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babypolis posted:why is he so disliked? among the citizens, that depends on who you ask. de Blasio is unpopular among white voters, fairly popular among black voters, and somewhere in between among hispanic voters. speaking from a left-wing perspective: while he's put some good things into law (universal pre-K, five sick days for everyone who works in NYC, banning credit checks as a condition of employment), he hasn't tackled the core issues of inequality. that's really come into focus regarding housing. he picked up where Bloomberg left off in using neighborhood rezoning as a way to usher in development that's actively harmful to its longtime residents. because Bloomberg mostly cleaned up Manhattan with this technique, BdB set his sights on the outer boroughs. most of the neighborhoods that have been rezoned have been neighborhoods that are poorer and black and/or Hispanic. his affordable housing program is laughable and is the result of rolling over to real estate, and that isn't getting into how he's handled the public housing system on policing, he's a drat sight better than Bloomberg- he ended stop-and-frisk, decriminalized practically all marijuana possession (you get ticketed for any amount of weed that most people will carry, although i don't think i need to say which people have been ticketed the most), and even won a staring contest with the head of the largest police "union" early in his first term. but just like his economic inequality policies, it fails to go deep into the issue. "broken windows" policing, the finest example of "correlation does not equal causation," is still going strong, and he's very hesitant to speak out against police brutality if he does so at all generally, he's better than your average incrementalist democrat, but still comes up woefully short
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The mayor of New York City is always one of the most hated people in the country because 1) they get blamed for everything that sucks about NYC (and something always sucks) and 2) all the powerful and famous media people live in New York so they all have various personal grudges against the mayor.
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Crazycryodude posted:The mayor of New York City is always one of the most hated people in the country because 1) they get blamed for everything that sucks about NYC (and something always sucks) and 2) all the powerful and famous media people live in New York so they all have various personal grudges against the mayor. yeah i do remember that matt christman had a good point about this other day that despite being one of the most powerful positions in the country, no NYC mayor has ever ascended to higher office
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Cuomo sucking more and the New York media being bad does not make de blasio not suck
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More like de Blowsio
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im on the net me boys posted:More like de Blowsio shes gone from succ to blowsio!
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Crazycryodude posted:The mayor of New York City is always one of the most hated people in the country because 1) they get blamed for everything that sucks about NYC (and something always sucks) and 2) all the powerful and famous media people live in New York so they all have various personal grudges against the mayor.
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didn't rudy guliani like totally gently caress up the emergency response system before 9/11
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Smirking_Serpent posted:didn't rudy guliani like totally gently caress up the emergency response system before 9/11 he's directly responsible for a shitload of the first responder deaths thanks to beefing with the fdny and refusing to let them have radios that are able communicate within large structures also after the wtc bombing attempt he moved the disaster hq there lol
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remember when Rudy Guliani said we didn't have any terrorist attacks under G W Bush?
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jib jab's bush vs kerry video not that it was itself funny, but like, lol that it was made
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Rogue Copter Pilot posted:jib jab's bush vs kerry video dude I swear to god I was thinking about this like, maybe a month ago, and quietly lol’n
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Rogue Copter Pilot posted:jib jab's bush vs kerry video every election since i’ve always seen cnn or whoever covering THE LATEST JIB JAB and i wonder if there’s a single person out there who gives a poo poo
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steinrokkan posted:I've just remembered Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were groomed by top Dem eugenicists to breed a line of perfect Democratic aristocracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zKKVOwaDBY watch to the end lol
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Rex-Goliath posted:every election since i’ve always seen cnn or whoever covering THE LATEST JIB JAB and i wonder if there’s a single person out there who gives a poo poo "This Land" was a formative moment for a certain kind of personality that is overrepresented in political campaigning and reporting, and for almost no one else.
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A Handed Missus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zKKVOwaDBY I just seriously can't believe he let the cameras keep rolling Everybody should watch the Weiner documentary
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mitt romney and rick scott are currently senators
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:mitt romney and rick scott are currently senators noted rapist donald trump is currently president
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:mitt romney and rick scott are currently senators Rick Snyder was given a fellowship at Harvard
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Action Jacktion posted:that time when less than 50,000 people in NYC lost power and the media breathlessly reported on it like it was the most important story in the world even though at the same time more than twice that many people in Louisiana had lost power and they got far less coverage. the thread going into a nyc tangent right after this post is pretty good Comrayn has issued a correction as of 20:58 on Jul 14, 2019 |
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speaking of guliani, when Time chickened out of giving bin laden the man of the year award and gave it to him instead.
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Smirking_Serpent posted:speaking of guliani, when Time chickened out of giving bin laden the man of the year award and gave it to him instead. fitting considering which one was responsible for more deaths on 9/11
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old.flv posted:I just seriously can't believe he let the cameras keep rolling I watch wiener documentaries all the time
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StashAugustine posted:Ralph Northram he wanted to moonwalk
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StashAugustine posted:Ralph Northram he started the "who among us didn't do blackface" news cycle
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Sticky Nate posted:he started the "who among us didn't do blackface" news cycle his lieutenant governor didnt! he was an alleged rapist instead
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StashAugustine posted:Ralph Northram was he the one who couldn't remember if he was the one in blackface or in the KKK hood
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Rex-Goliath posted:every election since i’ve always seen cnn or whoever covering THE LATEST JIB JAB and i wonder if there’s a single person out there who gives a poo poo they're still making more? lmao
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JibJab did the video for Weird Al's CNR https://youtu.be/xLnapb-30hA
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really queer Christmas posted:they're still making more? lmao TheWeepingHorse posted:JibJab did the video for Weird Al's CNR I'm not contaminating my watch history with that, thanks crazy eyes mustafa posted:fitting considering which one was responsible for more deaths on 9/11 haha holy poo poo
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the term """toxic asset""" and how it basically erased any trace of, or responsibility for, wrongdoing on the part of the banks that intentionally created them and then that "this american life" did an episode about buying a """toxic asset""" and named it toxie jfc
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related to that: Rick Santelli having a not-at-all staged freakout on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange blaming bad homeowners for the financial crisis and that's why they shouldn't get any government assistance (although bailing out the banks was completely fine!). within minutes, dormant websites with domains registered months before with references to Tea Party and the like sprung to life that shouldn't be a thing that people forget. Santelli should be dropped in Lake Michigan with cement shoes
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