Exactly, people were talking about controlled opposition and it looks like it is true.

If they thought he was so left he had no chance they would just laugh or even ignore (which normally they did not pay attention to primaries).

It also shows how broken this country is when two groups of people can both look at this and have completely opposite reactions to it.

"We are all domestic terrorists"

They already told us who they are, and nothing they've done would indicate otherwise.

Deport is not wrong

Well yeah, they had a problem with any kind that makes them lose.

They just take issue with brown people immigrating here.

It's not just Fox News. Bezo's Washington Post ran an editorial, written by "the editorial board," about how Mamdani would be "bad for New York and bad for the Democratic Party," claiming he would destroy public transit, reduce the number of grocery stores, drive away big businesses, depress low-skill employment, etc., etc., etc. Oh, and of course that this would discredit all the other young candidates across the country. The WaPo's threat earlier this year to make their editorial page aggressively pro-capitalist and anti-public-good was apparently very much in earnest.

Hope they are using the word "socialist" more, so people can be informed of what socialism is and on his program.

They love New York/Wall Street, because that's where the money is, but they hate all the liberal artsy stuff.

Exactly.... It's all so rich coming from these losers who refuse to even enter NYC because Fox News told them it's warzone or some bullshit.

Hear, hear! Excellent point.

The first time I heard of "communists" and "socialists" was back when I was in middle school, when Bush Jr got us into war. All I did was ask why in the world we were invading Iraq, which had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. Sincerely trying to understand the world. That's when the already-brainwashed kids starting flinging "socialist" and "communist" like they meant the same thing as "idiot."

So, I decided to read about those concepts to see what all the hubbub was about. Surprise surprise, when I later responded to those same kids by asking what they thought the words meant, they couldn't answer the question.

Now I'm thinking it's kind of like the Streisand Effect - 'Muricans don't want you to know about how other countries run. I didn't know about systems besides capitalism yet, until the spawn of conservatives decided to use ancient fears from the 1950s as an insult in the year 2003. Surprise surprise, now there's a swath of Millennials (and other generations, of course) just like me who learned that if conservatives hate something, it's worth looking into.

"Communist" and "socialist" are no different than "liberal" for them -- just labels to selectively target those they don't like, for whatever reason they decide. Just slap the label on and you're good to go

THE US ALREADY IS GODDAMMIT!!

WHY DOES NOBODY UNDERSTAND THIS??

ARM UP, GODDAMMIT!!!

Great clapback if they actually cared about the constitution but they dont. They're arguing in bad faith and nothing he says matters.

Because they can't win if they keep it.

The only hope is when things take a turn, they take a turn in our favor. And I don't hold much hope for that, we've been at war and the rest of the country is pretending there isn't one

A conservative literally went and shot a sitting democrat politician and her husband dead. It was a news story for about 10 seconds before being replaced by the latest Trump shenanigans. They're literally assassinating / murdering democrats in their homes man, and no one in America seems to care all that much.

And you think something'll happen if they deport a dude who is just... in the running for mayor?

Yeah, ok, sure.

He's absolutely a threat to what the US has become. His policies and views are dangerous to a fascist state.

Neither are most of the people they are deporting. This isn't really about threats to the US it is about threats to their dominance. Suppression of political opponents.

Honestly, "uncontrolled immigration" leads to social and political mobility?

Good. That is what we need. Also, uncontrolled? When was that lol

Exactly. If MAGAt morons don't like the person, you know they're probably the best choice.

Why did it take so long to come to that conclusion? That's been the case for years. My mom, who is religious and fortunately not part of the MAGA cult, has repeatedly told me that she wouldn't be surprised if he is.

1-the GOP IS a Nazi party 2- trump IS an antichrist, and the thing about antichrists is that they are invisible to christians. 3- his followers are actual satanic pedophiles, which is why they accuse everyone else of being satanic pedophiles.

RNC promotes greens through the Badger Values PAC, the European Greens parties asked the US Greens to step down in the last election because if Harris lost then Republicans win. Can you guess how many Greens are in the US congress today? ZERO. Can you guess which party Mamdani is in? DNC.

Raised that way.

The Democrat party elites would celebrate together with the Republicans and the cokeheads at Wall Street as this means putting the sexual predator and "centrist" Cuomo back on the D ticket.

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

From, They Thought They Were Free