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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 252 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (29 children)

Remember kids: Vote blue no matter who only applies to progressives.

Want to run a campaign against the duly nominated candidate?

Only if you’re a neoliberal sex pest. Otherwise you want republicans to win.

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For a second I had this confused with the Toronto mayoral election, where the former sex pest mayor is rumored to be considering re-running against the person who supplanted him last election

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

It also reminds me of the incumbent NDP ridings we lost to the cons because liberal voters don't do strategic voting, yet they expect progressives to.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Vote progressive, the platform is impressive. The people aren’t oppressive and their art is more expressive - their passion is expressive but the message isn’t agressive.

For the people needs to be accomplished By the people.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 172 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The general election won't have ranked choice. Adams and Cuomo may end up splitting the "willing to vote for corrupt dirtbag" ticket and let Mamdani cruise to victory.

We can dream.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I expect one or the other will get pressured/bribed into dropping out.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, that's probably correct. It'll be late in the race, because both of them are pig headed and want the other one to do it. That will only drag down whomever does end up staying in. It'll be a glorious game of political chicken. I'm ordering all the popcorn now.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Yep, two shit bag neoliberals running I and an actual Republican.

This is both good for Mamdani and what will be used as an excuse when he wins.

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[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 116 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

DNC normally: "3rd parties don't function in our two party system, there's no point in voting for them"

DNC after losing their own primary: 3rd party it is

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

"Vote Blue No Matter Who" reverts to "Party Unity My Ass" as soon as centrists don't get 100% of everything they want.

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[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 96 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All these years later and he still doesn't understand that no means no.

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[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 78 points 1 week ago

If Mamdani holds out until November, the rest of the country will see that it is possible to vote for a fair shake. If he gets buried, I think voting will be the least of our worries.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Fuck Cuomo and honestly fuck the Democratic leadership to and fuck Democrats in general.

Blue no matter who right? You bunch of hypocritical assholes on par with Republicans.

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Haha I wondered how they would try to stop Mamdani becoming mayor.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's insane to me they would rather split the vote and put one of Trump's puppets in office rather than move their platform slightly left of center.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And after Mamdani hired one of the DNC's consultants to ~~nerf all his policies~~ appeal to the centrists who have thus far refused to endorse him.

It's almost as though the centrist wing of the party does absolutely nothing in good faith and will do everything they can to ratfuck anyone to their left.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure this is party desperation so much as it is Cuomo's ego. I'd call it 75% ego at least.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

That'd be blaming the one bad egg, not the the institutions. Neoliberals will ally themselves with fascists to fight socialists. But I guess it's possible. Also good strategy, blame the rogue politician instead of their moral bankruptcy.

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[–] Mammal@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (9 children)

To be fair: The Democratic Party isn't a viable political engine for positive social change or a working-class agenda. If Cuomo wins it will be yet another example of how untrustworthy, hypocritical, and vapid Blue No Matter Who voting habits are.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (57 children)

Remember when mods coordinated to ban any criticism of BNMW / Blue Maga from all the major subs during 2024? How they the cultivated a community of briggading, sea-lioning, etc.. to try and suppress any criticism of an approach to politics that was obviously going to hand the country to Trump?

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So no rallying behind the candidate then, eh?

What a shocker.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

"Vote blue no matter who" for me but not for thee

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Failed at being governor, and now he wants to tank the duly elected mayoral nominee for the Democratic party by attempting to split the liberal voting block in NYC. Meanwhile, Trump's buddy corrupt Eric Adams is doing exactly the same as a favor to his buddy in the White House.

There needs to be a poster on every street corner in NYC explaining this.

Preferably with pictures of both Cuomo and Adams photoshopped into the clowns they are.

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Democrats think we vote for them because we like them

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Democratic Party WILL rig the general election. Hell, they’ll probably work with Republicans to get their candidate in over Mamdani.

Who owns the machines? Is the software audited? Are there tabulation servers involved?

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know if they'll rig the actual vote directly but the DNC will most certainly spend hundreds of millions to make him look like the devil incarnate leading up to the election even if it means getting a Republican in office. They already did this in 2016 and 2024.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 28 points 1 week ago (9 children)

“While Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams trip over themselves, to make deals in back rooms with billionaires, we are focused on fighting for working New Yorkers,” Mamdani said Monday flanked by members of the city’s American Federation of Musicians Local 802. “We are focused on the very people who make this city what it is and who are being pushed out of it.” And he replied to Cuomo’s video on X with a link to donate to his own campaign.

Idk if the link under the billionaire abuser's video was Mamdani's idea or his campaign, but of the three candidates' excerpted quotes in the article, I know which is more inspiring.

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[–] InternetRando@lemmy.myserv.one 25 points 1 week ago

This screams "I am corrupt as fuuuuuuuck!!!" so hard....like that time that Bob Dole got Elizabeth Dole elected from a state she didnt live in so he could get lobbyist access again after losing the Presidential election.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago

So, he's going to divide the Rightwing vote.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Won’t work. Democrats are like any other voting group: they stick with their party, no matter the majority candidate. Because losing to the enemy is worse than losing to an infra-party faction. This is how Trump got elected twice. It’ll happen again, because people are predictable.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (28 children)

He's just hoping that enough people vote for him that it'll split the vote and that Adams will win. They're liberals, they'd rather literal fascists win than leftists.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I still don't understand how this is supposed to work even in principle. Clearly the sort of people who voted in the primary prefer Mamdani by a wide margin. Is Cuomo expecting to be elected by people who didn't care enough to vote in the primary but do care enough to vote for him despite the fact that he's not the Democratic candidate? Does he think that there are more people like that than there are people who voted for him in the primary but will vote for Mamdani in the general election?

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

He’s there to ensure that true left policies are strangled in the crib.

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[–] InternetRando@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 1 week ago

What a goddamn pussy

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

This guy is a form of cancer.

[–] EtAl_isGitch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vote blue no matter who, no not like that...

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These fuckers are so obsessed with power and pushing their "vision" that they refuse to let go, step aside,or support the younger generations coming up that ha e a very different view on the world and how it should be. Get these geriatric fucks out of office and let's move into the 21st century.

[–] CandyPants@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're preventing the change that's actually going to allow the left win elections again. It's pretty obvious that the Democratic Tea Party moment is starting. Who's knows what this will be called years from now, but it's starting. They learned nothing from what the party did to Bernie Sanders.

He knows he can't win. He can only split the vote, and he's gonna do it anyway.

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

you think cuomo will split the vote for zohran? he's probably gonna screw over eric adams by running independent

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

He is a spiteful little ball sack.

[–] lack@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

It has to feel so good voting against this total fuckwit twice in one election. /jealous

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

He can be the third party where his wife and me are having sex and hes the cuck

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