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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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.
Tbh he should move to Turkey, he gets so many kickbacks from them.
Eric Adams is a fraud
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
Why is Adams channeling Trump? He knows he's black, right?b
He hopes Trump can give him a presidential whitewash.
He's trying to prove that he's "one of the good ones".
He is like that old guy in django unchained that stays loyal to his slaver until the end. And he will die for him if need be.
he wants a pardon from him. Plus his little stunt in december while making a dramatic perp walk with luigi was also to appear"strong" for trump.
Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo are closer to Trump.
Trump is explicitly holding a legal gun to his head. Adams couldn't be any deeper in his pocket.
they been trying to get trumps attention to restart thier political career.
He should just become a Republican already. He’s got the credentials.
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.
Yeah, but you gotta think of the shareholder value for the next quarter! The Chinese think in decades. We don't! Capitalism FTW, baby!
Who cares about the profits of tomorrow even if they would be 10x what they are today... the number went up today see... we are doing so good!!!
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...
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...
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
the rich controls NYC, thats why they have a wierd prediliction towards republicans, or DINOs like adams, and cumuo.
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...
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.
upvote if you're nasty radicalised and hate the us
I shower regularly, so I guess I can't vote Mamdani.
Is this sarcasm? You mean people who care for personal hygiene can not vote Mamdani?
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
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.
They hate your country, huh?
Smart kids
Who would want to live in the US right now?

I wish Mamdani would lean more into this, but I also get why he's not.
Shit, he's getting his press releases straight from Stephen Miller's office now.
nasty, radicalized and hate our country
Man, wouldn't it be telling if that was a majority.
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.
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.
Seems like Eric Adams is nasty, radicalized, and hates our country.
Bite our collective asses, fascist. The People don't want billionaires in charge of our lives.
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.
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.
Did he just switch sides? He has to know that a corrupt scumbag like him condemning Mamdani is an endorsement.
How the fuck did this idiot fool an entire city?
Why did so many people vote for adams?
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
Ok but what does that have to do with NYC electing Adams?
"Corrupt mayor condemns political rival and his supporters over fear of being held accountable for his many crimes"
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.
hell yeah I'm a nasty boy. I want all shills, pedophiles and sycophants to get the fuck out of office.
Welp, now we know how Adams feels about the very New Yorkers he wants to "represent."
Eric Adams is a corrupt piece of shit and it amazes me that he has not been forcibly dragged from his office by now.
The capitalist in decline screams for attention yet the worker knows what they have done and affords them no sympathy.
"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"
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.
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.
NEWS: 3rd gen of systematically disenfranchised citizens baffle leaded gasoline brained old guard and billionaire cronies
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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