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.

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    Appalling. Only the repugnicans would stoop this low. He’s been American since 2018. If they succeed in this - the US is truly Germany in the early 1930s.

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      I doubt it. We’ve already tolerated a near complete collapse of the rule of law and masked goon squads kidnapping people in the streets. Disappearing one more brown guy probably isn’t going to move that needle much.

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        That is the core characteristic of ALL Conservatives - Fear. They are so afraid of EVERYTHING, that they want to preserve the safe little bubble they are in right now. ANY change is to be feared, and attacked.

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          It’s almost understandable until you realize it’s not just change for themselves they fear, it’s change for anyone else. Somehow, in their twisted minds, an increase in rights and humane treatment for others hurts them.

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            Conservatives see the world as a zero sum. In order for one group of people to gain rights, another group has to lose rights.

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            It’s because they fear they will lose their social “status” of being “better” than someone else. Because if everyone is the same then they can’t be “better”

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    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.

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        I hate to break it to you, but Americans are exceedingly inculcated with the idea of exiling racial groups.

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            “Sure the numbers are really bad and it keeps happening but…”

            I’m gunna need you to shut your stupid fucking mouth. The US is a dangerous hellhole and no amount of deflection will override the fact that the country has a long and storied history of doing awful things to people at home and across the world. The reason you personally suck isn’t because you’re from the US, it’s because you’re trying to save yourself by downplaying the severity of what the country is doing. Be better.

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            Matters little if that “very small group” has power and is getting away with it

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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.

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        “We’Re NoT fAsCiStS tHeRe ArE nO gAs ChAmBeRs! (yet)”

        The only metric for them to be fascist is if there is mass murder of civilians. Unless you’re Israel of course. :/

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    They really freak out when their carefully cultivated alternative propaganda reality is contradicted by ACTUAL reality, and they have to face the fact that without the ability to cheat, they can’t win.

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    Don’t Republicans hate New York? You’d think they’d be thrilled with the opportunity for socialism to ruin one of the bluest cities in the US. Maybe they’re worried something else will happen.

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    As a perpetually online individual I could swear that “conservatives” absolutely hated “thought crime” and political persecution for their beliefs…

    Ohhhhh right, hypocrisy. I almost forgot. “Conservatives” use words as weapons and are only consistent in their inconsistent stated beliefs.

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      The first time I heard of “communists” and “socialists” was back when I was in middle school, when Bush Jr got us into war. All I did was ask why in the world we were invading Iraq, which had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. Sincerely trying to understand the world. That’s when the already-brainwashed kids starting flinging “socialist” and “communist” like they meant the same thing as “idiot.”

      So, I decided to read about those concepts to see what all the hubbub was about. Surprise surprise, when I later responded to those same kids by asking what they thought the words meant, they couldn’t answer the question.

      Now I’m thinking it’s kind of like the Streisand Effect - 'Muricans don’t want you to know about how other countries run. I didn’t know about systems besides capitalism yet, until the spawn of conservatives decided to use ancient fears from the 1950s as an insult in the year 2003. Surprise surprise, now there’s a swath of Millennials (and other generations, of course) just like me who learned that if conservatives hate something, it’s worth looking into.

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      I got called a communist on Blue sky recently and I thought it was hilarious because there’s nothing that would indicate that I’m a communist from anything I’ve ever said in my entire life, they just like to throw around insults cuz they don’t know any better and they have no idea what they’re talking about most of the time

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        I was called a communist at work a few years ago because I said, factually, that a lot of the memes about AOC being dumb were of entirely fabricated quotes.

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      Those gravy seals would be shot dead by his security detail.

      That’s what would happen, and why it won’t.

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          Apparently yes. I just looked it up. Five or six guys from the NYPD have the duty of protecting the mayor. On a case by case basis, his family might also get security. In the case of Rudy Juliani, both his wife and his mistress for security details because of course.

          Would local guys defend against federal guys? Don’t know.

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            I was more wondering where he got the money, but I guess you can spend campaign money on that stuff. That makes sense.

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    The White House has framed the upset victory by Mamdani, who could become New York City’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor, as evidence of uncontrolled migration…

    And by “uncontrolled migration” they mean “brown people getting uppity and not knowing their place.”

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    Having the Government STRIP the Citizenship of Americans it DOESNT LIKE and THEN Deporting them to El Salvador or Libya is called FREEDOM!

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    If they already claim for citizenship revokal now, one can imagine how bad it can get when there are actual elections coming …

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    From a board game standard, political ideologies are like this.

    Conservatives see life through the game of Monopoly. They must take everything and have everything and leave others with nothing. If any other player has anything, then they aren’t truly winning.

    Liberals see life through the game of Jumunji. They see it as all the players must work together to win and if there is even one weak link, we all lose.

    Moderates see life like the game of Life. They believe “wrongly even” that we all start similar and that our choices determine how we end with some winners and some losers.

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    Everyone else asks God to shoot captive bolts into MAGA foreheads but we can’t always get what we want.