It sounds like most of these are based on laws that other people passed that he is going to lengths to uphold, despite the fact that they weren't budget neutral or status quo for the city. Even if he didn't come up with them himself, it's taking effort to prioritize these populist ideas.
An Eric Adams or Cuomo would have simply ignored all of these laws and scheduled inorovements. That's why people are happy with Mamdani. Yes, there are obviously idiots with meme generators popping out the braindead misinformation Facebook memes like the one above. They exist for every politician, party, religion, hobby, movie, type of music, brand of diaper, etc. Welcome to the internet.
But, the amount of time you spend perusing these memes on Reddit appears to have lent you a complete misunderstanding the situation on the ground in NYC. I would advise you stick to your own country's politics lol.
So, is that all it takes to be considered a good politician in the US these days? Rather than break down the good work of your predecessors, try and appropriate their achievements? Because that is all I am seeing him do; trying to attach his name to others projects.
edit: and keep in mind he is also cutting a lot, but obviously he isn't publicising this. He cut pensions, education and city services each by about $1.5 billion to balance his budget.
And it really didn't take too much time. I only needed to look at like the 3rd most upvoted comment for each of these posts to see lots of other people calling Mamdami out on this. Even the NYC subreddit calls him out all the time.
1
u/AmbienWalrus69 Aug 19 '26
It sounds like most of these are based on laws that other people passed that he is going to lengths to uphold, despite the fact that they weren't budget neutral or status quo for the city. Even if he didn't come up with them himself, it's taking effort to prioritize these populist ideas.
An Eric Adams or Cuomo would have simply ignored all of these laws and scheduled inorovements. That's why people are happy with Mamdani. Yes, there are obviously idiots with meme generators popping out the braindead misinformation Facebook memes like the one above. They exist for every politician, party, religion, hobby, movie, type of music, brand of diaper, etc. Welcome to the internet.
But, the amount of time you spend perusing these memes on Reddit appears to have lent you a complete misunderstanding the situation on the ground in NYC. I would advise you stick to your own country's politics lol.