As Trump’s Reflecting Pool Disaster Turns ‘Dystopian,’ Fully-Dressed Mamdani Jumps Into NYC Public Pool With a Joyful Smile - “He’s in the running as best mayor NYC has ever had. Look out LaGuardia.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-mamdani-reflecting-pool
25 Comments
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 108 pts · 57d
Jesus Christ, I didnt know how bad things had gotten at the reflecting pool, that video of the national guard announcing over megaphone to not loiter is legit I think the most Orwellian imagery I've ever seen, at least when it comes to modern events 😅
The juxtaposition after watching mamdani go for a dip and give folks hugs is honestly so surreal as to be comical
MBech@feddit.dk · 66 pts · 56d
The US government seriously couldn't look more evil if it tried. USA is turning into what I was always told North Korea is.
Land of the "free" ? Land of the "don't spend time in public areas, terrorists!"
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 56d
Authoritarians are some of the most fragile people on the planet.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 56d
Every accusation is a confession
thepig@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 56d
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 31 pts · 56d
Does feel like something that would have been included in the wolfenstein games as dramatic critique and we're bringing it into reality because the president did a really bad job of painting to reflecting pool blue so it looks like a swimming pool.
Dumbest timeline. 😐
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -6 pts · 56d
Lincoln was a white supremacist
Edit: wooah, why the down votes? Please tell me there's not that many people here ignorant of history?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 56d
It seems like it's really the GOP that needs some reflecting.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 56d
Trump can drive through it with a motorcade, but God forbid you stand there and look at it for more than 2 minutes.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 98 pts · 56d
Exactly what establishment Dems are terrified of: a successful progressive setting an example
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 33 pts · 56d
Amazing what happens when a progressive isn't beholden to the party and isn't in a position where the party can interfere.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 56d
Which is why I worry for his safety. Not from the opposition, but the wolves in sheep's clothing.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 56 pts · 57d
They named an airport after LaGuardia. Maybe one day they’ll name a high-speed rail terminus after Mamdani.
dhork@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 56d
Grand Zohran Station
billwashere@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 56d
Ok this sounds like something from a Styx song. Or a 1950s sci-fi movie. Same thing.
homes@piefed.world · 12 pts · 56d
That sounds so cool
negativenull@piefed.world · 9 pts · 56d
🤌
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 51 pts · 56d
You can see that noble gentleman's good heart as he leaps into the pool with the children.
And you can simultaneously see why the fascism-enabling centrists are terrified.
Mr. Mamdani is, in fact, America's mayor.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 56d
I wish he is America’s president
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 56d
Mamdanis pool is blue.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 56d
But is it “American flag” blue? … checkmate /s
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 19 pts · 56d
Apparently it's a revival of a previous mayor's tradition, but from 2003. When I first read about the tradition I thought it would be much older lol.
On the one hand I want to gag at the thought of a suit being in the pool but on the other I love and miss public pools. I really took for granted the outdoor pools in my home town (not NY) even though I used them regularly. I thought they were normal 😭
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 56d
Comparing this guy to LaGuardia? Hope not.
btsax@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 56d
Changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -3 pts · 56d
Absolutely love the sentiment and the action, but bro you're jumping into the pool with actual clothes on??? Unhinged behavior.
tamal3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 56d
It's part of the joke. He's never in public without the suit.
Phantaloons@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 56d
Upvote because I can understand sarcasm without an /s.
I'm sorry you're going through this.