We want Zohran Mamdani to succeed based on merit and real results, not promotoinal messaging.
Zohran Mamdani’s housing claims don’t show anything new. Forcing landlords to fix violations is standard enforcement under existing housing codes in NYC, Baltimore, DC, etc. That’s baseline gov work, not innovation.
The numbers sound big, but there’s no context. Over what time period? Compared to what baseline? Without that, it reads more like a press releaase than a real policy win.
Also, this is coming from a PAC aligned acct, so of course it’s framed to look strong. That doesn’t make it false, but it does mean it’s selecctive.
Bottom line: this looks like routine code enforcement being repackaged as something special.
2nd bottom line: come on Zohran do something meaningful, we’re counting on you.
pay over $34 million in repairs
Isn’t that just called doing your job?
All those Dems who dogged him, still all showed up at his Inauguration anyway, to bask in his success.
I’ve hated Schmuck and Gillibrand ever since I read about how they colluded to kick Al Franken out of the Senate. I will never forgive either one of those backstabbing bitches. I can’t wait for AOC to primary one of them, hopefully Schumer.
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Get out.
Wtf get outta here
I think a better message here is “Democrats can deliver.” Socialists can enter the party and make positive change. In 2026, a lot of people have decided that’s not true, but there’s the proof it can be done.
The way that happens is not voting for the conservative democrats.
Well this is a dumb take (since it would quite literally prevent the “that” you want from happening). The way it happens is voting for whatever Democrat you can, and actively participating in the primary race so that you get the Democrat you want.
He left that ghoul Tish in place.
And it’s her goons that arrested Chi Ossé
We’ll see what factually happens.He’s literally a Democrat
I’m pretty sure the account democrats deliver is not owned by the DNC and pretending it really was instead is vert silly and misplaced manufactured rage
It’s twitter, nobody on there has critical thinking skills.
I long to live in a world that isn’t Twitter screenshots
What do you mean? You don’t like having to solve a mild brain teaser to determine what order to read posts in every time?
Much betta!
goddammit
Looks around
And yet it got posted and upvoted here. Guess we’re not much smarter
Hey that’s not okay! We’re trying to drive wedges in every part of the left now! Why are you fucking our shit up!? /s
I know this is a crazy thought but… maybe a random “DemzDeliver” account doesn’t speak for the entire party. Maybe this stupid ass two party system the US refuses to get rid of causes all kinds of different people to be a part of each one.
It speaks well for the leadership and big names in the party though because they threw Zohran under the proverbial bus not only not endorsing him, but some endorsed Cuomo while not trying to talk him down out of running potentially splitting the vote. Fortunately it did not but in that instance the Democrat leadership would rather have let Republicans win than an avowed socialist who is making change.
For all the saying of not letting perfection get in the way of good, a lot of Dems and neo-liberals seem mad by it or try to say they were behind him.
Neither does random accounts spewing pro Chinese or Russian statements, but they never get the “they don’t speak for <>” treatment.
According to them, anyone even saying something good are directly tied to Kremlin, FSB, CCP and 5 cent army. But there’s caution when its propaganda from their side. Yaayy
Yankistanis love using these scare tactics until it comes to bite them.
The DNC chair said we need candidate like Mamdani both in policy and charisma almost immediately after Mamdani won his primary…
And the only reason he waited that long. Is he won’t put his finger on the scale of any primary
Schumer and other neoliberals don’t like Mamdani, but neoliberals lost the DNC and won’t hang onto their leadership positions unless they get people to turn their nose up during Dem primaries.
Thats why voting in Dem primaries is more important than ever.
Listening to billionaire owned media about when the DNC is on our side, is like selling gold because you keep seeing “cash for gold” places…
he won’t put his finger on the scale of any primary
My brother, I have an amazing deal on a bridge if you’d just jump into my DMs really quick.
Thats why voting in Dem primaries is more important than ever.
If you see a candidate worth voting for then you should vote for them. But never forget that NYC has some of the most byzantine and restrictive voting laws in the country. Worse than Florida. Worse than Texas.
So save the finger-waging at The Voters and reconsider how much Wall Street machine politics keeps a stranglehold on the statewide offices, such that guys like Mamdani are far more the exception than the rule.
Yeah! Voting is difficult so people have lots of excuses to not bother!
Apathy is the biggest factor in disenfranchisement, much as we’d all like to blame “the establishment” for lack of participation.
Voting is difficult so people have lots of excuses
Disenfranchisement is public policy, so people are prohibited from casting their votes.
And Lemmy users are voluntarily consenting to become disenfranchised. They’re doing the billionaires’ work for them.
They’re voluntarily agreeing to stay home on election day, let Trump win, and kill the Palestinian protest movement by giving people new problems to worry about.
If it weren’t for these non voters, Kamala would have won and we’d currently be forcing her to divest from Israel. But instead we have Trump bombing Iran on Netanyahu’s orders and we have to do No Kings instead of No Israel. We’re stretched too thin because of these guys.
I’m pretty sure the argument is that the Democrat party is a billionaire owned party.
And Lemmy users are voluntarily consenting to become disenfranchised.
That’s just victim blaming.
I love blaming victims who lick boot
The boot licking is coming from inside the liberal tent. That’s why we ended up with a liberal majority voting for more ICE agents and fewer IRS agents.
At this point I’m not ruling out that Ken Martin has a lemmy account. That account only ever shows up to stan for him.
You have to wonder how many accounts are people trying to drive disengagement with the process as well, then. Cause there’s a hell of a lot more “dont bother participating cause we’re all doomed” commenters than those sucking off the DNC.
It’s possible. Stanning for DNC leadership seems weirder to me than being blackpilled about democratic participation, though. I don’t agree with either position, but being jaded is at least understandable to me.
I find irrational hope and irrational despair equally easy to understand, but I’m always gonna side with irrational hope over irrational despair.
What I don’t understand is thinking that irrational hope is a billionaire ploy but irrational despair isn’t. Have you seen the world in the last 6 years? The billionaires love despair and hate hope.
I’m on the Wachowskis’ side with thinking that love and hope are inherently revolutionary. All of their movies are about people who believe in hope overthrowing the ruling class. The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer…
And you don’t think that’s a problem? That you identify more with people who’d rather do nothing and let everything burn down around you out of spite than do literally anything to help?
It’s not even like they’re saying “This person is the greatest person who ever existed and should lead the world!” They’re just saying “This guy isn’t as bad as you make him out to be, maybe give the process a chance instead of giving up entirely”.
Don’t put words in my mouth. Being jaded is understandable because of the extremely obvious flaws in our democracy and the negligible correlation between what voters want and what they get, and being dismissive of the DNC leadership is equally understandable given the canyon between them and their voters on Israel, money in politics, and the relationship between workers and capital.
I never said burn it all down, and explicitly said I disagree with the blackpilled. Your representation of what I said is so dishonest I’m wondering if you’re an alt account.
I find it amusing that dbzer0 is all “Don’t advocate for electoralism (which we define as voting at all) here, you have the rest of Lemmy to do that” when the ratio is so unbalanced.
Are there even ANY pro-voting instances?
Finding out the DNC has an unpaid intern working the Lemmy beat would be so fucking funny.
That the account moderates “A Boring Dystopia” carries levels of irony my mind can barely even grasp.
I don’t believe it because while the Dems are terrible at social media they’d never waste money on Lemmy
That’s the cool thing about unpaid interns…
We’re talking about capitalists, here. They understand opportunity costs are losses.
I’m not sure what that has to do with the use of free labor.
I do not believe any political party will ever be on my side.
They could be, but not with a two party system. We need proportional representation so smaller parties can actually exist in government.
I don’t think a group of more than about 20 people could be on my side. Though I’ve been kicked out of groups smaller than that so maybe not even then.
Sounds like you need to start a militia and go doom-prep in the woods, then. The political process just isn’t right for you.
Only if my militia is woodland creatures.
Sounds like they’d get kicked out of that, too.
So support people instead. Just because those parties are full of people doesn’t mean you have to go all in if you support a few of them.
The process is what we have, and we’re not going to make it better by refusing to participate in it. At best we’d make things worse and it collapses… and it gets a lot worse. Then maybe we can replace it with something better. If someone worse doesn’t get there first.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good-enough-for-now, especially if it means millions are going to suffer for the inaction.
That’s what an independent is. When I registered to vote 50 years ago this year, I declined to register with a party, and I still haven’t. I despise both parties, I think they are both anti-Democracy, but I’ll never vote MAGA, and probably not even Republican, until they sincerely reform, and apologize.
That doesn’t mean I’m a Democrat, I hate them nearly as much. I support individual people whom I trust, like AOC and Max Frost. Sometimes it goes awry - I was a supporter of Eric Swallwell, until it turned out he was serial rapist, but at least I’m not blindly following an entire party of people like him.
Things will get worse and eventually collapse and millions will suffer regardless of my actions. Entropy is a bitch and life is suffering.
And perfect isn’t fighting good. Less bad is fighting worse bad.
Even Schumer endorsed Mamdani during the election, over that fuckin buffoon Third Party Cuomo.
Schumer never endorsed Mamdani.
You might be right, it looks like it was Hakeem Jeffries who announced support as early voting happened. Schumer just ignored the question everytime he was asked.
I could swear I saw a speech from him about supporting the DNC even if it didn’t name Mamdani specifically, but I’m having trouble finding that now.
It’s wild how revisionist you centrist types get whenever you’re proven wrong.
Just keep supporting every liberatory movement only after it succeeds and expect everyone to forget you were against it when it could’ve actually benefitted from your support. You must also be gaslighting yourselves, because otherwise you’d have enough shame to admit you were wrong.
Yes, I totally doubled down and refused any fault just now. That’s exactly what happened. Good job, detective. /s
It’s about what you managed to convince yourself. The reason you can’t find that speech from Schumer endorsing Mamdani is because it doesn’t exist. You hallucinated it to preserve your ego after Mamdani’s victory shook your worldview.
Borough Democrats supported him from the jump.
Rag on the corpos all you want but understand local Dems are a thing and somewhere they’re the same thing.
It doesn’t matter!
Both sides are the same!
We have to sit out every election until the workers rise up and bring about the Revolution!
So what if people die without health care? That’s a small price to pay!
/s
Agreed, if you can live with a genocide in someone else’s country and have to vote for the lesser evil, I can live with your country turning fascist, losing influence and being discarded by your own vassal states.
Anything for greater good with choosing lesser evil, right?
The breaking down of US hegemony is far beneficial to everyone overall than you losing healthcare.
Bet, now you suddenly think that’s non-empathetic, huh bud?
Let me raise you from your ignorance.
You may have heard of a man named Frederick Douglas. He had been a slave, escaped to freedom, and worked tirelessly in the cause of abolition.
In the 1860 election Douglas had to choose which candidate he would support. Abe Lincoln had said that keeping the Union together was his top priority and that he’d let the South keep their slaves if it meant they’d stay. Another candidate was strongly for abolition.
Douglas, who knew exactly how terrible the lives of the slaves were, decided that the smart thing to do was to support Lincoln.
Douglas wanted abolition, but knew that Lincoln’s abolitionist opponent was almost certain to lose the election.
Douglas made a strategic decision to support Lincoln in hopes that he’d be able to influence Lincoln later on.
Also, I think it’s hilarious that you think that American democracy breaking down is going to be a good thing.
Putin’s version of Russia is as bad the old USSR in terms of messing with other countries.
The US arsenal isn’t going to disappear overnight, and will more likely be deployed when we lose soft power.
The literal title of this post: vote for people who want to help
, not those who want to line their pockets
In this case it’s saying not to vote for Schumer or Gillibrand in the generals, if they survive a primary.
I don’t give a fuck if either of them get elected again, and anyone who thinks NY is sending a Republican to the senate is dumb as hell.
Oh hey, it’s someone from .ml! /s
34 million and only 6000 apartments.
Efficiency is the key issue everyone fails at here.
He needs to aim bigger, to solve most problems with one stroke.
Username checks out
Ah he usually posts some stupid ass comments
As opposed to… 0 million spent and 0 apartments improved on the last 25 years?
6000 in 4 months with the system he inherited is still more that previously. Why do you think this is his final goal? Of course he’s aiming higher.
How do you eat an elephant?
You start by killing the elephant.
Problem is too many Dems are trying to work with the elephant to reach a consensus.
It’s an expression. The answer is “one bite at a time.” When dealing with a large problem, you have to break it down into many small parts.
I know the expression. But an issue we run across a lot on the left is either being too accommodating to the opposition or trying to skip steps out of excitement.
Mandami is stuck in an intersection of both issues. Establishment Dems are trying to work with the elephants, progressives want the meal to be finished, and Mandami is in the middle trying to keep peace with both sides by refusing to kill the elephant but still trying to eat it.
To quote Gavin “It would take several days of munching and chewing.”
Improvements take time.
It’s possible he’s collected (or even just invoiced) the money, but the work is still being planned/completed.
Furthermore, that’s under 6000 dollars per apartment. For what I presume are some of the worst apartments in the city that’s not bad at all. I’m assuming it’s stuff like mold, major leaks, recarpeting, and whatever else someone living with their parents wouldn’t know about.
Also don’t disregard local elections or people who are pushing quality of life improvements that may not seem like a huge deal.
Fuck the DNC.
Nah, I love the DNC. I love taxing the rich. I love everyone getting food and healthcare. I love protecting the environment. I love continued democracy.
Fuck the GOP. Every GOP out at all costs.
I love taxing the rich. I love everyone getting food and healthcare
Are you perhaps confusing the US with another country? I thought you were listing things you like about the DNC? Because those things don’t exist in the US. If we’re listing stuff we just like, I like a million dollars and high speed rail, but the DNC hasn’t given me either.
Those things exist in lower amounts than some European countries because the DNC have held 48 or less senate seats for over 13 years, have never held a supermajority without caucus, and never held a SCOTUS majority. It is how the DNC vote, and it is their platform.
I wouldn’t vote for a republican even for a dog shit picker upper position!
They’ll just claim it was left by a trans kid and they should’ve used the litter box.
Or claim that there is no dog shit, it’s just a liberal media hoax.
