New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a figure of contention among leaders from both major political parties, has seen a remarkable surge in his political standing just six months into office.

The 34-year-old democratic socialist, a prominent figure on the progressive left, has garnered unexpected praise from both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

He has also emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. Now, days before New York’s primary elections,

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        The fascists are on Russia. They have literally been funding right wing extremism all across Europe and the world for decades, as a matter of stated intent and strategy and they’ve been caught doing it straight up.

        Tiktok only exacerbates the issue, but make no mistake, Russia bears by far the biggest part of the blame.

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      are there? hard to say with none of them in charge of anything.

      Seems to me when we get the boomers out of the way, a lot of problems also go away. ever notice how racism and sexism is much more prevalent and “normal” with older people? Stands to reason that putting those people in care homes and out of power would make drastic improvements to society.

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        Seems to me when we get the boomers out of the way, a lot of problems also go away.

        Perhaps, but then we’ll have the more difficult problem of having to fix things ourselves with nobody else to blame. If you think Democratic Socialists have all the right answers, you’re gonna be a bit disillusioned soon.

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          Happy to give it a try. It cant possibly be worse than bribed corrupt stand-for-nothing centrist genocide supporters or open fascists.

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        Are you familiar with the Joshua Generation at all? Literally a training ground for christo-fascists that trained former and current senators.

        There’s absolutely young fascists currently in charge. Heck “DOGE” was nothing but a bunch of 20 somethings allowed to enact part of their fascist wet dream.

        Putting the blame on age and not class is why you’re getting so ratiod

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          Ratioed? Kharma’s not a thing here so who cares. And maybe I’ve just met more old people than you have.
          Also your Joshua generation thing doesnt show a prevalance for idiocy in youth, just that some exists. Idiocy in the elderly is a fact of life. Brains dont get better as they age, and the context they grew up in doesnt keep up with the times they live into. I dont care if people like it, people dont get smarter or more relevant to the times as they age.

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            There’s not karma but it’s still a good sign of how many people disagree with your argument and experience.

            Your original comment was to someone saying “there’s plenty of young fascists”. Didn’t say anything about prevalence, just that there’s enough to be a problem. That’ prevalence argument is bullshit you added. You’ve said they aren’t in charge of anything. You were given direct evidence of examples of young fascists existing and being in charge of things.

            You trying to make it an age based thing is just asking for trouble because it’s setting up complacency instead of fighting the fascists no matter who they are.

            “I’ve met more old people than you” is such a dumb and weak argument I legitimately don’t even know where to begin there.

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              That’ prevalence argument is bullshit you added.

              No. Using inductive thinking is the bullshit you started with. You cant use a small sample size to make generalizations across a group of people. You have to deal with any discussion of a group of people by talking about them in terms of proportionality or percentages. You cant say “mushroommonk on Lemmy doesnt underdstand the most basic logic, so clearly no one on Lemmy understands basic logic.” Thatd be bullshit. Get it?

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                Except the group being discussed is the group of young fascists. That’s it. The entire group is the ones that exist. Your false equivalence trying to extrapolate from there is adding another group.

                Please just go learn some basic reading comprehension. I’m not the only one to point this out.

                I’m out

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        I think it depends on your definition of “young”, but there are the folks like Kyle Rittenhouse, Jacob Chansley, Ben Shapiro, and tons of other netizens younger than Joe Rogan with their hate-mongering podcasts. Being emboldened in the way they are, more seem to be popping out of the woodwork instead of being shamed or reformed into better viewpoints.

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          So if you can name 4 shitty young people then all young people are shitty, thats your assertion?

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            Unfortunately, these are all young people with a vast following of young people. Not to mention Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate…

            Young people skew left and that’s a fact, it’s not a supermajority like it might seem on places like this.