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.
If this happens. Thats it. General strike. I already voted for myself to strike with my union. I’ll just add this to the strike list.
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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Have we actually spread real democracy to…anywhere? Ever?
- spreading neoliberalism disguised as democracy
Honestly, “uncontrolled immigration” leads to social and political mobility?
Good. That is what we need. Also, uncontrolled? When was that lol
In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law. In theory, this outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and banned communists from serving in certain roles.
WTF
[It passed because] many opposed communism because of its explicitly declared and historically demonstrable goal to undermine liberal democracy. In the words of Ernest van den Haag, there was “no place in democracy for those who want to abolish [it] even with a peaceful vote”.
- Wikipedia
The irony of using it here would be palpable
The freedest country on earth.
All citizens are free. It’s just some are free-er then others.
The mask is off! Strip them of their citizenship and deport them to a third world prison? What a fucked up party they have become.
They haven’t done a good job of hiding who they are since before the 101st Airborne had to escort the Little Rock Nine to school.
I mean that was on the orders of a Republican president and Governor Faubus was a Democrat. You’re still not wrong but it was the style of the time in general and simply a bad example to focus on over the post-Southern Strategy landscape.
Become? This is who and what the cons and the Republicans are.
Don’t let anyone fool you with that “true conservative” bullshit.
It is hard to understand this as I grew up around a lot of conservatives who actually had values and decency.
If you told me even ten years ago that Republicans would be calling for US citizens to be deported I would have said you were crazy, but here we are.
I could have told you decades prior to that. I grew up in an area that was deeply, deeply red.
Sure, maybe not every conservative/Republican is overly weird about things like race, religion, and the “blood and soil” stuff…but far, far too many are.
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.
They really are afraid. Very good.
If they already claim for citizenship revokal now, one can imagine how bad it can get when there are actual elections coming …
Reminds me of this time last year when Trump was on trial for a half dozen things.
Everyone was all like “ooh it would be so undemocratic to try someone while they’re campaigning”.
Meanwhile republicans can just uncitizen anyone they don’t like.
You can’t win if no one is playing by the rules.
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Do it. This would trigger the uprising we need.
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.
If it hasn’t happened yet then there’s a reason. What’s yours?
Not an american. So I have that going for me.
If that happens, I’ll personally burn down multiple police stations. Just on principle.
I’ll join you happily. I’m just pretty confident that we will be easy to arrest since it will probably be us and a handful of other people.
I have no delusions about the survival rate of such actions. Luckily, I have been the walking dead for all my life! :D if you don’t want to live, no one can hurt you, really.
Revoking citizenship is an extreme move. They don’t even revoke citizenship of criminals.
This would be crossing a line they are unlikely to even understand.
It’s illegal under international law. Because it creates a stateless person, which is a huge problem
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Ahh fair enough, didn’t know he had dual. Cheers for researching that
New Yorkers are a hard bunch. I would expect some enthusiastic protest if their guy got taken from them before he could even get in office.
Millions of people around the country turned out to protest that, and the protests are ongoing. Also, this isn’t “one more brown guy,” he’s one of the most visible politicians in the country right now.
Yeah, it also looks like it actually increased participation in LA, which the ICE, NG and Marines supposed to scare
I understand that things are happening. I’ve been to some of those protests and seen the people making a stand firsthand. It’s certainly not nothing. I’m just saying that the response we’ve seen so far is what I would have predicted for his first term. We should be making a bunch of fascists a foot shorter by now.
This would trigger the uprising we need.
Would it, though?
Citizenship is a contract that gives you protection in exchange for some expectations to participate in the community.
Revoking citizenship is a huge deal. Not easily done, and I don’t think its even used as a punishment.
If they were to? Then they’ll happily revoke it for anyone who dissents with the regime.
Revoking citizenship is a huge deal. Not easily done, and I don’t think its even used as a punishment.
"… use of denaturalization … is a form of punishment more primitive than torture … " – Trop v. Dulles, 1958, denaturalization unsuitable punishment for 1944 wartime military desertion.
The use of it as an arbitrary tool to instill fear and chill participation in public office should immediately be addressed as uttering threats as a mob.
yeah I’m down to start some shit if they do
If they will revoke citizenship for one they will be happy to revoke it for anyone.
They can revoke these nutz
This all comes back to Americans. We were too soft on the rebels. Gave them back everything and figured they learned their lessons. We should have known better. After the next one, we need to fix this cancer once and for all. We can just send them all to Greenland after they take it over. The south will rise again, they say, but this time. You can rise there and stay there.
Im fairly certain that Greenland has had more than enough America bullshit.
Correct. But if we swap 50k greenlanders with like 50 million MAGA. We can welcome them in and give them a good life. They will be honored citizens. It would suck to leave your homeland but imagine…you’re the 50k that made the ultimate sacrifice. To leave MAGA on an island, easily isolated from the world.
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100% that works, too, but I’m sure the blowback for 50 million dead would come back hard on us from the international community. Would make Gaza look like child’s play.
This all comes back to Americans. We were too soft on the rebels. Gave them back everything and figured they learned their lessons. We should have known better.
We did know better.
BUT, FUCK ANDREW JOHNSON.
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.
The US is already there. We arrived about 2-3 months ago.
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There was an Italian socialist politician called Giacomo Matteotti who got disappeared after he spoke up against the fascist regime. It marks the turning point for the Italian dictatorship. If this century is truly a Disney bad reboot of the previous, we could be seeing some similarities with Mamdani.
I doubt entrenched powers would let the mayor of the biggest US city actually do anything radical like what he campaigned for. Capitalists will collaborate with politicians to either have him removed or make him woefully inefficient. It will definitely be an uphill battle.
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THE US ALREADY IS GODDAMMIT!!
WHY DOES NOBODY UNDERSTAND THIS??
ARM UP, GODDAMMIT!!!
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Citizenship doesn’t exist under a tyranny. There’s only people inside the circle and people outside the circle. And the circle constantly gets smaller
Basically PUBG, but with more guns
Citizenship does exist under tyranny, but instead of having rights, you get duties.
This shows how scared they are of him. This is a bellwether moment.
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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.
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.
Conservatives see the world as a zero sum. In order for one group of people to gain rights, another group has to lose rights.
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”
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”
Exactly. Authoritarianism is driven by two things, fearful followers who want to combat their fear with control, and social dominator leaders who take advantage of fearful followers for their own benefit.
Here is an entire free book full of research on the topic.
Totalitarianism in America by Chris Hedges is also a really good read for those wondering at how we got here and the movement behind it.
Like cars that don’t go vroom.
It also shows how broken this country is when two groups of people can both look at this and have completely opposite reactions to it.
Exactly, people were talking about controlled opposition and it looks like it is true.
If they thought he was so left he had no chance they would just laugh or even ignore (which normally they did not pay attention to primaries).
This is a bellwether moment.
More like a bellend moment…
Well, we’re a year late for Bell Riots.
This is the battle that determines our future. If we lose this, it’s war, or submission for years or decades, and then war.
