Posted on 07/07/2025 5:16:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Zoran Mamdani built his dream on radical chic—but now that he's winning, he's scrambling to bury the blueprint.
After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool.
So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn’t really mean that violence was merely a “construct.”
I suppose Mamdani asked Jewish New Yorkers—the target of 44 percent of all hate crimes in the city—and discovered that their concussions and blood were all too real.
As a good soldier in the ranks of Black Lives Matter, Mamdani now insists he did not trash the police and advocate defunding them. Neither did he really, really mean to claim falsely he was African-American when he applied to college nor did really, really mean to do a video mocking the Jewish holiday of Hannukah.
Mamdani once thought it was cool to boast about defunding the police when he was an edgy, rising, left-wing community activist.
But then it was smarter to play it down as a candidate. And now it is essential to lie and deny it as a front-runner.
As a good communist, Mamdani echoed Karl Marx by bragging about his ultimate agenda: “the end goal of seizing the means of production.”
But whose “means of production” would Mamdani start seizing?
Trump Tower? Tesla dealerships? Amazon warehouses?
Mamdani warns us, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly.”
Then, please tell us, how would you get rid of them?
Confiscate their money? Tax them at a 99 percent rate?
Maybe dox them and let the public handle the rest?
Mamdani brags he would “globalize the intifada.”
Given that most define the intifada (“shaking off”) as the two violent Palestinian waves of terrorism against Israel,
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Then, please tell us, how would you get rid of them?
The Stalin methods or the Mao methods?
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I don’t think we should have Mamdani’s
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What is that picture of/about?
>>What is that picture of/about?
Lenin’s crackdown on political opponents.
“In the Basements of the Cheka” by Ivan Vladirimov, 1919
He is going to win with the other three dividing the sane / more conservative vote. Two of the other three need to drop out if he is going to be defeated. I’m torn though. Part of me wants to let him win to show what a disaster he would be. But I really don’t want one of the largest, richest, most prominent cities in the country to be driven into chaos. That would not be good for anyone.
He’ll crown himself Supreme Leader of NYC and he can’t wait to build his Bunker
Barack Obama’s father, Kamala Harris’s father, and Rep. Ilhan Omar’s parents fled the poverty, violence, and corruption of their homeland only to find prosperity, even affluence, amid the safety and the rule of law in the United States.
This statement aside, with the "banishing of Billionaires" idea are infectious viral statements that should doom his mayoral race, and that of socialists everywhere. But they won't among the "I already got mine, now you go away" of the young trust fund kiddies.
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Why would he wish to turn New York City into a social basket-case like Uganda, which his now-rich parents fled to reach America in the first place?
This Mandani is classic communist revolutionary.
If he’s elected the battle with DJT will be fun to watch. Unless,of course,you live in NYC...or visit NYC with any regularity
Bebe knows how to grind a grudge, he will almost surely speak at the UN next year maybe right before mid-terms.
The larger question is, why are we permitting India to interfere with American politics? These high-caste Brahmin bullshitters, they all want to rule the world BUT nope can't do it in the unruly shithole vortex of India, set their compass for the US.
Obama appointee Sri Srinivasan, Obama appointee Indira Talwani, Obama appointee Amit Mehta -- sense a pattern here? Tell PM Modi stop sending us your worse. And meanwhile every one of these people should be called on to condemn the caste system that they all directly profit from as high-caste. You want to undermine Zoltar and every last one of these poojabbers? That's how you do it. Because not one of them will speak a word against caste. And it's never asked of them!
I realize this is a rhetorical question, but it does have a simple answer: it's good to be King.
Recently even Thomas Sowell, another never-Trumper Stanford stooge, also came around.
In communist terms it’s called ‘’re-education’’.
They had a basement to execute capitalists and enemies of the state.
Done 6 at a time,,,(the capacity of the revolver used for executions)
Six bodies were roped together and hauled off the to the disposal wagons.
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