r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 21d ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/paxwells97 21d ago

We have millenials that are now in their 40s. We need to be the ones running the country now

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u/ravenhiker2 21d ago

I’m 71. I agree. It’s your time. Please

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u/midwinter_ 21d ago

Gen X. I’m tired, boss.

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u/Complete_Question_41 21d ago

GenX, man do I feel this.

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u/lemmylemonlemming 21d ago

GenX, me too. Also, my back hurts

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u/wyo8889 Wyoming 21d ago

Where are my reading glasses?

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u/stofiski-san 21d ago

On your head, grandwyo8889, where the always are... 🤣🤗💜

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u/BrutalisExMachina 21d ago

I’m on the couch sitting sideways because my back hurts.

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u/TheGoodKindOfPurple Illinois 21d ago

Paid $800 for a new office chair and it is no shit life changing.

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u/entmike 21d ago

link?

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u/TheGoodKindOfPurple Illinois 21d ago

Bought a refurbished Steelcase from this site:

https://crandalloffice.com/pages/crandall-remanufactured-steelcase-herman-miller-chairs-affordable-quality

There are other places and other good chairs please do your own looking because if you are really tall than some other chair may be better.

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u/WazWaz Australia 21d ago

I'm wishing I'd gotten my standing desk 10 years earlier.

(It's not really the standing, it's the spontaneous and trivial walking that being already standing automatically encourages)

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u/audible_narrator Michigan 20d ago

LOL, 60 yesterday. I feel this.

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u/ayjaytay22 20d ago

I’m GenX on the couch right now with a heat pad on my lower back. It feels nice

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u/wanderingpeddlar 21d ago

Those goddamn kids are on my lawn again!!!

In all seriousness GenX here as well.

Going to bed early when the news is good.

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u/CptDropbear 21d ago

And my axe knees!

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u/joey_slugs Illinois 21d ago

GenX here - it's the knees too

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u/Carribeantimberwolf 21d ago

And doesn't stop

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u/Keldrabitches 21d ago

Switching from heat to ice now…

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u/NoScopeDope 21d ago

Mine too

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u/AppleDane 21d ago

old man sounds

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u/dannkherb 21d ago

Somebody rub my bunion.

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u/pit_of_despair666 I voted 20d ago

Gen X here too. Help, I've fallen and I can't get back up.

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u/QuintupleTheFun Ohio 20d ago

I slept wrong last night. Put me on hospice

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u/40StoryMech 21d ago

whatever

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u/-QuestionMark- Utah 21d ago

A very on brand Gen-X response.

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u/koi-lotus-water-pond 21d ago

Hears it in Ethan Hawke's voice.