New York Mayor Eric Adams did not mince his words about his disapproval of what he called the large number of “nasty” Gen Z voters supporting Zhoran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate leading the race for NYC mayor.

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[–] 228 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm not a Gen Z voter, so I certainly can't speak for them, but I hate our country. I hate that so many Americans are being left behind. I hate that we are falling so far behind other democracies. I hate that our democracy is so flawed and corrupted, that I'm not sure it's accurate to even call it a democracy anymore. I hate that so many Americans believe that being greedy, selfish, and indifferent to human suffering is not only acceptable, but somehow "rational." I hate the manipulation and the misinformation that is very intentionally disseminated to the American people. I hate the violence, I hate the war mongering and war profiteering. I hate a lot of what IS right now, because I DEMAND better for myself and ALL other Americans.

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  • [+] 108 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    i am a gen z voter and although i dont live in nyc (i live in ny state tho so close enough i guess), i was gonna leave a separate comment. but you said pretty much exactly what i was thinking 🤷 i hate the selfishness that’s been so ingrained in people, they’d rather perpetuate cruelties than hope for anything even slightly better. i hate this country? what has this country ever done for me, a woman of color, other than prove time and again that everything i have can be taken away in an instant due to the greed of the rich and spiteful? this shit is all so fucked, if my so called “hatred” for this country is the only thing i can truly own, then let me own it with all my heart. i’d rather that than submit to apathy and ignore the struggles of those around me

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I don't respect anyone who isn't radicalized at this point. To look at the state to which our system is broken and not demand change by whatever means necessary is to be complicit in the atrocities being committed.

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  • [–] 136 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If Eric Adams doesn't like NYC, he can just stay at home in his Jersey apartment.

    Even better, he can move down to Mar Lago and see how MAGA would really treat him.

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    He's been a fraud for a long while now (probably his whole career back to NYPD, which pains me a bit to say because iirc he got his start calling out their racism), if he keeps trying to delegitimize the will of the voters like this we can start adding things like "tyrant" and "traitor" to his titles

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Why is Adams channeling Trump? He knows he's black, right?b

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He hopes Trump can give him a presidential whitewash.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo are closer to Trump.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trump is explicitly holding a legal gun to his head. Adams couldn't be any deeper in his pocket.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He should just become a Republican already. He’s got the credentials.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Actually Mamdani's government would improve the country in a lot of ways, and would also be a big win for the economy of the owning class. That is because if people have more money, that stimulates consumption and that drives the economy forward. It's like a big engine, you gotta put fuel in it to drive it.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah, but you gotta think of the shareholder value for the next quarter! The Chinese think in decades. We don't! Capitalism FTW, baby!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    nobody actually cares about shareholders, the entire foundational idea around stock-markets was to essentially act as a liquidity trap, to seperate the new-rich from their $. and it was a resounding success.

    as with many other things, most of the rest of the world regulated out the most glaring flaws in this setup so that it's atleast somewhat functional, but certain rules/exceptions to rules exist within the american system that act as obscene advantages to insiders a/o old-money.

    every single "crash" is by design, and the next rugpull won't be too much longer now...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Don't you mean the people with the closest and fastest connections so they can make pennies on trades before everyone else and make millions for basically no effort except some fancy stock trading algorithm they regularly update...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    no, algos and day traders are just exit liquidity

    there are very specific rule-differences between the US and EU stock markets, if you look up and really think about those differences and who benefits most from them...and what it'd look like (on the tape) when/if someone who understands those rules uses them against someone who doesn't...

    there's a reason they say the stock market isnt the economy, the stock market originally started as a way to seperate "smart" gamblers from their $.

    Bull markets, when there's infinite liquidity, is when degenerate gamblers are running the price of everything up up up because they can, because ultimately the current spot-price is set by whoever is willing to risk the most $ at any given point.

    But the more spot-price goes up beyond actual value...the more power and room the real $, whoever has the most capital and lowest cost-basis, has to rugpull those degenerate gamblers.

    that is what market crashes are, the dukes clearing the degenerates off their table

    the master stroke with the US is how expertly establishment politicians have tied the average US workers own wealth to that casino, 401k's? a dem super-majority under Carter and Rockefeller set that up...enabled a constant stream of bagholding liquidity pumps.

    all forms of debt (like say...insanely expensive college, guaranteed by the government)? more liquidity, and eventually somebody can just buys those and package them off as some ahitty security to be sold. doesn't matter if they ever actually collect...

    Uncle Sam paying farmers to grow specific amounts of specific crops, then just...destroying them? that insures the farmers are reliant on them, enables the banks give them loans, and lets insiders control the Futures market to make a killing. then when it's time to rug the farmers to steal their land (cause they can't pay their loans) and sell it off to corporate interests...just switch the party-in-power and manufacture an economic crisis that cuts those subsidies (long history of doing that, all the way back to the great depression)

    and when the whole house of cards crashes down? just have the government step and add it to sovereign debt crisis, there's no plan to pay that off anyway afterall...the idea is inflate it away, and what does inflation (read liquidity...) feed into...the stock market, make those lines start going up again to reel in a new generation of suckers

    it's a big fucking club, and your not in it

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    This reminds me of the famous post about estranged parents the missing missing reasons edit: fixed link

    In it, the author writes about how like one of the estranged parents will be like "My child yelled at me and said all these horrible things for 20 minutes. I've never heard such cruelty!" But when pressed for exactly what the child was upset about, no reasons are provided.

    So here Adams is saying these 'gen z" people are nasty and presumably have demands, but spends no time on what their demands are, on if they're reasonable. They're just nasty and wrong and to be dismissed.

    Maybe there are reasons people are upset at the country right now. Could be the fascism, the corruption, the economic chaos, the climate crisis being ignored, the anti-vaxxers in power, the economic inequality...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You have your formatting backwards. It goes [text](link) and you have [link](text).

    So you would want [the missing missing reasons](https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html) without a backslash in front, like this: the missing missing reasons.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    upvote if you're nasty radicalised and hate the us

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I shower regularly, so I guess I can't vote Mamdani.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is this sarcasm? You mean people who care for personal hygiene can not vote Mamdani?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm Gen Z, and Mamdani is the better candidate. I don't live in NYC.

    In typical Democratic fashion, the Democrats blame the voters for not "Voting Blue No Matter Who™" rather that adopting progressive, popular policies.

    Vote these skeletons out

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    You should tell this too maga first because maga is making sure to make not voting for Democrats as painful as possible. I fucking hate both parties but even I realize now is not the time to give the country over to the maga shitlords. The only way we are going to get them out is if they also agree to not vote for those dirtbags.

    This is the reverse prisoners dilemma they put the nation in, they do this intentionally so that we can't vote third party and actually pass any legislation that benefits the working class or liberty or anything like that.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    That is some weak-ass rhetoric.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    When you can’t attack the opponent: attack the voters.

    That will work out

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago*

    They hate your country, huh?

    Smart kids

    Who would want to live in the US right now?

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    56381

    I wish Mamdani would lean more into this, but I also get why he's not.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Omg yes. Americans, cherish this man. Emulate his message in as many ridings as you can. If you like what he's saying, write your local reps and tell them that.

    You could have a million Mamdanis.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Every accusation a confession.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Shit, he's getting his press releases straight from Stephen Miller's office now.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    nasty, radicalized and hate our country

    Man, wouldn't it be telling if that was a majority.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Eric Adams is an evil sack of shit in a skin bag and should have been drowned at birth. And I'm not even a Gen Z.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Bold thing to say for someone backed by a traitor. Its a patriotic duty for Americans to hate tyranny, that includes this administration. If you support this illegitimate administration, you are a traitor to the constitution and the enemy of America. For that matter, the "junta of 6" on the supreme court are also traitors.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Seems like Eric Adams is nasty, radicalized, and hates our country.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Bite our collective asses, fascist. The People don't want billionaires in charge of our lives.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    If I was American, I would hate my country too and demand change.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    We certainly all hate Eric Adams I can tell you that

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, they hate what you turned it into. They want affordable living and politicians and the rich have no desire to reduce any of their massive salaries to help Americans.

    We are all just cattle to them. So it's surprising to them when the cattle get tired of the same pen and break out.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He’s got such low numbers that it looks like the only people left supporting him are churchgoing old ladies. This would play to that crowd.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I dare you to try and make Mamdani sound more based. I fuckin dare you

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    That'll win them over for sure!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Did he just switch sides? He has to know that a corrupt scumbag like him condemning Mamdani is an endorsement.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    How the fuck did this idiot fool an entire city?

    Why did so many people vote for adams?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    because "we're better than republicans" was good enough for 2-3 prior generations but the latest arent having it. the (lack of) response to trump and co. and Israel's genocide makes it very hard to keep up the illusion that both sides arent haven't been the same for a long time (Cheney endorsement at DNC last year made that more obvious than ever, i hope...).

    neolibs and the GOP have been ratfucking this country clean without stopping a beat for the last..30 years (and a lot longer than that, neolibs just made it less sustainable) and they still think they can go back to that when trump dies

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    "Corrupt mayor condemns political rival and his supporters over fear of being held accountable for his many crimes"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Wow, Adams. I read that in Trump's voice.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Ah yes, great move. This tactic of insulting your opponent's supporters has been tested and proven effective in many political campaigns. Proven to guarantee you lose, that is.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    hell yeah I'm a nasty boy. I want all shills, pedophiles and sycophants to get the fuck out of office.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Welp, now we know how Adams feels about the very New Yorkers he wants to "represent."

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    This sounds like an "OK, boomer" kind of moment.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Eric Adams is a corrupt piece of shit and it amazes me that he has not been forcibly dragged from his office by now.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Hmmm, nasty, now where have I heard that word before...

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  • The capitalist in decline screams for attention yet the worker knows what they have done and affords them no sympathy.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    "Hey, I'd really like to afford a house and a family some day while staying in the city I grew up in and live"

    "Fucking radicals"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Oh well. I see an Uncle Tom when I see one.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    ‘nasty, radicalized and hate our country’

    Based, based, and turbo-based

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Older than Gen Z, but started hating the U.S. when I was their age. All talk about "freedom," but the moment you try to do something different than the crowd, some people will non-figuratively threaten to murder you.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    See, Adams may be a corrupt oligarch, but the real criminal in his eyes are people who are rude to him in public for it.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    NEWS: 3rd gen of systematically disenfranchised citizens baffle leaded gasoline brained old guard and billionaire cronies

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    As a member of Gen X who breathed all the leaded gasoline and still finds these people appalling, I think blaming their shit on lead poisoning is giving them a pass they don't deserve. Lead may have made us all a little dimmer and angrier, but it didn't turn most people into raging assholes, crooks or fascists, or gullible MAGA cultists. These people would have done it anyway, with or without the lead.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Really not giving much reason to love the country lately

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