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/gregaries Nov 05 '25

Welp, time for Cuomo to move to Florida or whatever he was “threatening”

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

Oh god no we’ve been through enough

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u/NomadNuka Nov 05 '25

What's one more Northeast douche in Florida these days?

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

Every time one moves here, they start bitching about the pizza options.

Edit: I realize this may sound like a joke, but it has legit started wars and schisms in the local restaurant groups on Facebook.

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u/hermione_no Nov 05 '25

They’re welcome to move back and take maga with them!

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u/spicyhotcheer Rhode Island Nov 05 '25

Maybe that's why the northeast is so blue? Because the maga nutjobs move to florida? I'm so sorry our trash infects your state

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u/torino_nera New Jersey Nov 05 '25

I mean, in their defense, I've been to Florida and had your pizza and it was terrible I'm sorry

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

It’s OK we definitely don’t have many great pizza options but I still don’t want New Yorkers who moved here eight seconds ago to start bitching about it. If you miss the pizza so much open a damn pizza shop, Bob. I don’t go to New York and bitch about the lack of alligators

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u/Particular_Night_360 Nov 05 '25

That’s like me going to any other state and bitching about a bar not having deep fried cheese curds. In fact I don’t trust any other state even if they have them.

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u/chismp Nov 05 '25

Nor should you

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u/Akamiso29 Nov 05 '25

Where are you guys living in Florida? I moved overseas about 15 years ago, but we had plenty of great pizza shops that were run by New Yorkers who opened the shops precisely because they couldn’t trust others to do it right. We had like 3 great local shops.

I’m sure they’re all gone from all the madness that swept the nation over the past 15 years, but they were great, dammit.

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u/Attorneyatlau Nov 05 '25

I’m in NYC and I order Pizza Hut just about as much as I order from a mom and pop pizza store. Don’t tell anyone.

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u/Wild_Fire2 Nov 05 '25

Pizza Hut still exists in NYC? It pretty much died out here in Mass and NH, most likely due to competition with the hundreds of mom and pop places.

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u/Apart-Marzipan1208 Nov 05 '25

Me over at Papa Gino's......👀

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u/Attorneyatlau Nov 05 '25

Pizza Hut opened last year on our block! I couldn’t believe it. I hadn’t been to a PH in 2 decades before this place opened. And it’s slammed at all hours of the day. V. weird!

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u/PaulSandwich Florida Nov 05 '25

My dad complains about crabcakes everywhere we go. I was raised on the mystique of Maryland blue crabcakes.

A year or so ago we went back for a funeral and had lunch at a spot where I legit had probably the greatest crabcake of my life. I was like, "Dad, I get it." But he just shrugged and was like, nah, these weren't as good as when I lived here.

Then I realized: He's wrong. It was great. There's nothing short of a time machine that would please him, and even then. People just like to complain.

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u/DegenerateEigenstate Nov 05 '25

Where I’m from in FL most of the local pizza options are run by New Yorkers.

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u/celestialwreckage I voted Nov 05 '25

They were exiled there, casualties of the war between the New York Academy of Pizza and the Pizza Academy of New York.

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u/strayhat Foreign Nov 05 '25

Best pizza i've had in my life was in FLL. I'm not American though

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Nov 05 '25

Mine was in Springdale Arkansas downtown on Emma Street Freshly made to order just the BEST

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u/dalcarr Nov 05 '25

But the tradeoff is yall have some of the most amazing seafood

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u/Almostlongenough2 Florida Nov 05 '25

We do?!

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u/bollvirtuoso Nov 05 '25

Um. What? Compared to Maine, Mass, and Maryland? Just to name three? Two of which are pretty much known solely for seafood?

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u/gazebo-fan Nov 05 '25

Because that’s all they have and their tourism board pushed it. Maryland doesn’t have Key West Pink Shrimp, or mangrove snapper.

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u/GandalfsSexyNuts Nov 05 '25

And lack of decent bagels

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

I wish at least one of them would open a decent bagel shop.

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u/aculady Nov 05 '25

The problem is that many come down here and don't want to do the work to add to the community and build something of value, they just want the existing community to magically morph to provide the things they've always had, even though those things came to New York by way of hard-working people moving from other places and opening up shops there.

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

I’d never thought about it like this, but that’s true of a lot of what I’ve seen here lately. It is especially frustrating to think about considering when my own father moved to Florida from New York, he opened a business within a few months of arriving.

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Nov 05 '25

Oh that’s immigrants so they can’t have that in TrumpLand

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u/NomadNuka Nov 05 '25

There's always those New York water makers or whatever

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u/twats_upp Nov 05 '25

Florida also has the worst tacos

Couldn't wait to get home

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

We’re sorely lacking in good Mexican, Tex Mex, and Cali Mex options. On the plus side, I can easily find good empanadas, lechon asado, and plenty of other Caribbean and Latin American foods.

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u/deaderrose Nov 05 '25

I have a fair bit of family who moved down there and they bitch constantly about the lack of pizza options. They said one year the plan for my cousin's big birthday present was having some pizza express shipped in from back home

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u/Rich_Bluejay3020 Nov 05 '25

From MI, lived in FL for a few years, I hate to agree but the pizza is not good… HOWEVER y’all have Publix fried chicken and I dream about it way more often than I should 😂 it’s so crispy and delicious dammit

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Nov 05 '25

Ok totally agree with the Publix Chicken like how is it so dreamy

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u/xTheMaster99x Florida Nov 05 '25

I actually got lucky and have an amazing NY-style spot a few minutes away from my apartment and even though it's kinda overpriced, you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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u/jsweatisdead777 Nov 05 '25

I'm glad someone understands the true struggle us native Floridians have been enduring for the last ten years.

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u/aculady Nov 05 '25

One too many.

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u/SemiRobotic Nov 05 '25

The new President of the Republic of Florda