my biggest takeaway from all the dudes talking about how could you possibly know this was a nazi symbol is there are a lot of fake WW2 nerds in the chat

Mamdani is well dressed, has to be very careful in his approach, and his record is damn near spotless. Platner is a fucking Blackwater merc with an SS tat and everyone from Sanders to Vigeland to fucking Jacobin is tripping over themselves to defend and equivocate. Fucking disgusting.

in a desire to best the Democratic establishment these people are making 'having a nazi tatoo' a working class signifier it's fucking crazy making

All the guys saying “of course working class people all have Nazi tattoos” are far more elitist and out of touch than anyone mad at him for it lol

btw there's that NRSC poll floating around that says voters are more likely to support Platner after hearing about his tattoo

here's how the question was phrased lol

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.

I have no patience for politicians who force a separation between protecting democracy and protecting our economy. They're the same. fucking. issue.

If you can't message a $350 million ballroom in contrast with a government that won't send out SNAP benefits you are a terrible fucking politician.

I sometimes think that being a competent writer actually hurts your career prospects as a reporter because editors and publishers at major outlets consider clear, crisp descriptions of Republicans' actions more biased than muddled, passive-tense argle bargle.

Polka dot dress hero

Put this up in The Louvre

What they meant by "we'll destroy everything liberals love" is just that theyll destroy the country

it took a few hundred years, but China is finally getting revenge on the West for the opium trade in the form of short-form vertical video

Republicans accomplished what Osama bin Laden set out to do on 9/11.

This was never about honestly weighing the benefits or exercising sound campaign strategy, it was about moral cowardice in the face of gutter bigotry, nothing shorter

This, this part right here is why Jeffries’s holding out is so God-damned indefensible

Mamdani was and is performative let held to account for an antisemitism he never once came close to expressing while Cuomo has opened up with both barrels of Islamophobia to crickets from leadership

This speech made me realize just how undignified the whole thing has gotten.

This is going to be a historic speech, the kind of speech that doesn’t happen anymore because everyone is crude and cynical, and sank to Trump’s level. We don’t need trolls, we deserve leadership.

It looks like this.

Seems like the natural endpoint of the “strong borders but nice to immigrants” contradiction is “you can have full citizenship but only if you manage to cross the finish line that lies beyond Maginot-on-the-Grande firing at you with all it has”

"I deeply respect the will of the primary voters and the young people who have been inspired to participate in the electoral process"

we did it team, we yelled at him enough that he's doing this even though he didn't want to

yes, he should have done this earlier

yes, it's still a win

Volunteer | Zohran for NYC This campaign is about talking to thousands of New Yorkers across the city about how we make this city work better for the many and not the few. And to do this, we need you!

To support Cuomo or Adams is to support racism and bigotry and hatred and to foment the worst kind of division in the greatest city in the world.

No. Never.

If this makes you as angry as it makes me, please pick a time and volunteer for Mamdani.

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This beautiful young man is the very best of us. The kind face of this incredibly tiny small town of a city that we love so much. And those bastards are trying to make him feel less-than? Trying to make ALL of us feel less-than?

To hell with them. Cuomo and Adams and all their corporate supporters.

I am TIRED of the racism, the Islamophobia, the transphobia, the antisemitism, all the fucking Nazi shit, all the bigotry in all its forms.

All of it is unacceptable.

All blessings on Mamdani for shining a light on this.

No more, in any corner of our politics.

This is incredibly deep and I am tearing up.

Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams are the worst of us.

Mamdani is one of the best.

When you vote in this election, whatever your faith, you are making a moral decision that will reflect on your character and your soul forever.

The tough thing is like, tyranny of the majority is bad, tyranny of the minority is worse, but the second you put in place a supermajority requirement to combat the first, you’ve given yourself at least some of the second.

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Mamdani is very clearly pissed about Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams very ugly & desperate decision to lean into islamophobia over the last couple days. He is absolutely right to be.

Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."

Screenshot of live video feed from the end of Mamdani's press conference. Mamdani stands before microphone in dark suit and tie, lips pursed, with heartfelt expression.

Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."

Mamdani: "While it would be easy for us to say that this is not who we are as a city, we know the truth. This is who we have allowed ourselves to become."

Mamdani: "And while I appreciate all who have rushed to my defense over the past few days, I think of those Muslims in this city who do not have the luxury of being the Democratic nominee, who do not have the luxury of being deemed worthy of solidarity."

Mamdani: "The bigger question is whether we are willing to say goodbye to ... anti-Muslim sentiment that has grown so endemic in our city that when we hear it, we know not whether the words were spoken by a Republican or a Democrat."