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Seeing Mamdani making the rounds on FC, I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.
I typically don't dabble in politics; I've divorced myself from it long ago, and still feel like it's a net negative for our world. Still, Mamdani intrigues me. Dude isn't even running for president and yet everyone's treating him like some sort of messiah.
In short, I feel very wary of Mamdani. I generally just don't trust politicians period. Tbf I would pick him over Trump, but I still feel conflicted. He's unabashedly a Marxist and quite far left, so obviously I don't feel comfortable with someone so extreme (then again, we live in an age of extremes so no getting around that). On the other hand, he played his cards well and managed to actually get on the ground and connect with voters, something that the establishment dems have repeatedly failed to do, so I admire that. 1 reply
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So question about Zohran, London, and Islam.
A couple of primers:
My colleague at work is a person who I owe a lot of my formative years to over the past decade. She’s from London.
On the other hand, I have a few family members than converted to Islam I don’t know how many years ago (before I was born) but more so Nation of Islam… (Farrakhan)
Now, my colleague has said that London is dealing with a lot of issues lead by Muslim leaders being in positions of power.. leading to more strict policies that are generally harmful to LGBTQ people, women, etc.
Those leaders who campaigned on equality for all, but then governed on equality for all as long as you follow their interpretation of Islam. Which is more towards the oppressive areas in the Middle East.
She’s told me that a lot of her friends in London are seeing instances where if you are Christian, LGBTQ+, a woman, whatever, times are not as good as they used to be.
Now I see Zohran, who a lot of people on Farcaster (at least on my timeline) Stan fairly hardcore.
He seems to be for well connected educated folks it seems who are diverse (aka what I said above)
But considering what I hear on the daily, and what I was shown on the daily, I am conflicted. This is probably because I’m hearing what I stated above more often than what I’m hearing to the contrary.
But I’m curious if there are opinions on both sides of the spectrum in regards to this. Are there folks in London that have seen instances where they are concerned about Zohran? Are they seeing the contrary?
I don’t live in NYC. I don’t want to go to NYC, but it’s been interesting to watch all of this unfold.
I don’t really have enough information on both sides to garner an opinion, but I figured this would be a good place to ask some questions.
Lemme know! 1 reply
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