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Donald Trump has said that he will withhold funding for New York City if presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor after November’s general election and doesn’t do the “right thing.”

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

This shows that waiting to 2026 and hoping that Dems will take over Congress is really pointless. They won't acknowledge and certify any results that aren't their people.

At this point we either fight or accept end of US as a democracy.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 27 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

We do not fight on their terms.

They want battles in the streets. They want explosives, dead feds and cops.

They want 258,000,000 dead Americans. They don't give two shits what side it's on.

A Mayoral election giving the elite this much terror is extremely telling. The GOP didn't work the top down, they worked the bottom up. Local governments, states, and the branches of the Federal government.

If NYC can get this guy elected, then the doubt that fascists need to instill in the idea of democracy gets bolstered, and they have to do things that will be even more unpopular than kidnapping immigrants.

[–] Ryktes@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

At this point we either fight or accept end of US as a democracy.

I really wish we could stop all the pussyfooting and just get to the actual open conflict portion on the program already. It's obviously what both sides want at this point, let's cut the shit and just do the fuckin thing already.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 18 hours ago

I don't want that. I just am afraid at this point it's inevitable.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 4 points 18 hours ago

A frequent occurrence with forced regime change is trading out one evil for one or more worse evils. Check out Sudan's history. It's not at all easy to build a democracy, so the establishment is rightly hesitant to just scrap this one, as direly troubled as it is.

Odds are we're just going to coast BAU into oblivion.