• tornavish@lemmy.cafe
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    29 days ago

    He won’t do anything, he’s the mayor. He will do mayoral stuff… that’s his job. Which is why this win, while oddly publicized, won’t do much.

    Quite a distraction this has made.

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      29 days ago

      That’s the funny thing about local elections. They shift the needle at the local level. Getting into every little aspect of local politics has been the Conservative playbook for decades. So, yeah, it’s actually a big deal. Mamdani’s win shows us that billionaires can bring all the money they want, but apes strong together. We can turn this tide if we stick together, get involved, and not get distracted by counterintelligence efforts.

      And despite purity test efforts of some trolls, people were able to see past the bullshit.

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          29 days ago

          I mean, he basically had both parties, the president, all the billionaires, and the whole media apparatus working against him, and yet he proved that people like policy-focused progressives, getting more votes than any nyc mayor in like 20 years or something like that (I forget the actual number)

          I’d say that was pretty good competition