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62 sats \ 9 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21h \ on: Is New York City Doomed? econ
My guess: Mamdani is LARPing as a socialist. But he's really more about his own ambitions, so the forces that be within NY politics will neuter whatever genuine socialism he had inside him.
Don’t think so! He is a red diaper baby raised on the teat of communism/socialism from birth. It seems that New Yorkers are leaning more and more towards the desire to get all the freebies that they can vote themselves from other people’s pockets. That is the problem with “democracy”; voting yourself something that you cannot get through the economic means.
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Nah, his parents are a professor and a movie producer or something. Upper middle class. None of them are true socialists, at most they're the useful idiots that the real socialists will hang with their own rope
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Have you checked out what type of people are in Hollywood and the colleges, lately? They have been progressive/lefty/collectivist/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers for a long time, now. They are leading the mob, as it were.
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Nah, I think they're all fake socialists. They're stoking the mob, but they'll chicken out before things get serious. The problem is that by then it might be too late.
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I know they will chicken out when they find out the comrades have a special present for them, .38 special, or maybe 9mm.
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Presumably that will happen whether he's sincere or not.
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I guess that's one good thing about democracy: when corruption and ideology clash in a democratic society, corruption tends to win out
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Except when there is a democratic socialist state where the corruption is baked into the kleptocracy. Too many places look like that.
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Yes, politicians tend to get neutered no matter who they are or what they have as ideals because of money. Once they get a good whiff of the sweet, sweet green and gold, they turn their heads and go in that direction.
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