Fuck he almost looks human
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The sad part is, I actually pity him. I have seen that look, I have seen it on my father's face. And I pitied him too. Doesn't excuse their actions. Mine neither, let that be for the record. But this got fucking dark. I'll go home now.
He’s basically cosplaying as Senator Palpatine. We all know what comes next.
The attempt on his life did leave him scarred and deformed.
Nah, he looked like that before too.
What, no, look at his ear, it's totally scarred, it's mangled, barely even anything left of it. /s
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Trump is doing a bit, he knows the fix is in to destroy Mamdani, but doesn't want to take the heat for it. He's making it look like he really likes Zohran, but he knows Zohran's life is about to become a living hell. Trump and his millionaire and billionaire allies in New York are planning to discredit socialism as an ideology, by making it look publicly like he had no hand in meddling with Mamdani's administration.
My money's on this. But: tldr; if city workers know he's trying to do good, and find out old money is fucking with him, his support will strengthen in a way we've not seen in a long time.
So, having worked for the city years ago, I also know it's a system full of people he was directly talking to with affordability. They're on-board with him, if he starts delivering the goods in a public way. Ways to get good food for cheap for everyone, raising wages, getting a cap on crime and helping the homeless. That's all people want.
With that in mind, if it is revealed that even a couple of billionaires is working to trash those efforts in a coordinated manner, suddenly the people of NYC have both a guy trying to do right by them, and a powerful enemy to rally against. There aren't enough cops to deal with people dropping bricks off rooftops, every street becomes a potential 'interaction'.. think a version of "the warriors", but it's regular folks vs the recognized billionaires. Heh, one can dream, anyway.
What'll happen, ultimately? I dunno. But the ingredients for something special are in place.
You've eloquently captured why I, a random chick who is on the other side of the world, is super excited by Mamdani's win. It might not end up amounting to much, but there's real cause for hope.
In my country (the UK), Labour (the largest party by far) keep pandering to the right in a manner that is just yielding more of the discursive battleground to the right wing bigotry of the Reform party, and it drives me mad to see them shoot themselves in the foot like this. It reminds me of how in the 2010 election, Labour presented themselves as pro-austerity, but not as severely as the Tories. By accepting the Tories' premise that austerity was good and necessary for reducing the deficit (and that eliminating the deficit was necessary for the UK's economic wellness), Labour simultaneously disappointed people who wanted an alternative to austerity, and weren't appealing to people who were pro austerity (why vote for Tory-lite, when you can just vote Tory instead?). Now they're doing the same with immigration rhetoric instead of investing in our systems. Most people aren't actually pissed off at immigrants, but at the fact that it's increasingly difficult for normal people to afford basic living costs. The best antidote to fascism are policies that speak to the way that people are suffering.
Mamdani's campaign (and his subsequent victory) showed that he understands this, and it could set a precedent for places far beyond the US. I'm tentatively hopeful.
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It will always be a mystery to me why US citizens always place so much importance on appearances instead of focusing on the important things.
Here's an example from the last election campaign: the Democrats were somehow more successful in portraying Trump as "old and strange" than in portraying him as how he really is: corrupt and criminal.
Well, now organized crime rules the US – but somehow it's still all about how Trump dresses, how he is old and weird. Yes, that's true, I mean, the guy has been orange since the 90s, but it's by no means the biggest problem with this administration — not even close.
I have a family member that liked what Bernie had to say back in 2015 but said they couldn't get past his teeth. I had no response.
That's tough. I don't know what I would have said either. Probably that the family member should vote for Sanders so that dental treatment remains affordable for as many people as possible. But I probably wouldn't have thought of that in that situation.
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I’m starting to see shades of a relative I have in trump. Mind you, this person is very nice and I’m not trying to disparage them at all. They’re ADHD and probably in the early stages of dementia. They eat like shit. Using hocus-pocus dietary supplements because they know they eat like shit and think these are a fix. Constantly shifting what the latest great thing is - doesn’t matter what it is, food, clothing, a bit of tech, supplements, a media source… and thanks to their declining mental state it’s like the worst aspects are amplified. Wide emotional swings. Focusing on anything difficult like logical steps to return a purchased item via mail are super difficult.
While my relative’s swings are anti-trump if the subject comes up and the anger is focused on trump’s and the reich wing’s stupidity, it sure mirrors trump’s wild swings on everything, his raging about whatever, and his focus on what the latest interest is. Fixing anything like the Economy is too hard and too many steps, so he relies on whatever clueless mumbo-jumbo others tell him. Even the hocus-pocus health fix by using a snake oil salesman like Kennedy.
So fucking weird to see him not oranged up
The orange make up is bad. His suits are bad. The only things I can think of that he would look good in are a noose, or a guillotine. That's it.
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