I swear Mamdani just doesn't understand that a politician actually helping their constituents is illegal in this country. At least I assume it is. I can't think of any other reason for things to be this bad.
I'm just imagining the absolute storm of garbage people trying their damnedest to snag him into some heavy corruption with bribes or otherwise trying to make sure he stops doing stuff that the average person would consider "good" so he'll fall in line.
I firmly believe that most politicians genuinely go into governance expecting that they'll be the exception to the rule of power corrupting. And then a system that grooms men and women to be the best friends and sycophants you've ever seen descend on them, and they've suddenly been corrupted a hundred different ways before they even realize they've committed a crime. And now they're incentivized to not ruin their lives, and now people have leverage on them. And the only way to win that game is to become the person who holds the leverage.
Unless you refuse to play: public pressure, a base that isn't donor-dependent, and transparency. It's the only way this system works for the people. So of course [those who profit from that game] hate Mamdani. If he didn't have enemies, he'd just be another piece.
This is probably the right answer, but they attacked Harris for her laugh and Obama for his tan suit, if they got anything mildly incriminating your voters will eat that up. If tomorrow it is revealed mamdani committed minor tax evasion once in 2008, no matter how little that actually matters for his capacity now, they will use it to prove his untrustworthyness.
Honestly, I'm excited for more millennial and gen z peeps getting into power. We aren't ashamed of eff all and blackmailing us is damn near impossible. Yeah bitch, that was me behind the Wendy's dumpster snorting 8 balls, eating chicken nuggies, in a Pickachu onsie, high as a mother f@cking kite on acid, listening to the my little pony theme song, screaming f@ck Israel, and having a train run on them by random strangers. What of it?
The way I see it, Socialism making life better for everyone does 'destroy the country' for Republicans, even if they are 100% included as being people whose lives get better in every measurable metric and they know it.
Because inequality is the whole point of "the country." Owning slaves was the point of the Confederacy, and losing the Civil War only meant that they lost the war, not that they changed their minds. And those "good old fashioned conservative values" have been taught to them like a religion. It's easy to think of it as the ancient past but it was two lifetimes ago that these same people were willing to kill and die in a losing war because their egos mattered more than anything else.
That is why no argument about things like socialized medicine being best for everyone can get them to like it. It's not that they don't believe it. It's that they don't want that.
Health care is SUPPOSED to be better if you are wealthy and privileged.
Public transportation is SUPPOSED to be worse than being rich enough to own your own vehicle.
The joy of having children if you so choose is SUPPOSED to be out of reach for "the others."
Owning your own home is SUPPOSED to be out of reach for the others. If everyone has it, it's not a "flex."
Law enforcement is SUPPOSED to protect the privileged, and harass, imprison, terrorize, and kill "the others."
That's what the country is for. For them to power trip. They aren't winning if they aren't beating anybody. Society must have losers. The more they have, the worse they lose, the better the 'winners' get to feel. You're not tall if nobody is short. You're not strong if nobody is weak. You're not better if nobody is worse.
Taking that away destroys the country to them. That is why socialism, equality, anything of the sort, MUST be opposed tooth and nail at all times.
Australian here, I had a broncoscopy about 3 weeks ago, 5 hours in hospital, anesthesia, procedure, recovery, cost $0.00. my annual contribution to the socialist system for health care is about $3800
American here. No healthcare whatsoever, Iām probably gonna die of something that should have caught and preventable because I canāt afford doctorās or hospitals, let alone a colonoscopy.
American here, I have Medicaid (government healthcare for those below the poverty line), without it I wouldn't have been able to get a very necessary shunt revision for hydrocephalus back in June. My symptoms would've kept getting worse until it killed me. Most Americans don't qualify for Medicaid though, and they just made it even harder to qualify, starting on January first.
One of the details that often seems to get missed is that Mamdani is able to get so much done because he's backed by a NYC city council that barely has any Republicans, just 10%.
It isn't illegal, but it also isn't really part of the job.
The job is just a combination of getting elected and getting funding.
Helping constituents is just one of the ways that you can try to do the former, but demonizing the opposition also works and is easier.
My closet maga uncle just moved out of nyc and claims to not like Mamdani. He says he didnāt move out because of Mamdani and that he just got a new job, but he totally did.
If he moved away because of Mamdani, that would actually be commendable because the amount of jackasses that threatened to leave the city if he won but to this day have not have really annoyed the shit out of me. Looking at you especially John Catsimatidis, piece of shit.
I'm not good at spotting AI. It makes me sad that I can't tell the difference between someone who spent a couple of hours creating something like this in photoshop and someone who... didn't.
Worse. My coworker down here in the midwest who has 0 ties to NYC will be shaking angry telling me how Mamdani 'will have bankrupted the NYC icecream business by 2027' or whatever stupid ass claim he read on an AI Facebook post headline.
No, no. This is Sharia law. Ice cream businesses for the masses is Islamic style communism. Everyone write that down when the question gets aimed at Mamdani for the midterms in multiple states.
What I love about this guy is that he aims for easy fruit and grabs it. If any politician R or D just looked for stuff that 70+% of their constituents like and work for it, the country would be so much better.
What a libertarian thing to do! It's almost like all of these labels are meaningless and good governance rises above all of the name calling and labeling. Wish this guy could run for President.
Idk anything about Brandon, and youāre probably right heās worse, but Wu has turned into such a disappointment. One of her top aids for bicycle infrastructure died the other month, she came out and said she was gonna finally do something about it, and has only continued to go back on her words for better bike infrastructure.
This doesn't affect them at all. It's just removing redundant requirements for places that already have food service permits to not have to get separate, special ones for ice cream.
This helps like a burger joint that wants to add soft serve to their menu, that kind of thing.
A college kid starts a shaved ice or ice cream truck business to pay for their tuition, and they cause a metaphorical Cold War in the boroughs that they had no idea either existed at all or thought only existed on TV. It's up to their childhood friends, a group of middle school kids out on summer vacation, and the former owner of the oldest surviving ice cream parlor in the area to unite to vendors - because just like an array of toppings on a sundae, everything is better when there's more of us together!
Stupid Mercy Cult. Nate Schatzline should be in jail for the spread of measles across the nation. Any death related to measles, is on Mercy Cult and Nate.
To be fair, there are a lot of issues in NYC that donāt really exist in other places. You probably can already sell ice cream with a regular food vendors license and donāt need a separate frozen desserts license there.
So the socialist is doing small government. No doubt the right wingers will give him ample credit for reducing bureaucracy and fostering a pro business environment. /s
I mean, aside from preventing the closure of all but one FQHC in your state. Looking at you, California. Vote no in Prop 44. It's estimated to have exactly one surviving clinic after 4 years. Just 4 years to undo the legacy of the Black Panthers and Rainbow Coalition for the entire state. That's insanity.
My standard way of evaluating any politician is to just see if they left their domain better than when they entered, But I mean, will he end 100k hotdog permit to let capitalism take over? I might actually visit that city,
I mean if it's a hot dog stand, it's a permit to go on some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Land in New York City. Which is owned by the city. a parking space in New York is about $5 an hour. So if you assume someone selling hot dogs 8 hours a day every day of the year potentially that's about $15,000 a year and they under price parking to incentivize Commerce Even though public transport would probably be better, but car people have their own Lobby.
This is how you do deregulation. You get rid of the things that don't make sense anymore. You don't commit to slashing an arbitrary % of all regulations and then get rid of the good ones just to meet a quota.
Itās funny how we act like Mamdani is the exception when itās like canāt every politician do stuff like this? Oh, yeah, most of them are owned by corporations or wealthy sociopaths.
You know I dont particularly like left wing politicians, or indeed politicians in general, but this guy does seem like the only politician who actually seems to be doing shit.
Maybe its just good PR or whatever, but it certainly seems like he's doing pretty good to me.
Eh? Fixing permitting requirements isnāt really socialist or not, itās just good governance. By my understanding, he didnāt remove the permit entirely, just loosened an outdated requirement.
Someone explained in another thread that is was something like the ice cream permit and the food permit were different. So if you sold both ice cream and other food, you actually needed two different permits. My understanding is that he redid the permits so someone in that situation only needs a single permit.
It is deregulation allowing ice cream businesses to do their thing. I agree it is good policy but it usually isn't what socialists stand for. But I also think people use socialism now so vaguely that is hardly has any ties to the socialist authors.
Eh? It doesnāt seem to hold any alignment either for or against socialist goals. Itās not like socialism is āgovernment owns everythingā inherently, no?
It's far from deregulation. He didn't rule that you can now serve ice cream from raw milk, corporations can rip us off with impunity or any other right wing nonsense. He made a sensible administrative decision that made all his constituents' lives better, which is as socialist as it gets.
Or was it some dumb shit like "city assemblyman Baskin and Mayor Robbins are implementing this new ice cream permit requirement to protect the children!" I hate that my brain goes straight to corruption first nowadays in matters of complex bullshit.
Haha, yep that tracks. Ice cream frequently has eggs in it, too. Seems like a city-based health department that's now handled by state and federal institutions.
The people? š And what happens if you put an unstable person in power and thereās absolutely no one to oppose him? Please give me an example anywhere in the world where communist policies benefitted the people.
How about power to the workers? I think that much of what we've seen is that unchecked power leads to a lot of destruction. But, I also think there has been much we don't really know. So, I should just keep my mouth shut. Capitalism, as we've been told, doesn't work.
What do you mean?! This is clearly the totally scary idea of the workers owning the means of production!!! Theyāre going to be able to make ice cream with out an ice cream loicense and that aināt quite right innit?!
Good deal. I think the government creating regulations under the guise of saftey, is more than often, a mechanism to limit competition, and to better monitor potential tax revenue.
All this does is limit lower class financial mobility. And creates unnatural barriers to earning money.
this move doesn't even impact safety, since the requirements of the general food permit have grown, and now cover the requirements of the ice cream permit
About time, the prices of ice cream trucks are out of control, specially because they have no competition, can't wait to see a paletero pushing a hand cart
I had the misfortune of having to listen to fox news when I was in the car with my republican uncle, and they keep talking shit about Mamdani, but like we live in California, why do we even care about NYC's politics one way or another. It's just so ridiculous how terrified the right is of him.
Next we're gonna hear he's sending out puppies and babies and kittens door to door for everyone to smell before they go to work every morning ššššš
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u/scipio0421 1d ago
I swear Mamdani just doesn't understand that a politician actually helping their constituents is illegal in this country. At least I assume it is. I can't think of any other reason for things to be this bad.