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No big deal, just bailing out my good friends at SUNY Poly! https://twitter.com/JimHeaney/status/954044991512416258
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I'm about halfway through Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Highly recommend if you want to remind yourself what a piece of poo poo state this is.
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First Frank Commisso Jr. loses the Dem primary for Albany mayor, and now Sr. is ousted in the county. Not a good time for the dynasty.
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Matt Zerella posted:the people's republic of Vermont is right there and is a kickass state. I miss Burlington a lot. Will Bernie give me a six figgie computer touching job? Because the commute from Vermont is pretty brutal.
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mrmcd posted:Will Bernie give me a six figgie computer touching job? Because the commute from Vermont is pretty brutal. move to Vermont and get a job with burton or something. there are a decent amount of tech jobs for you google tech bros up there.
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Matt Zerella posted:move to Vermont and get a job with burton or something. there are a decent amount of tech jobs for you google tech bros up there. TBH if I were to do the chill life in a semi-rural outdoorsey state thing it would probably be somewhere in mountain time zone.
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mrmcd posted:TBH if I were to do the chill life in a semi-rural outdoorsey state thing it would probably be somewhere in mountain time zone. for me it's close enough to my family in NY but gets me out from underneath the garbage that is the NY State govt. and Bernie would be my senator  instead of Chuck "let's build the wall" Schumer.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:First Frank Commisso Jr. loses the Dem primary for Albany mayor, and now Sr. is ousted in the county. Not a good time for the dynasty.
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i wish chuck would retire soon. ho hum.
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can’t cuck the chuck
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https://twitter.com/GannettAlbany/status/955113053841862656 What, they can't just take the Staten Island Ferry like the other cheap schlubs? Edit: more Cuomo nonsense: https://twitter.com/danrivoli/status/955076869711433729 Absurd Alhazred has issued a correction as of 18:00 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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Jan 21, 2018 17:31
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Edit: more Cuomo nonsense: I just posted about this in the LAN thread, blaming ConEd has a lot of angles to it.
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grah posted:I just posted about this in the LAN thread, blaming ConEd has a lot of angles to it. You should cross-post it here, it's good stuff.
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cuomo is transparently not caring about running the state first and foremost, and our voters are stupid enough to give him a third term
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Absurd Alhazred posted:You should cross-post it here, it's good stuff. I always thought crossposting was frowned upon on these Something Awful dot com forums, but sure. grah posted:http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/new-york/mta-brass-pushed-link-subway-delays-power-problems-article-1.3769202 And on TWU support for Cuomo: grah posted:There's a lot of pieces to this. The biggest is that the main body of more radical, left aligned union leadership, Progressive Action, was and largely is still the party of Roger Toussaint. Toussaint was popular, especially among black union members and the Department of Busses, which are two (overlapping) gigantic parts of the Local's constituency. But he also had a huge air of corruption about him, made a lot of personal enemies, and managed to alienate a lot of the union--including in Busses. He oversaw the bankruptcy of TWU's health benefit trust and the transfer of control to the MTA, and he oversaw a very questionable sale of the union hall in Manhattan. Selling the hall and buying something cheaper in downtown Brooklyn made some sense, and honestly I don't know all the truth o what happened, but the consensus among a lot of union rank and file is that the building was sold on the cheap to Toussaint's friends or relatives. He also oversaw the disastrous 2-day strike in 2005, which is the only time TWU has ever gone out on strike and come back to a worse deal than was on offer beforehand.
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grah posted:I always thought crossposting was frowned upon on these Something Awful dot com forums, but sure. I don't think it's been the case for a long time, but if any mod/admin is reading this and frowns upon it, they're welcome to give me your punishment, instead.
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New York City should secede from New York and form New New York instead
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Taintrunner posted:New York City should secede from New York and form New New York instead No, you see, that's our angle, because those tax-and-spend NYC democrats are keeping Upstate down!  Proceed to gut all social services, need constant Federal bailouts just to function, and eventually beg Vermont to annex us
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good writeup. i created this thread as a way to separate the politics chat from the LAN thread, so if there are no rules against crossposting stuff from there to discuss here, go right on ahead
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Crossposting is pretty common in C-SPAM Thanks for compiling those writeups grah
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get that OUT of my face posted:cuomo is transparently not caring about running the state first and foremost, and our voters are stupid enough to give him a third term it isn't that voters are dumb, it's that the best potential primary challengers have decided to take a pass.
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Ogmius815 posted:it isn't that voters are dumb, it's that the best potential primary challengers have decided to take a pass. jumaane is smart in going for the lieutenant governor position, he'd stand no chance in the general and this is kind of the least he can do get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 05:42 on Jan 22, 2018 |
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is he really that popular? I've never met anyone who likes him. I'm a pretty moderate democrat by the standards of this forum and even I think he's a piece of poo poo.
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Hey, quick question to settle an argument: do working-class New Yorkers drive into Manhattan? Is there information about the socio-economic profile of people who do this? I've always assumed anybody who possibly could, unless they're celebrities or in finance or whatever, use the subways, buses, LIRR, etc.
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Back in the early ‘90s when my dad’s FedEx route was in Chelsea, he’d drive from Queens to the West Side at about 4 AM every weekday, but since then, I’ve not known anyone to do it. so basically the only ethical choice is heavy congestion pricing
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Hey, quick question to settle an argument: do working-class New Yorkers drive into Manhattan? Is there information about the socio-economic profile of people who do this? I've always assumed anybody who possibly could, unless they're celebrities or in finance or whatever, use the subways, buses, LIRR, etc. Aside from very specific circumstances (I've known a couple Bronx guys who drive into the city for night shift work and do street parking), no.
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There are a ton of longtime Secret Neighborhood residents who have cars and are super attached to them, but I don't know if they drive into Manhattan specifically.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Hey, quick question to settle an argument: do working-class New Yorkers drive into Manhattan? Is there information about the socio-economic profile of people who do this? I've always assumed anybody who possibly could, unless they're celebrities or in finance or whatever, use the subways, buses, LIRR, etc. I don't have any empirical data but there's so many loving cars everywhere. they can't all be rich people, right?
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anecdotally two coworkers of mine both drive in to work in the west village fairly often, from somewhere in queens and nearish Crown Heights. I think they are idiots.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Hey, quick question to settle an argument: do working-class New Yorkers drive into Manhattan? Is there information about the socio-economic profile of people who do this? I've always assumed anybody who possibly could, unless they're celebrities or in finance or whatever, use the subways, buses, LIRR, etc. If I have to go to Brooklyn or Queens, I might drive, because the trains from the Bronx to some parts of BK or Queens are like, 2 hours, and driving through Manhattan is toll free and usually significantly faster. Sometimes my wife drives to work down by the Battery if she's running late or needs to go somewhere right afterwards.
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considering the high cost of having a car in NYC, i can't imagine too many working-class people here driving into Manhattan for work. it's not going to effectively raise money for the MTA because it'll go for a Long Island-to-Westchester tunnel that nobody wants, instead of the subway repairs that we actually needOgmius815 posted:is he really that popular? I've never met anyone who likes him. I'm a pretty moderate democrat by the standards of this forum and even I think he's a piece of poo poo.
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a long island sound tunnel would probably be agood thing in like 2165 or whenever they finally fix the poo poo thats already built and broken
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grah posted:I always thought crossposting was frowned upon on these Something Awful dot com forums, but sure. The coziness between union management, business, and governmental honchos is responsible for the decline in union rates since the mid-century. It's more organizer led unions, like Nevada's Culinary Union or Carpenters Union (which split from the AFL-CIO), that has been the only stymie for that trend.
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Shageletic posted:The coziness between union management, business, and governmental honchos is responsible for the decline in union rates since the mid-century. It's more organizer led unions, like Nevada's Culinary Union or Carpenters Union (which split from the AFL-CIO), that has been the only stymie for that trend. It's true that alternative models are showing desperately needed signs of life (see More Perfect Unions on co-ops in City Journal, Here's ONe Union that Can't be Touched by Right-to-Work Laws in The Nation on the IWW and solidarity unionism, anything on the UE's recent contract victories). That said, I think it's wrong to point the figure at union leadership as being "responsible for the decline in union rates." The climate is just really, really tough - the government has become more "pro-business" and the global economy has made it easier than ever for corporate power to cut and run from militant demands. I highly recommend this Gabriel Winant essay that ran in N+1 a couple years ago, "Who Works for the Workers?" It traces how labor has responded to changing circumstances and how their choices were circumscribed by material conditions and obstacles. winant posted:The organic integration of the working-class social world is gone. To remember, and keep remembering, now happens only on purpose. Memory looks like an office, with file cabinets and framed pictures from past victories. It smells like printer ink and sounds like bitter narratives of defeat often repeated, with lessons learned. It costs money to keep, and it takes sustained and uninterrupted time to accumulate. To remember and renew is itself an act of defiance: each dollar in dues money, each hour spent in some interminable meeting, passes the tradition on, despite constant efforts to extinguish it.
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LONG TRIP REPORT: Last night I went with the New Kings Democrats to the semi-annual meeting of the Kings County Democratic Committee. For those who don't know, NKD is a political club founded in 2009 by a group of Democrats that wanted to help about the Brooklyn party but were told by then-boss Vito Lopez to get lost. Their goal is to make the local Democratic party more transparent and more accountable by bringing as many people as possible onto the County Committee. As things stand now, much of the committee effectively concedes their decision making to the current party boss Frank Seddio, who's a step up from Lopez and has given in to some of the demands they've made, but is still trying to do what he can to maintain a grip on the party. Some of NKD's star pupils are Antonio Reynoso (NY city councilmember for Williamsburg and Greenpoint), Bobby Carroll (NY state assemblyman for Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Kensington- also the one that represents me), and Nick Rizzo (district leader for the 50th Assembly District which includes mostly Greenpoint and Williamsburg, and also a DSA member). I bolded those two names because they were the major representatives for either side that night, and things got quite heated at times between them. The last county committee meeting was held in southern Canarsie, a reasonably long walk from the last stop on the L line. That meeting was reported on in the New York Times. I wasn't there, but I heard that there was about an hour's worth of screaming between NKD and county party people. This meeting was held in the Flatlands/Mill Basin/Bergen Beach area and was very far away from any subway station. As you might expect, that's intentional. But NKD members drove people to the meeting at an American Legion outpost. There was no schedule of the meeting given to the people that were coming there or how long it would take- all we knew was that there would be a panel about congestion pricing, a consideration of a rules change proposed by NKD about allowing the county committee to vote on who takes a vacant seat (which would prevent something like what happened in the 26th Senate district seat vacated by Dan Squadron again), and a Q&A session where county committee members could ask questions. The congestion pricing panel lasted for almost two hours, and while I was happy to see City Councilmember Daneek Miller voice my concerns about how there's no reason to believe the MTA will spend the additional money on necessary repairs and alternatives for transit deserts like the one he represents in Southeast Queens, it shouldn't have been that long. The last hour or so was where things got interesting and moved me from thinking "I want to run for County Committee" to "I really want to run for County Committee." For starters, the proposed rule change was talked about for less than two minutes- they said they'd consider merging it with a similar proposal by the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (another reform-minded club) to make this a statewide policy. A good thing to do statewide, I think, but no further thought was given. The Q&A was about putting the Kings County Democratic Party establishment to task about dealing with Marty Golden and Jesse Hamilton. Seddio's response to Golden was that they can't make an endorsement in the Democratic primary there, which is a fairly standard procedure everywhere. However, he didn't even know who Ross Barkan was other than somebody in that two-person primary (he's a reporter for the Village Voice) and wrote off Bay Ridge as uniformly conservative (as a committee member later pointed out, this is changing). He was a lot dodgier about Hamilton- he basically said he's a Democrat so they shouldn't interfere with what he's doing. At some point, Rizzo got up and shouted about how the county party needs to care about its success more, before realizing he was out of line and sitting back down. Seddio responded by alluding to the last meeting and saying, "Nick, you've done it once again. You're a schmuck." A Hispanic committee member and Chaim Deutsch- City Councilmember for Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, and south Midwood- chastised Rizzo for his outburst while saying nothing about Seddio's outright insult. The rest of the meeting was kind of uneventful- mostly people backing up the belief that the party isn't doing enough in these races. The person moderating the meeting did try to shame those people by saying that over 400 county committee members put their proxy votes to Seddio, only 70-something members showed up in person, and that we didn't know the history of the Kings County party because they have these meetings more frequently. Never mind that NKD's main goal is to make the county committee more active in these decisions and they were the reason why more meetings were held in the first place. After the meeting was adjourned, I saw Rizzo and Seddio talking to each other. I thought they were being loud but civil, but Seddio shouting "go gently caress yourself" several times to Rizzo put the lie to that belief. Apparently, Rizzo was confronting Seddio about who was the campaign manager of a particular campaign as a way of proving he doesn't know what he's doing. After the shouting, Rizzo said to somebody else that there's been no talk by them about Nicole Malliotakis's Democratic challenger, and outside, Seddio said that Rizzo is a "terrible, terrible person" and wanted "somebody Italian, Irish, or Jewish" to beat him in the primary for district leader... never mind that Rizzo is part Italian and part Jewish. tl;dr: Went to a small, out of the way, but influential meeting of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, it was a poorly run shitshow complete with screaming, and it strengthened my resolve to run for the Party's county committee. If anyone here lives in Brooklyn and wants to join me, check out the info here and sign up.
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get that OUT of my face posted:LONG TRIP REPORT: Last night I went with the New Kings Democrats to the semi-annual meeting of the Kings County Democratic Committee. Thanks for the front-line reporting! Meanwhile, progress in Albany?! https://twitter.com/NickReisman/status/956833574447181824
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Thanks for the front-line reporting! A good start, next should be open primaries.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Thanks for the front-line reporting! meanwhile, i was dead wrong about Miner. she's running against Cuomo instead of Katko
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get that OUT of my face posted:LONG TRIP REPORT: Last night I went with the New Kings Democrats to the semi-annual meeting of the Kings County Democratic Committee. Thanks for posting this! I signed up, and hell, I plan to run.
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