• Jumbie@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      Fuck. I hope he doesn’t do a Fetterman. Afettered, if you’ll indulge me.

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        3 months ago

        I mean, Fetterman had some questionable views even before the point that most acknowledged that he’d flipped, he simply got less coverage than Mamdani and had the benefit of running against Dr. Oz so a lot of it was missed/overlooked. I think it’s significantly less likely that Mamdani flips because, to my understanding, he’s been very consistent in his views for quite a while now, even from the time before he was in office.

        That said, if Mamdani flipped I could see it doing significant damage to the left on the basis of perception alone, so it could be that I’m just praying the left won’t be… fettered, by another pretender giving progressive policy a wrongfully bad name.

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          He’s not even in office yet and us on the left are already trying to purity test his actions.

          Jesus Christ, let’s judge Zohran & his team by their policy actions when they take office. Anything until then is just rampant speculation that’ll only serve the far-right and the foreign interest and big-money interest astroturfing bots trying to divide the left again!

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        3 months ago

        Those "uhh"s are a competent person thinking through how each thing they say could be misinterpreted and changing the language on the fly. He knew anything he said that could even be taken slightly as offensive to the right would dominate the news cycle for the next week. Its just sad that trump and his supporters knows the same thing and simply doesn’t give a shit about who he offends.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, but like, it made him, like, sounds like a, teenage, like, schoolgirl. I would, like, take that, like, excuse if it was only, like, during important, like, speeches, and stuff. But he, like, did it during, like, the most mundane, like, things he would, like, say.

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            3 months ago

            Interesting that you had to change to a completely different type of dialogue in order to make it sound bad.

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            3 months ago

            But he, like, did it during, like, the most mundane, like, things he would, like, say.

            He got criticized for wearing a tan suit. There were no times that were mundane for him.

            Yeah, but like, it made him, like, sounds like a, teenage, like, schoolgirl.

            Except…he never said “like” like valley girl speak ever.

            The opposite is trump, so I hope you’re enjoying when the current president speaks instead of Obama.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Not really.

      It doesn’t have to be deeper than Mamdani saying:

      ____ will make NYC love you

      trump would (figuratively) pay any price for that, it’s what he’s wanted his entire life. The wealthy NYers will never accept him, so he can piss them off and get some kind of authentic goodwill for his hometown?

      trump could absolutely be talked into that short term.