follow local politics, as opposed to cults of personality and attention-grabbing headlines.llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Oh I am fully expecting your next Mamdami post to be as insane as the others. A lot of people here are plainly annoyed by anyone to the left of Amy Schumer, whatever, it’s just part of the fuckin’ ecosystem.
So pardon my heavy skepticism. We already saw this once w/De Blasio.
Can't say for sure, but I wonder if you thought Obama was amazing out of the gate? Bought into all that snappy "change" rhetoric, style over substance stuff?
One of my beefs w/Mamdani is that he's actually swerving center-right on developers and policing. To the point where Trump openly praised him for both!
Again, I fully concede that I'd love to be all wrong about this.