I'm not a Gen Z voter, so I certainly can't speak for them, but I hate our country. I hate that so many Americans are being left behind. I hate that we are falling so far behind other democracies. I hate that our democracy is so flawed and corrupted, that I'm not sure it's accurate to even call it a democracy anymore. I hate that so many Americans believe that being greedy, selfish, and indifferent to human suffering is not only acceptable, but somehow "rational." I hate the manipulation and the misinformation that is very intentionally disseminated to the American people. I hate the violence, I hate the war mongering and war profiteering. I hate a lot of what IS right now, because I DEMAND better for myself and ALL other Americans.
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You don't hate our country, you said so yourself - you hate what it is right now, because you know it can be better. You want it to be better. That's not hate, that's love.
The deepest love you can have for your country is wanting better for all its residents.
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If Eric Adams doesn't like NYC, he can just stay at home in his Jersey apartment.
Even better, he can move down to Mar Lago and see how MAGA would really treat him.
he should be in jail right now.
Eric Adams is a fraud
He's been a fraud for a long while now (probably his whole career back to NYPD, which pains me a bit to say because iirc he got his start calling out their racism), if he keeps trying to delegitimize the will of the voters like this we can start adding things like "tyrant" and "traitor" to his titles
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Why is Adams channeling Trump? He knows he's black, right?b
He hopes Trump can give him a presidential whitewash.
It'll last as long as they don't get bored with immigrants and trans folk. So like a year tops
As a immigrant trans folk this year has been the longest 5 years of my life
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Oh, yes, insult your potential voters, that will show them
He really only cares about the rich ones.
Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo are closer to Trump.
Trump is explicitly holding a legal gun to his head. Adams couldn't be any deeper in his pocket.
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He should just become a Republican already. He’s got the credentials.
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Actually Mamdani's government would improve the country in a lot of ways, and would also be a big win for the economy of the owning class. That is because if people have more money, that stimulates consumption and that drives the economy forward. It's like a big engine, you gotta put fuel in it to drive it.
Yeah, but you gotta think of the shareholder value for the next quarter! The Chinese think in decades. We don't! Capitalism FTW, baby!
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Nothing radicalizes you more than perpetual poverty, struggle, suffering and hopelessness. If the world wasn't a system of tortures built by selfish billionaires, maybe we GenZ wouldn't be so radicalized.
This reminds me of the famous post about estranged parents the missing missing reasons edit: fixed link
In it, the author writes about how like one of the estranged parents will be like "My child yelled at me and said all these horrible things for 20 minutes. I've never heard such cruelty!" But when pressed for exactly what the child was upset about, no reasons are provided.
So here Adams is saying these 'gen z" people are nasty and presumably have demands, but spends no time on what their demands are, on if they're reasonable. They're just nasty and wrong and to be dismissed.
Maybe there are reasons people are upset at the country right now. Could be the fascism, the corruption, the economic chaos, the climate crisis being ignored, the anti-vaxxers in power, the economic inequality...
That is some weak-ass rhetoric.
I'm Gen Z, and Mamdani is the better candidate. I don't live in NYC.
In typical Democratic fashion, the Democrats blame the voters for not "Voting Blue No Matter Who™" rather that adopting progressive, popular policies.
Vote these skeletons out
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When you can’t attack the opponent: attack the voters.
That will work out
They hate your country, huh?
Smart kids
Who would want to live in the US right now?
I wish Mamdani would lean more into this, but I also get why he's not.
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They hate your country? Just because its a fascist dictatorship exploiting the rest of the world and committing genocide every chance they get? How could they.
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Shit, he's getting his press releases straight from Stephen Miller's office now.
nasty, radicalized and hate our country
Man, wouldn't it be telling if that was a majority.
Every accusation a confession.
Bite our collective asses, fascist. The People don't want billionaires in charge of our lives.
Bold thing to say for someone backed by a traitor. Its a patriotic duty for Americans to hate tyranny, that includes this administration. If you support this illegitimate administration, you are a traitor to the constitution and the enemy of America. For that matter, the "junta of 6" on the supreme court are also traitors.
If I was American, I would hate my country too and demand change.
NEWS: 3rd gen of systematically disenfranchised citizens baffle leaded gasoline brained old guard and billionaire cronies
As a member of Gen X who breathed all the leaded gasoline and still finds these people appalling, I think blaming their shit on lead poisoning is giving them a pass they don't deserve. Lead may have made us all a little dimmer and angrier, but it didn't turn most people into raging assholes, crooks or fascists, or gullible MAGA cultists. These people would have done it anyway, with or without the lead.
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We certainly all hate Eric Adams I can tell you that
Eric Adams is an evil sack of shit in a skin bag and should have been drowned at birth. And I'm not even a Gen Z.
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Yeah, they hate what you turned it into. They want affordable living and politicians and the rich have no desire to reduce any of their massive salaries to help Americans.
We are all just cattle to them. So it's surprising to them when the cattle get tired of the same pen and break out.
I dare you to try and make Mamdani sound more based. I fuckin dare you
He’s got such low numbers that it looks like the only people left supporting him are churchgoing old ladies. This would play to that crowd.
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Did he just switch sides? He has to know that a corrupt scumbag like him condemning Mamdani is an endorsement.
How the fuck did this idiot fool an entire city?
Why did so many people vote for adams?
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That'll win them over for sure!
"Corrupt mayor condemns political rival and his supporters over fear of being held accountable for his many crimes"
Wow, Adams. I read that in Trump's voice.
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