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Bernie Sanders says Zohran Mamdani is the only New York City candidate standing up to billionaires. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 84 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I have a hard time keeping up with all the names in American politics so I went ahead and looked this guy up

Cuomo served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021 following numerous reports of sexual harassment.

This is like the third sentence on his Wikipedia page.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You didn't make it to the deaths he was covering up in nursing homes yet?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not just covering up but iirc he had a direct role in them via a policy that forced nursing homes to accept covid patients to free up hospital beds, leading to a high number of nursing home outbreaks.

Then this was followed by ignoring or avoiding questions about it during his daily covid press release updates.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I thought there was more to it, but I couldn't remember what and didn't want to spend the time looking it up, lol.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah, a lot of people here seem to have proverbial goldfish memories. A candidate can do something really bad a couple years ago, run again, and people are like "oh they seem cool". I don't know what it is.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (13 children)

It's why centrists love him so dearly. They think that "just do what republicans do but less" wins votes.

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[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 week ago

He can't help it - he's Italian!

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cuomo sounds like an absolute weasel.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 points 1 week ago

He's the quintessential establishment Democrat. Basically Republican Lite. It's people like him, the Clintons, Obama, Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries, etc. who allowed MAGA to grow and steal our country, while they all scratched their asses.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it walks like a weasel and talks like a weasel, it's probably a politician who takes billionaire money.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There's a reason for that.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yesterday, here in Mexico, we received the most recent stats on poverty. After electing a progressive president, in charge from 2018 to 2024, the first progressive in ~80 years, with an actual leftwing social policy, almost 13.5 millions of Mexicans are out of poverty. That's 10% of our population, even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Don't be afraid, New Yorkers, I mean, you are fucking New Yorkers for Christ sake!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but the rich Mexicans aren't rich enough, and that's un-American!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

De dónde eres? Saludos desde GDL.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

HAH! Suck it Cuomo

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No fear! Liz Warren and Obama are on the job!

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 1 week ago

But who are they going to drone strike?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I hope this guy isn’t another Fetterman. Talks a good talk but once elected turns into someone else.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fetterman had a lot of baggage already going in against Oz. He is a good case study on what happens when a run for office is based on opposition alone. He was elected to not be Dr Oz, so that's what he is.

Zohran on the other hand's main (and only) baggage is are the actual policies he is promoting and supporting. Which is hugely different. But at the same time that means Zohran's actual safety is a real concern.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Zohran comes from wealth. That’s baggage in my book. I mean, I still hope he wins, but wealth has done us no favors.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

I'd say he comes from intelligensia more than wealth, which is somewhat adjacent I'll concede for the sake of it.

However I wouldn't saddle a politician with their origin so much as things within their capacity to control, like their (proposed) policies and actions.

As an adult he did social work and made silly music, neither of which are politically problematic.

[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 week ago

Don't fret. I don't doubt this man at all. There are other "progressives" I'm more concerned about.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Every person who's compromised is pro Israel.

I wouldn't put your hopes on Zohran but for now he's done an excellent job of not budging and instead arguing his way out of traps. Let's see how far it can get him.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As long as he doesn't have a brain injury, he'll be okay. No other progressives have flipped like that.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile in middle america: THAT NEW YORK PERSON IS A COMMUNIST! HE KILLS BABIES!!!

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

good thing he doesn't have to run in middle america, just new york, since this is for a political position in new york

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Unless something's gone horribly wrong and his team's accidentally filed the paperwork for a run for mayor of New York, Missouri..

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

sadly this seems to be high profile enough that national politics has gotten involved, which means people’s families and friends from elsewhere are talking about it… that’s a powerful

ideally, yes, it’d be just people from in the region being represented would have their opinions and everyone else would shut up… but that’s not going to happen!

just like i’m australian and i don’t shut up trying to convince many americans that their political opinions and climate are largely immoral, unrealistic, or (and?) abnormal

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

and the billionaires are going to try to scorched earth him. Like we are supposed to be mad at a rent controlled apartment when Cuomo and Trump are rapists

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bernie dropped his grey nutz in cuomo's mouth.

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Even Bernie stopped fighting billionaires, at least he's trying to prop up the youth.

[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 week ago

Three Trump candidates in NYC.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So does OP not hate Sanders anymore, or has OP started hating Mamdani too?

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Mamdani fucks.

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