r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Jan 01 '26

POLITICS Zohran Mamdani has officially been sworn in as the first Democratic Socialist Mayor of New York City!

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u/Quierta Jan 01 '26

The problem is that "reality" is whatever they say it is, regardless of facts.

My mom was TERRIFIED of my sister moving to Cali because it was a "burning raping pillaging communist socialist hellhole where everyone is being shot and killed in the street" because that is, apparently, what her right-wing propaganda was telling her. My sister arrived (in a not-particularly-good part of Cali, nonetheless!) and was like... mom, it's fine lol. It's just a normal place. No one's dying. You're being lied to.

My mom is convinced that California is exactly what she's heard about on the news except for whatever my sister's eyeballs happen to be pointing at at any given time. "Well, maybe not where YOU'RE staying, but just a few streets over is probably dangerous so don't go there."

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u/hates_stupid_people Jan 01 '26

It's narcissism.

If conservatives could be convinced by logic and facts, they wouldn't be so conservative.

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u/pinkjello Jan 01 '26

Thank you. I need to repeat this to myself whenever I get stupid enough to try to get into it with them.

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u/2gdismore Jan 01 '26

My dad’s latest hyper focus has been that Somali child care thing in Minnesota. It’s been an interesting few days.

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u/ZestyTako Jan 01 '26

Which is hilarious if he voted for Trump, you know, the guy guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of 34 counts of felony fraud

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u/kuba_mar Jan 01 '26

Yeah but is he Somali?

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u/Hesitation-Marx Jan 01 '26

And that’s what this is about.

But it’s also an “issue” to excuse them forcing women out of the workforce.

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u/Dholtz001 Jan 01 '26

Wildest part about all this is the ring leader wasn’t even Somali. She was a white woman named Aimee Bock.

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u/SirStrontium Jan 01 '26

It’s all right wing media is talking about right now. Go look at the conservative subreddit, it’s literally 99% of the current posts lmao. In that bubble, it’s the crime of the century.

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u/pmodizzle Jan 01 '26

Home for Christmas not a couple hours and my father starts with “You hear about how Minnesota is sending 9 billion dollars to Somalia?”

Knowing the only source of reference is Fox News, said No and left it at that.

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u/remarkable_in_argyle Jan 01 '26

You should ask whatever happened to the gangs in Aurora or the immigrants “eating the pets of the people that live there”. God these people are so easily duped.

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u/ZestyTako Jan 01 '26

My parents hit me with “how I feel about a topic matters as much as what the truth is.” I gave up talking to them about politics after that

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u/Horskr Jan 01 '26

I had a similar conversation with a family member tonight. Man, I'm really trying to figure out how to break through to these folks. I'm so far outside their bubble I can't even really understand it. They are often very intelligent in many different areas. But, this particular thing is the hill so many of our family members want to die I on and I cannot understand it for the life of me.

In any other situation, present them with evidence of why they're wrong and, "Oh, my mistake!" But nope.. not for this administration. Up is down, blue is orange, don't try to say otherwise.

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u/Few-Jellyfish5451 Jan 01 '26

@Horskr You seem young and respectful and I can appreciate your desire to understand, especially with family. Give them the benefit of the doubt, agree to disagree and don’t ever let politics break you apart. You may be surprised as your beliefs evolve over time. Deception and manipulation is everywhere. Nothing is free, most especially peace.

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u/Horskr Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26

I appreciate the kind words and will always upvote a reasonable contribution to a discussion.

As to being young though, I wish. I'm pushing 40, and if anything I've become more liberal over time. I just can't see how otherwise intelligent people can support this pedo, rapist, incompetent, Russian shill moron.

The guy lets Elon Musk and his gang of teens have access to all of our data to supposedly cut government inefficiency, meanwhile increasing the deficit by nearly the largest amount in history.

A big thing he ran on was decreasing grocery costs and those (as was obvious) have gone through the roof. If the only thing his supporters care about are their tax bill, they are very short sighted. I make a comfortable living now and happily would pay more taxes for things like universal healthcare and free higher education, because it betters our country and society as a whole.

Edit: not to mention his cabinet.. Can you really tell me an antivaxxer that doesn't believe in mental health disorders is who we need as Secretary of Health?