New York Mayor Eric Adams did not mince his words about his disapproval of what he called the large number of “nasty” Gen Z voters supporting Zhoran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate leading the race for NYC mayor.
This reminds me of the famous post about estranged parents the missing missing reasons edit: fixed link
In it, the author writes about how like one of the estranged parents will be like “My child yelled at me and said all these horrible things for 20 minutes. I’ve never heard such cruelty!” But when pressed for exactly what the child was upset about, no reasons are provided.
So here Adams is saying these 'gen z" people are nasty and presumably have demands, but spends no time on what their demands are, on if they’re reasonable. They’re just nasty and wrong and to be dismissed.
Maybe there are reasons people are upset at the country right now. Could be the fascism, the corruption, the economic chaos, the climate crisis being ignored, the anti-vaxxers in power, the economic inequality…
You have your formatting backwards. It goes [text](link) and you have [link](text).
So you would want [the missing missing reasons](https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html) without a backslash in front, like this: the missing missing reasons.
Thanks. I even looked up the markdown syntax and still did it wrong. Fixed now.
I’m not a Gen Z voter, so I certainly can’t speak for them, but I hate our country. I hate that so many Americans are being left behind. I hate that we are falling so far behind other democracies. I hate that our democracy is so flawed and corrupted, that I’m not sure it’s accurate to even call it a democracy anymore. I hate that so many Americans believe that being greedy, selfish, and indifferent to human suffering is not only acceptable, but somehow “rational.” I hate the manipulation and the misinformation that is very intentionally disseminated to the American people. I hate the violence, I hate the war mongering and war profiteering. I hate a lot of what IS right now, because I DEMAND better for myself and ALL other Americans.
You don’t hate our country, you said so yourself - you hate what it is right now, because you know it can be better. You want it to be better. That’s not hate, that’s love.
The deepest love you can have for your country is wanting better for all its residents.
What about when I turn the lights down low… light a candle… put on the Kenny g…
I think they hate it because they know it better.
I don’t respect anyone who isn’t radicalized at this point. To look at the state to which our system is broken and not demand change by whatever means necessary is to be complicit in the atrocities being committed.
i am a gen z voter and although i dont live in nyc (i live in ny state tho so close enough i guess), i was gonna leave a separate comment. but you said pretty much exactly what i was thinking 🤷 i hate the selfishness that’s been so ingrained in people, they’d rather perpetuate cruelties than hope for anything even slightly better. i hate this country? what has this country ever done for me, a woman of color, other than prove time and again that everything i have can be taken away in an instant due to the greed of the rich and spiteful? this shit is all so fucked, if my so called “hatred” for this country is the only thing i can truly own, then let me own it with all my heart. i’d rather that than submit to apathy and ignore the struggles of those around me
Every accusation a confession.
Nah they just don’t trust crooked Adams
He’s got such low numbers that it looks like the only people left supporting him are churchgoing old ladies. This would play to that crowd.
ADAMs is desperate to get trumps attention.
Voter to Mayor Adams:
Same rhetoric Trump voters used against non-trump voters. So weak minded
Seems like Eric Adams is nasty, radicalized, and hates our country.
Its always projection
See, Adams may be a corrupt oligarch, but the real criminal in his eyes are people who are rude to him in public for it.
That’s sure to get you more votes, moron.
I mean, I am radicalized, hate this country, and am nasty. So I guess he’s right.
I’m kind. I am not nice.
The use of the word “nasty” . I mean when do intelligent people say that? When’s the last time anyone reading this post said " that salesperson is nasty" or " that price point is nasty"? Five year olds say shit like that …Trump has dragged down language for the dumber half of the country and now they all have poopy pants. Freaking grow the hell up and get some eloquence in your conversation. /Rant
I use it to describe wounds e.g., a nasty cut, or a nasty bruise. It’s also an appropriate term for something that is nauseating to see or experience.
But thanks for the insult. Makes you seem super intelligent.
Boring vocabulary for voting people.
I’m not attacking your vernacular, by the way.
The voting public has the reading level of a third grader if we are lucky.
Apple doesn’t use $10 words in their ads for the same reason.
($10 adjusted for inflation)
Shit, he’s getting his press releases straight from Stephen Miller’s office now.
“Hey, I’d really like to afford a house and a family some day while staying in the city I grew up in and live”
“Fucking radicals”
But what does he think of the Turks?
