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119 sats \ 30 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12h \ on: Mamdani: 'There Is No Problem Too Large for Government To Solve' Politics_And_Law
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
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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Crime will get worse, much much worse
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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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I am actually ok with drug use as long as they don't bother anyone and defecate
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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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agree, agree, good point
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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:
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I said will get worse, future tense
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I know. You're probably right. My reply was to @BlokchainB
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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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Yep. The famous headline: "Ford To New York: Drop Dead."
Dang.
In totality, the decade was a transformative one for New York, as it reconfigured the economic and social realities of America's most prominent city. By the conclusion of the 1970s, over a million people had left the city.
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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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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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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It is interesting how many people get worked up about what the voters in NYC do
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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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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Yeah, it sucks for those folks.
And, as more political refugees flee those places, it will only suck increasingly.
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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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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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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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This is my take.
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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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Have you been to London recently?
Mamdani will emulate mayor Khan (or whatever his name is)
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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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