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119 sats \ 30 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12h
What do you think of the election, siggy?
Personally, I think it will be interesting to watch A) whether he's actually able to get anything done; B) whether he gets co-opted by money interests; and if A is yes and B is no, whether New York rapidly sides into deterioration
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208 sats \ 23 replies \ @siggy47 OP 12h
I am enjoying watching so many people completely lose their shit over the election, as if it matters. It is great theater, but that's all it is - theater. Anyone who thinks he can really affect change is mistaken.
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36 sats \ 12 replies \ @Bell_curve 11h
Crime will get worse, much much worse
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48 sats \ 11 replies \ @BlokchainB 10h
It’s already pretty bad when it comes to drug use. Every time I go I see fiends and people smoking and selling drugs (crack? Meth?) right on the street!
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36 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 8h
I am actually ok with drug use as long as they don't bother anyone and defecate
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48 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 8h
I'd be okay with it if I wasn't forced to pay for their treatments or even to keep them alive or the disposal of their bodies
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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 7h
agree, agree, good point
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60 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 OP 10h
I don't go there much, but it just doesn't seem so bad to me. Then again, I did go there a lot in the late 1970s. It was bad back then:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/1970s-new-york-photos#10
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36 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bell_curve 9h
I said will get worse, future tense
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12 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 OP 8h
I know. You're probably right. My reply was to @BlokchainB
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36 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 8h
The 70s were bad in NYC: crime and bankruptcy
NY state was also bankrupt if I recall correctly, Governor Nelson Rockefeller
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 3h
Dang.
How real is population/capital flight risk in NYC now? Too early to tell I'm guessing. Or is it still the kind of place where most wealthy people will stay because NYC is NYC and/or they have enough schemes to weather the storm, assuming they'll be affected at all?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h
I think it's probably not as bad as the 70s. It's probably worse than the Democrats claim but better than the rightwing media tries to make it seem. That's how it is for LA anyway.
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90 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 12h
I was discussing this with left of center friend. It is interesting how many people get worked up about what the voters in NYC do. I think one of the biggest issue in our culture is the busy body nature of politics.
I listened to some of his speech and he sounds like a typical Obama clone. He's promising free stuff and government magic wands. He tells his audience their voices now have power... kinda silly really. They voted. Big deal.
I mean I get why the typical democrat voters picked this guy. Look at what they have been told for the past 40 years by that party. It kinda reminds me of how Trump won. The Republicans suck. So I blame the Democrat establishment. It will be interesting to watch. I don't live there. None of my business if the people there wanna socialist.
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175 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 10h
Yep. My response to not liking how NYC is governed is to continue not living there. Beyond that, it's really none of my business.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 6h
a fair point, but if you're a non-marginal resident who isn't on the cusp of moving, these things make your life materially worse.
that's me with california, essentially...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6h
Yeah, it sucks for those folks.
And, as more political refugees flee those places, it will only suck increasingly.
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48 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12h
My base case is that they add regulatory burden on the margins, create more bureaucratic bloat, declare this as victory, and blame greedy capitalists when life gets worse
So, same old I guess
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48 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 12h
Very likely. They already have rent control and blame the housing crisis on capitalism. When socialism fails it's always freedom to blame. Though they don't have the balls to say it like that. They use capitalism as the punching boy. And by that they are referring crony capitalism.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 9h
Crony capitalism is an innate human tendency.
Trump is an example of it writ large and blatant with his meme coins, corporate sponsors pardons for a price and multiple other rentseeking conflicts of interest.
Good government is the only thing that can sometimes reduce its manifestation and undermining of free markets.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 10h
This is my take.
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48 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 12h
It feels a lot like the people that think women need to run it all and it will be better. I kinda want to see it so we can put that dumb idea behind us.
As if it would. We had Obama for 8 years and you'd think we still live in the segregated south.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 9h
It is depressing to hear you feel so defeatist and cynical about the state of US democracy.
I can understand it but do not buy into it.
Such defeatism only plays into the hands of despots and entrenched corruption.
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130 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 12h
I pretty much think its impossible for him not to get co-opted. The cynic in me, says the real power brokers already know he's co-opted, hence why he won....
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18 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 11h
Have you been to London recently?
Mamdani will emulate mayor Khan (or whatever his name is)
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 10h
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 12h
Yep...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 11h
The biggest danger is public safety: he will defund the police and with Alvin Bragg as DA no criminal will be arrested
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 10h
I think he will try to buck Trump but will cave and give in to Dem power brokers to save his skin.
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 8h
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 7h
Mamdani's election is the direct result of immigration from shithole countries.
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48 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 10h
Yikes this is scary
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 9h
No this is an alternative to the divisive and crooked crony capitalism Trump and his corporate sponsors are selling.
Trump is not Making America Great Again- he is simply coping with the fact that US empire power and hegemony is in irreversible decline...using divisive scapegoating populism to divide and rule while feathering his own nest and those of his sponsors.
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48 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 10h
This comment just showed how out of touch this guy is
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 9h
China has the USA/West over a barrel.
Without rare earths supply the US military industrial combine is broke.
The US cannot fight a war with China or anyone without rare earths.
Trump started a trade war with China but China had prepared by investing in dominating global rare earths supply chains and now Trump must Beg for continued access to rare earths supply chains.
Libertarian nonsense that free markets always deliver better results than government involvement and investment in strategic markets has been demonstrably proven complete and utter bullshit.
You are out of touch with the real world economic and military realities of power projection and economic systems and their intertwined nature and I wager you 10000 sats you cannot convincingly refute the above.
Sometimes government must get involved in the provision of strategic supply chains and to not to is negligent.
Rare Earths for example- and there are many more examples in addition to rare earths too.
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48 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 11h
Yeah because there are so many precedents of the government solving problems.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 9h
There are some.
Like rare earths.
USAis fucked without them and can only ever build an alternative supply chain if it spends trillions of dollar on SUBSIDIES.
Another is electricity generation- the Chinese do this very well via government led strategy to provide the productive sector and consumers the cheapest power to stimulate generating jobs and businesses that can compete globally.
This is a key part of how China has come to dominate global manufacturing and as a consequence commodity markets- while the crony capitalist west wallowed in financialisation and abstractions that are ultimately only paper.
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48 sats \ 1 reply \ @BeeRye 12h
had to check that he actually said this, oiy i have to remember he is younger than me...what an incredible thing to say.
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 12h
I know. It is so ridiculous it's good comedy.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 1h
Wanker
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