buddascrayon comments on Mamdani updates Reagan's "nine most terrifying words" with nine more terrifying words: "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 49 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, people were joking that the media outlets were afraid of Mamdani getting elected because he would fail as a mayor of one of the largest cities in the world. But what they were actually afraid of is him succeeding using socialist policies.

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[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Socialism is what most people love, yet some in all but name.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Too right! Social Security, Medicare(though that's been whittled down to glorified insurance company at this point), Medicaid, the Fire Department, trash collection, Food Stamps, all crops grown in the US are subsidized(Fuck You Monsanto!), and literally every paved non-toll road and bridge you use has been built with taxpayer money. Plus more I can't even think of at the moment.

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago

NASA

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[–] obre@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

GPS & the internet too

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 months ago

As if literally every NYC mayor in my long lifetime hasn't been a complete failure. We might as well try Mamdani, at least it's something different than "Maybe this guy won't be so corrupt that it will crash the city."

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