I started the day with the news that Dick Cheney is dead. Now I'm ending it with news that Zohran Mamdani is mayor. It's been the best day in a long, long time.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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Hold up, vice president headshots died? Howd I miss that?
So few people cared about him that nobodys talking about it.
Today most people I've seen online were "THE BASTARD IS DEAD, MARGARET THATCHER CAN FUCK HIM IN THE ASS IN HELL"
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And California passed prop 50!
This will potentially negate Texas's gerrymandering attempts as thiswill gain up to five house seats for the democrats, and Texas's bullshit (which required NO vote) also gains up to five seats.
Get fucked, Texas. Fuck you. Good on you, New York. Fuck Trump.
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VOTER FRAUD! There's NO WAY someone who Campaigned on Helping the Middle Class could BEAT a Sex Offender with Billionaire Sugar Daddies! There's NO WAY!
How could a guy that was forced to resign as governor fail to get elected as mayor?!?!
End of the world in 30 days!
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Hell yeah. Hopefully this will contribute momentum to a larger nationwide socialist movement.
Almost as soon as Mamdani won the primary, the DNC chair did a PBS interview talking about the important part was the platform Mamdani ran on...
And Martin only waited till after the primary, because he legit believes a party shouldn't be biased. But he ran Minnesota for a decade, and under his watch they went from purple to progressive as fuck.
The only way we lose, is if people pre-emptively give up on the party and don't vote in the primary. So there's going to be a lot of noise trying to convince people not to trust the new party
Going to be?
There's already a shit load of that right here on Lemmy.
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Billionaire will = thwarted
Billionaire funding = wasted
We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.
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A win for the people! Cuomo's campaign expenses were $56 million, 2.5 times higher than Mamdani's. Cuomo was mostly funded by billionaires, while Mamdani had mostly small sum contributions.
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?? Weren't they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?
Because it's actually worked. The wealthy have become outrageously more wealthy in the last several decades because of their interference in elections.
Mamdani is a setback for their plans, but honestly 56 million dollars is effectively nothing compared to the money the elite, donor-class holds and uses to influence society. The only way we topple their stranglehold is to have more "Mamdani Events" in every major city and state while we still have democracy and can launch grass-roots elections to remove corruption and money from politics.
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AP calls the race for Mamdani as well.
Beacon of hope in a dark time for America. Now it's time for all New Yorkers to prepare to make the city that lifts everyone up in a way that every North American city would want to emulate.
Wow who would've thought that listening to voters' concerns about the economy, acknowledging their fears, and promising real change to address the most important issues facing them would be a viable way to win elections!
So you're saying Democrats need to move politically to the right and promote the status quo, to appeal more to centrist voters?
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Chaney is dead, Mamdani wins? Good news for the nation as my personal life is shit.
Genuinely uplifting in a way. Thank you to all the NYC voters making a difference. And a big thank you to anyone to visits Chaney's grave to piss on it.
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My country's (very politically aligned) public news station described Mamdani as "communist" and "anti-Semitic".
I am always a bit disgusted by Italian public service news station, this one was particularly telling at how biased it can be.
TG2, right? The other day they were saying that there was no genocide at all in Gaza, just "extremely targeted attacks against terrorists"
It's so extremely targeted that it kills kids before they can become terrorist... /s
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“Trump signs executive order that Cuomo actually won and that Dick Cheney is still alive.”
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The Empire will strike back folks. Brace yourselves and don't self-congratulate too much, the real fight starts now. Good luck, American friends!
The moment anyone so much as an atom left of center is elected, all the forces and money of the nations ruling class bears down on them to prevent even a baby step of progress.
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Happy to see the Cuomo campaign fail and waste all that $$$ in the process. Fuck him
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of elitists suddenly cried out in terror and suddenly clutched their pearls.
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The first thing my conservative acquaintance wrote was "I hope you re ready for another 9-11" because now its coming" They are really scared eh
Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.
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Congratulations to Americans and new yorkers in particular! Hoping real change for quality of life succeeds
If they would let him get to work it would be great, unfortunately a lot of his energy in the first year will be fighting off Trump and other billionaires trying to remove him or throw roadblocks in his way.
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Fuck yes! That’s really good news and that it well needed right now!
It is crazy what giving people to vote for something, instead just voting against someone can produce some great results. Mamdani had to take on a class on billionaires and the old DNC leadership he who didn't want to back him. It is funny af to see Chuck the leader of Dems show vote blue no matter who was fake. He most likely voted for Cuomo.
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Welp time to see Trump flail his arms and cry like the man child he is
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Love to see that Silwa did in fact split the conservative vote, but Mamdani would've won anyway.
not only winning, but also currently on pace for a majority of votes cast in (essentially) a 3-way race.
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I'm super curious about voter turnout.
Highest since '69. I'll come back with link.
ETA: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/record-voters-ballots-cast-mamdani-cuomo-sliwa/
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I will forever respect Sliwa for sticking it out. He’s a real one. Maybe Mamdani can make him the head of the parade department.
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My mother, the only family that I have left that I will talk to sent me a text asking if any other cities will have a "radical Islamist" mayor. I ignored it because I could not find the words to explain that what she described isn't a thing without destroying the one connection to my family I have left.
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This is nice. I was really worried there would be some last minute funny business with Cuomo, but things worked out for once!
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So happy to see a clean sweep on EVERY major election across the country for dems and freedom. We cannot take the foot of the gas, the white house is currently working HARD to find ways to take away Mamdani's win and hurt New Yorkers because they voted against the king.
We need to maintain the pressure.
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