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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.
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 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 bet that was wild. I was always a fan of that era of music from the city. But then I spent 2018-2023 teaching a hip hop history course at Xavier university (two or three sessions a semester and two semesters a year) and I spent about three weeks just setting up the historical backdrop of the Bronx, although I was born in the 80s and it was all really history to me. I’d feature different readings and recordings each semester and show the kids videos from the era and occasionally changed it up, so I read and checked out a lot of material. All this to say, that time and place has become absolutely mythical in my mind. I’d love to hear your stories!
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You probably know more about the history than I do, but I do have some crazy stories. I remember being with my friend in Times Square (a real hell hole back then, pre Disneyfication). We were trying to buy fake IDs so we could drink in bars. We were in a seedy place playing pinball. I suddenly had this weird sense of danger and told my friend we should leave. He laughed at me and told me he would meet me down the block after he was done with his game. I left, and he got robbed at knifepoint INSIDE the store. Luckily he just lost money.
Scorsese's Taxi Driver really captured the city I remember back then.
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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 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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But I agree things are so hard to change in NYC plus they been going democrat for years since who Bloomberg? I just think this is super charged because the left feels like they got someone to go against Trump and that’s all the seem to care about these days
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New York City has really always been a democrat city as far as I can remember. Bloomberg was a democrat at heart - "limousine liberal" was the phrase we always used to hear. Rudy was a real aberration, and only got in because of his crime fighting reputation. As a very young kid I remember my father despised Mayor Lindsay, even though he was a supposed republican. He hated that guy so much we moved out of the city.
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Wow your dad stood on business! Hahaha
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."
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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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Not in public children shouldn’t be exposed to open drug use
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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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