Sour Jeffries Says Mamdani Has 'Work To Do' After His Candidates Oust House Incumbents
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The House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats following Tuesday's primary upsets.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going to have to smooth things over with congressional Democrats after backing several progressive candidates who ousted incumbents during Tuesday’s primary elections.

Asked if Mamdani’s endorsements were making him “enemies” with Democrats in Washington, D.C., Jeffries told CNN that he and Mamdani “strongly” disagreed over his primary picks ahead of Election Day.

Now, according to Jeffries, the mayor has serious “work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”

  • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    It is a democracy, just a shitty type of one. There’s a bunch of different types and only like one is direct representation where every citizen votes on every issue and every time humans have tried that, they get real particular about what qualifies as citizen so it’s all more or less the same. Anyway, if you’re past high school you should probably retire that line of thinking because it’s reductive, useless, and actually false.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Also, I would like to see a workable plan for increasing what we vite for without going full direct. But it’s really hard to remove the influence advertising can have on such thing.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      When people say democracy, they usually mean direct democracy. That ain’t what we got. We have a representative democracy, often called a republic. And even at that, the party establishment control who we can even vote for. So we only get to choose from the representatives they give us for the most part. So what we have is the illusion of choice.

          • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
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            19 hours ago

            Provide example. Because there’s no place that has a complete direct democracy with every citizen voting on every piece of legislation like you say.

            • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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              19 hours ago

              You put added words that I didn’t say. Nice try. The specifics you picked out tell me you already know the answer. Good job googling. Clearly you also know your are wrong, so now you are trying to change the statement to fit your interpretation of what I said. Fancy.

              • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
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                19 hours ago

                Direct democracy means every citizen votes on every thing. You’re the one that said direct democracy. It’s not my fault you don’t know what the words you’re using actually mean. You should work on that.

                • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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                  1 hour ago

                  Ah, but it is your fault that you don’t. The definition of direct democracy is not what you say it is. You have repeatedly made false claims. Where as I have not.