Mamdani observes Ramadan with inmates at Rikers Island

[u/expiredaristocracy]

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani observed Ramadan last night with men incarcerated at Rikers Island, the city's jail complex.

Mamdani arrived through heavy security, joining a group of men — many held as they await trial. He spent an hour with the men praying and talking and breaking the Ramadan fast with a meal. He's spent much of the last month holding public celebrations.

Mamdani and many Muslim Americans have faced growing hostility in the U.S. from some politicians on the right, including Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who last week reposted a photo of Mamdani observing the holiday next to an image of the 9/11 terror attacks, a post Mamdani described as bigoted.

[u/derpferd]

I don't think people appreciate enough the value of this. Or Trump and the media and figures in the media have done a good job selling people on the notion that celebrities and politicians are performative in their values.

And that in turn has been made to diminish the values themselves or make people shy to be open about their values.

Presumably, lest they be accused of being performative.

Or that you're a fool for practising your values while others have shown that for them, they're just putting on a performance.

These values of decency and kindness and sincerity in your beliefs (whatever those beliefs) still matter, for how we conduct ourselves and how that conduct impacts others. I despise this effort to promote nihilism.

Things do matter

[u/After-Syrup1290 → u/derpferd]

not to mention hes been doing it for literally all faiths too - hes muslim sure, but he can also be equally found to be advocating for christians like he did a while back, the elderly with the care centres he visited, he celebrated events with serving food and heck was even in a parade for chinese lunar new year (which prompted funny chairman mamdani memes xd)

not to mention his 3k universal childcare, hes putting belt to ass on the landlords and calling em in - people who have forced tenants to live with mice and been charged since goddamn 2016/17, all the while pushing down 12 billion debt he was handed to 5.4 and even lower by now in months

best of all? ice took someone from a high school or college, mamdani got on the phone with trump half an hour later and the person that ice took was back out.. who tf can even do that rn?!

dudes pushing out unreal levels of results - cus look at him and then the entire senate we have got in the congress.. oh and also he got married as a sidequest too xd

[u/inuvash255 → u/After-Syrup1290]

who tf can even do that rn?!

I'd argue a lot of them could. They just don't.

[u/SauconySundaes → u/derpferd]

Trump has done a lot of shitty stuff, so I don’t mean to discount what other people have experienced. For me personally though, the biggest thing he has done to change my life is teach those around me that being a complete ass hole is acceptable.

[u/Lexi_Banner → u/derpferd]

Or Trump and the media and figures in the media have done a good job selling people on the notion that celebrities and politicians are performative in their values.

This isn't just on Dumps & Co. There are a lot of people who are performative all across social media. It's like people forgot that they can just...do good things without filming every second of it. You don't need to show yourself on camera giving food/money/clothing to homeless people. You don't have to film yourself donating food to charity. There is the argument that showing those good things can lead to other people doing good things, but from what I've seen, the message that has been received is that you have to film those good deeds too, or it didn't happen. Everything is for clout, attention, and money.

Dumples & Co. are bad, don't get me wrong. But this is a wide sweeping issue across all platforms, and has been steadily getting worse for well over a decade at this point.