[arista]

Andrew Cuomo is running as an Independent
Aged 67, now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo


Zohran Mamdani is the Socialist who won a seat
in New York. He is aged 33


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani


And NYC Mayor Eric Adams


So 3 in this race.


Just on CNN HD USA on UK TV

[arista]

A few days back, Zohran Mamdani
spoke of what he stated,
back in 2020 against NYC Police force.

He says he no longer thinks that way
and respects the NYC Police fully now.


[“I am not defunding the police.
I am not running to defund the police,”
Mamdani told reporters
Wednesday after meeting with Islam’s family.
He described himself as a “candidate who
is not fixed in time, one that learns
and one that leads,
and part of that means admitting
as I have grown.”]


https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/31/p...olice-shooting

[Crimson Dynamo]

Surely New Yorkers will not be stupid enough to elect this crazy Socialist?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Surely New Yorkers will not be stupid enough to elect this crazy Socialist?

They have backed him
as the local politician.


It is down to him to be honest


And Andrew Cuomo has a bad background
from his office, he was in.

[bots]

Battle of the crooks?

[arista]

His new nice wife


https://x.com/MahyarTousi/status/1964346675050291509

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Surely New Yorkers will not be stupid enough to elect this crazy Socialist?

Parts of the Northeast have always wanted to go full CA/West Coast-style politics, so it was only a matter of time.

I say let places like CA and NY experiment with this. The underclass could move to more affordable areas and create more stable micro-economies elsewhere, but they choose instead to listen to propaganda and scaremongering about the rest of the country. Meanwhile, they remain in areas with the highest income disparities and crime rates in the country. Moving would fix most people's issues. This is a blessing they have available to them that isn't possible in other parts of the world. We moved because I told hub I'm not paying half a million dollars for a basic home. This was early 2010s.

Handouts keep people dependent and make them less financially mobile in the longrun which then ironically fuels the cycle of generational poverty that is said to be so rampant in certain populations . Imo, it's an attempt to keep a certain voting demographic from fleeing and doing better for themselves elsewhere. It's as simple as that.

Middle class/Business class folk have more sense and will either move to an outlying area where their income goes further or even better, move jobs to another state. They have more financial mobility, yes, but the blessing of having nothing is you're not tied to property or other liabilities.

If places like NYC want to continue to build up their income disparity, then I say let them. Maybe they can attract the entitled folk living in other states there such as how places like Portland, Seattle, Oakland, parts of CA have attracted homelessness from other areas of the country because of the easier access to drugs and entitlements. So the rest of the country doesn't have to worry with dealing with that complex, we can actually properly reform our laws and economies for the modern economy... this is where having multiple states/municipalities that do their own thing is ultimately a positive.