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It definitely is hilarious to see people legitimately considering backing Adams and Cuomo, both of who are well known to be profoundly corrupt and personally unpleasant people with no real plans to deal with issues that huge portions of the electorate are facing.
Like, systematically, they have pushed out and disenfranchised anyone who has suggested anything but increasing the NYPD budgets. Suddenly a grass roots socialist candidate is the only one in the field with any real popular support.
I think a lot of the people in a position to decide about this kind of thing are backing Adams (Cuomo is cooked at this point) because he is profoundly corrupt, and has no plans to deal with issues that huge portions of the electorate are facing.
The people who are reading for example the newspapers and podcasts constructed by that first grouping, and then deciding to vote for Adams for example instead of Mandami, are either confused or horrible, in a way that overall is sadly hilarious, yes.