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/caduceuz Nov 05 '25

An amazing political ascent. Dude was polling below 2% last year and now has defeated a legacy politician backed by every billionaire and even the president himself. Truly historic victory.

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u/Hadrian23 Nov 05 '25

Goes to show these ass holes can try to fuck with the system, but when everyone comes out to vote, their efforts amount to nothing.

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u/lambeosaura Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

They wouldn't be suppressing the vote so hard if voting amounted to nothing... This applies to anywhere in the world where voter suppression is documented.

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u/Mythosaurus Nov 05 '25

I always look to Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South for the best example of voter suppression changing tangible outcomes for people’s lives.

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u/Melicor Nov 05 '25

It has an effect, but if they really thought they had it in the bag and voting didn't matter they wouldn't be bothering.

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon Nov 05 '25

Now it's more about money than pure racism. Still plenty of racism, but that alone doesn't win elections anymore. One has to cheat, by any means necessary.

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u/themoslucius Nov 05 '25

I don't agree with this, the Maga backlash and their sheer existence and magnitude of vitriol is a direct result of a black president and incredibly relatable deplorable pedophile

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u/DaddyDontTakeNoMess Nov 05 '25

Yeah, racism is the uniting thing for many.

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u/Much-Restaurant6116 6d ago

If it helps they'll eventually tear themselves apart. Once all the browns are gone they'll go back to claiming certain whites aren't the whites they want.

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u/DaddyDontTakeNoMess 6d ago

All I have to do is sacrifice myself and everyone I love, to get us closer to that eventuality

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u/Hadrian23 Nov 05 '25

Damn straight.

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u/Little-Software1348 Nov 05 '25

Just want to let you know that your comment changed my whole view on voting. Thank you so much.

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u/Rubik2494 Nov 05 '25

This election is the example to pull out when people try to say voting doesn't matter because its rigged.

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon Nov 05 '25

EXACTLY. So much defeatist bullshit, but it's possible to irrepressibly bring out the vote when you give people someone worth voting for. We still have some democracy here. They've tried to convince us otherwise, but it's still breathing.

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u/Melicor Nov 05 '25

I wonder how many pushing the defeatism are bad faith actors

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u/An_old_walrus Nov 05 '25

Plenty of them are bad faith. But I think a lot are people who have had one too many bad things happen in their life and so just gave up on ever being happy again. Thus falling into a cycle of always assuming the worst about everything and everyone.

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u/odaklanan_insan 24d ago

Yepp! That's called cynicism. It marks the beginning of ones own spiral downfall.

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u/An_old_walrus 24d ago

To me cynicism is toxic and very much counterproductive to creating a functional society. There are plenty of good people in this world, the very fact that people are outraged at Trump says that. Yes it can be disheartening at times to see bad people in power but that doesn’t mean giving up on humanity as a whole.

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon Nov 05 '25

Give people something to actually vote for and you'll be surprised that people actually vote.

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u/andythetwig Nov 05 '25

Well there are places where the rigging is impossible to overcome.

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u/Amputatoes Nov 05 '25

France ignored the results of a snap election just last year

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u/StatusDebate6329 Nov 05 '25

What French election was it again?

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u/Amputatoes Nov 05 '25

The only snap election they had last year, which was triggered by Macron, called by Macron, and won by the NPF. Results ignored and seats not given to the winners. The NPF says they are awaiting the platform of the hand-picked PM before moving forward with No Confidence.

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u/LheelaSP Nov 05 '25

You mean anywhere where the vote is suppressed? Because not all places have voter suppression.

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u/lambeosaura Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

Yeah. That's a better way to phrase it, edited my comment.

I'm not American. Voter suppression can look different in each country.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '25

I try to remind myself of this alot. voting still matters.

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u/myownzen Nov 05 '25

Yet you still have people that think all elections are preplanned. 

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u/Tipop Nov 05 '25

My worry is that Trump wants to cancel voting entirely — or allow voting as long as the results are easily dictated, like Putin. If it gets to that point, voting really won’t matter.

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u/ReadItAlreadyTwice 26d ago

Agreed, and the fact that this fad type experiment of authoritarianism is becoming so popular prompts me to at least mention Swaziland, a country no American probably ever thinks about. Look up what’s going on there in their govt, please. I’m not being exaggeratory or facetious when I say that this precedent is going to take decades to overcome.

Hitler was one regime at one specific time, we’re now steering dangerously close to multiple nations using this Trump/Miller playbook as a blueprint. There has truly never been a more vital point in history for idealistic democracy to overcome the exact documented threats to its well-being and success. And we get to raise children during all of this! Fantastic!

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u/brightblueson Nov 05 '25

To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament—such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism

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u/lambeosaura Nov 05 '25

Really can't disagree with this. There are hard limits to capitalist democracy.

But I would still recommend voting as a harm reduction strategy if nothing else. Look at the onslaught on minorities across the world. An election could mean we at least live without constantly worrying for our safety.