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Zohran Mamdani drops the mask
The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ESTToday at 6:00 a.m. EST
A new era of class warfare has begun in New York, and no one is more excited than Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani. Witness the mayor-elects change of character since his Tuesday election victory.
Mamdani ran an upbeat campaign, with a nice-guy demeanor and perpetual smile papering over a long history of divisive and demagogic statements. New Yorkers periodically checking in on politics could understandably believe that he simply wanted to bring the city together and make it more affordable. That interpretation became much harder after his victory speech.
Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isnt about unity. It isnt about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies from landlords who take advantage of tenants to the bosses who exploit workers and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word growth didnt appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/08/zohran-mamdani-class-warfare-new-york-mayor/
They are confusing Mamdani with Trump to put it kindly. It's little wonder no self-respecting journalist put their name to this crap and they're hiding behind "editorial board". I'm so glad I cancelled my subscription a while back.
CanonRay
(15,792 posts)Did Bezos write it himself?
Wounded Bear
(63,486 posts)durablend
(8,757 posts)spooky3
(38,132 posts)vanessa_ca
(607 posts)Is this the NY Post or Washington Post?
At this point, whats the difference?
It seem that there is no difference anymore.
Generalissimo? Really ? The guy hasn't even taken office yet ! If you want to see what a future dictator looks like, perhaps Mr. Bezos should look at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. where his boss lives.
Mandan is now living rent free in the Washington Posts EBs head.
This editorial is misleading and promotes the misguided sense of entitlement that elites promote. This is the new WAPO. Once a fine newspaper, now just a tabloid rag .
Well, not everyone can be as ethically pure as Andrew Cuomo.
Shame on you WaPo. This isnt an editorial its right-wing propaganda.
"Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment."
Sounds like a typical Trump speech. Typical WaPo
vanessa_ca
(607 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/08/zohran-mamdani-class-warfare-new-york-mayor/?commentID=ff498491-d65a-413f-aad1-4003d4ea738e&utm_campaign=comment-share&utm_medium=soc-share&utm_source=link-share
SheilaAnn
(10,575 posts)SamuelTheThird
(419 posts)RockRaven
(18,349 posts)He is just telling the truth, instead of lying like most politicians and WaPo writers do.
lame54
(38,865 posts)Who knew?
lapfog_1
(31,423 posts)who could afford to rent 4,000,000 1 bedroom apartments in Manhattan for 1 year.
If he actually did that ( assuming there were 4M 1 bedroom apts to be rented in Manhattan ), he would get to spend 8 seconds in each ( assuming zero transit time to the next apartment ).
It's always good to have fun with math.
Ocelot II
(128,252 posts)Ya know that old saying, when you're used to privilege, equality looks like oppression? Jeff Bezos' class suddenly is starting to feel oppressed by the possibility that they might not get to keep all the goodies for a change.

sinkingfeeling
(56,771 posts)ananda
(33,962 posts)This is fun.
B.See
(7,290 posts)Any Democrat who gives them fits is doing, saying THE RIGHT THING.
-misanthroptimist
(1,529 posts)Blow it out your ass, WAPO.
sop
(16,851 posts)"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace -business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred."
Deminpenn
(17,157 posts)The same populist sentiment is present today.
duckworth969
(990 posts)NY Times is a rag.
Why does anyone consume media sources owned and controlled by billionaires?
Initech
(106,872 posts)Washington Post - owned by right wing billionaire.
CBS - owned by right wing billionaire.
Viacom - owned by right wing billionaire.
Comcast - owned by right wing billionaire.
There is no liberal media. It's a myth. It's a lie. It's been sold to the masses for 40 years.
fujiyamasan
(948 posts)Not sure why anyone on the left still subscribes to the paper anymore. Its garbage. And Bezos made it very clear a few months ago that its editorial slant would shift to favor free markets and libertarianism.
SunSeeker
(57,216 posts)And Bezos does not favor free markets. He favors monopolies, of which he sits on top of. And he favors corruption of markets through bribing the officials/Trump to help Bezos' businesses, to the detriment of other businesses. Billionaires are the last people on earth who want actual level playing fields or truly free markets.
fujiyamasan
(948 posts)Bezos learned after the AWS/JEDI contract fiasco that its best not to fight the power (even tepidly). His shift and that of all the Silicon Valley CEOs has been interesting. From being critics of Trump to absolute sycophants, theyre all opportunists to the core.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,738 posts)irisblue
(36,552 posts)vanessa_ca
(607 posts)Meanwhile, here's the AI summary of the comments
Pompoy
(251 posts)Iggo
(49,397 posts)Thats how they talk. Bezos is talking to his buddies. Not us.
Initech
(106,872 posts)Just go fuck all of the way off with that shit.
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,348 posts)If you scroll down you see it's like the cry of the wealthy's parasite class. They need only appease their benefactors. It has little to do with journalism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/08/zohran-mamdani-class-warfare-new-york-mayor/
BurnDoubt
(1,234 posts)And Fuck Yourself.
rpannier
(24,811 posts)Sounds a lot like Van Jones at CNN.
Wonder whose driving these talking points?
ChicagoTeamster
(148 posts)PatSeg
(51,448 posts)I am also glad I cancelled by subscription. That is truly awful.
Deminpenn
(17,157 posts)Today's billionaire class is strikingly similar to the weathly/influential class of the 1920s. Americans are reactiing to the income disparity, "interlocking directorates" and self-deaing that defined the 1920s then as they are to the same factors playing out today.
In the books epilog, Sorokin relates what ultimately happened to the rich bankers and company founders. To my surprise, many ended up with little of wealth they'd accumulated left. But I doubt today's billionaires are interested in learning from history. They are just as greedy as their 1920s counterparts.
Cirsium
(3,141 posts)They have declared war on us, and they will not back down. I hope everyone is prepared for what is coming.
Joinfortmill
(19,491 posts)His new wife looks like a real life copy of a sex doll. Just saying, very weird. I think all his billions and the WaPo platform have brought out the 'weird' in him.