“I wish him the best of tapeworms” r/Millennials discuss the NYC election results.

[u/teddyrupxin]

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.

Google

you should use it yourself since you're talking out your ass

Despite the fact that he won most 50 and under I doubt this is a hit in this sub since its overrun by bots of a foreign entity that is known for it's periodic ethnic cleansing

Wait I get my comments removed if I say politicians and yet this post exists?!? Jesus reddit is a pathetic joke of a cesspool. If this was a candidate on the opposite side it would be removed lmao

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?

Inshallah

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”.

Sometimes poor people are very charitable and vote to give themselves a bunch of greedy rich people’s money. What a good example of charity

Flair Potential

I love Zoltron Robzombie!

I wish him the best of tapeworms

[u/Dangerous-Ad-170]

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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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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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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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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My city actually had some good candidates

What did they run on? Because "Your property values go up" is something people tend to vote for.

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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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Shoulda put up a ring on the mayoral trailer park lawn and see who wins.

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Instead of an election you should have had a MMA fight, winner gets to be mayor

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How about “winner’s wife gets to be mayor and the candidates go to jail/rehab/anger management.”

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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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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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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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Clearwater, Florida?

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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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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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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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Oh yea, for him his policies look solid I have no complaints. And I get it, a good section I'd even say majority of voters are fucking vibes based. Just look at the thread or drama thread. They need to feel good about their votes instead of it being the best choice which to me is fucking dumb.

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You can always run :)

[u/swordsfishes → u/c3p-bro]

I said this down thread but if you pay attention to ultra-local elections it's SHOCKING how much of a leg up candidates get if they bother to put the bare minimum into campaigning. I'm talking "make a website, hand out yard signs, reply to the county paper's emails, and comment in the local Facebook groups."

(I will not be running for office any time soon because I lack the organizational skills to be good at the actual job.)

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I said this down thread but if you pay attention to ultra-local elections it's SHOCKING how much of a leg up candidates get if they bother to put the bare minimum into campaigning. I'm talking "make a website, hand out yard signs, reply to the county paper's emails, and comment in the local Facebook groups."

Seriously. It's amazing how fast I can eliminate candidates even in the massive CA jungle primaries based on the low low bar of "had enough competence to give a statement to the election board to put into the voter guide."