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Mamdani is pandering to entitled voters who splash out $8 for coffee but can’t handle canceling a Starz subscription

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Mamdani is pandering to entitled voters who splash out $8 for coffee but can’t handle canceling a Starz subscription

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Zohran Mamdani wants to be a knight in shining armor, coming to save New Yorkers from … their streaming subscriptions. 

The mayor’s office has announced a new city rule that promises to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for one.

Do New Yorkers seriously need the government to step in and save them from their streaming subscription after a free trial renews? Let’s be adults here.

This new rule, touted by the administration as a pillar of “Mayor Mamdani’s affordability agenda,” is part of the larger phenomenon that propelled him into office: pandering to the entitled. 

For too many Mamdani supporters, the affordability crisis isn’t about the price of eggs. It’s about their inability to exercise the most basic requirements of fiscal responsibility without the government swooping in to hold their hand through the process. 

These are the same people who........

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