New York Mayor Eric Adams did not mince his words about his disapproval of what he called the large number of “nasty” Gen Z voters supporting Zhoran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate leading the race for NYC mayor.

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    “Corrupt mayor condemns political rival and his supporters over fear of being held accountable for his many crimes”

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    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.

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      i am a gen z voter and although i dont live in nyc (i live in ny state tho so close enough i guess), i was gonna leave a separate comment. but you said pretty much exactly what i was thinking 🤷 i hate the selfishness that’s been so ingrained in people, they’d rather perpetuate cruelties than hope for anything even slightly better. i hate this country? what has this country ever done for me, a woman of color, other than prove time and again that everything i have can be taken away in an instant due to the greed of the rich and spiteful? this shit is all so fucked, if my so called “hatred” for this country is the only thing i can truly own, then let me own it with all my heart. i’d rather that than submit to apathy and ignore the struggles of those around me

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      I don’t respect anyone who isn’t radicalized at this point. To look at the state to which our system is broken and not demand change by whatever means necessary is to be complicit in the atrocities being committed.

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    hell yeah I’m a nasty boy. I want all shills, pedophiles and sycophants to get the fuck out of office.

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    Guess what buddy, all of those so-called nasty voters are going to vote for whoever the hell they want, and you can call them names, but they don’t give a f*** what you think.

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    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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    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.

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    It should be etched in law that it’s prohibited to call the voters of your rival anything bad as it only serves to cause a division in the country.

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      I like the idea, but the First Amendment exists so idiots can say dumb things like this out in the open and we can all point and laugh.

      Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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        I’d curtail the crap out of that first amendment

        If you have a following,v you don’t get to say whatever bull crap. You spread something that is known to be a lie, go to jail

        I know the implications, but fix those them instead. Just letting people continuously get away with lying hasn’t helped anyone since forever

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        “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

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          And then they doubled down. It gave them such a strong rallying cry ot might have been one of the biggest factors of her losing

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            ot might have been one of the biggest factors of her losing

            Besides Cambridge Analytica and foreign interference.

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            Nearly 3 million more people voted for her than Trump. Ithe hard to say any 1 thing was the reason. It’s just as easy to say there was a percentage of the population that wouldn’t vote for a woman and that flipped enough purple states at the time.

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    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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      You should tell this too maga first because maga is making sure to make not voting for Democrats as painful as possible. I fucking hate both parties but even I realize now is not the time to give the country over to the maga shitlords. The only way we are going to get them out is if they also agree to not vote for those dirtbags.

      This is the reverse prisoners dilemma they put the country in, they do this intentionally so that we can’t vote third party and actually pass any legislation that benefits the working class or liberty or anything like that.

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    That country is never going back. Once the politicians doing this shit becomes the norm, it’s all over.

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        It’s something that used to be said on occasion and shock people and now it’s just expected. So… yeah, pretty much now.

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          Just reread your comment and that was already what you were saying. I was trying to be funny, thereby adding nothing and potentially confusing other readers, including myself.

          I’ll show myself out.

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      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