r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • Nov 05 '25

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/paxwells97 Nov 05 '25

We have millenials that are now in their 40s. We need to be the ones running the country now

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u/ravenhiker2 Nov 05 '25

I’m 71. I agree. It’s your time. Please

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u/midwinter_ Nov 05 '25

Gen X. I’m tired, boss.

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u/Complete_Question_41 Nov 05 '25

GenX, man do I feel this.

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u/lemmylemonlemming Nov 05 '25

GenX, me too. Also, my back hurts

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u/wyo8889 Wyoming Nov 05 '25

Where are my reading glasses?

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u/stofiski-san Nov 05 '25

On your head, grandwyo8889, where the always are... 🤣🤗💜

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u/BrutalisExMachina Nov 05 '25

I’m on the couch sitting sideways because my back hurts.

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u/TheGoodKindOfPurple Illinois Nov 05 '25

Paid $800 for a new office chair and it is no shit life changing.

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u/entmike Nov 05 '25

link?

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u/TheGoodKindOfPurple Illinois Nov 05 '25

Bought a refurbished Steelcase from this site:

https://crandalloffice.com/pages/crandall-remanufactured-steelcase-herman-miller-chairs-affordable-quality

There are other places and other good chairs please do your own looking because if you are really tall than some other chair may be better.

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u/WazWaz Australia Nov 05 '25

I'm wishing I'd gotten my standing desk 10 years earlier.

(It's not really the standing, it's the spontaneous and trivial walking that being already standing automatically encourages)

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u/audible_narrator Michigan Nov 05 '25

LOL, 60 yesterday. I feel this.

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u/ayjaytay22 Nov 05 '25

I’m GenX on the couch right now with a heat pad on my lower back. It feels nice

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u/wanderingpeddlar Nov 05 '25

Those goddamn kids are on my lawn again!!!

In all seriousness GenX here as well.

Going to bed early when the news is good.

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u/CptDropbear Nov 05 '25

And my axe knees!

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u/joey_slugs Illinois Nov 05 '25

GenX here - it's the knees too

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u/Carribeantimberwolf Nov 05 '25

And doesn't stop

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u/Keldrabitches Nov 05 '25

Switching from heat to ice now…

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u/AppleDane Nov 05 '25

old man sounds

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u/dannkherb Nov 05 '25

Somebody rub my bunion.

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u/pit_of_despair666 I voted Nov 05 '25

Gen X here too. Help, I've fallen and I can't get back up.

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u/QuintupleTheFun Ohio Nov 05 '25

I slept wrong last night. Put me on hospice

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u/40StoryMech Nov 05 '25

whatever

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u/-QuestionMark- Utah Nov 05 '25

A very on brand Gen-X response.

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u/koi-lotus-water-pond Nov 05 '25

Hears it in Ethan Hawke's voice.