Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.

Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.

Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.

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[–] 494 points 1 year ago (28 children)

I started the day with the news that Dick Cheney is dead. Now I'm ending it with news that Zohran Mamdani is mayor. It's been the best day in a long, long time.

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

    Hold up, vice president headshots died? Howd I miss that?

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

    So few people cared about him that nobodys talking about it.

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

    Today most people I've seen online were "THE BASTARD IS DEAD, MARGARET THATCHER CAN FUCK HIM IN THE ASS IN HELL"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Cheney gets to set up Haliburton in hell, but then Satan does a hostile takeover, and now its all redirected to simultaneously torturing a kind of gestalt consciouness of Cheney in many seperate, simultaneous bodies.

    IE, Cheney gets the mega-deluxe hell premium package.

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

    And California passed prop 50!

    This will potentially negate Texas's gerrymandering attempts as thiswill gain up to five house seats for the democrats, and Texas's bullshit (which required NO vote) also gains up to five seats.

    Get fucked, Texas. Fuck you. Good on you, New York. Fuck Trump.

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

    Ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    why the fuck are they in bath tubs

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    If I remember the 90s/00s commercial, it’s advertising that cilalis is there when you’re ready for up to 36 hours. So you can enjoy other sensual experiences for the build up. In this case the couple is enjoying a romantic soak as they watch the sun set before sexy time.

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

    I don't believe in prayer, but only an errant McNugget could make this day better.

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

    Working class, not middle class.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    This is very important. Too many people think policies that help the middle class help them, and its like, bitch, you do not own a house. You are less than 3 months worth of paychecks away from being on the street. You are not middle class.

    Most people aren't middle class anymore.

    When politicians say middle class, its almost always so they can appeal to rich people while phrasing it as applying to you.

    You are working class.

    Just about everyone here is working class.

    Working class is the median class.

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

    Billionaire will = thwarted

    Billionaire funding = wasted

    We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.

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

    Amen, brother/sister

    I don't actually think he will do that much due to how stacked the powers are against him, but I think he has shown to the powers that be how reviled they are, and how they need to start playing ball with progressives if they want to win votes again

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm assuming city council is going to be his biggest obstacle?

    I reckon it's possible, though not easy, to use that to his advantage the next time IF he does a decent enough job his first term. Keep people informed that some backwards-ass council members are voting against good policies, so the people know to vote them out next time. I hope Mamdani's the great communicator he seems to be. A huge reason for people's indifference and the whole "both parties are the same" issue that greatly benefits Republicans, is that people aren't really informed about who's voted for what. Inform people about just a few key votes that matter to them, and they may be more active in the primaries (to hopefully swap out their own party's uninspiring old candidate for fresh blood) as well as eventually in the elections themselves.

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  • [–] 135 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    A win for the people! Cuomo's campaign expenses were $56 million, 2.5 times higher than Mamdani's. Cuomo was mostly funded by billionaires, while Mamdani had mostly small sum contributions.

    Why are capitalists so bad at investments?? Weren't they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?

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  • [+] 43 points 1 year ago* (10 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Well, that's the only peaceful way. Revolution is always an option. But also, as long as the economic system allows individuals to hoard vast properties, the wealthy will use their power to influence politics.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Of course. Serious revolutionaries know you must infiltrate or otherwise subvert the military to be successful.

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

    You say it's unrealistic, and yet every successful socialist revolution has had the backing of at least some of the military. This is the stupidest thing about liberals, they always imagine that the way the world is now is the way it will always be. But material conditions are constantly changing and what seems impossible now may seem inevitable tomorrow. But you'll never know if you keep dismissing the people who are actually trying to change the world as LARPers.

    And btw, while I'm too old to be considered for military service, at least one revolutionary party, the PSL, has specifically created strategies to insert members into the military to foment revolutionary fervor. So yeah, people are doing exactly the thing that you deride as "unrealistic."

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    I agree with everything you’ve said, except that we don’t have to wait for community to be built to work on the military problem. We can do both simultaneously.

    The PSL (and others, but the PSL is the most notable ML-oriented organization in the US right now) are aware of the current realities, btw. Their position is that there is a groundswell of class consciousness that is growing, but still very small. Their strategy is to nurture that growth while simultaneously creating a cadre of trained political operatives to provide leadership for the moment when that class consciousness is large enough that the idea of subverting the military isn’t so laughable. It’s a realistic strategy that is based on 200 years of revolutionary history, and successes and failures.

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

    Truth is that this sort of thing has worked out for them before. Trump would not be in office right now if he wasn't bankrolled by Musk and Thiel. There were reports in early 2024 that the GOP was basically broke.

    A few million to a campaign can be converted into billions of tax benefits. Just think of how much they got out of the Trump tax credits from the first term. Pile on top of that cases where they get sweet government contracts (like Palantir). It's all a direct shift of money from the working class and into capitalists with the government as an intermediary.

    Which is to say that, yes, it is good investment for them. They can afford to miss a few sometimes. Generally, they play the game to win more than they lose. If you win every time, it's actually an Enron-style red flag.

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

    Historically and even now, it works. The ones who spend the most, gets the air time, and the George Carlin Americans eat it up and form their opinions after "doing their research" which is nothing but watching TV and facebook from other people who are George Carlin Americans.

    It's super effective and that amount of money where looking at is chump change to these guys.

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

    The funniest part is that I never, at least from the clips, got the idea that George Carlin was a conservative but he did always have an air about him that I think made conservatives believe he wasn’t talking about them.

    Now, I’m sure this will prompt me learning some things about Carlin but hey, I’m open to that too.

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

    Wait, what's a George Carlin American? He was pretty progressive afaik.

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

    I'd like to point out feckless Democrats that while Citizens United is bad... money ain't everything.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Don’t worry. There is a small army of well paid McKinsey consultants right now reassuring the DNC that while economic populism won for Mamdani it would never work outside of New York. They will tell the ghouls bought and paid for by big money donors that yesterday wasn’t a complete loss, Liz Cheney could get some sympathy votes on the ticket if the DNC is just brave enough to make her the VP nom and pivot to the center.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    $56 million is a lot to us to plebs. However, to billionaries that's pocket change.

    According to https://www.news18.com/world/billionaires-who-spent-a-fortune-to-keep-zohran-mamdani-from-becoming-nyc-mayor-ws-dkl-9685336.html. The total spent by billionaires was $8.6 million. That's couch cushion money to a billionaire. A billionaire wouldn't even notice the money gone.

    If anything it shows how cheap it is for billionaires to buy politicans. Billionaries are throwing pocket change at politcians going "Dance for us".

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  • [–] 114 points 1 year ago

    AP calls the race for Mamdani as well.

    Beacon of hope in a dark time for America. Now it's time for all New Yorkers to prepare to make the city that lifts everyone up in a way that every North American city would want to emulate.

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