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"Struggles with state" is such a weird talking point. He's a mayor, not a state rep.
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You know during the campaign my only exposure to the guy were clips of him absolutely devastating Cuomo so I am sort of surprised now when I see clips and he looks so happy and friendly
If you stand next to someone who sexually assaulted over a dozen women and who killed 15,000 mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers in nursing homes, you might understand.
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'That's the sound of millions of inbred morons screaming in impotent rage, and were suddenly silenced'
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PROOF that people HATE Mamdani!
-That One Guy in the Comment Sections saying people HATE the DSA!
"Nearly a third of New Yorkers oppose the brutal Mamdani régime"
I can see this as some press media headline.
Almost 32 percent of New Yorkers don't support Mandami.
And 21% of Americans don't like apple pie. At some point you have to recognize overwhelming support when you see it.
Which is roughly the same amount of pro Nazi members of society....what do you think that Venn diagram looks like?
I would like to take "What is a Circle?" For $800, Alex.
If he hits 100%, does he automatically become president? I think that would be a cool rule.
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How do you disapprove of a guy trying to improve your life? I'm guessing the other 30% are a combination of rich assholes and dumb rednecks who know literally nothing about him?
here's a map from a few weeks ago of Mamdani's approval ratings. All the wealthy areas have red dissapproval ratings. Something I like to note is the red rectangle just off Central Park is Epstein Alley, the area where the richest assholes own property.
It's all the outskirts except for central Manhattan and surprisingly Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which I thought was part of the Commie Corridor. Flushing is expected considering many first generation Asians are conservative (read: racist) and prefer to vote for a white man.
New Yorker here to translate.
Manhattan is almsot all green except for a sliver on 5th Avenue near Central Park. That's the priciest area. Most of the rest of the borough is pretty pricey. even Harlem apartments are getting expensive, now that it's being gentrified.
Most of the red areas aren't particularly pricey and certainly aren't considered high class or exclusive.
The bright red area all the way at the bottom left is the South Shore of Staten Island.
I once met a woman who taught Art History at Staten Island College. She told me that many of her students had never made the trip into Manhattan to visit the Metropolitan Museum, one of the top museums in the world.
For additional context, it’s maybe an hour trip by train feom SI (including a fun ferry ride) and admission is free for Ny’ers at The Met. (Natural history museum too!)
That really red area under the mouse cursor is... Borough Park? Super conservative Jewish area? Or maybe bensonhurst? I live here but am apparently bad at maps.
Yeah, that's Borough Park, famous for the Orthodox Jewish community doing stuff like diverting public education funds towards private religious schools or having a private bus system that used to require women to sit in the back until an investigation in 2011.
The small red area just northeast is Crown Heights, famous for the hilarious synagogue tunnel story back in 2024. Basically, that area has some very pro-Zionist areas.
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As an intelligent Redneck I appreciate the modifier of stupid for my dumbfuck kin. Some of us stick to the old ways and wish to watch the corpos burn, but well we are fleeting nowadays. Though funny enough a lot of people outside the Redneck culture don't recognize me as Redneck and peg me for the alternative title of American-Scot due to the fact I don't fit most stereotypes, other Rednecks will look at me for five fucking seconds and proclaim kinship.
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