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Interesting story about how some insurgent left-wing candidates in NYC are getting a lot of money from finance people. This stood out to me: "This phenomenon is not wholly new, according to Salazar donor Enrique Diaz-Alvarez, who serves as chief risk officer at Ebury, a financial-services and lending firm that helps small and midsize businesses reach global markets. Diaz-Alvarez, an occasional contributor to the socialist magazine Jacobin, noted that Wall Street giants such as JP Morgan Chairman Jamie Dimon and former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein have long identified as Democrats and historically directed their most of their donations to Democratic candidates." I remember thinking Jacobin read a lot like a champagne socialist Fortune, but this is really too on the nose.
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always consider the source. while that story isn't nothing, it's also a way for establishment media (or, in this case, a business publication) to say, "see? this makes all of their work and words moot!" Jacobin is pretty hit-or-miss, though, and especially when it strays from focusing on left- and right-wing political movements across the world speaking of money, Brooklyn Dem party boss Frank Seddio owes over $2 million to, of all things, Golden Corral. additionally, he's funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to a political consultant and the wife of his former law partner. all of this has been happening while the Brooklyn Democratic Party is bleeding money already, the battle lines are being drawn between the borough's elected officials (so far, just in the assembly). Walter Mosley and Robert Carroll want to know more about Seddio pissing away party money, while Jo Anne Simon and Rodneyse Bichotte aren't worried. Bichotte also thinks he's done a good job of uniting the party, which is total bullshit, but she's been visibly in Seddio's orbit over the past few months after a rather nasty break with Jumaane Williams
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Cohoes` wife-beating Mayor Morse earlier today pleaded guilty to one out of several counts of federal wire fraud related to campaign fund embezzlement. Once he's sentenced he'll be barred from public office, but that's Dec 10th, and he can legally remain until then. He lost the Dem primary, and I don't think he was on any other line, so he wasn't expected to win another term in November, anyway. Common Council is in emergency session, maybe they can oust him? https://twitter.com/TVJacksonWang/status/1163948595864846337
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Cohoes` wife-beating Mayor Morse earlier today pleaded guilty to one out of several counts of federal wire fraud related to campaign fund embezzlement. Once he's sentenced he'll be barred from public office, but that's Dec 10th, and he can legally remain until then. He lost the Dem primary, and I don't think he was on any other line, so he wasn't expected to win another term in November, anyway.
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get that OUT of my face posted:i've read this story on City & State news roundup updates and it's loving wild Aaand he's out! https://twitter.com/CBS6SteveM/status/1163962864698310656 https://twitter.com/CBS6SteveM/status/1163963623649267712
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i wanted a challenger for my state senator Kevin Parker and someone has come forward. i've met Josue Pierre too many times to count. he tends to come to a lot of events hosted by elected officials in this part of Brooklyn- forums, town halls, etc. he's very friendly and sociable, and he seems to be, at the very least, very eager to get more with the left program. i didn't know he was out and gay, though. that's no small feat since there's a lot of homophobia in the Caribbean and its communities. he's definitely got my vote seems like the only time Parker is visible is when he throws a temper tantrum. he doesn't put himself out there anywhere as much as Pierre does
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my fave part of the cohoes mayor thing was the day before he plead out to the wire fraud his office was issuing very pointed corrections to anyone that would listen that he had not indicated he would be stepping down as mayor
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Novum Eboracum delendum est, lmao.
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deis volentibus, ita sit! 🙏
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here's City & State's interview with Erika Vladimer, who's primary challenging Carolyn Maloney for Congress. aside from her push for term limits which has never struck me as a good way to check undue influence, she seems good, and certainly better than Suraj Patel. she also supports decriminalizing sex work
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got an email for a  BROOKLYN DEMOCRATS COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING on 9/9. as usual, i'll post a trip report after. they're going to be discussing the 2020 census and general issues of public policy, but if it's anything like one of the meetings i've been to before, the census discussion will take up all the time and it'll be late when we talk about other things. given that Frank Seddio's money troubles, both personal and for the party, have come under scrutiny lately, i'm gonna bet they want no major conversation to be had about thatit's going to be at the Coney Island amphitheater, so even though it's far for a lot of people, it's very accessible by the subway
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spotted in Crown Heights near the West Indian Parade route. yeshivos by choice, dumb mother fucker by the grace of G-d
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it's cool that our access parasite media whine about BdB running for mayor and showing up late sometimes for press conferences as an attack on their very being, while Cuomo's attack rear end in a top hat always says poo poo like this and they don't call him out on it
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https://twitter.com/erinmdurkin/status/1169294236384137217?s=21 why does de blasio hate bikes so much
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hey if you support decriminalizing and destigmatizing sex work, please reconsider throwing around "whore" as an insult, because it makes people not trust you also, you know, bitches and cunts
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get that OUT of my face posted:under normal circumstances i agree, but Azzopardi and his boss are such a contemptible pieces of poo poo that i can and will make exceptions for them Aaaah, I see. So you reserve the misogynistic insult for the absolute worst of the worst. (I understand what you're trying for, but what's coming out is exactly the opposite of what you probably intended...)
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Yeah, the issue is not "don't say ___ because it's not polite," the issue is that saying it reveals something about your actual values that isn't in line with what your purported values are. The point is less to get you to mask those deep beliefs, more to get you to examine and change them
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get that OUT of my face posted:under normal circumstances i agree, but Azzopardi and his boss are such a contemptible pieces of poo poo that i can and will make exceptions for them Right. Were not saying don't call them terrible terrible things, we're saying that calling them 'whores' says as much about how you feel about, to put it indelicately, whores, as it does as how you feel about them, and that is the problem. Find some other suitably colorful terms for these fuckstains of minimal moral standing.
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i edited out the offending stuff and my defense, i'm in the wrong and it's not worth saying otherwise. but drat if those two don't drive me around the fuckin bend and make it hard speaking of sex work, Robert Jackson tweeted this https://twitter.com/SenatorRJackson/status/1168955972523630592
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https://twitter.com/Jan_Ransom/status/1170305571779743745 More patronage.
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get that OUT of my face posted:spotted in Crown Heights near the West Indian Parade route. yeshivos by choice, dumb mother fucker by the grace of G-d Please fund our anime wall scroll schools.
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speaking of corrupt party bosses, Brooklyn county committee meeting is tonight. i can't wait to see how little time they're going to dedicate to Seddio's lovely handling of party finances, which has gotten worse every yearetalian posted:Please fund our anime wall scroll schools.
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get that OUT of my face posted:i'm never going to stop referring to yeshivas and hasidic judaism in general as "anime wall scroll" judaism Yeshivas are more a misnagdim thing, aren't they? Anyway I don't really get the "anime wall scroll" joke. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yeshivas are more a misnagdim thing, aren't they? Anyway I don't really get the "anime wall scroll" joke.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yeshivas are more a misnagdim thing, aren't they? Anyway I don't really get the "anime wall scroll" joke. The Hasidic theory of immanence is that all of reality is infused with God's presence. This means that all things are viable objects of communion, and that all things must be approached as if holy. Following this, any pleasure can be elevated to worship with the proper spiritual state. A version of this I heard was that one of the early figures liked smoking tobacco and expensive paintings, which he was criticized as being unserious for enjoying. He defended his approach with "these things are part of the world and thus part of our project." So, it's easy to extend this to any silly thing.
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Tulip posted:The Hasidic theory of immanence is that all of reality is infused with God's presence. This means that all things are viable objects of communion, and that all things must be approached as if holy. Following this, any pleasure can be elevated to worship with the proper spiritual state.
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It's kind of half a joke. In Israel, at least, you'd refer to the ultra orthodox as Haredim and then distinguish between Hassidim and Misnagdim/Mitnagdim/Litaim. The latter are more well-known for being more serious about the book-learning, although I guess either way they're sitting down studying the Torah. Edit for more relevant content: he's running! https://twitter.com/AMDanQuart/status/1171212668113436672 Absurd Alhazred has issued a correction as of 02:06 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Brooklyn county committee trip report: it was actually positive and productive! it started a little later than the scheduled time of 7pm but we got out before the scheduled end time of 10pm. the census 2020 presentation that many people thought was just there to stall for time was just about an hour. after a longer-than-15 minute break, Brandon West (president of New Kings Democrats and de facto head of the county committee reform movement) introduced the measure for greater financial transparency. after a few people voiced their support in the affirmative, party boss Frank Seddio went up to do the same, but then stressed they put financials up every six months on the party website and that we should all be more involved. the motion passed with flying colors. it helps to get involved the meeting was at the Ford Amphitheater in Coney Island, which had lots of space, comfy seats, and a functioning concession stand where they sold beer. A+ venue
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mournful 9/11 everyone, i missed this one from a few days ago. no wonder why activists have been targeting the Assembly, Dickens could use a challenger https://twitter.com/HarlemPatch/status/1170077243420434435
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get that OUT of my face posted:mournful 9/11 everyone, i missed this one from a few days ago. no wonder why activists have been targeting the Assembly, Dickens could use a challenger quote:The tenant organizer tied Dickens' opposition to the rent laws to her own business interests as a landlord in Harlem. Dickens has been criticized by political opponents in the past for keeping her real estate holdings, which were managed by her sister, in poor condition. In 2014, tenants at one of her Harlem buildings launched a rent strike, the Daily News reported at the time. lol
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gee what a surprise. Harlem may very well be the worst part of NYC in terms of how incestuous machine politics dealings are
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get that OUT of my face posted:it was based on a membership vote across the country, so that says more about who's doing the voting. personal experience and all that, but i know a few people who were Bernie-to-Liz this cycle Also, Liz is just so much more of a WFP style candidate, tbqh; they endorsed Sanders in 2016, when the choice was him or Clinton, but the center of the party has always been somewhere in between the two (though closer to Sanders), and Warren is running right down that lane.
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get that OUT of my face posted:it was based on a membership vote across the country, so that says more about who's doing the voting. personal experience and all that, but i know a few people who were Bernie-to-Liz this cycle Yeah, as usual registering for them is a complete joke because they have no actual primaries, the only "votes" they conduct are online polls open to anyone, and then ultimately depend on whoever the Democrats nominate, meaning you should have registered Democrat. I hope either fusion voting dies or they otherwise lose their line.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yeah, as usual registering for them is a complete joke because they have no actual primaries, the only "votes" they conduct are online polls open to anyone, and then ultimately depend on whoever the Democrats nominate, meaning you should have registered Democrat. I hope either fusion voting dies or they otherwise lose their line. This is disingenuous in the extreme; The national org endorses national candidates based on online polls. The ballot line is determined at the state party convention, the same as for every other party in NY State not named the Democrats or Republicans. Yeah, you should register democrat unless you're actively involved in the party to the level of attending the convention, etc. But that's true of every party in NY other than D and R, and has nothing to do with the process that went into the Warren endorsement.
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CaptainPsyko posted:This is disingenuous in the extreme; This is how I really feel about them, there's nothing disingenuous about my disdain for this poo poo party who should not have a loving line in NY state. quote:The national org endorses national candidates based on online polls. The ballot line is determined at the state party convention, the same as for every other party in NY State not named the Democrats or Republicans. It does because what this means is that they solicit random assholes who answered a poll about who they think should be the Democratic nominee and then if you were stupid enough to think "hey, I'm a bit to the left of the Democrats, it makes sense to me to register WFP" you're hosed because you're locked out of being able to vote for that actual nominee when it counts, or for anyone in the local races where it also might count. quote:Yeah, you should register democrat unless you're actively involved in the party to the level of attending the convention, etc. But that's true of every party in NY other than D and R, and has nothing to do with the process that went into the Warren endorsement. Oh, you mean the other useless ones which shouldn't have a ballot line? Glad we agree!
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