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Mamdani promised that “we will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

Yeah. Who needs individual freedom? It’s overrated.

Who needs individual freedom?

Rugged individualism and individual freedom are two different things.

Individual freedoms are fundamental rights and liberties protecting people from government overreach. (Your rights aren't trampled on by the government, etc.)

Rugged individualism means an individual should be self-reliant/independent with minimal outside support and take personal responsibility. (You don't rely on the government/community).

Rugged individualism is suspected to be behind the suicide belt out west, along with higher altitude.

Bighairymike,

Yeah Mamdani goes straight to the Orwellian rhetoric.

He is going to spend the next four years doing his absolute best to destroy New York City while simultaneously grifting for himself, family and cronies as hard as he can.

What a con artist.

Very transparent and yet the voters are dum dums just like the Left-os on this message board.

The fool can't even run a lemonade stand.

Maybe NYC will get really lucky and he will spend most of his time cheating on his wife and playing golf or something.

According to Mamdani, not only don't you own anything, you don't own yourself. There is no freedom. The government knows what is best, specifically, Mamdani knows best.

Fortunately, he seems as incompetent as he is delusional.

Just like his left-o whacko voting base.

I wonder how many police officers will retire or resign or move to another jurisdiction over the next four years.

How many corporate hqs will re-locate.

How many middle class or affluent people will clear out entirely.

It's not going to be pretty.

Things are looking pretty bleak for NYC because not only is Mamdani an incompetent idealogue, his ideology is crazy.

Things are looking pretty bleak for NYC because not only is Mamdani an incompetent idealogue, his ideology is crazy.

Yep, the three dingos, Bernie, AOC and Mamdani will be the death of NYC.

Saw this..
“I can tell you, and I tell you now, that I am prepared to veto any bill that has as its purpose a Federal bailout of New York City to prevent default.”‍

-Gerald R. Ford“

President Trump basically feels the same way.

SNIP
“The 1975 fiscal emergency saved New York City from bankruptcy but created a revenue system that concentrated fiscal pressure on real estate, while denying the city the authority to implement comprehensive solutions. Until the state returns broader fiscal autonomy or comprehensive reform emerges from Albany, every expansion of city services translates directly into higher property tax burdens for commercial tenants, residential renters, and property owners throughout New York's five boroughs.”

Interesting Article dated June 07, 2025

https://rangenyc.substack.com/p/albany-controls-ny...

I wonder where Mamdani thinks the money will come from to pay for his proposed freebies, etc.
It’s going to be fun watching from the side lines.

Mamdani promised that “we will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
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Maybe he'll join Woke Trump and help Woke BlackRock do a Panama Canal deal.

Or better yet, he'll join Woke Trump in the Woke White House for basketball games with Al Qaeda leaders.



As far as socialism......

Many have been pushed to the tipping point and many other due to bad culture, and a march away from old, bedrock traditions, find themselves in desperation and are tired of it.

More visible and more structural socialism is now inevitable.

Ah, remember when the GOP used to cosplay as champions of the free market?
I'm glad to see they've finally retired that ill fitting costume...

"Republican Socialism: Trump Is Taking Federal Stakes in Private Companies"

"One danger of nationalism, Friedrich Hayek warned in 1960, was the "bridge it provides from conservatism to collectivism."

"Like a kid in a toy store with a nearly unlimited supply of someone else's money, Donald Trump is on a shopping spree the likes of which America has never seen.
Trump has now taken pieces of more than a dozen private companies. And it is all happening without even an attempt at getting congressional authorization."

"Even in light of the administration's other intrusions into the free market—hiking tariffs on nearly all imports, applying ideological conditions on media companies,
and the like—this has been a breathtaking turn of events. Trump and his top officials have signaled that they are only getting started. In August he told reporters "I want to try and get as much as I can."

"The Trump administration's pivot toward socialism did not come without warning. One particular moment stands out:
In an April interview with Time, Trump declared that America was akin to "a department store." He elaborated: "I meet with companies, and then I set a fair price."
"Trump has transformed the U.S. economy from a free market to a command economy, complete with the ability for Trump to manipulate the market and tip the scales in favor of his own investments,
preferences and friends or family."

"Today it’s Intel, U.S. Steel and MP Materials, tomorrow it could be any industry. Socialism is literally government control of the means of production.
When you see the people supporting the president just sort of saying 'this is good' I worry that the free market movement that was a big part of the Republican Party
is being diminished over time." ~Senator Rand Paul

MASA! Make America Socialist Again!

https://reason.com/2025/12/19/more-republican-soci...

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/oct/05/its-offic...

https://reason.com/2025/12/02/republican-socialism...

Mamdani promised that “we will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

Meanwhile, the GOP offers "traditional family values", where conformity to a WASP ideal is forced on everyone. Where multiple generations are forced to live under one roof, because their pensions, affordable health care, and pay, have been taken away and the money given to the "JCs".

Steve

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