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Fundraising text I got today. “Cuomo may have killed thousands, but Mamdani’s even worse!”
(hexbear.net)
The tacit understanding here being that the funding and feelings of the police is more valuable than the lives of senior citizens.
He literally walked most of his "endearing" rhetoric. Including defunding- which he doesnt want to do, he wants to stop expanding the NYPD, so basically eternal status quo at best.
Besides he is going to move right very quickly, given that there is no counterpol forcing him to the left, in fact most of the entryist enjoyers spend more time getting socialists in non-american countries and even outside NYC to shut up and uncritically support him, which unironically actually harms the very strategy they try to convince us will led to socialism.
stopping expansion is a very technocratic way of cutting their budget over time because inflation will continue to happen. Remember he needs to not be murdered if he wants to do any of the public transit improvements, rent freezes, or at-cost grocery stores.
this is not a defense of his backpedaling on the nypd or
, but also he wasn't ever campaigning on decimating the nypd budget or anything but rather on limiting their scope to the liberal mythology of police are for and using the new funding that isn't going to the cops to fund ostensibly good things like social workers.