The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.

On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, declared victory over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the state of New York, in the Democratic primary for the 2025 New York mayoral election.

The outcome, one of the first major Democratic primaries since Donald Trump returned to office, is being considered as a barometer for the party’s potential recalibration nationally, at a time when it remains ideologically divided about its future.

  • NegativeNull
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    4307 days ago

    This shows how scared they are of him. This is a bellwether moment.

  • @nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1236 days ago

    Remember when they all claimed they had no problem with LEGAL immigration?

    Well yeah, they had a problem with any kind that makes them lose.

  • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    686 days ago

    Reminds me of this time last year when Trump was on trial for a half dozen things.

    Everyone was all like “ooh it would be so undemocratic to try someone while they’re campaigning”.

    Meanwhile republicans can just uncitizen anyone they don’t like.

    You can’t win if no one is playing by the rules.

  • Stamets
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    7 days ago

    I am becoming increasingly sick of seeing the word ‘deport’ being used by Republicans who are suggesting revoking citizenship and a banishment. It’s exile.

    • @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Deporting immigrants is one thing. But when a country starts deporting it’s own citizens, and stripping them or reducing their citizenship to justify their treatment, well… before you know it, the half-citizen deportees end up coming out of the concentration camps through the chimney.

      • @nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org
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        16 days ago

        Maybe deporting immigrants sucks. Maybe destabilizing geopolitical regions suck. Maybe we could have drawn the line way sooner, if it was abou what’s right and not about indulging bullies and slave traders.

        Police brutality we can eat dinner through, but not lying about chatel slavery and torture camps anymore.

        If I sound extreme, look up the state of food in U.S. prisons. If it doesn’t seem like I should care, you don’t know how many reprecussions legal, manditory, insurance redlining really had on the body and soul of the nation. It was mutilation, still visable today.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    476 days ago

    The fact that a party so blatantly unconstitutional (and criminal) can get so much support in this country is not a good sign for the future of this nation. I wouldn’t invest any hope in things getting better anytime soon. And I mean even when Trump is gone.

    Dark future.

    • @FreakinSteve@lemmy.today
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      Until a revolution-violent, if necessary- against their media sphere happens you can expect more decline.

      All of this is proof that capitalism is an evil economic model, inevitably geared towards death, slavery, and oppression.

      • @segabased@lemmy.zip
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        They would rather everything, everyone die before giving a single stolen penny back to the people, even if that means they also die

    • @segabased@lemmy.zip
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      The only hope is when things take a turn, they take a turn in our favor. And I don’t hold much hope for that, we’ve been at war and the rest of the country is pretending there isn’t one

        • No, because Kroger is a major national chain that doesn’t need to operate in NYC to be profitable. It’s like a petulant child throwing some of his toys away because he has to share them.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        86 days ago

        Watch that be something super small time as well, like a guy who owns three convenience stores within about a mile of each other.

    • @monotremata@lemmy.ca
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      286 days ago

      It’s not just Fox News. Bezo’s Washington Post ran an editorial, written by “the editorial board,” about how Mamdani would be “bad for New York and bad for the Democratic Party,” claiming he would destroy public transit, reduce the number of grocery stores, drive away big businesses, depress low-skill employment, etc., etc., etc. Oh, and of course that this would discredit all the other young candidates across the country. The WaPo’s threat earlier this year to make their editorial page aggressively pro-capitalist and anti-public-good was apparently very much in earnest.

      • @Etterra@discuss.online
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        146 days ago

        It’s extra dumb because it’s NYC - no Republican was ever gonna be mayor. They’re just all being super racist.

        • tmyakal
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          I don’t know why you think that. Giuliani and Bloomberg were both Republicans. Republicans have run New York for more than half of the last 30 years.

          And even when we get Democrats, we end up with conservative Dems like Eric Adams out here promising to lock people up.

        • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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          It’s extra dumb because it’s NYC - no Republican was ever gonna be mayor. They’re just all being super racist.

          This isn’t correct at all, but also Dems in NYC represent the rich and the slumlords, not the people that Zohran represents. Make no mistake there are tons of stories about dems melting down about Zohran as well, and senior Dem leaders in NYC like the Governor, don’t support Zohran either.

        • @M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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          A major issue that seems to be taking a back seat to racism (lets face it at this point you may as well just assume its there) is the overt posturing about taking control of the largest city in the us directly counter to the populations interest.

        • @bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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          That’s what worries me a lot about Cuomo potentially running as an independent: the “safe seat” phenomenon might have him bolder about fracturing the vote.

    • moitoi
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      36 days ago

      Hope they are using the word “socialist” more, so people can be informed of what socialism is and on his program.

  • @SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
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    536 days ago

    On June 2, New York City Council Member Vickie Paladino, a Republican, wrote: “Let’s just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn’t even been a US citizen for ten years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we’ve ever been about. Deport.”

    Mamdani hit back at Paladino on X, saying: “Like nearly 40% of all New Yorkers, I wasn’t born in this country. I moved here at age 7. It’s my home. And I’m proud to be a citizen, which means standing up for our Constitution. Councilmember Paladino might consider reading it.”

    Great clapback.

    • @varjen@lemmy.world
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      Great clapback if they actually cared about the constitution but they dont. They’re arguing in bad faith and nothing he says matters.

  • @Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    646 days ago

    The mask is off! Strip them of their citizenship and deport them to a third world prison? What a fucked up party they have become.

    • @Sunflier@lemmy.world
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      116 days ago

      They haven’t done a good job of hiding who they are since before the 101st Airborne had to escort the Little Rock Nine to school.

    • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      76 days ago

      Become? This is who and what the cons and the Republicans are.

      Don’t let anyone fool you with that “true conservative” bullshit.

      • @Doomsider@lemmy.world
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        It is hard to understand this as I grew up around a lot of conservatives who actually had values and decency.

        If you told me even ten years ago that Republicans would be calling for US citizens to be deported I would have said you were crazy, but here we are.

        • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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          36 days ago

          I could have told you decades prior to that. I grew up in an area that was deeply, deeply red.

          Sure, maybe not every conservative/Republican is overly weird about things like race, religion, and the “blood and soil” stuff…but far, far too many are.

  • As a naturalized US Citizen, this is why I couldn’t sleep well on November 5, 2024, and haven’t ever really had a good night of sleep since the next morning, when I saw the election results.

    • @jnod4@lemmy.ca
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      596 days ago

      Citizenship doesn’t exist under a tyranny. There’s only people inside the circle and people outside the circle. And the circle constantly gets smaller

  • @hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
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    At this point I think GOP is simply a fascist party, which has been hiding behind false patriotism.

    They are simply atrociously and with no sense of humanity or ridiculousness. Just pure hatred personified into a shell of human beings.

    If I were to be religious I would think that Trump is the anti-Christ and his followers are simply demons.

    • Why did it take so long to come to that conclusion? That’s been the case for years. My mom, who is religious and fortunately not part of the MAGA cult, has repeatedly told me that she wouldn’t be surprised if he is.

    • @FreakinSteve@lemmy.today
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      1-the GOP IS a Nazi party 2- trump IS an antichrist, and the thing about antichrists is that they are invisible to christians. 3- his followers are actual satanic pedophiles, which is why they accuse everyone else of being satanic pedophiles.

  • @cuteness@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m calling on the federal government to strip the citizenship of every member and associate of the New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) because they are a threat to the USA.

    ICE needs to step in and quickly deport them before their case can be heard in court.

    • AreaSIX
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      Now that the Supreme court has approved of deportations to third countries, this is actually feasible. Maybe Uganda would like to welcome them. Or perhaps Libya.

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          They already made a similar deal with the UK to recieve asylum seekers. I’m guessing for quite a bit of money/support. So yeah, Uganda signed on for this. Not the Ugandan people off course, but Museveni is quite a POS. Also, I kind of enjoy the idea of the right wing losers in the NYYRC finding themselves as a refugee minority in a majority black country.

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    646 days ago

    I’ve read that Democrats are also looking at arcane old rules to try to disqualify him, so if the MAGA Nazis come for him, don’t expect any support from the Democratic Party.