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MAGA boogeyman Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC Mayor

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Jun 24, 2025.

  1. El_Conquistador

    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    LMAO -- DaDa is waiting with baited breath to see how the latest socialism experiment performs! A student of history (which he is clearly not) would point to the following failures:

    Venezuela
    Sri Lanka
    Cuba
    North Korea
    East Germany

    Why do liberals have trouble learning from history? They are applying lessons that have already failed spectacularly -- as if they never occurred!


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  2. SamFisher

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    Yo traje

    2021 called it wants its b**** take back :D

    Sacks, Ackman all these ****ers who want to be cool should GET THE **** OUT OF NYC , Cali, Chicagoland, Boston etc and any other real American city

    Get the **** out!

    **** yeah bro move to Austin LMFAO nobody wants you anywhere. Move to South Beach! Move! Now!

    I would say have a bad new year but I don't need to because I know you absolutely will!

    That's why they are the way they are.

    Please plan for it! I hope you are right b****. Please do the thing David Sacks Trader Jorgebot whoever man.

    Do it!
     
  3. El_Conquistador

    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    I do not believe billionaires such as David Sacks, Bill Ackman, Chamath Palihapitiya, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Palmer Luckey, etc are becoming politically outspoken in order to "be cool". If anything, this move hurts them socially.

    They have become outspoken conservatives because they view modern liberal policies as being total failures (which they are).

    They have become outspoken conservatives because they detest fraud and abuse (Democrats).

    They have become outspoken conservatives because they do not like being lied to (Russian collusion, COVID, 2020 election fraud, climate change fairy tales, Biden's health, etc).

    They have become outspoken conservatives because they believe in free enterprise, in the value of incentives and meritocracy, they detest racial discrimination (affirmative action), they believe taxing more and spending more is not the answer, they think the Democrats inflation (tax & spend induced) is harmful to the lower classes, and they believe in basic science/biology in that men cannot give birth.

    And finally, they have become outspoken conservatives because they do not like war (Democrats are now the warmongers after Trump wrestled control of the Republican party away from Bush-Cheney).


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  4. Buck Turgidson

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    No, that's why they beat the Knicks, you sad yankee [blankedy blank] :)
     
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  5. Buck Turgidson

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    The techbros and affiliated transplants have already ****ed Austin 8 ways from Sunday, what's a few more. Bring 'em on.
     
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    Most of them have left Austin already. The florida/Austin boom never materialized. Most tech firms moved back to CA and there was no exodus to Florida. @El_Conquistador is just a dumbass

    You can't replicate the work culture in SF/NYC
     
  7. Buck Turgidson

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    Uh huh, sure...you think Austin changed back after they left?
     
  8. Corrosion

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    Socialism has been attempted countless times across history and the world .... It has never suceeded.

    What the f*** makes you think this clown is going to succeed where all the others failed?

    You people need a lesson in history, and not the revisionist bullsh!t history.
     
  9. FranchiseBlade

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    Kind of hard to really say that. United States is far from pure capitalism. It had socialist services like the post office Interstate Highways, Social Security, etc. Other nations in Europe aren't strictly Socialist. But Most places there are socialist in many regards and they are quite successful.
     
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    These people who cry about socialism @Corrosion have no issue with Trump taking equity stakes in tons of different corporations and becoming the largest shareholder in firms like Intel. They have no issue with government owning corporations but draw the line at Mamdani making bus fares free or universal childcare.

    They have no idea what they believe in other
     
  11. El_Conquistador

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    Zohran Kwame Mamdani is now imprisoning socialist/collectivist Maduro in a jail in NYC. Oh the irony!


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  12. ArtV

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    NYC is a wannabe Venezuela.

    …well done New Yorkers
     
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    How is NYC a wanna be Venezuela? What the hell are you talking about
     
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    Socialism. It’s touted as everyone gets “free” stuff. Actuality is it leads to poverty for all - except the political leaders and their friends.
     
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  15. DaDakota

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    It isn’t Socialism, it is Democratic Socialist, which is RESPONSIBLE Capitalism, there is a big difference, and it is working all over the world.

    you need an education in definitions.

    Look at all the dumbasses saying socialism……lol.

    DD
     
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  16. Corrosion

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    Yeah, just take a look at Venezuela .... They are celebrating in the streets.
     
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    No one in a socialist country would vote for socialism, democratic or otherwise.
     
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    I would agree if the entire country turned into a pure socialist country, but that isn't going to happen - and Mamdani is only the mayor of NYC. He doesn't have a constitutional basis to implement large scale socialism. I don't think he would have won if his opposition wasn't a corrupt and disgraced Democrat. The reality is that a lot of people do not want that job.

    I think what it shows is that more extreme politics is the reality now. Being a true centrist or moderate isn't viable for a lot of political offices. People like Trump, AOC, Mamdani, Abbott and others all are a reflection of the attitude in the world today, and more precisely, the USA. I personally believe that it is a push back against the post WWII world, as most of those that were the cause of the world landscape starting in the mid 1940's are dead and often forgotten.

    We have an enormous concentration of wealth and power in the USA right now. With that has come increasing corruption - and the swing against that is extreme as well.
     
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  19. DaDakota

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    You don't know the ****ing difference so should probably just put a sock in it......Democratic Socialist is not socialism.....gonna keep trying to educate you.......

    We are already a democratic socialist country - the only thing lacking is Universal Healthcare....

    Maybe educate yourself before your fingers make you look like an idiot who doesn't know the difference.

    DD
     
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  20. DaDakota

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    But it really isn't, AOC is a moderate in the reality scale, as is Bernie.....Democratic Socialist constructs are not FAR left, they are centrist.

    DD
     
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