The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.

On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, declared victory over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the state of New York, in the Democratic primary for the 2025 New York mayoral election.

The outcome, one of the first major Democratic primaries since Donald Trump returned to office, is being considered as a barometer for the party's potential recalibration nationally, at a time when it remains ideologically divided about its future.

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[–] 428 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This shows how scared they are of him. This is a bellwether moment.

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  • [+] 238 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 145 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That is the core characteristic of ALL Conservatives - Fear. They are so afraid of EVERYTHING, that they want to preserve the safe little bubble they are in right now. ANY change is to be feared, and attacked.

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

    It's almost understandable until you realize it's not just change for themselves they fear, it's change for anyone else. Somehow, in their twisted minds, an increase in rights and humane treatment for others hurts them.

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

    Exactly. Authoritarianism is driven by two things, fearful followers who want to combat their fear with control, and social dominator leaders who take advantage of fearful followers for their own benefit.

    Here is an entire free book full of research on the topic.

    https://theauthoritarians.org/

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Exactly, people were talking about controlled opposition and it looks like it is true.

    If they thought he was so left he had no chance they would just laugh or even ignore (which normally they did not pay attention to primaries).

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

    Remember when they all claimed they had no problem with LEGAL immigration?

    Well yeah, they had a problem with any kind that makes them lose.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wish I had artistic talent. I would love to make a political cartoon of the Statue of Liberty holding a sing saying "You must be this color or lighter to enter" with a color chart X'ing out the brown and black colors leaving only white ones. With a caption stating this is the current republican immigration policy.

    And to answer the inevitable: No, I refuse to use "AI".

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  • [–] 119 points 1 year ago* (18 children)
  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    angry ceo threatens to close his grocery chain... well, that will show them 😂

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

    Watch that be something super small time as well, like a guy who owns three convenience stores within about a mile of each other.

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

    and with an attitude like that it’s probably super shit for consumers… go ahead: close so someone better can start up

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

    It's extra dumb because it's NYC - no Republican was ever gonna be mayor. They're just all being super racist.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I don't know why you think that. Giuliani and Bloomberg were both Republicans. Republicans have run New York for more than half of the last 30 years.

    And even when we get Democrats, we end up with conservative Dems like Eric Adams out here promising to lock people up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    A major issue that seems to be taking a back seat to racism (lets face it at this point you may as well just assume its there) is the overt posturing about taking control of the largest city in the us directly counter to the populations interest.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    It’s extra dumb because it’s NYC - no Republican was ever gonna be mayor. They’re just all being super racist.

    This isn't correct at all, but also Dems in NYC represent the rich and the slumlords, not the people that Zohran represents. Make no mistake there are tons of stories about dems melting down about Zohran as well, and senior Dem leaders in NYC like the Governor, don't support Zohran either.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    It's not just Fox News. Bezo's Washington Post ran an editorial, written by "the editorial board," about how Mamdani would be "bad for New York and bad for the Democratic Party," claiming he would destroy public transit, reduce the number of grocery stores, drive away big businesses, depress low-skill employment, etc., etc., etc. Oh, and of course that this would discredit all the other young candidates across the country. The WaPo's threat earlier this year to make their editorial page aggressively pro-capitalist and anti-public-good was apparently very much in earnest.

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  • [–] 115 points 1 year ago

    They really are afraid. Very good.

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

    Don't Republicans hate New York? You'd think they'd be thrilled with the opportunity for socialism to ruin one of the bluest cities in the US. Maybe they're worried something else will happen.

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  • [+] 92 points 1 year ago* (8 children)
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    The first time I heard of "communists" and "socialists" was back when I was in middle school, when Bush Jr got us into war. All I did was ask why in the world we were invading Iraq, which had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. Sincerely trying to understand the world. That's when the already-brainwashed kids starting flinging "socialist" and "communist" like they meant the same thing as "idiot."

    So, I decided to read about those concepts to see what all the hubbub was about. Surprise surprise, when I later responded to those same kids by asking what they thought the words meant, they couldn't answer the question.

    Now I'm thinking it's kind of like the Streisand Effect - 'Muricans don't want you to know about how other countries run. I didn't know about systems besides capitalism yet, until the spawn of conservatives decided to use ancient fears from the 1950s as an insult in the year 2003. Surprise surprise, now there's a swath of Millennials (and other generations, of course) just like me who learned that if conservatives hate something, it's worth looking into.

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  • [+] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    and topping it off, “communist” is not an insult in the least.

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

    Well that's pretty ignorant of the mass murder that Mao and Stalin engineered amongst other atrocities by communist regimes.

    Specifically referring to "in the least"

    And this is from someone who has worn an enameled Lenin pin

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Would Marx have said those folks are communist? I reckon “the least” sure yeah… but to me, compared to “capitalist” (which is gobs worse) - the moniker “communist” is not offensive.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Marx wouldn't likely have accepted Stalin or Mao as "communist" either. Unfortunately like the word literally, "communist" has expanded in what it can mean.

    Which is why I felt inclined to comment due to your use of "in the least"

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