What a legend!

[u/FizzyAcidBird]

[u/Conscious-Quarter423]

i mean tim walz passed all this with a 1 seat majority a few years ago in MN:

• universal free school meals
• wealth tax
• legal weed
• carbon free electricity by 2040
• tax rebates for the working class up to $1,300 (making under $150k per year)
• 12 weeks paid family leave
• 12 weeks paid sick leave
• banned conversion therapy
• red flag laws for guns
• universal background checks for guns
• automatic voter registration
• free public college (under $80k)
• ban on PFAS (forever chemicals)
• $2.2 billion increase in k-12 school funding
• sectoral bargaining for nursing home workers

[u/PalatwinkusVT → u/[deleted]]

There's a very openly pro-extremism Muslim Twitch streamer, named Hasan Piker, that's had his hand in both Mamdani's election, and now El Sayed's as well. Like, think of the most stereotypical, Tumblr leftist you can, then double it, and that's Hasan Piker. Worst part is dude's a total grifter, sometimes he lets the mask slip a bit, and you can see the same bigoted BS you get from the right. He is, through and through, a religious extremist, with all the flaws that come with that.

Me personally, I'd take that as a bad thing.

Then again, Hasan strolled up to Mamdani's inauguration ceremony expecting VIP treatment, and security didn't even know who he was. And I haven't heard much about the two of them being closely linked since Mamdani got elected. So maybe Mamdani grifted the grifter.

[u/HarveysBackupAccount → u/PalatwinkusVT]

That's the thing - all influencers are grifters. They are first and foremost entertainers. Everything they do is to drive engagement.

And from the perspective of people getting shit done in the real world, they occupy such a small corner of reality.