its why most democrats are against him too.
Cause hes setting a dangerous precedent of an elected official serving people, not money.
Slavoj Zizek calls the Democrats “capitalism with a kinder face - LGBT rights and so on and so on.”
That’s really it. They think the core economic system is working. They’re fine to greenlight social policies that don’t challenge it, especially if they think it will win them votes. And that’s all they are.
Slavoj Zizek calls the Democrats “capitalism with a kinder face - LGBT rights and so on and so on.”
Let’s not pretend they stand for the T in that acronym.
They stand for whatever gets them votes. Given the current cultural climate with the right actively controlling the media landscape and the left busy purity testing before they even consider voting, they would obviously consider taking a seat on the topic.
They stand for whatever gets them votes.
They stand for genocide and nothing else and do not care about votes.
Ah, you’re one of those persecution fetishists. Normally y’all are about Jesus.
Then you should have no problem identifying an issue that the centrist wing of the party has fought for harder than it fought for netanyahu’s campaign of genocide.
Literally anything lol wtf are you smoking?
My thought is that for many many years politicians didn’t really have to do anything to re-elected. And when they were asked to do something they would always say “we can’t afford that.” or they would write a bill that would promise “thing” will get funded 10 years from now. So these lifelong politicians have turned into lazy fucks just there for the money and are pissed at these younger officials that are actually doing the job they were elected to do.
I have to admit I had been lulled into a sense of nothing will change attitude and now that I see how wrong I was I’ve become quite pissed off.
Start rolling out guillotines and i bet they’d start finding ways to serve their electorate rather quickly.
That won’t be their first instinct. Their first instinct will be to kill anybody who seems at all threatening.
I live in Harlem. He really has been great! He’s just a genuine and nice guy too!
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It’s ok, we speak jive.
Converting the Oldest House into literal housing? Bold choice!
God, living there would suck. Somebody accidently turns harmonization device off and your hallway is now non-Euclidean shape.
Or take wrong turn when searching laundry room and you are now lost in interdimentional quarry.
Upvote for anything control❤️
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The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like.
More like the left way 🥁
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Civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan.
When you see what good your taxes can do, it makes you question why the rich don’t pay their fair share. They do not like this.
He’s a decent mayor so far and we haven’t had one of those since I’ve been living here
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The far right are so virulently anti-Mamdani bcs they know it’ll get the compatible left to even more entrench their support for him even as he’s already drifting towards the positions of the center-right party that he’s adopted, despite them fighting tooth and nail to keep him out of office.
Everything in politics makes way more sense when you stop believing the kayfabe and recognize they’re all on the same team. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
BUT HOW ARE THE LANDLORDS (I am not one) GONNA AFFORD TO LIVE!!! THE POOOR LANDLORDS
BUT HOW ARE THE LANDLORDS (I am not one)
So many of these NYT / WaPo Op-Eds are written by Landlords. So many Twitter shitposts and Facebook hate threads are started by landlords. So much of the local news bullshit is financed by landlords.
The NYPost is landlord required reading.
Yes. The biggest advertisers for most city papers are real estate and the results as predictable as they are obvious.
Next, convert Trump Tower into affordable housing.
And Trump into compost for affordable food?
That would turn any food grown with it into poison, tho?
Nah, convert it to a pile of ash.
Shit no. That would be like living in Mordor. No, to hallow that place turn it into the Trump library with every floor an exhibition of the lies, stupidity, evil and crimes he committed, with the penthouse dedicated to the Epstein Files.
I was gonna say to just line every wall on every floor with copies of the unredacted files. Name it the Trump Epstein Corruption Library
It’s why the corporate neo-libs hate him too. They truly are in the business of managing decline instead of doing their fucking jobs.
Is there even such a thing as a non-corporate neolib?
I think there kinda sorta used to be, in 2026? Naw not really.
They’d rather support a sexual predator that they said should resign from being Governor a few years earlier.
Until he arrests Netanyahu and stops the NYPD from brutalizing protestors, I’m going to stay highly skeptical of him. At the end of the day, bourgeois democracy will never serve the interests of the people. He’s controlled opposition.
He literally explained how he cannot arrest Netanyahu and told exactly who is stopping him and called Netanyahu a criminal several times on that announcement. The NYPD thing I cannot argue against because I literally know nothing of it, so I’d love to learn about it, but calling him a controlled opposition smells of either right wing paid troll to get the left to not like Mamdani or a person who really wants to let perfect be the enemy of good. Gog forbid anyone be less than perfect and help us move towards a better future in any shape or form besides all the way in a single move exactly how I envision it
The mindset that there’s one person who’s going to save us is something that the left has to just get rid of. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Mamdani or Bernie or AOC. Putting anybody up on a pedestal like that just means that they’re inevitably going to disappoint you, because they aren’t gods, they’re human, and the machine that they’re a part of is so much bigger than they are.
No, he isn’t “controlled opposition”, but he also isn’t some socialist ubermensch who can’t ever be corrupted. What is important is the movement, not these figureheads.
I think they’re afraid of over reach. A lot of them would love the services he’s building!
A city owned office building, why aren’t a majority of the units being made affordable?
“At no cost to the city”. The office building is going to be developed by GFP Real Estate and in exchange for the 3,000 units for free market stuff, they have to make 25% of them available as affordable.
So this is a public-private partnership with strings attached. Hopefully it goes according to plan and/or the company is held accountable for any bullshit it pulls.
This will end poorly, I guarantee that in 10 years a successor to Mamdani will alter the deal, screening over New Yorkers in favor of that developer. I hope he’s at least smart enough to not give them the land that the city owns.
That’s still 1000 more people housed for 10 years!
Right, because who wants permanent solutions when you can have a cyclical homelessness
The permanent solution does involve a cost to the city. It’s worthwhile, but might take 10 years to achieve.
Well, I hope your pessimism is wrong, but can’t dismiss it. The perils of public-private partnerships is a pretty legitimate worry.
I’m hoping they have enough leverage to have a good, enforceable deal and further hope that succossors will be too afraid of screwing up a popular program.
Rent control is a lottery, some people randomly get a good deal, but most people continue to be fucked over. This is great if you’re running out of people who can afford to work at Starbucks, but I don’t think it’s fair or progressive.
It’s not even ideal for the people who have rent control.
Sure, they have rent that’s a lot cheaper than it could be. But, they’re stuck. Maybe their place doesn’t have enough bedrooms. Maybe it’s not near their friends or family. Maybe it’s too big for them. Maybe they hate their neighbours. But, they have rent control, and they lose it if they move.
Meanwhile, someone else who that apartment would be perfect for has to look elsewhere.
It’s a bad system, but rent in NYC is so outrageous people will fight for the bad system because they doubt anything better is really possible.
I think its about dealing with the increase. Most people are already thin in margin, having a guarantee that your expense aren’t growing arbitrarily each year is FAR better than the alternative.
the alternative
A free for all hunger games winner takes all tournament to determine who gets a roof over their head.
Bribes apply and encouraged.
this is exactly what I had in mind when I said that, bravo
Thanks!
