Progressive Politics

Slander? No. Playing politics? Yes.

He hasn't been NY Governor for 15 fucking years. I haven't heard a peep from him since. Now all of a sudden he's issuing press releases using his old title?

The GOP must love seeing the Democrats doing the work of destroying the Democrats for them.

And you feel voting changes anything.

Perfect. Given how unpopular the Democratic party is at the moment, this must have positive effect for Mamdani.

People when they're interested in building something good together: I think your solution may cause problems down the line due to XYZ. See my alternative implementation here. My main worry is technical debt when we need to update ABC to the new standards. Here's a list of references and further alternatives. Thoughts?

People who make it far in politics: I thank you for your work but I'm not sure if it's what we need. We should try looking at other solutions. Your points are all valid and your implementation seems fine but it just doesn't seem like a good fit. I think we should get more opinions. I just don't like this idea.

The Democratic establishment are almost as bad as Republicans are at this point. He beat his competition in the primary, so that's what voters want. I don't understand why they are debasing themselves like this, it's humiliatingly shameful.

Ah yes the ol' tried and true gun control "now isn't the right time" argument. Cool cool.

Democrats now openly slander Mamdani

Ffs. That’s not the case.

Slander: the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation

If you think someone saying “he doesn’t have a plan” is slander, you might want to stay the hell away from politics.

This wasn’t FPTP, it’s NYC and yes there’s a Jewish component to the race, and yeah he’s young and inexperienced. All of those are valid, legitimate concerns regarding a political election.

Unfortunately for them, the primary is over and they already lost. So no, they don’t have to blindly believe Mamdani is going to win in a lanslide, but they should at least act like it. I think we’re looking at a mayoral race through a presidential-election lens.

Slander though? No.

If the man doesn't understand democracy, he should not hold office.

Is a primary not "Democrats ... [coming] together and [deciding] to support whichever candidate has the most support among them?"

What an incredible piece of shit. Fuck that guy with a cactus.

More divide-the-left noise from geneva_convenience

He's wrong, but I don't think it's slander. How great the risk is debatable, but it's fair to worry that Mamdani may lose the D's some centrist and (although it can't be said out loud) Jewish votes and, consequently, the election. Which would be disastrous. AIPAC certainly is not going to be dumping money into Mamdani's campaign, and if they instead chose to spend it on the Republican candidate, it could sway the general election.

However, I think Trump proved that extremists can win, so while it's a reasonably concern, evidence suggests it's unfounded. Personally, the possibility that AIPAC could focus efforts on defeating Mamdani as he represents a crack in the political wall of unwavering support for Israel is a far greater concern, because money wins elections.

Although a disagree with the characterization that this constitutes slander, I do think it's the wrong approach. Having won the primary, if Democrats want to win this thing they have to solidify behind the nominated candidate. Being divisive will only help them lose the general.

They've spent more time and effort going after Mamdani than they did trying to stop the "Big Beautiful Bill."

this shills put a lot more effort fighting for trump and oligarchs than against them.

hopefully mamdani is the beginning of trend of booting out superpac pimps from dnc. these parasites have grifted enough with lesser evil excuse. no more compromise, dnc either becomes a democratic party or the progressives should form a new party.

We cannot aford ideas without a plan for implementation or funding.

From Zohran's site:

Taxes on big corporations and the wealthiest New Yorkers

Zohran has a plan to bring down the cost-of-living through city-owned grocery stores, universal childcare, and other bold proposals, and he knows exactly how to pay for it, too. Zohran’s revenue plan will raise the corporate tax rate to match New Jersey’s 11.5%, bringing in $5 billion. And he will tax the wealthiest 1% of New Yorkers—those earning above $1 million annually—a flat 2% tax (right now city income tax rates are essentially the same whether you make $50,000 or $50 million). Zohran will also implement common-sense procurement reform, end senseless no-bid contracts, hire more tax auditors, and crack down on fine collection from corrupt landlords to raise an additional $1 billion.

What does AOC or Bernie think about him? I bet they love him. I haven't heard anything from Biden or Obama, did they say anything bad about him?