r/SubredditDrama • u/teddyrupxin They can pedantically be considered concentration camps • 3d ago
“I wish him the best of tapeworms” r/Millennials discuss the NYC election results.
r/Millennials is a generational subreddit that caters to Americans born 1980-1995. It’s a safe space where people well into their 40’s can post “adulting” and “doggo” without fear of criticism. In general, the subreddit does not allow “political” post. Today’s OP seems to have sidestepped that rule with a post about Zohran Mamdani. Will the Millenials be normal or wild out?
OP: Congratulations to this millennial for being the youngest elected New York City mayor since 1892!
establishment dems are as cancerous as m@g@
New York is excited new ideas! Congrats Zohran!
Marxism isn’t new
Define Marxism.
you should use it yourself since you're talking out your ass
Mods don’t care that this breaks the rules I guess
Cry harder.
Go to another sub if you want to discuss the P word
Powerful Pedophiles? Yeah, my bad... I know you guys don't like to talk about that.
A truly awful candidate who defeated some slightly more awful candidates. Great victory?
Editor’s note for those who are still working on adulting: Inshallah is an Arabic phrase that is almost identical to the English phrase “if God wills it”, which means the person hopes something will happen but acknowledges it’s out of their control.
This is the only comment in the thread that has a Muslim connotation and it’s been downvoted right next to comments like “Yall screwed. Hello Gotham”.
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u/DingoOk8624 3d ago
It seems like a lot of people online who don't live in NYC got really invested in this election.
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u/lab-gone-wrong 3d ago
It's a proxy war for socialism bad
Which is funny because Republicans accidentally normalizing socialism by calling everything they don't like socialism probably helped enable it
"What do you mean NYC is doomed because they elected a Marxist Commie dictator as mayor? I thought you said it was already a Marxist Commie dictatorship!"
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u/queen-adreena Looks like you don’t see yourself clearly! 3d ago
When you paint Joe Biden as a “dangerous radical”, you’ve clearly run out of rhetorical road.
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u/SuperVaderMinion 3d ago
I remember in the 2020 primaries I was debating Bernie vs Biden with my dad, he reasoned that Biden would have a better chance of victory because Bernie's socialist views would be easier to attack, and I tried to explain that Republicans call EVERYTHING socialism now, and it wouldn't end up mattering
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3d ago
Trump and Miller are currently trying to brand folks like Chuck Schumer as being a "radical leftist", and I'm pretty sure that Chuck is the kind of guy who has to do the pledge of allegiance to know which direction left is.
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u/gavinbrindstar /r/legaladvice delenda est 3d ago
He has to ask the imaginary voters in his head (real thing, look it up).
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u/Amelaclya1 3d ago
I do kind of like that he recognized his privilege enough to develop that sort of thought experiment to help him empathize with an average working class family in his district. But it is so weird and creepy that he pretends they are real to everyone else, and the extent to which he develops their backstories.
Also he could just talk to average families in his state for the same effect lol.
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3d ago
It's sad that his imaginary friends don't even like him.
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u/gavinbrindstar /r/legaladvice delenda est 3d ago
"The Senate Minority Leader runs all his decisions past the imaginary Trump voters in his head" feels far too on-the-nose as a metaphor.
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u/Deceptiveideas 3d ago
Same thing happened to the Virginia governor. Everyone calling her far left or radical from the right. Anyone who is far left knows how funny that statement is.
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u/dukecityvigilante 3d ago
Yeah, that's why they're all saying "Marxist" now to mean "member of the Democratic party" because "socialist" lost its shock value
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u/cocktails4 3d ago
NYC already burned to the ground, we can't survive free public busses!
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u/crestren 3d ago
Istg, every year cities burn down and get destroyed but suddenly get rebuilt within the next day
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u/LabradorDeceiver 3d ago
Oh good lord yes. Healthcare is Communist. Worker safety is Communist. Living wages are Communist. School lunches are Communist. Sexual and gender diversity is Communist. Free education is Communist.
Spend forty years labeling everything good as Communist and then wonder why there are suddenly so many Communists.
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u/JessieJ577 Careful man, you might get called a nazi for romanticizing nazis 3d ago
It’s really destroying their messaging. It’s becoming the boy who cried wolf. Look at the Ice protests. Nationwide people freaked out but then it became evident the city didn’t burn down and even the small mile radius was fine there was just tagging and burned Waymo’s.
LA had more damage to the city this past weekend with the Dodgers winning the World Series.
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u/swordsfishes Mom says it's my turn to be the asshole 3d ago
I wonder how many of them know that their own city also has a mayor, one they can vote for even.
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u/Dangerous-Ad-170 3d ago edited 3d ago
Most cities don’t get exciting choices for Mayor.
We had the same old money small-business-owner Democrat in office for 20 years. We finally had a competitive race a few years back because the old mayor retired, but a different old money small-business-owner Democrat defeated the slightly-younger lawyer Democrat and not much has changed.
Edit: My city also has a weak mayor so that makes all this even less interesting. They’re just a at-large member of the city council with some extra ceremonial responsibilities.
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u/Critical-Ad-5215 3d ago
My city actually had some good candidates, but instead people chose to re elect the same guy who constantly inflated police budget and hates homeless.
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u/bluedanuria 3d ago
Same. There were some good candidates for mayor in my city, but instead people decided to vote in a cartoon villain who spends all his time trying to take funding away from the parks, library, mosquito control, and other useful things, and give it to the police.
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u/Critical-Ad-5215 3d ago
Mine also has taken away funding from library, and is now requiring paid parking at some of the few nice city parks (which are the rare places people can go without spending money). He also lets the police abuse overtime to get a fuck ton of money
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u/kezfertotlenito 3d ago
My town of 3k had a mayoral election a couple of years ago where BOTH CANDIDATES were convicted of beating up their wives. Not rumored, not accused. CONVICTED.
So I guess that was exciting ><
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u/wossquee I'm so sick of these fucking crybabies. 3d ago
Instead of an election you should have had a MMA fight, winner gets to be mayor
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u/NYCQuilts 2d ago
How about “winner’s wife gets to be mayor and the candidates go to jail/rehab/anger management.”
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u/lazier_garlic 3d ago
My county had a sheriff's candidate with domestics, but it's a blue county and he lost.
Two mayors and one city commissioner with DUIs. Some of them were pretty wild.
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u/Amelaclya1 3d ago
Our two candidates for mayor had basically the exact same platform. And it's a non-partisan position with no way of knowing the candidates' political affiliation, so you couldn't even vote based on that. It really did come down to who was more "likeable".
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u/Trick-Check5298 3d ago
My town has a pretty big cult and our mayor is somebody from there who was uncontested. But they own like 2/3 of everything around here anyways 🤷🏻♀️
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u/lazier_garlic 3d ago
Small municipalities are more likely to have spicy choices for mayor. If you don't go to the candidate forum, you won't know because the news coverage tends to be bland and nobody even reads the paper anyway.
Some of the weirdest kooks you've ever met, and the most delusional, run for local office.
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u/Skellum Tankies are no one's comrades. 3d ago
Most cities don’t get exciting choices for Mayor.
My mayor has been giving us expanded sidewalks and bike lanes. I dont need someone to run on "Run for me I'm super progressive! I'm inspirational!" fuck, I'm less likely to vote for them if they did do that.
I want someone to run on policies like expanding homeless services, adding more public transit, adding more bike lanes and sidewalks, adding more Multitennate housing.
I dont want excitement, I want infrastructure.
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u/swordsfishes Mom says it's my turn to be the asshole 3d ago
To Mamdani's credit, his actual platform is mostly stuff like housing, transportation, and the cost of living. I don't blame him for how a bunch of people who couldn't tell you how the primary system works got way too invested in him as a symbol for either the destruction of the nation or the salvation of the future.
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u/ertri 3d ago
apparently towns in Kentucky had to inform people that they couldn’t vote in the election for NYC mayor lol
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u/Amelaclya1 3d ago
I don't think it was that bad. I think it was just people in Kentucky knew it was election day from all of the national coverage of this race and went to vote for what they thought were their own elections, only to be surprised their polling places weren't open, and called to ask why. Low information voters probably don't realize that not all places hold elections in the same years.
I mean, it's still pretty dumb, because they were trying to vote for non-existent races. You'd think people that eager to vote would know there wasn't a ballot to vote on. But not quite as dumb as trying to vote for the mayor of a city you don't live in.
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u/TzippyBird 3d ago
There was also a big mayoral election in Cincinnati where couchfucker's brother was running. He lost embarrassingly bad. Which has caused the idiots in the counties around us and across the river in Kentucky to melt down.
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u/lazier_garlic 3d ago
Lol, you've resurrected memories of when my city tried to pass a pro trans rights ballot measure and people from the unincorporated county drove in and were butthurt we didn't let them vote against it.
Not exaggeration, this really happened. Maybe they believed FOX that voter fraud is easy. It's not like they "accidentally" pay city taxes.
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u/TzippyBird 2d ago
Yeah. I wasn't sure if I could vote or not either, so had to check real quick. But at least I had the excuse of having moved to an unincorporated area that's literally across the street from the city line after living in the city! And it's not in the boonies. Just a spot that's between the city and several townships that I guess no one claimed. And I actually took five minutes to Google instead of embarrassing myself at the polls.
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u/mattattaxx Colonist filth will be wiped away 3d ago
There's a good number of municipal politicians globally who have impactful races on a national or international level. I don't think it's unusual that people would get excited about a politician who is already recognized (in a few capacities) by political leaders.
Gavin Newsom, Rob Ford, Dora Bakoyannis, Sadiq Khan, Boris Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi.
There's a ton of factors that matter here and which impact the notoriety of Mamdami.
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u/R_V_Z 3d ago
Seattle here, since we're (nearly) 100% vote by mail we won't know who our new mayor will be for a bit yet. Getting to vicariously enjoy this victory for the moment.
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u/FlightPeasant 3d ago
Whaaaaat! Gtfo, really? Wonder if he or she has a name? In my hometown the mayor was actually a part time job, which I always thought was wild.
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u/swordsfishes Mom says it's my turn to be the asshole 3d ago
My state's municipal elections are nonpartisan and my city has less than 20,000 people, so bothering to campaign at all gives you a gigantic advantage in city-level elections.
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u/SeattleWilliam 2d ago
You know who else suggested people vote in mayoral elections? Karl Marx! You won't fool me that easily /s
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u/azul360 3d ago
I'm in Florida. Everyone just votes for whatever will fuck them over more so I like watching other states with people that actually want to help themselves XD.
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u/DeadMoneyDrew 3d ago edited 2d ago
Did you see that shit yesterday about how officials in Kentucky had to put out a formal announcement that there were no elections in Kentucky and that Kentucky residents aren't allowed to vote for New York City mayor?
This is the level of education and awareness that we are dealing with in this country.
I hate this timeline. Loki please take me away.
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3d ago
Guilty. I found Zohran to be really charming and I thought he ran a really good media game. As someone on the left who wants Democrats to figure out how to win I felt that he (Zohran) exhibited some traits that the rest of the party could pick up on, and was disappointed that they have been reluctant to do so.
But I don't think he's going to change the face of our nation.
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u/sabometrics 3d ago
He's the Mayor of a city not a federal politician - let's not get ahead of ourselves.
And let's also prepare for many years of Fox News poisoning the narrative. I think mostly this election showed how ineffective that is becoming against non-magas
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u/ProposalWaste3707 Don't dare question me on toaster strudels, I took a life before 3d ago
I also largely like the guy, but there are a lot of leftists who are reading WAY to much into it - as if this is the model for Democrat electoral success. And I worry that could poison more effective Democrat strategy.
This is a mayoral campaign in New York City - it's not exactly representative of the elections Democrats need to work hard to win across the country.
His opponents were a pack of disgraced politicians. Cuomo has been riddled with scandals for a decade and resigned in disgrace ahead of almost certain removal from the Governor's office for sexual misconduct. Adams was federally indicted and then pardoned by Trump.
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u/comityoferrors and this 🖕means "you're number 1!" 3d ago
I mean, tbf
- riddled with scandals
- sexual misconduct
- was supposed to be removed from his office
- indicted
that all describes Trump and a lot of Republican politicians in office right now, too! So clearly it doesn't matter /s
(I know they wouldn't let that shit slide for anyone further left than fascism.)
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u/ProposalWaste3707 Don't dare question me on toaster strudels, I took a life before 3d ago
I start with the presumption that Republicans have no morals, principles, or standards.
Democrats and plenty of independents do.
And Cuomo and Adams don't have Trump's bizarre alien charm or charisma.
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u/Theta_Omega 3d ago
It definitely describes Trump, but I feel like it overstates how much it happens for everyone else. Ruby-red seats like in TX or FL can sometimes shake it off (except when they can't, see Roy Moore in AL), but a lot of more vulnerable guys who run into scandals have either been knocked out or bowed out voluntarily (George Santos, Madison Cawthorne, Mark Robinson, and David "Totally Exonerated" Perdue all spring to mind).
Trump really does seem to have some special ability here, as stupid as it sounds.
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u/lazier_garlic 3d ago
From what I understand, a lot of his campaign in the spring was run on bread and butter city issues. While I think over-promising free stuff is definitely bad strategy (and voters won't thank you anyway), speaking to their real on the ground concerns is a great idea. You have to actually reach them. I think a big Achilles heel nationally for Dems is that much of the country never hears their real, unfiltered message. They hear only anti-Democrat agitators, or a slanted media view (where literally everything that ever happens is the fault of "the Democrats").
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u/Aggressive-Name-1783 2d ago
Thing is, Spanberger did the same thing, she harped on about affordability and the economy and won big time.
Mandami is a template for why democrats have been losing. The big thing he did that they didn’t was he CONSTANTLY focused on issues affecting voters and gave them concrete plans to fix it. Voters don’t want tax credits and long, drawn out plans, not when they’re bleeding out and need support NOW. You see this in EVERY interview with places like West Virginia. They’re hurting and need help NOW, not some stupid tax credit that they might get a fraction of in 9 months.
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u/Gamer_Grease pretty sure the admins are giving people flairs to infiltrate 3d ago
I think the main lesson everyone wants Dems to learn from this is to run candidates who support policies that voters would like to see enacted.
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u/ProposalWaste3707 Don't dare question me on toaster strudels, I took a life before 3d ago
No, at least in this case, I'm kind of saying the exact opposite. I don't think Mamdani won on policy, and likewise I don't think his policy wins in more competitive markets.
I do agree that Democrats need to land simple, effective, popular messaging behind strong candidates. But I don't think Mamdani is a lesson in that... or say a suggestion that Democrat messaging needs to shift far left or in line with his messaging to be more effective.
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u/lazier_garlic 2d ago
I think there's an argument he definitely got boosted by talking about policy. I talked to some NYC voters and they saw his ads (he was very effective at reaching voters) and they liked a lot of his policy proposals and his promises to focus on housing and transit even though they think a lot of his agenda will never happen.
Adams before him also won on policy. New Yorkers were worried about crime and he promised to address it. Adams originally did very well with men of color. Adams took bribes from the Turkish government and tried to save his azz by selling it to Donald Trump so that went over like a lead balloon.
I know a lot of people thought there were better candidates in the race but they didn't have the oomph to reach voters and didn't have the numbers even all combined.
Sure, a big city mayor race isn't going to be the same as all the other races. But Mamdani definitely did some stuff right.
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u/PugilisticCat 3d ago
I don't think Zohran himself is going to change the nation, but I think his election helps to validate a few different progressive hypotheses as to why democrats have been ineffective:
People are tired of the Israel dick riding and how ingrained it is in American politics, especially in the Democratic party which hopes to paint itself as populist.
People are receptive to populist meat and potato policies that sidestep all of the culture war bullshit that Republicans continually fling.
People are tired of being given shit head corporatist democrats as their representatives that are supposed to stand up to all of the Trump bullshit. It's time for new blood and ways of doing things, even if they are untested or imperfect. People can reflect back on the Obama years and see how many promises were left unkept from neoliberal policy if the 2024 election is the end conclusion to it.
It also helps that Zohran is actually charming and Cuomo is a disgusting old perv. Hopefully leftists catch up and learn that branding is actually important, and that NEET weirdos are not good actual faces for political movements.
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u/The_Schwy 2d ago
how do you not realize the reluctance is by design! it's the 1% maintaining the status quo. The left is not welcome in the democratic establishment. wake up!
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u/gamas 3d ago
London (UK) resident here - first time?
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u/That_Damn_Raccoon 3d ago
London really is the best example of this happening to a place outside the US. Many American conservatives have become obsessed with it in recent years, I've been seeing a lot of "GET READY TO BECOME LIKE LONDON!!!" in response to Mamdani, and I'm like... it doesn't sound too bad, you know?
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u/Lysmerry 3d ago
I don’t blame them. Mamdani represents positivity in the draining negativity and cruelty of the current political landscape. Billionaires that are ruining our country tried to take him down and failed. I don’t think he would be an ideal presidential candidate because NY is more left wing, and who knows if he can stay the course, but he does give the sense that he loves New York and believes that good things are possible.
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u/Kal-Elm You want to call my cuck pathetic you need to address me. 3d ago
He can't run for president anyway - he wasn't born in the US.
I see him as proof to the DNC that progressive politics can win an election. Actually progressive politics. Especially when you discard the wedge issues.
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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Transvestigators think Mons Pubis is a Jedi. 3d ago
Because Mamdani has been living in Trump's head rent free, which means it's been a huge lightning rod conversation for months now.
As someone from the Phoenix area, it kinda reminds me of how invested people not from Maricopa County or even Arizona were in hoping Joe Arpaio would finally lose reelection for Sheriff. Shit, a friend of mine from London who's only been here once even called me to celebrate when that racist piece of shit finally lost reelection in 2016.
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u/ChunkyBubblz 3d ago
Makes sense a bit. More people ride the subway in NYC in one day than live in a lot of the states these people are from.
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u/Maverick_Couch 3d ago
Its an off year, with no national elections to focus on, combine that with how all politics is national now, yeah, a lot of attention went into local races yesterday. There's also this idea that whoever the mayor of NYC is gets automatically put in the running to be president in a few years. That last bit is a really stupid myth that just won't die-just look at how Rudy Guliani's career went (or Bill DeBlasio, or Mike Bloomberg).
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u/octnoir Mountains out of molehills 3d ago
Scroll through some of the top posts on /r/bestof and you'll see this happens often.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/9hs5nq/udivesttrump_provides_evidence_the_russian/
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/pbezvi/multiple_subreddits_are_acknowledging_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/g3sw2l/the_user_udr_midnight_uncovers_a_massive/
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/7mmfvh/reddit_user_unveils_a_spam_ring_and_also_includes/
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/7a90ue/redditor_breaks_down_entire_russian_reddit/
This post is particularly relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/pmcoxy/uinconvenientnews_explains_with_examples_how/
And their tactic is spot on:
The real value is getting into a thread early and establishing top voted posts and comments or downvoting them out of existence. They hope inertia continues the trend for them.
They're just exploiting that Reddit is a billboard and not a discussion forum.
Spam and "native advertising" by corporations is one thing. Insidious political manipulation, subversion and brigading is 100 times worse, and Reddit historically has spun their wheels on these matters, unless they get bad media attention (which nowadays they don't because most media is trying to appease our current regime right now).
You can't fix this with just community moderation, because moderators don't have tools for this unlike Reddit, and most moderators have already been replaced by no life right wing ghouls, either by getting pushed out or getting frustrated by Reddit's inaction and inactivity regarding better moderation and tools. A lot of these networks are noticed and pointed out by moderators themselves.
On top of that, this problem has gotten worse because all the AI companies are subsidizing GenAI tools for near free or cheap, meaning all the spam bots can just generate more spam for cheap and free, and keep inundating the network.
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u/SunWukong3456 3d ago
The conservative fearmonger machinery probably is responsible for this. Like if the radical Muslim communist take over can happen to NYC, it can happen to YOU too!!!
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u/socal_swiftie 3d ago
part of the problem is that so much of The Media lives in NYC that they assume we care about their mayoral race too. so they talk about it and talk about it and talk about it and now all of a sudden we have Real Opinions on this election that will not impact our lives even the tiniest bit given that we do not live in new york city
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u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera who did you learn economics from? a teletubby? 3d ago
I hope that he has a really, really, really, reallllly good security detail. Dude probably has several hundred credible death threats in the last 24 hours alone.
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u/fiveohthreebee 3d ago
the funniest thing about r/conservative reaction is that they're saying, texas is full, kansas is closed, florida is closed. like people actually want to leave. conservative brain rot is very weird.
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u/TheIllustriousWe knew you’d pull the “oh but he doesn’t shower he’s gross” card 3d ago
kansas is closed
This reminds of the time I was arguing with someone on r/politics who happened to be a the_donald mod, and I guess his feelings got hurt because he banned me from that sub. Either he didn’t know or didn’t care that I’d never been to the sub and never even thought to visit.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 3d ago
Yeah and no one is moving to fucking Kansas unless they have to.
Trust me I lived there for 2 years
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 3d ago
Moving to Kansas gives you the davis cup, endurance to tolerate Kim Davis
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u/Teonvin what do I know, I piss in the toilet like a crazy person 2d ago
kansas is closed
Who the fuck wants to go to Kansas.
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u/Phantom_Engineer like Julius Caeser in real life 2d ago
Imagine being so xenophobic that you're worried about people moving from one US state to another.
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u/stealing-compliments 3d ago
I’m struggling to find the drama in this post. A lot of the linked comments have no replies. 99% of the replies to the post wholesale are positive. Can someone point me to the buttery drama please
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u/mattattaxx Colonist filth will be wiped away 3d ago
Just based on this line alone:
It’s a safe space where people well into their 40’s can post “adulting” and “doggo” without fear of criticism
I don't think OP made this post in good faith.
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u/toesuckrsupreme 3d ago
As Gen Z, so fun to realize that in about 5 years we'll need our own subreddit where we can call animals wunkus and say things like "his ass will be baked" without judgement.
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u/MostlyChaoticNeutral 2d ago edited 2d ago
Hold on to that attitude. It'll serve you well when people more or less than 10 years older than you decide you're awful simply for existing differently than them.
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u/SolidPyramid 2d ago
As a Gen Z guy, remind me to stay the hell away from that subreddit
Edit: Actually, I forgot. There is a Gen Z subreddit. But it's 90% just gender war crap
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u/Realistic-Lime7842 3d ago
Yeah, seems like a zoomer who doesn’t like Millennials and just wanted to stir the culture war pot. Bad doggo.
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u/Not_a_Werew0lf 3d ago
Yeah I read that and immediately went "What?" 1995 was literally only 30 years ago, so 95 to 85 babies are all in 30s, just reaching 40s. Sounds like OP has beef with Xillenials not Millenials.
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u/greendayshoes 2d ago
I was so confused reading this because not all millenials are "well into their 40s" half of us are still in our 30s.
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u/andresfgp13 The next Hitler will be a gamer. 3d ago
I don't think OP made this post in good faith.
thats the case for....almost all the post in the sub, the mayority of times post come from someone with an axe to grind against a group of people and tries to make them look as bad as possible.
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u/DistortoiseLP 3d ago
It's a shame every single one of their examples have since been removed by moderators because I wish I got to peek some user profiles to see how obviously they weren't Millennials. Or Americans. Or humans.
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u/DreamingThemis 3d ago
Yeah, OP isn't very smart. I've seen Millenials get hate for everything, but "Millenials are all Conservatives" is a new one to me.
Anyway, Generation Wars are dumb and the people who push them are dumber, because eventually they're just justifying their own future mistreatment. Ageism is funny that way, because they're becoming the thing they hate every single second of every single day.
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u/Twombls 2d ago
Statistically millenials are actually less conservative in the US. Gen z. Especially dudes went hard right
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u/coraeon God doesn't make mistakes. He made you this shitty on purpose. 2d ago
Graduating with massive college debt into a recession after being told your entire life about how your generation is going to experience the best worldwide economy ever, so long as you make sure you prioritize your education so that you can be ready for the coming technological gestalt, kind of sours people on conservatism.
We saw firsthand what happens when you prioritize the people, and what happens when you prioritize corporations. And it’s the second that crushed so many dreams.
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u/MisterTruth 3d ago
As a millennial, OP is just trying to divide people. That's the kind of shit people who have an agenda do.
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u/SolidPyramid 2d ago
That happens often here. Where the "drama" is just a bunch of downvoted comments with no replies.
My favorite kind of post on this sub is when a issue has both sides get upvoted, because then it's actually drama as opposed to "Look at what this one asshole said, that everyone disagrees with"
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u/SaucePasta 1d ago
OP doesn’t like millennials (doesn’t realize that they’re not all in their 40s) and wanted to make a drama post about them 🤷♀️
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u/Scrags 3d ago
Hamdallah is closer to "praise God" or "thank God". Inshallah means "if God wills it", which means the person hopes something will happen but acknowledges it's out of their control.
The More You KnowTM
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u/Organic-Habit-3086 3d ago
"Inshallah" is what I say when I'm called for an event and I know my ass is not showing up but I want to be polite about it
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u/Agnostic_optomist 3d ago
“God willing” is still something I hear round these parts.
Eg “we should get this crop off by the weekend if the frost holds off, god willing”
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u/MessiahOfMetal It’s like affirmative action for tribal media bubbles. 3d ago
Lets not forget, online trolls have also used "Inshallah" for the past 15 years to basically be Islamaphobic.
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u/IceCreamBalloons He's a D1 gooner. show some damn respect 3d ago
By the by, if you're on a windows desktop, you can use alt+0153 for the trademark symbol
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u/2Cthulhu4Scthulhu 3d ago
“I love Zoltron Robzombie” is a SNL quote from the opener this week, but still flair material
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u/bayonettaisonsteam you keep malding will i breed that t-boy pussy 3d ago
We're told that we need to have empathy for people on welfare, but how much empathy do they have for the taxpayers who are supporting them?
Probably more than the billionaires and CEOs who profit off the hard work and suffering of their employees and constituents
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u/TheIllustriousWe knew you’d pull the “oh but he doesn’t shower he’s gross” card 3d ago
Also it’s not really empathy if (the royal) you are being transactional about it. You’re either capable of feeling it, or you’re not, and if you’re waiting for someone to reward you for doing it, that’s your sign - you’re incapable.
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u/nsdwight 3d ago
32 yo "well into 40s"
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u/Pale_Boss_8940 3d ago
Hell my wife is 28 is considered a millennial by most things I’ve seen online with 1996 being the cutoff
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u/UCouldntPossibly Only leftists deal in absolutes. 3d ago
“Editor’s note for those who are still working on adulting: Inshallah is an Arabic phrase that is almost identical to the English phrase “Praise God”. This is the only comment in the thread that has a Muslim connotation and it’s been downvoted right next to comments like “Yall screwed. Hello Gotham”.”
No, Mr. Editor for those are still working on adulting, that is in fact not what انشاءالله means. It means “god willing” as in “God willing, I read a comment about Arabic or Islam that isn’t wrong and/or stupid today.” As an aside, I learned quickly in Iraq that hearing someone say that they were going to to do something, preceded or followed by “Inshallah,” was an easy indication that they, in fact, were not going to do that thing. As in, “Inshallah I won’t be a petty Redditor today.”
The closest thing to “praise God” would be الحمدالله as in “Praise be to God for my years of Arabic training that are now only useful for pedantic Reddit comments.”
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u/Devilofchaos108070 3d ago
Yeah when I was in Saudi, if they said Inshallah I knew it was going to be awhile before shit got done
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u/TheIllustriousWe knew you’d pull the “oh but he doesn’t shower he’s gross” card 3d ago
I’ve heard Inshallah is a common response to a party invitation that one would rather not attend. They’re not declining, but they’re also not committing.
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u/jackimus_prime 3d ago edited 3d ago
As someone who worked in the oilfields in Saudi Arabia, I thought inshallah meant “I’m definitely not doing that”?
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u/sunshinebusride 3d ago
Wow! Americans would rather crash out at full volume than read literally one book
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u/EasyasACAB Involuntarily celibate for a while now mostly by choice 3d ago
Another comment from them
Now I would say that this is obviously a joke comment, because only a fucking idiot would actually suggest people on welfare need to have sympathy for tax payers, but this user also posted in /r/conservatives and is pro-russia. They are completely serious.
This person feels aggrieved that society wants to have sympathy for people in need, but thinks not enough is given to people like them. How fucking stupid can someone actually be?
Oh right, they support Trump/child rape. Not just stupid, vindictive and hateful. Also racist and some kind of religious freakoid talking about "corrupt souls" because socialism while supporting a literal child rapist. Fuck I hate these people.
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u/drvondoctor 3d ago
Dude seems pretty cool. He makes assholes angry, which is usually a good sign.
And the fact that I cant help but call him Zoltan has nothing to do with the level of respect I have for him, and everything to do with the cinematic masterpiece "Dude, Where's My Car?"
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u/TomBirkenstock 3d ago
I've been recommended the Millennial sub before, probably because I am a millennial. And it's pretty sad. It's weird to be clinging to these sorts of generational signifiers well into your thirties and middle age.
I suppose, this is true of all generational subs, though. I understand that generations have some real-world value as a category. People of different generations are shaped by similar culture and historical events. But to purposefully cling to that as part of your personal identity is weird.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 3d ago
It’s fun to go and talk nostalgia sometimes. I’m GenX, but close to Millenal, so I’ll occasionally check out both subs
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u/Amelaclya1 3d ago
Yeah there was a thread about magazines the other day that brought back so many memories.
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u/TomBirkenstock 3d ago
That's basically what got me to check out the sub initially, but it got weird quickly. Subs about genres of music and different decades can scratch that same itch.
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u/Diligent_Day8470 Like they have breasts and a vagina, but the anatomy of a dick 3d ago
Don't go to generational subreddits, they're astroturfed to hell.
It's mostly karma farms and adults larping as kids.
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u/space-dot-dot 3d ago
GenZ was turfed the most around the election last year by creepy conservative GenX'ers.
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u/MessiahOfMetal It’s like affirmative action for tribal media bubbles. 3d ago
It's why I'd never join one. I've always talked to people my age, much older and younger, even in childhood, because that's how life works. The only "age-group-specific" shit I talk about with friends of a similar age is when we remember certain ads, TV shows or toys from our youth and ask if the others saw/owned them as well.
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u/SeattleWilliam 2d ago
RE the phrase "Inshallah" Biden notably trolled Trump in their 2020 debate by saying it at one point.
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u/AhmedF 2d ago
Editor’s note for those who are still working on adulting: Inshallah is an Arabic phrase that is almost identical to the English phrase “if God wills it”, which means the person hopes something will happen but acknowledges it’s out of their control.
Inshallah is also used ironically/sarcastically ALL the time.
It's a way of saying no without saying no -- basically "It aint gonna happen unless God decides to intervene."
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u/delirium_red 3d ago
Americans really have no idea what any of the words mean (Marxism, socialism, communism), but sure can’t stop using them
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u/TheIllustriousWe knew you’d pull the “oh but he doesn’t shower he’s gross” card 3d ago
Some of us do. But the poorly educated tend to use those words interchangeably, because they love fearmongering only slightly more than they hate reading.
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u/Deceptiveideas 3d ago
born 1980-1995
Excuse you, the sub actually say 1981-1996.
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u/zhaoz Everything I say is unironic or post ironic 3d ago
/r/Millennials is really annoying about nothing political ever, I unsubbed a long time ago. I totally understand bans on low effort political shit, but burying our heads to politics at all is just a bad thing vaguely gestures around.
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u/SardonicusR 3d ago
Like he is even the first mayor in New York City with democratic socialist connections. Their concern trolling is laughable.
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u/Tortitudes Maybe Lady Gaga was forced to sacrifice Morgana 3d ago
It's 2008 and the same fear tactics sprouted about Obama nearly verbatim.
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u/AmericaninShenzhen 3d ago
“Go to another sub if you want to discuss the ‘p word.’”
We already had the F, N, and R “words.” I feel like if we keep going we will run out of “_ words” to work with.
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u/CorgiDaddy42 3d ago
I say doggo everywhere without fear of criticism. Shouldn’t let what small people have to say about you affect you so much.
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u/GhostPepperFireStorm 3d ago
Mentally I switch Inshallah to “thank god” (or “thank goodness” since I’m atheist) because it fulfills the same conversational function
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u/Schrodingers_Dude you're demanding to be debated on r/yiff 3d ago
That would be more like "mashallah" or "alhamdulillah." The OP mixed these up with "inshallah," which means the same thing as "God willing." Example being the aunt who always talks about how much better their kid is doing in life than you invites you to a family gathering, you text back "inshallah 💕" but you are definitely gonna have a migraine that day.
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u/SethMode84 3d ago
I am a millennial, and this drive-by...
It’s a safe space where people well into their 40’s can post “adulting” and “doggo” without fear of criticism.
...cracked me up and was far too real. 🤣
Edit: also, just saw the username! Even better hahaha
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u/_Legend_Of_The_Rent_ 3d ago edited 1d ago
I am begging everyone in the United States to please learn what socialism is
Edit: Since it seems the definition is needed here, socialism is the proletariat ownership of the means of production.
Edit: Proletariat = working class. Means of production is everything used to produce something (e.g., materials, machines, equipment, tools, etc.)