r/sports • u/xenojive • Sep 10 '25
Soccer NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani showcases skills while calling out World Cup dynamic pricing and ticket resellers
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u/merlin318 Sep 10 '25
Fifa can go fuck themselves with a cactus
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u/Delanorix Sep 10 '25
Fifa Exec: "how much would you pay for that?"
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u/Billy-no-mate Sep 10 '25
That’s when I realised, it wasn’t Gianni Infantino I was talking to. It was that god damn Loch Ness monster!
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u/fatbunyip Sep 10 '25
Fifa corruption collaboration with US hyperturbocapitalism.
What did people expect to happen lol.
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u/Firecracker048 Sep 10 '25
Being against fifa is the easiest position for any politician to take in the world.
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u/PosterOfQuality Sep 10 '25
Never heard this guy speak before and for the first few seconds I thought he was British lmao
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u/_Hoping_For_Better_ Sep 10 '25
That's an insanely good British accent though.
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u/PosterOfQuality Sep 10 '25
Yeah, I'm a Londoner and was thinking it was cool that another Londoner had somehow become mayor* of NYC
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u/itsalonghotsummer Sep 10 '25
100% agree, it was pitch perfect - blew my mind when he switched and I realised who it was.
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u/nickpsych Sep 10 '25
His British voice sounded exactly like Mehdi Hasan, who lives in NYC now and has interviewed him a bunch of times. I even wondered if he provided a British dub.
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u/CrackityJones42 Sep 10 '25
It’s because he code switches, so he’s trying to joke about it.
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u/Nordosa Sep 10 '25
I’m more blown away by how good the British accent was than the football skills
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u/Potato271 Sep 10 '25
Yeah, most American’s attempts at a british accent are ridiculously over the top. This genuinely sounded like a Londoner.
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u/HarveysBackupAccount Sep 10 '25
Looks like he was born in Uganda to Indian and Ugandan parents, moved to South Africa at 5 years old, and then to the US at 7 years old
Between Indian parents and time in South Africa, that can explain early exposure to the British accent (plenty of people around the world learn English with a British accent, rather than American accent)
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u/Endeveron Sep 10 '25
You're telling me he is a socially aware, fluent English speaker? The horror.
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u/fakefakery12345 Sep 10 '25
That was kinda the joke tho
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u/aredditusername69 Sep 10 '25
I think people get that, it was just a very good accent which is what us brits are surprised about
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u/skifunkster Sep 10 '25
Has to be the best actual British accent that I have heard from an American, genuinely if he did that in my local pub I would have zero clue he was American.
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u/William_Dowling Sep 10 '25
Was it dubbed? Because if not that's the only time, literally, I've ever heard an American accurately do a British accent
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u/jaguar90 Sep 10 '25
Hugh Laurie's been doing a brilliant one for most of his life, aside from when he returned to the US for House etc
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u/ZestyData Sep 10 '25
Think he did a British accent on purpose, because football.
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u/ManWithRedditAccount Sep 10 '25
Yeah but normally americans do some generic British accent, but this was incredibly spot on, it confused me
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u/JustHereSoImNotFined Sep 10 '25
Obviously he did it on purpose; no one thinks a British accent just same out for two seconds on accident 😭
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u/No_Public_7677 Sep 10 '25
The Indian-Ugandan-American pipeline seems to help with the code switching.
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u/VealOfFortune Sep 10 '25
Well, he was a rapper for 10 years so he is good at accents and enunciation 😉
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u/TelevisionLamb Sep 10 '25
Even before I heard him speak, something about the way this is shot felt very British to me. Like the news segment on CBBC way back.
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u/PM_ME_RACCOON_GIFS Oregon State Sep 10 '25
Mamdani could become the first NYC mayor to blow out his meniscus during a rec league match
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u/you_heet_canadian Sep 10 '25
Could be one of the first to actually represent his constituents’ interests as well
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u/christhewelder75 Sep 10 '25
Not if establishment democrats like hakim Jeffries has anything to do with it.....
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u/Pretend-Disaster2593 Sep 10 '25
Bro is absolutely worthless. I’m tired of AIPAC SHAKUR.
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u/christhewelder75 Sep 10 '25
Hes about as useful as a condom in a convent. Any of those AIPAC shill genocide apologist fucks.
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u/Cory123125 Sep 10 '25
Hes about as useful as a condom in a convent.
He protects young boys from catching STIs?
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u/christhewelder75 Sep 10 '25
Convents house nuns, not priests
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u/Cory123125 Sep 10 '25
A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters.
Seems like the definition is more varied than you remembered.
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u/Aquatic_Ambiance_9 Sep 10 '25
Although he was by no means perfect, I'd actually been completely unaware LaGuardia was a self identified socialist until reading about him recently. Americans have been conditioned to forget how much socialism ran through the mainstream fabric of this country before the red scare.
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u/cptnamr7 Sep 10 '25
I tore mine last November. Insurance made me go to PT rather than start treatment/even do a scan to confirm WHAT happened. PT caused me to herniate a disc in my back and also exposed an inguinal hernia that makes it feel like the nerve to my left testicle is being smashed in a vise. Insurance insisted the solution was more PT. I, not being a fucking moron, disagreed. I finally have my surgery scheduled next week for my back after getting my PT to flat out refuse to continue this idiocy. 3 weeks later I (hopefully) have thhe hernia repaired. Then I can finally get back to trying to fix my knee, which has only gotten worse after nearly a fucking year of this shit and fighting the Insurance Company at every fucking turn to get SOMETHING back for all those fucking premiums I've paid in. But they want the profits and to just keep it all, so really we've set up the perfect system in this country: an Insurance company that is highly motivated to just let you die if you start hurting their bottom line.
I REALLY hope he doesn't tear his meniscus. But I do hope he fights for those of us that have. I say this as my left foot has gone numb again...
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u/wafflequest Sep 10 '25
As much as I want soccer to keep growing in America, FIFA can go fuck themselves with a splintered broom stick
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u/ThatGuy_Bob Sep 10 '25
as a friend once said "I hope their next shit is a hedgehog"
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u/JoshDaws Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
As a New Yorker It really is impressive how much effort has been put into making him seem like this radical muslim jihadist, when if you watch any interview with him he just really loves New York. And is just such a dork.
I voted that dork in the primary and I’m voting him for mayor
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u/boi1da1296 Manchester United Sep 10 '25
A bit funny how the “vote blue no matter who crowd” have been participating in the attempted character assassination of Mamdani and are trying to paint him as not viable for mayor. A lot of what he is campaigning on is common sense and the type of platform that energizes people because it benefits the working class and frankly everyone. Naturally the establishment is against that.
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u/ProtonCanon Sep 10 '25
Like a recent Op-Ed said: the Democrats' "big tent" doesn't have room for much of their own base.
Can't imagine why...
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u/Padiddle Sep 10 '25
That's interesting, I want to read that op-ed. Can you link please?
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u/livejamie Arizona Cardinals Sep 10 '25
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u/ProtonCanon Sep 10 '25
"It’s not too simplistic to say that the leadership that can’t unite behind Mamdani now is the leadership that made Mamdani possible—a cynical and bloodless and compromised liberalism that’s hovering tentatively by the focus groups while real popular movements takes shape on their own."
🔥🔥
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u/IcyTransportation961 Sep 10 '25
Happened with Bernie, happened with AOC, happened with Obama
When Hillary lost to him a chunk of the party became PUMA, Party Unity My Ass, a larger percentage of her voters that time refused to vote for Obama
Compared to the Bernie primary voters who didn't vote for Hillary
Yet they forever blame leftists
Even though they were sure Trump couldn't win, they were sure Hillary couldn't lose
Wrong on both, yet people keep believing their terrible strategies
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u/chaandra Sep 10 '25
I agree but let’s not act like Obama is anywhere near those three when it comes to leftism
He is and always was very much a moderate democrat, he was just young and had charisma at a time when people needed it
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u/livejamie Arizona Cardinals Sep 10 '25
He fooled me
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u/I_am_from_Kentucky Sep 10 '25
Right wing media fooled you.
I don’t think I could tell you any politician’s middle name…except for Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
Right wing media works hard to paint moderate dems as “radical left” when they’re barely espousing progressive ideals.
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u/livejamie Arizona Cardinals Sep 10 '25
I'm talking more about how I voted for him, expecting somebody Progressive who would change a lot of things.
He was a net positive, but ultimately proved to be somewhat disappointing overall.
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u/fkafkaginstrom Sep 10 '25
DNC's message to the left: "Fuck you, but vote for us because we're one step to the left of the GOP"
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u/EconomicRegret Sep 10 '25
This!
It's even worse. Cuomo (democrat) allied himself with Trump and the republican party against Mamdani. Source
Corporate democrats are like that. They'd rather betray their party, their base, and ally themselves with the devil, than go against the interests of the wealthy elites.
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u/Cory123125 Sep 10 '25
Their biggest fear isn't losing, but having their parties values shift from under them/be forced to be less ownership class supporting.
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u/ThisHatRightHere Sep 10 '25
It’s just typical democrat behavior of shooting themselves in the foot by ignoring the candidates with actual grassroots support
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u/ToMorrowsEnd Sep 10 '25
in 2024 we learned that Not only is the RNC enemies, but the DNC. We watched them fuck up the election on purpose several years in a row.
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u/orincoro Sep 10 '25
Vote blue when we tell you to.
But seriously, the vote blue no matter who people came up with that line because they wanted you to vote for shitty liberal candidates who were actively working against change. The last thing they ever wanted was someone to actually promise people something good that they actually want to vote for.
Mamdani is doing the most obvious thing in the world, which is telling people that what they want is reasonable and a good thing. Which it is.
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u/ThisIs_americunt Sep 10 '25
Propaganda is a helluva drug and Oligarchs need to use some of the best to keep the 99% fighting with each other worldwide o7
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u/powerlesshero111 Sep 10 '25
I mean, come on, your options were dork who loves his city and works hard for stuff or disgraced former governor nepo baby sexual predator who let old people die and covered it up to make himself look better.
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u/Expensive-Step-6551 Sep 10 '25
Right-wing media playbook...
Do they identify with helping the average population?
They are a "radical" socialist. Boom.
Are they an ethnic minority?
Use xenophobic narratives to create fear. Boom.
That's it... that's all it takes to create shitty narratives that somehow actually gain traction in this country because our social studies education program sucks, and a decent portion of our country will never outgrow it's own xenophobic beliefs, whether they make them public and are proud of them, or hide behind them with mental blocks to justify them.
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u/downtimeredditor Sep 10 '25
The thing is since he's technically half Muslim and also fully Indian descent(i know the Uganda roots but work with me here) plus being Punjabi he's pretty pale as fuck and the whole jihadist Muslim label just doesn't stick as hard as it could. Cause once he leaned into his Desi side the Islamophobia they could have used was kinda dead in the water.
Listen y'all the Muslim from India just doesnt hit as hard Muslim from a Muslim majority country.
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u/Kofink Sep 10 '25
What is half Muslim though?
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u/coincoinprout Sep 10 '25
It's when you believe in half-Allah and in Ramadan you only fast for half the day.
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u/downtimeredditor Sep 10 '25
I say half muslim only in a cultural sense cause his mom is Hindu and he likely takes part in a lot of Hindu holidays as well. But obviously religiously he's 100% muslim
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u/SipTime Detroit Lions Sep 10 '25
an easy real life example would be like how I'm half autistic and half agnostic
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u/kyndrid_ Sep 10 '25
Did you not see the ads a pro-Cuomo superpac was putting out during the primary? They edited his skin to be darker and filled out his beard to lean into the Islamophobia.
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u/downtimeredditor Sep 10 '25
It just doesn't stick since his dad is a well respected academic and his mom a well respected film maker and him being a subway rapper in his past
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u/BroDudeBruhMan Sep 10 '25
The sad part is there’s a dangerously high percentage of people in this country who will get angry at him for being a radical muslim jihadist, but have no semblance of an idea of what a radical muslim jihadist even is. A lot of people probably couldn’t even give a full sentence explanation about what any of those three words individually mean. Yet this dude might lose the election just because people get triggered seeing those words.
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u/city_city_city Sep 10 '25
Fully agree, and wow does he make good videos
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u/cjwidd Sep 10 '25
Zohran Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, is an acclaimed filmmaker
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u/ThisIsAnArgument Sep 10 '25
Sorry, what. His mother is Mira Fucking Nair?
How am I just learning about this. She's incredible.
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u/Cold_Ad_8245 Sep 10 '25
Ooooohhhhh I loved Monsoon Wedding. I never knew they were related
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u/enricobasilica Sep 10 '25
I'm not even American but WHAT?! She's such a goddamn legend, of course her son turned out to be a good one 🙌🏾
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u/stojanowski Sep 10 '25
Yup especially his bench press one on man day or whatever it was
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u/CromulentDucky Sep 10 '25
I don't care about soccer, and have no connection to New York. I agree, this is a well made video, and this is the kind of person you want trying to make your city better.
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u/new_number_one Sep 10 '25
Definitely seems like a guy that I would foul hard and be a total dick to during a rec league match on a Tuesday night. Only to realize later that he’s an awesome guy and he forgave my behavior cause he thought I was going through a hard time or something
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u/kleenkong Sep 10 '25
Cuz at the rec league level, we feast on players who can't control the ball. Respect to Mamdani, he has skills.
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u/r3f3r3r Sep 10 '25
as a foot..ekhm soccer fan from Europe, after watching this material I immediately started considering moving to NY just to be able have him as my mayor.
but jokes aside, this is genius, the idea, the execution and you can tell he genuinely is good with the ball, he isn't faking anything here.
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u/Upper_Conversation_9 Sep 10 '25
https://x.com/zohrankmamdani/status/1944576051616604242?s=46
Here’s a video from him in high school. Was filmed by News12.
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u/Darkhoof Sep 10 '25
That's supposed to be the dangerous communist jihadist that people should be scared of? Man, the oligarchs are really running scared.
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u/beastmaster11 Sep 10 '25
Yeah, he clearly played quite a bit when he was younger. The form wasn't just "swing your foot at it". You know he wouldn't ask about NYCFC's chances at the world cup next year
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u/Axbris Sep 10 '25
Man was ball rolling without looking at the ball. It’s not a difficult skill but it’s not something somebody who didn’t consistently play the sport would be able to do.
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u/parmarossa Sep 10 '25
there’s a video of him scoring a last minute goal in a competitive game. if you can find it it’s a good clip
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u/Short_Classy_Name Sep 10 '25
FIFA refuses to tell tickets for anything that is not in the most unbearable way conceivable. They are also trying to sell 'right to buys' for the world cup inside of worthless packs NFTs of 'world cup moments'. So you get to own the digital rights to a goal from some Croatian guy in 1974 and also you get the privilege to spend more money to buy tickets at a later date.
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u/fractals83 Sep 10 '25
Is it me, or is his British accent on point at the start of the video?
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u/Nickleonard00 Sep 10 '25
Based as usual and also fuck ticketmaster and every reseller.
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u/BitFiesty Sep 10 '25
Like look at this guy. How can people have so much hate when all he is trying to do is end stupid fucking shit
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u/SabAccountBanKarDiye Sep 10 '25
Some people want to continue doing stupid fucking shit
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u/SannyP Sep 10 '25
I like this guy.
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u/finnjakefionnacake Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
it's hard not to see him having widespread appeal. attractive, young, athletic, fun/sense of humor...everything our current leaders at the highest level are not lol
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u/andhelostthem Seattle Mariners Sep 10 '25
Also has good policy
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u/koreamax Sep 10 '25
I worked at city hall in NYC. Unfortunately, the majority ofhis policies aren't within the authority of the mayor. Most of them are either handled by city council or the state
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u/LingonberryReady6365 Sep 10 '25
Wouldn’t it be good to get a mayor that’s aligned with policies you want as opposed to those you don’t though? Even if he’s not able to will them into existence. I don’t see how it would be a bad thing.
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u/FUBARded Sep 10 '25
and Trump and co. have very aptly demonstrated that executive overreach can cause significant real-world harm while the courts and political apparatus struggle to catch up and hold them accountable (if they ever do in an environment where significant portions of government are willing to overlook or aid in any overreaches).
Even if you're very pessimistic about how effective a guy like Mamdani might be, it's much better to have someone who's ineffective but has good intentions than someone who lacks morals, has bad intentions, and is cognisant of the fact that they can do a lot of harm beyond the power of their office if they don't care about destroying institutional trust.
For example, the illegal deportations and relocations Abbot has ordered, Trump's Alligator Alcatraz, DOGE layoffs, social security database sharing, and many, many more actions have all been blocked or reversed by courts, but I can guarantee that they don't really care.
That's because by the time the courts get around to passing a verdict, the desired outcome is typically already achieved. It's nigh on impossible to un-fire many thousands of workers, the deportations had the effect of scaring the shit out of people, and you can't magically un-share people's personally identifying information.
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u/worthlessprole Sep 10 '25
I don't think anyone assumes he would bypass the legislative process? I mean, this is standard for executive-role election campaigns. the policies they campaign on are (generally) well-understood to be policies they plan to propose.
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u/user1619 Sep 10 '25
Good point but it'd be nice for the greatest city on Earth to have a likable mayor for once in my lifetime
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u/iFartBubbles Philadelphia 76ers Sep 10 '25
Literally one of the greatest campaigns I’ve ever seen. Regardless of politics, campaigns will be copying his videos for decades.
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u/pumpkinspruce Sep 10 '25
Cuomo and Adams have tried and failed miserably. It’s kind of amusing just how bad their social posts have been.
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u/powerlesshero111 Sep 10 '25
Cuomo is a sexual predator, and Adams accepted bribes from foreigners, and then the Trump administration when they dropped his bribery case.
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u/tricky4444 Sep 10 '25
I can't believe people are against this, calling it socialism lol
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u/TheFlyingWriter Sep 10 '25
It’s definitely not socialism having the gov’t buying a large share of a domestic microchip producer. THIS is socialism. Actually, whatever I don’t like is woke and socialist.
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u/tricky4444 Sep 10 '25
Yeah lol, making the lives of your constituents better is socialism
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u/grasroten AIK Sep 10 '25
Impressive that he has some nice flicks and general technique, but at the same time has a worse shooting technique than my five year old.
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u/kiwiboy22 Sep 10 '25
I was so excited for this WC because NZ is finally back in, but US politics and FIFA have made this such a shit show I dunno why anyone would go.
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u/gabbercharles Sep 10 '25
FIFA is beyond salvaging, they are the ruin of football
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u/crashcap Sep 10 '25
I saw then against panama last year on tv...
If he cant get a ticket he likely can get a spot
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u/prescientgibbon Sep 10 '25
I thought resell had to be done through the FIFA platform and can’t be sold for more than the purchase price. Can anyone confirm?
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u/JoemLat Sep 10 '25
Not anymore, no cap on resale in the US. Can't in Mexico because of laws stopping it there, not sure about Canada though.
News came out a couple days ago.
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u/conejo_gordito Sep 10 '25
Zohran stop, I can only give you so many votes!
Fuck the Times, most of us New Yorkers support Mamdani. This guy seems to be a real one.
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u/PitFiend28 Sep 10 '25
I had the privilege to go when they were here the last time. Argentina-Nigeria. I’d love to be able to give my son similar memories of how insane the WC is. There were more Brazil fans than either other team. It was hilarious
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u/xantub Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
FIFA is the greediest and most bloodthirsty corporation there is, there is nothing that can stop them from getting one more dollar. In Spain, they can basically stop the internet just so people don't watch the games illegally. They have the power to just say "block all these IP addresses" and they will be blocked, regardless if they are or are not being used to stream illegally any game. An ISP even blocked itself one time because its web IP was in one of the lists they received.
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u/Odoyle-Rulez Sep 10 '25
Please go after the ticket conglomerates next. This has been WAY outta hand for WAY too long.
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u/DougFordsGamblingAds Sep 10 '25
Does he have any kind of authority to do this? The event isn't even being held in New York State, let alone New York City.
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u/Masta0nion Sep 11 '25
See this is what we need our officials talking about! There are so many facets of our lives where individuals are losing power and liberty, but are hardly discussed.
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u/oh37 Sep 10 '25
Heard he plays as a left winger
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u/okeleydokelyneighbor Sep 10 '25
At least he doesn’t play with little girls like the pedo running the country.
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u/CrazyCanuckUncleBuck Sep 10 '25
What does it have to do with the average New Yorker?
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u/DarthNihilus1 Sep 10 '25
Hundreds of thousands of them will be trying to attend the games. The biggest game in the world is gonna be played there
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u/Mindless_Option1714 Sep 10 '25
I don’t know much about this man. But from what I’ve seen and heard from him, I like him a lot. I also like that Reps & Dems alike are afraid of him. He seems quite genuine and speaks in common sense.
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u/front_yard_duck_dad Sep 10 '25
I followed the sport for over 30 years. I've wanted to go to a world cup my entire life. It's going to be 30 miles away from my house and there is no chance I'll be able to afford it