After New York City’s race for mayor catapulted Zohran Mamdani from state assembly member into one of the world’s most prominent progressive voices, intense debate swirled over the ideas at the heart of his campaign.

His critics and opponents painted pledges such as free bus service, universal child care and rent freezes as unworkable, unrealistic and exorbitantly expensive.

But some have hit back, highlighting the quirk of geography that underpins some of this view. “He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,” said Dutch environmentalist and former government advisor Alexander Verbeek in the wake of Tuesday’s election.

Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo café, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal.

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    Any day now… Any day… just wait. It will fall apart…

    It. Will. Fall. Apart.

    … cmmmmon, now.

    No: Now!

    Any time now just you wait and see goddammit.

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      Europe will be majority foreign born and Muslim in a generation if they don’t do something now. They are not your friends and want to tear down your churches and instate shariah law. Look at crime and sexual assault stats in the most heavily affected countries.

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        I do not fear that. Populations change over time. We will teach them to eat sausage and their skin will whiten long before they manage to outbreed the western civilization.

        If they want tear down our chuches, I will only ask if they need any help.

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          You’re being invaded. There will be no one to pat you on your back for tolerance in the future. Islam is violent, illiberal and determined to tear down Christendom and the Western Civilization it birthed. It will weigh down your social services until they grind to a halt as they handily out breed the native population. They are not coming to assimilate. They hate the West and see it as morally abhorrent. You clearly have no idea who’s moving to your continent.

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              Next time they shutdown the main thoroughfare in one of your big cities for thousands of Muslims to pray in public go ask them if they are excited to assimilate and start eating pork and letting their daughters be equal to men. They’ll tell you themselves.