July 1, 2025
Returning to New York, Mammani’s victory shows that even billionaires do not always get what they want.
If last week for Zohran Mammani and New York workers it was the best, it was the worst time for billionaires who spent a little happiness trying to prevent him from providing urban nomination to urban language. Media -Monate Barry dealerTo name only one, he donated $ 250,000 to Andrew Kuom’s $ 250,000, just seeing a disgraceful reserves as a disgraced governor.
But the dealer will soon be able to drown his frustration in Great Gatsby— Or cocktails as he joined Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and at least three Kardashian for the most cheerful event on the oligarchic social calendar – this year –Venice wedding Journalist Lauren Sanchez and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
It was a comparison that even questioned CNN as a network cut out of interview From Mamman to illuminate a gilded sight. A reportedly $ 50 million undertaking booked all nine from yacht -board Venice, closed parts of the city for the publicand forced Moving guests of the hotel to make room for a happy couple. All this served as a vivid, if a luxury reminder that there will be no expenses rich in mega will not pay to provide their own comfort-exception, of course, their extravagance acquires the communities from which they gain their wealth.
The choice of lovers only demonstrates its carelessness. Because in the city consists More than 100 islands In the Adriatic Sea it’s uniquely vulnerable To increase the sea level due to warming global temperatures. Although Sanchez claims to be “Dedicated to the fight against climate change” and Bezos has Named the question “The biggest threat to our planet”, their guests arrived in the city of Bridges through 96 private planes. most intense in carbon mode Transport. Bezos also took on 10 billion dollars In his Bezos Earth Foundation, while Amazon promised to become carbon neutral By 2040 but emissions from the Amazon shipping fleet Almost double In the period from 2019 to 2023 and its The latest data processing center Millions of gallons of water and the energy equivalent of a million houses every year will reason.
This insincerity is as much business strategy for a free-to-doer delivery of the premence, which allows him to wash his reputation without damaging his lower line. This sample certainly played out last year with his right Washington Post– Where, as soon as he felt the threat of the ascending Donald Trump, the journalistic honesty overcame the board faster than the insincere guest of the wedding on the luxury gondola.
As I covered column Earlier this year Bezho killed PillarKamala’s approval of Harris, sent an editorial board Post OP-EDS that support only “personal freedoms and free markets” and oversee the outcome With more than 20 journalists and editors. Molded Weimut, granddaughter Trailblazing Pillar Publisher Katarin Graham described this surrender to a recent work during Nation As a threat “the most thing that makes America democracy.”
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For the sake of justice to Bezos, a virtue wash is a professional danger to billionaires. Mark Zuckerberg initially donated to organizations fighting the California Housing Crisis that It helped to strengthenbefore quietly termination of one’s financing This year. Foundation Gates gives 90 percent of its financing For non -profit organizations in wealthy countries, not impoverished, whose GDP is less than the net value of its names. The grandeur of über-Wealty seeks to produce what journalist Anand Giridharadas called “Fake changes” or efforts that stop from systemic changes, because these systems are at the heart of the great wealth of the benefactors.
That is why any vision of progressive changes cannot rely on bezos or his wedding guests of celebrity to act against his interests. (No, not even Oprah.) The green new deal will come not from the oligarchic guilt, but from mass movements. As the one who deployed nearly 30,000 doorways and combined funds from 27,000 donors to share Mammani’s message about the true economic expansion of rights and opportunities.
His victory on Tuesday has added increasing proof that even billionaires do not always get what they want. Last year Elon Musk Spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars Choosing Republicans, but no amount of money can save it from Donald Trump’s mercury. Also his wealth did not shake the voters of Wisconsin, where he brought 21 million dollars The Supreme Court candidate, which resulted in 10 points.
Increasing voters’ skepticism to 1 percent undoubtedly causes grassroots activism. As in Venice, where local participants threatened to fill the channels inflatable crocodilesForcing the wedding of the century to move to the outskirts of the city. Back States Progressives Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Okasi-Cartes continue to engage Draw record crowds Across the country on their oligarchy combat round. At a recent stop in Oklahoma – Trump won on 33 points—Danders talked The crowd is just a crowd.
Can an anti-billioner confronting? If so, it is just a time for medium -sized terms next year.
