• ultranaut@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It is really weird Cuomo had to resign because he sexually assaulted people yet he is back running for office. Did everyone forget?

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      That is exactly what he was hoping would happen. He doesn’t read the room, he just demands power until his financial backing runs out.

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      He’s the only candidate that can properly facilitate the NYC elite’s corruption. Eric Adams proved himself too self-interested and vastly incompetent in facilitating corruption. Mamdani is seen as ideologically hostile to the process (also Sliwa).

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      Honestly, probably.

      When I ran into someone collecting signatures for Cuomo on the street before the primary, I was like “didn’t he resign in disgrace?” I’d forgotten the details until I looked them up again. I think most people don’t bother to look things up, or don’t know how to

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        People have short memories, that’s how Trump got elected again, people forgot what a shitshow his first administration was. (Democrats being incompetent didn’t help either, obviously).

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      I won’t beat around the bush by saying this. The New York establishment Democrats are blue Republicans. It is noticeable that underprivileged areas voted for Cuomo in the Democratic primary.

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        First part absolutely true. Second part problematic, the Republican enclaves of NYC are not the underprivileged areas and Republican-leaning voters can’t participate in the Democratic primary unless they register as Democrat in advance. Underprivileged areas voted Cuomo because they’re conditioned to vote for candidates they see as “safe” - A lot of them are black boomers who’ve seen some shit and feel like they owe their safety to the Democratic establishment - And because of low information.