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- I’m not a New Yorker or even an American, but it’s interesting just how much coverage this election has gotten in social media.
I think most of his major policies are pretty bad, but I also think the reaction against him has been over the top.
He is going to need cooperation from the state legislature, if he wants to collect the taxes needed to fund his policies, and I’m not sure how successful he will be at that.
A lot of people are rooting both for and against him, so it’s going to be interesting either way.
by WatchDog - > I think most of his major policies are pretty bad, but I also think the reaction against him has been over the top.
Pretty similar. I'm not much of a socialist, but I'm shocked how extremely racist the opposition has been too. He cares. The opposition don't seem to care at all.
- > He is going to need cooperation from the state legislature, if he wants to collect the taxes needed to fund his policies, and I’m not sure how successful he will be at that.
Why? How much of NYC's budget comes from Albany?
My impression was that NYC had its own budget, paid for by its own taxes.
by AnimalMuppet - I’m a big believer that the people elect the government they deserve. Let’s see how this plays out.by koolba
- Who deserves Cuomo, and what did they do to deserve that?by pjc50
- This hoping for a future schadenfreude is kinda nasty. Why wouldn't you want the best for people?by matsemann
- Honest, hardworking people deserve honest, hardworking government.by sfpotter
- I found out his mom directed the movies "Monsoon Wedding" and "Mississipi Masala" with Denzel Washington.
Allegedly she was tapped to direct "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", but her then 14 year old son talked her out of it to do "The Namesake" instead
by LarsDu88 - Yeah this was a surprise. Monsoon wedding is such a good movie.by rishikeshs
- TIL he is Mira Nair's son!. The namesake has a special place in my heart.
- Zohran's father is a famous post-colonial scholar. A college professor in my family has had him as part of curriculum for years.by vvpan
- Voters across the political spectrum feel ignored.
For decades mainstream parties (both centre-left and centre-right) have repeatedly promised change but after getting into power somehow (re-)converged on technocratic, market-friendly "consensus politics".
If you're worried about stagnant wages, job insecurity, crumbling public infrastructure and/or the cost of housing, then you probably don't notice - or care - whether the stock markets are going up.
by logifail - Exciting times in New York City, I wish them the best, it probably will become a uphill battle now to do anything without media on every single thing out the wazoooby forthwall
- It will certainly be a lesson in economics, with hopefully some lasting effect. A decade later some will call it vaccination.by jojobas
- The fact that people in here (who are richer than average) disagree with his policies makes his election more hopefulby seydor
- Why is that? I think many of us who are educated in history understand the risks of collectivism. It has never worked out anywhere. I see it as basically a marketing cover for oligarchy. The Western world should aspire to better than China. I'm not even a conservative, just read a lot. Humanity has had some pretty hellish experiences with communism and yet we keep "going there."by lisbbb
- He is also richer then average.by FridayoLeary
- Agreed. Thank you for pointing that out.by drannex
- Absolutely. I love it.
- You can both be rich and also want a better quality of life for everyone in society. Not every rich person is a selfish asshole...by dbbk
- I love how they always style themselves experts on economics, as if there is one global economic policy that benefits everyone, equally. How cute.by dachworker
- The reality, which kinda sucks and is boring, is that generally people with money understand how money works, and why things like rent control, government grocery stores, and free [expensive service], are financially brutal policies.by Workaccount2
- Nice to see someone young, charismatic, and highly energized breathing life into the decrepit democratic party. Hopefully he can accomplish a ton and repudiate the DNC.by sfpotter
- I'd rather the young charismatic progressives abandon the decrepit democratic party and rewrite the codebase in Rust, to recycle that memeby mkoubaa
- I'm noticing that this election result has made a lot of people I know really hopeful. It's apparent that many people are fed up with the status quo so they're pushing towards more experimental candidates.
If anyone here is well-read on his policies and they have specific opinions I'd love to hear what you think.
Do you think Zohran will be successful with his agenda or will he get blocked by pushback from other political forces? I read some commentary that a few of his policy ideas are unfeasible without support from Albany, and I'm not sure how to evaluate that relationship.
Many online figures have become heavily invested on this mayoral election despite living hundreds or thousands of miles away, and I think that speaks to a real hunger for greater political experimentation.
As an aside, how do you evaluate the lessons that you learn or derive from what others are doing? Generalization sure is a tricky thing.
- Experiments have already been done. You just need to look at history. Or you can just look at north korea and Kabul .by android521
- > I'm noticing that this election result has made a lot of people I know really hopeful.
Since the 2008, the day after every election of a new president, the coalition that elected them had this sense of hope for a brighter tomorrow. One which disappeared within months.
Except maybe 2016, but the bubble I was in was so preoccupied by shock that maybe I missed it (also, I was deeply engrossed in the work I was doing that fall)
by AbstractH24 - I think it’s likely around 75% of his agenda will be blocked. NYC is a big ship to turn. However it will still be better than what Cuomo would have doneby EasyMark
- I think I like the universal childcare and free buses. Don’t like the rent control but places like Hong Kong have been very successful doing it.by dyauspitr
- The biggest takeaway to me is how ridiculous it is that the US considers Mamdani somehow "experimental" or even radical.
His campaign revolves around three policies:
1. Universal Child Care 2. Fast and Free Busses 3. Freezing Rent for certain Rent Controlled Units
In any other context these would be policies that basically every citizen, except for a handful of people making buttloads of money off the privatization of childcare, housing, and transportation would support, yet somehow in the USA this is "radical". Somehow a candidate finally proposing positive policies that directly benefit citizens is a radical socialist who needs to be stopped and we all need to vote for the disgraced former governor who resigned after killing seniors during covid and groping his employees. Even here on HN where people are generally well educated you have people arguing. that Mamdani will somehow be the ruin of new york.
Politics in america is like entering an inverted world in which some weird internal drive actively makes people vote against their own personal interests.
by voidhorse