Prolly depends on where they are from, I’m from SoCal and was convinced that New York was a city state until I was like 11. I could see other people having the same thought for even longer if they aren’t told explicitly like how my history and geography classes did, looking at you Utah and your idiotic claim that you guys colonized San Bernardino, you cunts.
It’s not entirely wrong to think of nyc that way. It’s not strictly true, but practically the city dictates much of the state’s politics. It’s similar with Chicago and Illinois.
Legitimately there is a problem with stupidity on Lemmy. I don’t know if it’s because the average user is younger than other sites or what, but I have seen the absolute dumbest, most blatantly wrong shit get upvoted all over the place and there are a number of people who will get into arguments over obvious misreadings of articles.
edit: can the downvoter please name the DSA candidate in the 2026 NY gubernatorial election, it should be pretty easy to find since I linked the article if they exist
You are correct and I was misinformed, but not by much.
Andrew Delgados running mate India Walton is a DSA member who Mamdani supported earlier. And the DSA is mostly supporting Delgado over Hochul, which has garnered a lot of DSA criticism for Mamdani backing Hochul.
Already happening. He has a good working relationship with governor Hochul and endorses her above a DSA candidate.
But she put out her neck for him and made things possible. If he did not reciprocate nobody in Albany would cooperate with him any more.
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I’m Canadian, so I didn’t learn anything about new York at all.
Prolly depends on where they are from, I’m from SoCal and was convinced that New York was a city state until I was like 11. I could see other people having the same thought for even longer if they aren’t told explicitly like how my history and geography classes did, looking at you Utah and your idiotic claim that you guys colonized San Bernardino, you cunts.
It’s not entirely wrong to think of nyc that way. It’s not strictly true, but practically the city dictates much of the state’s politics. It’s similar with Chicago and Illinois.
Legitimately there is a problem with stupidity on Lemmy. I don’t know if it’s because the average user is younger than other sites or what, but I have seen the absolute dumbest, most blatantly wrong shit get upvoted all over the place and there are a number of people who will get into arguments over obvious misreadings of articles.
There’s no DSA candidate in the primary. Hochul was running against another centrist (who has since withdrawn due to no chance of winning).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_York_gubernatorial_election
edit: can the downvoter please name the DSA candidate in the 2026 NY gubernatorial election, it should be pretty easy to find since I linked the article if they exist
You are correct and I was misinformed, but not by much.
Andrew Delgados running mate India Walton is a DSA member who Mamdani supported earlier. And the DSA is mostly supporting Delgado over Hochul, which has garnered a lot of DSA criticism for Mamdani backing Hochul.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/02/socialists-not-thrilled-mamdanis-guv-endorsement-even-zohran-gets-it-wrong-sometimes/411228/
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-problem-with-municipal-socialism-a-response-to-liza-featherstone/