“We’re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,” he said, shrugging. “We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”

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    5 days ago

    That just goes to show how bad the US is at electing leaders. Just terrible, even when good options do exist, to the point that I still don’t fully believe Mamdani is the New York Mayor.

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        That probably does something to it as well, but ok then change it to “I can’t believe that he was actually elected”.

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          Its new york and he was running against cuomo. It wasnt exactly a crazy win.

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            I don’t take anything for granted in North America. We just elected the most obviously corrupt person to be mayor of Montréal and even the total left/right votes between the four major parties skewed significantly right because we’re stupid as hell.

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              I think in any healthy society he would have crushed with like 70% of the vote but he barely won which is pretty sad.

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                Against his competion a healthy society would have looked at Cuomo and thrown him in the fucking garbage and Mamdani would have gotten 90%. Ya’ll gotta raise your standards, even if you don’t raise your expectations.

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      It’s because when you put a piece of ripe fruit into raw sewage it doesn’t make the sewage suddenly drinkable, but suddenly I no longer want to eat the fruit. But hey with enough fruit and time that makes a farm, idk I’m trying to be positive here. Forget aboutit