PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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New York mayoral races are notoriously unpredictable due to the city’s chronically low turnout. In 2017, for example, Bill de Blasio won reelection with only 14% of registered voters coming out to support him.

Damn, my hopes for Mamdani just got even higher. Low turnout under ordinary circumstances give high-enthusiasm candidates an advantage, by that enthusiastic base's relative size to the ordinarily voting electorate.

Sadly ineligible. He's a naturalized citizen.

Christ, it's 2025. I should fucking hope that none of this fucking matters for the 2028 primary.

The only thing I miss about winter is the lack of bugs.

I wish I could say I was surprised.

I'm permabanned from Blahaj for saying, on another instance, that I don't believe in dragons.

The meme is satirizing that statement by swapping the usual 'compliment'.

Honestly, if someone decided to execute me for any of my behavior in Middle School, I'd take my punishment without complaint. It'd be a just sentence tbqh

Some will. Many will. Probably even most.

The question that remains to be seen is if enough of them are hypocrites and fascist-enablers to sink the run.

What a dipshit fascist, attempting to be a spoiler candidate.

"6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it"

Reminds me of the people who insist on higher taxes but complain that raising taxes on their lowly 300k+ two-income household would be oppression.

It's never enough.

Some clients have an option for blocking keywords. Browsing by subscribed comms is also useful. I only have a handful of comms that allow US politics content that show up on my feed.

If I had a dollar for everyone who complained about Dem candidates but didn't vote in the primaries, I'd probably deserve the guillotine.

What is wrong with us?

Apathy, hopelessness, ignorance, and, in the case of GOP voters, malice.

Not sure where they're getting that number from, honestly. The actual numbers are MUCH smaller, though still non-neglible.

Some people are really detached from the culture they live in.

Or it could be made up. Who knows?

But I can definitely attest to some older folk not knowing what 'bisexual' means, especially in a rural or semirural area.

So you’ve decided shitting on people who voiced valid opposition is the best course of action

Ah yes, the 'valid opposition' of critical support for literal fascists winning, under the excuse that "both sides are the same anyway".

Very valid, as this event (one of many, I might add) shows. Marginalized groups which depend on the government not being fascists thank you and your kind for your principled stand against our lives. It's truly a privilege.

I believe that the ultrapurist attitude that many Lemmy users follow was a non-zero factor in the loss in 2024, such as the some 2 million 2020 Biden voters who refrained from voting for Harris solely on the strength of the Palestine issue; and that the Dem Party's fecklessness and incompetence was, likewise, a very non-zero factor.

Lemmy users ourselves, as with any small community, are not really a factor in anything but in determining which discussions are useful to have here.

Let’s not blame the insane people in power, no it’s the Lemmy people who had valid criticisms of Harris who clearly swung the whole vote in trumps favor. Actual insanity.

Goodness gracious me, why would I complain on Lemmy about the behavior and opinions of people on Lemmy?

It's truly a mystery.