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The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.

On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, declared victory over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the state of New York, in the Democratic primary for the 2025 New York mayoral election.

The outcome, one of the first major Democratic primaries since Donald Trump returned to office, is being considered as a barometer for the party's potential recalibration nationally, at a time when it remains ideologically divided about its future.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law. In theory, this outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and banned communists from serving in certain roles.

WTF

[It passed because] many opposed communism because of its explicitly declared and historically demonstrable goal to undermine liberal democracy. In the words of Ernest van den Haag, there was "no place in democracy for those who want to abolish [it] even with a peaceful vote".

  • Wikipedia

The irony of using it here would be palpable

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Appalling. Only the repugnicans would stoop this low. He’s been American since 2018. If they succeed in this - the US is truly Germany in the early 1930s.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Do it. This would trigger the uprising we need.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I doubt it. We've already tolerated a near complete collapse of the rule of law and masked goon squads kidnapping people in the streets. Disappearing one more brown guy probably isn't going to move that needle much.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Millions of people around the country turned out to protest that, and the protests are ongoing. Also, this isn’t “one more brown guy,” he’s one of the most visible politicians in the country right now.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it hasn't happened yet then there's a reason. What's yours?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

From a board game standard, political ideologies are like this.

Conservatives see life through the game of Monopoly. They must take everything and have everything and leave others with nothing. If any other player has anything, then they aren’t truly winning.

Edit: The problem with an all or nothing mentality is that it always eventually ends terribly. Either for the player or their victims.

Liberals see life through the game of Jumunji. They see it as all the players must work together to win and if there is even one weak link, we all lose.

Edit: The problem with this mentality is that sometimes, the weak links are just shitty cheaters that don’t want to play but the Libs keep trying to help them, despite losing the game half of the time.

Moderates see life like the game of Life. They believe “wrongly even” that we all start similar and that our choices determine how we end with some winners and some losers.

Edit: Sorry, but some players aren’t worth playing with and moderates find themselves helping the cheaters and then wondering why they are 2nd or 3rd place.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The White House has framed the upset victory by Mamdani, who could become New York City's first Muslim and Indian American mayor, as evidence of uncontrolled migration...

And by "uncontrolled migration" they mean "brown people getting uppity and not knowing their place."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We spread democracy to the world but we don't like it here.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Consider this: if ICE took him tomorrow and disappeared him, what would happen realistically?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Those gravy seals would be shot dead by his security detail.

That's what would happen, and why it won't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait, how does he have a security detail?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apparently yes. I just looked it up. Five or six guys from the NYPD have the duty of protecting the mayor. On a case by case basis, his family might also get security. In the case of Rudy Juliani, both his wife and his mistress for security details because of course.

Would local guys defend against federal guys? Don't know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, he's not the mayor, just someone running for mayor.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I was more wondering where he got the money, but I guess you can spend campaign money on that stuff. That makes sense.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This all comes back to Americans. We were too soft on the rebels. Gave them back everything and figured they learned their lessons. We should have known better. After the next one, we need to fix this cancer once and for all. We can just send them all to Greenland after they take it over. The south will rise again, they say, but this time. You can rise there and stay there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

This all comes back to Americans. We were too soft on the rebels. Gave them back everything and figured they learned their lessons. We should have known better.

We did know better.

BUT, FUCK ANDREW JOHNSON.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Im fairly certain that Greenland has had more than enough America bullshit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Correct. But if we swap 50k greenlanders with like 50 million MAGA. We can welcome them in and give them a good life. They will be honored citizens. It would suck to leave your homeland but imagine....you're the 50k that made the ultimate sacrifice. To leave MAGA on an island, easily isolated from the world.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

They really freak out when their carefully cultivated alternative propaganda reality is contradicted by ACTUAL reality, and they have to face the fact that without the ability to cheat, they can't win.

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