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although I would prefer to see more secular politicians, if we are going to have a leader who's religious its good to have more diversity so christians don't gain too much of a majority

It has been fucking glorious to see racist white men foaming at the mouths in a psychotic tantrum over this.

Their pain and tears brings good vibes and energy unto us all

It’s almost like the most hated man in New York endorsing his opponent helped him in some way.

My socialist heart feels hopeful, but my anarchist brain knows nothing will change.

One of the more interesting polls out of this was whether voters were casting in support of or against a candidate.

86% of Mamdani voters were voting out of support of their candidate.

Half of Cuomo voters were voting against another candidate. (Mamdani.)

Voting against a candidate is a losing strategy.

Now that the Dems won EVERYTHING, by WIDE margins, it is clear that the Dems have the upper hand. Here's what they should do now with the power they just took back:

• Double down on the shutdown, and demand even more concessions. Nothing less than full compliance will be sufficient. Otherwise, we'll see where we are a year from now.

• Adopt a true progressive agenda. What happened to these MAGA Traitors is going to happen to MAGA-appeasing Democrats, too.

• Primary every weak Democrat - Schmuck Schumer, Jeffries, etc. They are almost as much the enemy as MAGA. If they lose, we get stronger, and if they win, they'll know they dodged a bullet, and they better get with the new PROGRESSIVE program.

• Force their hand on everything. Make them reject even reasonable Democratic and Progressive demands. Don't let them off the hook for anything, then use it against them viciously in the Midterms.

This is great news. However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?

Mamdani could not have had a better campaign, yet, he had just ~8% more votes. If the other guy ran a just tiny bit better campain, things could have been very different.

I am trully happy that Mamdani won, but yet, I am left scared at the state of things. He should have had 70/80% of votes. After all that has been happening in the US for the last 9 months or so, there is only a 8% number of votes separating the two sides? Holly molly, that is scary.

Based woke brown man. Cope and seethe chuds.

Lets fucking goo progressives

Okay. Commentators have been saying for a while that a victory for him could be a signal of the American left learning that actually progressive policies and candidates can be successful and on the Democrats as a whole actually moving to the left. Let’s hope that that’s actually true, rather than it being dismissed as “New York’s different”.

Hopefully, the recent buzz around AOC will help, too. I’ve been seeing more of Crockett in the news, as well.

We’ll see. This is definitely a very positive move, though.

Does anyone have a breakdown of the wins for traditional Democrats and Progressives?

This is fantastic and I wish him the best. He's going to need the best communications team any politician has had thus far. All the odds and big money interests are stacked against him. He's going to be attacked from every conceivable angle, from every level of government. If he remains true and righteous, he'll persevere.

Looking forward to see if all the people that announced they would leave NYC if he won are going to keep their promise.

I am Trump's malignant hernia and I endorse this result.

I'm enjoying the unhinged rants I'm seeing from conservative social media. They're not happy and it's a fantastic read

I'm jealous of NYC right now, wish someone had those sorts of policies in Portland.

Beautiful news. Fuck off Cuomo, fuck off Trump. This is a win for the common New Yorker. I hope the high profile nature of this mayoral election has reverberations far beyond NYC.

First words in his victory speech were a a quote from Eugene Debs.

Let’s fuckin go

The real concern is that with 8 million potential voters, NYC barely breaks 2 million.

This is why it's always such a toss-up between fascism and normalcy - because too many people are complacent.

From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I'll take it.

Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?