Andrew Cuomo, an elderly has-been, the lesser son of a greater sire, who as governor literally conspired with Republicans to hand them control of the New York state Senate for half a decade; who resigned from office in disgrace after he was credibly accused of 13 instances of sexual harassment; and whose campaign quite obviously had no purpose other than satisfying his own lust for accumulating personal power, along with that of his billionaire donors.
As the campaign progressed and Mamdani’s victory became ever more likely, Cuomo descended into vindictive gutter racism. He did not disagree with a right-wing radio host who said that Mamdani would be “cheering” another 9/11, suggested that Mamdani would have Muslim women “completely covered up,” and that he “doesn’t understand New York culture” because he’s a “citizen of Uganda.”
Cuomo happily took Donald Trump’s endorsement and went on Fox News to tout it. His closing campaign message, as The Nation’s Jeet Heer pointed out on Bluesky, smacked of Vidkun Quisling—implicitly threatening New Yorkers with a Trumpian occupation if they voted for anyone but Cuomo.
It was disgusting stuff. But it also was palpably desperate, and coming from one of the worst candidates imaginable…
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What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats. It’s why they got so worked up about Mamdani in the first place—the New York City mayoralty is not some omnipotent office, and there are a dozen ways to hem it in at the state and local level if they so wished. What these oligarchs spent to stop Mamdani feels like less on an annual basis than he wants them to pay for a better future for all New Yorkers, a joke Mamdani himself has made.
In any case, his slight tax increase on rich people, free buses, and city-run grocery stores are pretty far from a communist revolution. But that’s not how it appears to rich people, surrounded on all sides by yes-men and toadies, who spend several hours a day marinating in an online Nazi sewer.
Again, no one was doing that…
And while my blocklist is healthy, I havent seen anything I would categorize as “hero worship” about Mamdani. Can you provide even a single example of this “hero worship”?
It really seems like you’re just misinterpreting things or not understanding them and just leaping to wild accusations instead of simply asking for clarification.
I’m trying to help you understand why that’s bad, because people that think like that make society very unpleasant for the rest of us.
Alright, then let me rewind, what did you understand my comment to mean, if not a soft handed denouncement of parasocial relationships with politicians?
You said:
This is not his first office, you’re acting like we have nothing to go off of like he’s brand new. When he’s been in office since 2021 and this is the fourth general election he’s won. No one expects you to know his history immediately, but you can easily find it.
Literally everyone in office is a politician, that applies to everyone holding an office. So it makes no sense to say it.
All together it makes your comment come off as a lazy attempt to start a slapfight…
And honestly, you haven’t done much to change that initial impression, even if it’s not intentional.
Speaking of:
Could you not find one?
If you care to learn about the corruption and indefinitely passed bucks of a big city mayorship, I can point you to some books. But there is altogether too much information for me to offer convincingly in a lemmy comment.
It seems like it’s a baseline level of political misunderstanding that I’m entirely unwilling and incapable of correcting. Yes, he’s held seats, and yes, he’s had successes there. The gap is wider than you understand it to be.
Dude, I’m trying to understand your comment. Just look through any political comment section to find undue veneration.
You felt it was so common you had to pre-emptively address it in a new thread…
But can’t give a single example?
Like…
You don’t realize that asking someone to find a comment that fits your definition of something is a literal impossible task?
I’m saying I don’t see any that fit my definition, how do I know when i see one that meets your definition?
It’s literally impossible for me, and you keep implying they’re all over and common, so it would take you seconds or me an infinite amount of time…
If you’re unwilling to accept the book recommendations, I don’t feel there’s a constructive way forward in this conversation, where I am heard and you are as well. I’m unwilling to write a novel and I can sense you’d be unwilling to read it, but more than happy for me to write it. Have a good one
Cool, glad we can agree that no “hero worship” has been going on like you initially thought.
Otherwise you’d have just provided a link, would have been faster than typing that comment if they’re everywhere.