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Billionaires are against Mamdani, eh? Something tells me he is the right guy for the job then.

Billionaires are scared. That's a good sign ..

So kind of this guy to give Mamdani an incredible basis for an ad campaign.

Like, for real, does this rich fuck not understanding that the vast majority of the American populace wants to see more blue shells? Honestly, how could it be more clear? All Zohran has to do is something like:

There’s an old proverb that says you should judge a person by the enemies they’ve made. Well, I’ve made an enemy of the billionaire Bill Ackman, and he’s pledged a blank check to whoever runs against me. But, there’s good news: votes decide elections, not money. I’m not listening to the money. I’m listening to the voters. I’m listening to you. Let’s win this together.

Billionaires should not exist.

Ackman said he was “gravely concerned” because he believed the left-wing candidate’s policies would be disastrous, triggering an exodus of the wealthy that would endanger New York’s public services by hollowing out its tax base.

wtf? Is this really the route they're going to take? I know, pay your fucking share of taxes and then there wouldn't be a "hollowing out."

A billionaire just causally announcing that he can influence, finance and promote an election using his money in order to get what only interests themselves ... rather than in allowing democratic processes elect someone the people actually want and need.

This is the biggest endorsement Mamdani could get. I hope New Yorkers are paying attention.

Billionaires hate him, genocide enablers hate him, fascists hate him, Nazis hate him, government criminals hate him, citizen concerned for fellow citizens love him.

This Texan Jew is about to send some donations to a Yankee antisemite.
*references to antisemitism are sarcasm based on comments from people who apparently loooove fascism*

the left-wing candidate’s policies would be disastrous, triggering an exodus of the wealthy

Is that a promise? Look dude I'm already sold on him, you don't need to keep selling him

It's wild that they billionaires are openly just saying "whoops, we can't be letting the people elect someone good for them, here let's fix that".

So they are ok with spending hundreds of millions of dollars, just not in any way that actually improves the city for the people that live in it?

It’s not about the money, it’s just misanthropy.

Ackman is also a part owner of X, and that platform will also definitely be a big part of an effort to defeat Mamdani.

Edit: a family member just asked me what I think of Mamdani wanting to put a tax on all hiring, saying he proposed a 35% tax on the salary of all new hires. I googled this, and the only results are on X. The fix is in.

Huh. I wonder why he just doesn't vote for the other person. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Isn't that what poor people do? I was told voting was important... /s

People of NYC: your vote is far more powerful than this dude throwing his lunch money at the opposition.

So let me get this straight. Current tax law favors billionaires. He’s concerned that progressive policies will target taxing billionaires forcing a mass exodus of billionaires thereby undercutting the tax base. In other words they’re already not paying taxes but taxing them more will make them leave. Make it make sense.

Somebody more left-wing than Mamdani has the chance to do something hilarious

What a crook.

Literally buying elected officials.

A true enemy of the people

You leaving NYC Ackman? Gonna take Wall St. with you?

Fuck off to Ireland, see if I care.

I have no clue what Mamdani ideas for NYC are, but if this pile of crap is against him, that signals to me that Mamdani has principles. Bill Ackerman will only support candidates that he can corrupt.

Ackman said he was “gravely concerned” because he believed the left-wing candidate’s policies would be disastrous, triggering an exodus of the wealthy that would endanger New York’s public services by hollowing out its tax base.

Fucking seriously.

Lots of articles say that Ackman is a real bloodthirty piece of crap, a famously petty crybully, and a supremecist. So I can see why he'd be against Zohran Mamdani.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/crybullyism-bill-ackman-ruling-class/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bill-ackman-war-harvard-mit-dei-claudine-gay.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzkY3NA_ZkQ

Honestly, I'm really liking how this race is shaping up. Adams is refusing to drop out because, well, he can't; the second he loses power he stops being useful to the Trump administration, and then he's vulnerable to prosecution. Cuomo is also staying in because he's a narcissist, and Ackman is willing to throw money at anyone else who wants to run.

So that means the centrist shit-libs and conservative ghouls are splitting their vote between at least two, probably three candidates, while the progressive vote will go entirely to Mamdani. I'm still wary of DNC fuckery, but so far, so good.

Gimme a hundred million dollars to lose to Mamdani. Sounds like a cushy gig.

He wants to flood the FPTP ballot with progressive and centrist candidates so that those votes are spread so thin, the single conservative candidate is a shoe in with a landslide 3% of the votes.

Zohran should drop a diss track collab with Kendrick on Spotify. No amount of billionaire money could combat that.

why vote when legal bribes work this well?

These guys were the first against the wall, come the revolution.

I can beat him, money pleaseeeeeee

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As a potential independent candidate Cuomo didn't poll that bad if you don't consider that:

• the 39% he got are the same as Mamdani, so it would be 50/50 at best
• as a known quantity, this 39% are probably his ceiling
• it still didn't factor Schumer effectively endorsing Mamdani on social media

Political players are in still in flux, but, for the right wing of the Democratic Party, moving against Mamdani is getting riskier and riskier by the day. Not only would they lose the "unity" argument to mobilize the left close to the midterms, but the risk of suffering an humiliating defeat is too great.

Hollowing out the tax-base? Of what? Billionaires who have turned tax evasion into a sports championship?

In most places in the world, tax is primarily paid by the working people, not by the rich.

Which obviously leaves them with to much money that they squander on anti-citizen political campaigns like this. When they have the money for bribery on that level, they have the money to pax taxes like everyone else.

So the TV pundits are calling this "class warfare", right?

Anyone who the billionaire hedge fund manager is planning to bankroll is the guy you probably should be voting against.

Ackman said he was “gravely concerned” because he believed the left-wing candidate’s policies would be disastrous, triggering an exodus of the wealthy that would endanger New York’s public services by hollowing out its tax base.

Fake fucking news. Well all know the wealthy don't pay taxes.