Zohran Mamdani on pace to become NYC Mayor in major upset over Cuomo

The core issue isn't just political bias, it's the influence of money in politics. Organizations like AIPAC have billionaire funding behind them, and that money is used to buy political influence. Politicians, regardless of their personal convictions, respond to those who fund their campaigns. The public interest only gets serious attention when it aligns with the financial interests needed for re-election. Without campaign finance reform or structural changes, superficial gestures are all we’ll get, because the real incentive lies in securing the next check, not the public good. AIPAC in itself is not the defect, it's money. Freakeconomics is such a good book and really changed how I view how humans make choices when it comes to money.

 

This is fact.

people out here asking a mayoral candidate more about freaking Israel than his own city that he’s supposed to represent…

it’s a joke

 

this was some of the saddest sh*t I’ve ever seen in a debate

it was like everyone except for Mamdani had an AIPAC rep behind them with a gun to their back telling them they better say what’s on the script

“I’d visit the holy land”

STFU

“I’d make my 4th trip to Israel followed by my 5th trip to Ukraine”



So all u MFers just so happen to have the same trip in mind?

 

Reminds me of the Republican party and how they kiss up to Trump and the NRA. (And now Bibbi.) ****ing shameless.

 

He a ****ing Grifter and likely some kind of Open society funded operative.

A lot of folks are like I don’t care **** NY

But this is America and every inch of soil is worth holding, especially our largest and richest city

You don’t just hand it over to some commie grifter

 

What a clown show of candidates. None of them are impressive. The Democratic party has some SERIOUS problems right now. Are there any normal people remaining in the party?


GOOD DAY

 

Something to remember...

 

I view almost everything through the lens of emergent behavior based on incentives. Those incentive aren't always money, but in politics it usually is.
I post this video every once in a while. Public opinion of a policy has a near zero impact on laws passed. Those with money get laws passed. Our government is a kleptocracy where money = representation.

 

These people who came from authoritarian socialist or communist countries have a skewed view of socialism. There is a reason Cubans, Venezuelans, Soviet Russians don't like socialism and it's not the socialism. Ask Norwegians, Canadians, Dutch, Sweds, Germans, etc how they like their mixed economies.
We aren't going full USSR because a democratic socialist got elected mayor of NYC.

 

Care to explain his grift?