Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.
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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.
I’m still surprised he hasn’t been lynched already based on his name alone.
Tbh, that name doesn’t exactly sound that “scary”. Its not really a name that sounds stereotypically “muslim”. If he were arab/from the “middle east”, then someone would’ve used a photo of him next to a bunch of arabic writing and that would actually be a more damaging propaganda. I don’t think Uganda evoke that sort of phobia, I don’t think most people even have an image of Uganda, its just neutral.
The people who take offense from foreign names don’t stop to consider where the name is from, only that it’s not “'murican”
I have a Pinyin Name (romanized from Chinese) and like I always feel so awkward when people ask for my name because I know they can’t literally pronounce it in the original tonal language, its weirder when teachers keep asking me how to say it and idk how to properly answer that since I know its impossible for them (its not done maliciously, I’m sure they’re trying learn, but it just puts me on the spotlight and makes me nervous).
I doubt I could ever run for office under my current name, nobody would be abke to pronounce my name, and I’d get labeled a “communist” immediately since I was born in mainland China.
So I could kinda relate to Mamdani in a way. Its nice to see a foreign-born person being elected.
You could try finding out the international phonetic spelling and offering it to people. Teachers in particular should be fluent in it.
My name is [ˈjustəs] in it, for example.
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.
“It’s crazy what giving people something to cote for versus just something to vote against can do.”
I agree with your sentiment it’s just the sentence broke me.
Someone uttered the words, “Bernie is unelectable”, and everyone jumped ship.
“Trump signs executive order that Cuomo actually won and that Dick Cheney is still alive.”
Trump seems pretty checked out lately, as expected for someone at the very end of the effective human lifespan who already has everything and anything he wants.
I would just love to be a fly on the wall to witness Stephen Miller’s implosion right now. He’s the sack of maggots and feces wrapped in human skin who has been effectively running the country for the last year or so because he has no qualms about taking Trump to the hilt and has earned the old man’s trust that way. He has no power on his own because he’s not liked and can’t capture even a shred of political capital like Trump has, on some level he knows when this whole thing folds he will be completely shut out of politics and may even face prosecution.
Seeing something Mamdani happen, as well as the blue wave that just crashed over major cities and states yesterday, is a reminder that his clock is ticking and running out faster than he would have liked. Expect to see some wild missteps from the administration over the next several months as Miller goes on an absolute bender and tries to accelerate all his half-baked nazi plans.
Nice job NYC!
Whatever happens, everything he does, whether objectively good or bad is going to be both, praised and criticized. there will be sensationlist headlines and lies for both sides, and it’ll force us to dig deeper every time to find out the real truth. Conclusions will be made about his decisions before any results are even seen, do dont be quick to judge. I think we will need to really wait before we see how his policies really affect everything… thats all to say, god bless mamdani and his decision making ability, and bless those around him supporting him. Amen
You won’t see “both sides”, the billionaires own 99% of politicians and media in the US, it’s all from their perspective.
If youre not seeing both sides, open your eyes a bit wider. And dont start assuming the party you like is more trustworthy than the other. Im pretty sure its lying politicians all the way up and all around. Its unfortunate human behavior that we like to put people on pedestals when they certainly dont deserve it…
About your comment though, more people need critical thinking when consider the original source of information.
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
Is that a threat?
Did you ask them why they think that would cause it?
That would be because of photos with the Imam Siraj Wahhaj… Who according to conservatives was organizer of the 1993 wtc bombing… but was not indicted or convicted of anything related to it.
So in conservative brain damaged logic, Giuliani was a Muslim, Socialist Democrat somehow responsible for 9/11.
You need better acquaintances.
This was my comparable train of thought… Giuliana was elected so 9-11 could happen! He is fully responsible no? /s
Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.
Or just jail them even when quoting their supreme pedo leader.
(Probably not the best source link but a quick search will surely find more)
Billionaire will = thwarted
Billionaire funding = wasted
We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.
It’s one thing to win a battle. It’s another to govern.
It remains to be seen if he can forge an alliance to govern the city.
Happy to see the Cuomo campaign fail and waste all that $$$ in the process. Fuck him
Welp time to see Trump flail his arms and cry like the man child he is
Hoping to see.his meltdown on truth social screenshotted today
His diapers are gonna be ground zero all day today
Trump: Ha, that’s my secret Mr Stark… My diapers are always full!
M-A-M-D-A-N-I-!
You should learn how to pronounce it!
His only miss step the whole campaign was not saying “because you’re going to be saying/hearing it a lot” at the debate.
I thought that was implied?
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.
At least he’s not alone. Seems newsom has been battening down the hatches quite fine already on how to fight back
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.
We got like 30 months till presidential primaries, and the billionaires are not going to talk about how they lost control of the DNC on the media networks they bought for propaganda…
Ignorance is the natural state, everyone is ignorant of everything until they learn it.
But it’s not gonna be a valid excuse for much longer.
But regardless of people’s opinion of the DNC, Martin is going to keep throwing money back at state parties, which is going to keep translating to wins downballot. And he’s not gonna stop a progressive from getting the presidential nomination.
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There’s no “new party”. Democrats won in Virginia by being centrist. Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
Almost like not every part of the party is exactly the same?
The “new” part is being nonbiased instead of ridiculously biased.
If you’re confused and something sounds like it doesn’t make sense, ask questions instead of making assumptions
Almost like not every part of the party is exactly the same?
That supports my point, it doesn’t dispute it.
The “new” part is being nonbiased instead of ridiculously biased.
What the fuck does that mean? Non-biased, is that a joke? People, trying to divide the party to help Republicans win, are obviously biased. I on the other hand accept both wins in NYC and Virginia while you accept only NYC.
If you’re confused and something sounds like it doesn’t make sense, ask questions instead of making assumptions
I didn’t express confusion or uncertainty. This is a pathetic argument tactic that intentionally avoids the topic at hand.
Stop trying to divide the party. That’s how you uncompromising ideologues gave us a second Trump presidency.
I think the problem is you don’t understand what the DNC is…
If you chill out and try to have a civil conversation, I can help
But they won. Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right. Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”, but it will be easier to field progressives in the future from Spanberger’s position, than from Winsome’s. And maybe next time, the magical lefty messiah Lisan al Gaib will be running and the choice will be between them vs the centrist democrat, instead of a centrist democrat vs a literal smoothbrained maga dummy.
Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
But they won.
I certainly didn’t dispute that. Both won by running races that best appealed the majority of voters in their electoral areas. People here are somehow mad that we got the governorship of Virginia? The confirmation bias is ridiculous.
Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Yeah, welcome to much of America that isn’t NYC, a major urban metropolis. And Mamdani still had decent opposition from a sex offender. Gonna ignore that? If you try, you could downplay his victory as much as hers but why would you? They’re both wins. Winning shouldn’t divide us. Also, it’s bit easier for a Democrat to win the mayoralty of NYC than it is the governorship of purple Virginia.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right.
I’m happy in either case. All I care about is a pragmatic approach that moves society in the way I most agree with. Allowing Donald Trump to come to power doesn’t qualify.
