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MAGA boogeyman Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC Mayor

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

  1. SamFisher

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    Somewhere in 1991 a high school freshman just nutted in their Dockers
     
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    That’s a pretty shitty take, but I am not surprised. I never hear anyone on the right complaining when the corporations get major tax breaks, privatize the gains and then socialize the losses. :rolleyes:
     
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  3. SamFisher

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    Major Tax Breaks? Trump literally has been nationalizing companies like Intel, among other corrupt interventions.

    That's why you know dopes like @ArtV are *just trying to feel something* with their trash - the whole Capitalism - Socialism debate from youth ain't relevant to the present moment at all.

    Should we let a slovenly crew of **** for brain vindictive morons destroy the world because they're sad

    or

    do we want something better?

    That is the great ideological divide of our time.

    I know what side Zohran is on. I know what side " @ArtV " is on.
     
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    Zohran is still an unknown politician, we’ll see what he does and judge him on his work.
     
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  5. StupidMoniker

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    That is what socialists want. You all want it to be not the same, but worse.
     
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    Brain dead.
     
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    You think those far left wackos are centrist because you are so far left of the foul pole, you are in the next field.
     
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    Venezuelans across the globe celebrate US capture of Nicolás Maduro
     
  9. SamFisher

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    Yes, exactly, socialism is Trump extorting private companies for kickbacks & nationalizng their boards & and overall program of racketeering in conjunction with various Internet oligarchs & decrepit rich dicks like Elon & Larry Ellison & Thiel & Epstein & CZ & all of the rest of the scummy ****s bribing the regulators and pillaging the country and your meager contributions thereto

    this is a very sophisticated take - it is virtually identical to Zohran' Mamdani doing dedicated bus lanes.

    Remember folks if you're a serious libertarian liberty lover like Stooop - the real problem is not paramilitaries throwing us citizens in concentration camps without a warrant, or a literal lawless dictator bulldozing the white House & plundering the government - it's a prospective UBI pilot in a city he's never been to. Because liberty?


    For ****s sake, man, before you leave the Galt's Goon Cave, to fire off a real humdinger - maybe read some news?

    And maybe get an understanding of economics & markets & political economy that's more sophisticated than that of a homeschooled 12 year old in the early 1990s?

    not going to read the response but I predict a ben Kenobi point of view speech

    that somehow winds it's way into pedocon theory talking points - it's real folks
     
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    Are you drunk or high or something? Socialism is when people are not allowed to own their own property. Trump is, unfortunately, doing some socialist things (having the government take ownership positions in corporations). Mamdani is far to the left of Trump, but both of them are far to the left of a libertarian perspective.
     
  11. SamFisher

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    The year is 2026 - a pedophile cabal headed by a mentally ill dying octogenarian has seized control of the federal government and is using to enact criminal schemes at home & abroad, funneling the profits into their pockets and conspiringt with foreign despots to enslave the American people, while using the military to randomly slaughter people in violation of every conceivable law & practice

    The year is 2026, an idealistic mayor of New York says the city should subsidize preK

    The year is 2026, a middle aged solo practitioner from Central California takes a break from in between government subsidized jobs and from writing Ayn Rand FanFic to tell me that " from a libertarian perspective " - the 2 things above are pretty much the same.

    Thanks bud.
     
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    Don't worry though, Mamdani just wants bus lanes or something, not a socialist at all.
     
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    Socialist constructs like the Military, police, fire, Medicare, schools, libraries, farmer bail outs, manufacturing bail outs, those kinds of things?

    The USA is a Democratic Socialist nation - just needs Universal Healthcare like every other civilized country has.

    Ignore the idiots that think Democratic socialism is bad, it is great, and it is capitalistic at it's base.

    Those IDIOTS that don't want it, support Pedophilia and rape anyway, so they don't matter.

    DD
     
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    I'm confused....dumbass MAGAs @El_Conquistador told us everyone will fleee over 2% tax increase lollll
     
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    Worth the read -- especially for liberals who have a lot to learn about incentives and business. Most liberals are either youth, unmarried women, or low income people. The common thread is none of these people carry a lot of responsibility in society or in the workplace. They simply lack the good judgement that comes from experience and responsibility. And as such, they cannot recognize what is good policy versus bad.

     
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    The first thing Mamdani did was deregulate housing permits and has signed an executive to cut the wait time on building permits in half. Before you spew braindead propoganda do some research

     
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    What slows construction of housing in New York is rent control/rent stabilization. They have 50,000 vacant units that are unrentable in their current condition, and no one will pay to fix them because they will lose money doing it. If they were allowed to renovate and then rent at market rate, they would start work immediately and those units would be snapped up in no time. Every building you build in New York might be frozen in time, and then become a worthless asset.

    It is good he is cutting regulations (sure would be nice if California did), but that isn't their main problem.
     
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    I hope he does well, I dont have a dog in the fight but it seems NY always has a shady dude for its Mayor, I hope he succeeds and doesn't become a corrupt politician
     
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