• St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s definitely performative. But that doesn’t diminish it in the least. He is getting shit done, and advertising it effectively. If every politician clout chased this way, people wouldn’t have such vehement hatred for them. He has an amazing pr team and he’s governing effectively. You could ask for literally not a thing more.

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      You’re right. Most successful politicians are extremely performative. What matters with Mamdani is who he’s primarily performing for, and it’s not the wealthy Epstein class.

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      It’s performative, but to who? He’s performing for the working class, not for the Epstein class. That matters a ton.

    • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Exactly. In fact, I love that he’s openly displaying the stuff he does arohnd the city, because it lets me know of the wondeful stuff he’s doing rather than how so many reps refuse to advertise the stuff they do and have a nice record of their actions. I definitely think some of them obscure what they do because they don’t want voters to realize how shady they are, but it just frustrates mr more when i have to go out of my way to dig through records of a politicians vote history.

      If they would be fucking transparent they wouldn’t be struggling to get votes, but whatever…