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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Noted sex pest Andrew Cuomo wants to run for Mayor in New York, and he might actually have a chance given the incumbent Democratic candidate is corruption magnet Eric Adams. Housing is a big issue in New York, so what's Cuomo's plan? Well, his plan is to use chat gpt to write his plan.

Angry New York Democrats were using the slogan DREAM meaning Don't Rank Eric Adams for Mayor. It's was then amended to Don't Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor, and amended again to Don't Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I encourage NYC neighbors to spread the idea of deranking. It worked in Portland. We had an exceptionally shitty candidate:

Once touted as the law and order candidate, Gonzalez was the only mayoral candidate cited for breaking the law during the 2024 election cycle.

We pushed to derank him. And the result:

… Gonzalez was the subject of an effort to convince voters not to rank him regardless of the voter's other preferred candidates. Gonzalez earned 20% of first ranked choices but ultimately finished the election in third place …

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Update: another acronym.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

eric adams should change his platform to “I’m not cuomo”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I dunno, how's the "I'm not Donald Trump" platform been working out so far?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Well. I don’t want adams to win