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Over on X, the right wingers are melting. Some of my favourites 🧵 1. "NY will turn into London" 😂

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NB though to be fair you can of course get Muslims who are socialists, perhaps more common in the last. Britain's Tariq Ali and the events of 1968 and after. Would the British writer Hanif Kureishi deem himself either? Anyway, point they were touting was a 'mad mullah Islamist AND Joe Stalin' combo.

And we should be so lucky. London voters like their mayor. New Yorkers were happy to turn a page on the Cuomo dynasty. Too bad our federal voters weren’t so smart. Now look what we have! Move forward never backward. Old times are even older now.

London is one of the nicest, greenest major cities to live in. It has a lower per-head crime rate than the UK average, despite its size. If New York becomes more like it that will be welcome.

Johnson was a surprisingly good mayor for transport: he started a completely mad cycleway scheme which still exists today, he started Crossrail and the Northern Line Extension, he successfully regenerated Stratford and held a great Olympics

He did cut housebuilding by about a third, and stopped government housing being built, that was pretty bad. But also Boris-bikes, the Boris-busses, raised the living wage, and banned alcohol on trains and busses (which was a bit of an issue)

Just a bunch of clowns Every insult the trolls dish is an insult to all the people who voted for Mamdani. "we know better" "new Yorkers don't know shit" Typical elite agenda propaganda Bring slavery back!

I'm sorry, how can anyone look into that face and see hatred? Mamdani radiates joy and a love for people. The malice the RWs send into the world is reflecting into their eyes, and they are blinded by it.

I think some research needs to be done to investigate the inverse correlation between the number of 🤣 or 😂 used at the end of a post and the IQ or educational attainments of the poster. Null hypothesis: There is no relationship between ROFLMAO x n and IQ of n. (There's always an IQ of low n)

I just went to London at the end of last year and it was lovely? I live in NYC and I love it, but, honestly, maybe we could actually do with a couple of Londony things, like leaning into the walkability. And more Indian food. And Sunday roasts. Wouldn't be so bad.

Please don’t tell anyone. I prefer the hellhole narrative while I’m sitting in the sun, having a proper beer with British hops, and reading my 1958 pulp SF novel. Just noticed that I need another beer.

The following things are “antisemitic”: - opposing war with Iran - viewing Palestinians as human - opposing genocide - Greta Thunberg - peace - journalism - Ms Rachel - truth - critical thinking - the UN - Tucker Carlson - Amnesty International - Human Rights Watch - equal rights

it is not weird at all it is what the US was, it was settlers went there and all we see now is when a political party fell to them, this has been a 30/40 year project maybe longer

I will never get tired of the whole “Zohran is a nepo baby because he happens to have parents in the professional managerial class and Cuomo coming from one of the most entrenched political dynasties in the state is just more ‘experience.”

I'm old enough to remember when right-wingers would routinely claim that one of the ways in which they were supposedly better than the rest of us was that they supposedly had a keen grasp on reality, while we were supposedly living in a fantasy world.

I grew up on that shit. The conservative talk radio host I listened to daily as a kid: “Liberalism is standing on your head and telling the rest of the world it’s upside down.” In hindsight, the projection is astounding.

Just absolutely flailing for anything. Imagining that a dommy mommy work camp would be set up by the "extremist" Muslim, a group they regularly criticize as having a bad record with regards to women's rights. It's absurd on so many levels.

Uhoh, looks like Drew finally googled Zohran's wife for the first time, saw she's beautiful and immediately incorporated her into his right-wing sexual neuroses.

Meanwhile, in REAL life, hardworking citizens are beaten, locked up in ICE concentration camps, children separated from their mothers, because they have darker skin, have a tatoo or a face the ICE-man does not like. Make America Gestapo Again

Pavlou has a history of posting weird aggressive thirst tweets about Zohran’s wife. Pretty sure this is literal fetish art. He’s describing a desire not a fear here.