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BeyondGeography

(40,711 posts)
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 08:10 AM Saturday

Zohran Mamdani addresses Islamophobia as attacks ramp up in closing days of NYC mayoral race

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Emile

(38,592 posts)
2. Cuomo is a real piece of shit. Going after the republican vote.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 08:25 AM
Saturday

And this guy used to be a Democrat.

QueerDuck

(362 posts)
3. He still is a Democrat... just not our party's nominee. He's just running "as an independent", right?
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 08:45 AM
Saturday

I guess NY doesn't have any sort of "sore-loser" laws. Ugh.

QueerDuck

(362 posts)
5. It's an important topic so it's natural that people are talking about it and making sense of what's going on.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:08 AM
Saturday

I do not recall having discussed Cuomo with you previously. You're thinking of someone else that you "went through this shit" with. (But with so many fast-paced and hectic conversations/exchanges going on here, I can see how it would be easy for anyone to get confused or for different exchanges with multiple individuals to become blurred into one.)

Emile

(38,592 posts)
6. He may be a registered (centrist) democrat, but he
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:12 AM
Saturday

left the democratic party to run as a centrist independent. How can any democratic voter can vote for this pos is beyond me.

You are right. The person I was communicating with the other day about Cuomo, is no longer a duer.

QueerDuck

(362 posts)
7. Yes... loyalty matters. He should not have "left the party" to run as an independent. That's an abuse of process...
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 01:06 PM
Saturday

and a reverse-twist on how it's possible for an independent candidates can use the party's machinery to run as Democrats and then quit the party again. Nobody should be doing that. Cuomo is a real piece-of-work, isn't he? What a shitty slimeball Cuomo is to abuse the process like that. He's going to dilute the vote and suppress turnout from people who end up not trusting the process because of the game-playing. There ought to be sore-loser laws in every state that prevent previous candidates who lost their primary from acting as spoilers.

SocialDemocrat61

(6,122 posts)
8. He's a DINO
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 02:21 PM
Saturday

and always has been. That doesn’t give him a free pass for his bigotry or for his harassment of women.

QueerDuck

(362 posts)
9. Yes... I cannot stand any politician who is a "Democrat In Name Only"...
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 02:33 PM
Saturday

it sounds like he just a "pretend" Democrat. What a shitty thing to do. Only a slimeball would pretends to be a Democrat for personal or political gain. NY (and our entire nation, actually) needs a "sore loser" law to keep this from happening again.

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