Posted on 11/12/2026 11:44:41 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Holdout tenants and leftwing democratic socialists are clashing with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and pro-housing advocates...
The fight is over Mamdani's plan to redevelop a NYCHA complex in Chelsea, which would replace about 2,000 units of public housing with private developers’ mixed-income housing.
“The escalating conflict has created uncomfortable optics for the mayor. The newly minted DSA members accuse Mamdani, who campaigned as a champion of working class New Yorkers fighting wealthy interests, of abandoning his values,” Gothamist reports.
Mandani, along with other DSA members in his administration, argues that the Chelsea complex is in such bad condition that spending $1.2 billion to tear it down will be cheaper than renovating it.
(Excerpt) Read more at planetizen.com ...
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History will show that Zohran Mamdani was among the primary catalysts for the Blue Wave. He is the de facto leader of the Democrats. He's a case study in more ways than one.
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”Works well in conjunction with rule #5:
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
Oh no!! The commies are hating on one of their own??
Mandami is an Islamist. He just uses the commies.
The leftists should know this from how 1979 Iran went. the first to die after the Red Green revolution were the reds. But that would require intelligence. And if they had brains, they wouldn’t be commies.
You can never be communist enough for these people.
The envelope stuffed with cash speaks more than your complaints.
Exactly.
Yes, especially when reality collides with their fantasies.
Communism is a fable the elite tell the peasants so they can appropriate the borgeoise’s stuff for themselves in the name of social justice.
Communism is a fable the elite tell the peasants so they can appropriate the bourgeoisie’s stuff for themselves in the name of social justice.
New York City got what they voted for what’s not to be happy about.
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