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NYC has had such a cavalcade of terrible mayors that I can’t even hate Yang that much. He simply can never compare to Bloomberg or Giuliani, no matter how annoying he gets.
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He'd probably be worse that Bloomberg. Bloomberg was a fairly competent administrator, he just didn't give a poo poo about anything unless it was important to millionaires or the donor industries of Wall St and Real Estate. Yang would just be an endless amount of reddit ideas guy bullshit. He lose half the city budget to some Musk level conman scheme within the first year.
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Apr 19, 2021 21:53
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it would be years and years of poo poo like this https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1359992211186843649?s=20 and an endlessly ballooning NYPD budget
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Apr 19, 2021 22:16
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mrmcd posted:He'd probably be worse that Bloomberg. Bloomberg was a fairly competent administrator, he just didn't give a poo poo about anything unless it was important to millionaires or the donor industries of Wall St and Real Estate. If the legends from my office (Medicaid) are anything to go by, Bloomberg was a staggeringly incompetent administrator. It feels like 75% of the work we do is cleaning up messes he made, and fucker hasn't even been our boss for nearly a decade. CaptainPsyko posted:All my homies hate Andrew Yang. Yeah it looks like confidence in Yang peaked in February and then Yang started to appear in the news as a person rather than just the generic concept of 'has been in the national spotlight before' so he's been dropping. "Other" is the other one that's dropping, and fortunately Stringer and Morales seem to be the next biggest beneficiaries after "Don't know."
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Apr 19, 2021 22:27
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honestly, Yang might be the lesser of two evils between him and Eric Adams let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. I know I deserve to be stripped of my nojoe for that
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Apr 19, 2021 22:35
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uft is supporting stringer they just announced this evening
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Apr 20, 2021 00:29
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mrmcd posted:
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Tulip posted:If the legends from my office (Medicaid) are anything to go by, Bloomberg was a staggeringly incompetent administrator. It feels like 75% of the work we do is cleaning up messes he made, and fucker hasn't even been our boss for nearly a decade. I mean yeah it could've been a total poo poo show behind the scenes for all I know. I just remember it being relatively drama free aside from him literally not giving a poo poo about anyone poor and ridiculing anyone who suggested we shouldt give a poo poo. Anecdotally career city govt functionaries seem to dislike DeBlasio way more the Bloomberg. Also though there was that one total shitshow snowstorm where everything was hosed up for like three days because Bloomberg refused to spend money on hiring plows or buying salt because the end of the fiscal year was almost there. Just remembered that lmao.
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Madd0g11 posted:MONORAIL Peo-ple's bank
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mrmcd posted:
You forgot the part where he sold the city snow plow fleet to private companies which the city then had to hire to clear snow. It was in 2013 under the city vehicle fleet consolidation program (a good and nessesary step, but with a whole bunch of messed up things included in it).
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ughhhh posted:You forgot the part where he sold the city snow plow fleet to private companies which the city then had to hire to clear snow.included in it). Yeah, see, this is the sort of thing I can't imagine Yang doing. That and the stop and frisk.
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Apr 20, 2021 02:35
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I distinctly remember a lot of the people favorably talking about Bloomberg basically saying that he’s already so ludicrously wealthy that he’d be less likely to use the office for personal enrichment
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Apr 20, 2021 14:41
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:I distinctly remember a lot of the people favorably talking about Bloomberg basically saying that he’s already so ludicrously wealthy that he’d be less likely to use the office for personal enrichment people believe this too
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hell that was the narrative behind trump, Romney, and Bloomberg for their presidential runs. Perot used that line in the 96 election amazing doublethink
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mrmcd posted:Anecdotally career city govt functionaries seem to dislike DeBlasio way more the Bloomberg. As an early-career city functionary, you're talking to different city functionaries than I am. I will say that I've seen some variation - NYPD obviously hates DeBlasio way more, and Social Services (where I have most of my experience) hates Bloomberg with incredible depth and passion. Finance seems to be a real hive of hating DeBlasio because they're at the sharp end of his most annoying habit as a boss (pouring everything into a project for exactly as long as it takes to cut a ribbon and then peeling out ASAP). Scrub-Niggurath posted:I distinctly remember a lot of the people favorably talking about Bloomberg basically saying that he’s already so ludicrously wealthy that he’d be less likely to use the office for personal enrichment lol literally an argument that de Tocqueville poo poo all over when talking about good things about America
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Yang would 100% try to start a program to scrap the subway system in order to have those dumb Musk car tunnels from Vegas replace it while having an app developed to allow Bitcoin to be used to pay for fare and would buy a bunch of Boston Dynamic Spot robots for the NYPD with remote controlled tasers strapped to their heads
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Yang would 100% try to start a program to scrap the subway system in order to have those dumb Musk car tunnels from Vegas replace it while having an app developed to allow Bitcoin to be used to pay for fare and would buy a bunch of Boston Dynamic Spot robots for the NYPD with remote controlled tasers strapped to their heads He'd just have to strap the tasers at this point, I think they already have some.
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yeah it just got deployed for the first time about a month or so ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24jufNhuUSI
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Yang would 100% try to start a program to scrap the subway system in order to have those dumb Musk car tunnels from Vegas replace it while having an app developed to allow Bitcoin to be used to pay for fare and would buy a bunch of Boston Dynamic Spot robots for the NYPD with remote controlled tasers strapped to their heads Let me reminisce about all the mayors who presided over NY in my lifetime: Beame: barely competent party hack, inherited a poo poo sandwich and was overwhelmed Koch: pugnacious, quick-witted, deeply closeted. the classic 80s new yorker! Dinkins: took office after the height of the crack epidemic, somehow made things worse Guiliani: better living through fascism Bloomberg: improved the city for white guys in all five boroughs Deblasio: won office despite being hated by everybody. his wife heads a billion-dollar department to, i don't know, work on mental health or something I would rather any of them over Yang, who seems like an aspergery tech bro. personally i like stringer, if only because of his pledge to support community boards against lovely developers who want to steamroll zoning rules. I thought about garcia for a while until i found out she explicitly promised to back the lovely developers  .
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Apr 21, 2021 02:47
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L, and I cannot stress this enough, OL - Cuomo is starting to badmouth Tish James, he's getting real desperate.
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Yang’s stance on the subway is actually more of wild populist impossible promises than technocracy https://twitter.com/tweetbenmax/status/1349525668921561089 lol https://twitter.com/danarubinstein/status/1384320974519156737
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I am a filthy upstater, but you NYC goons please make sure that idiot doesn't get voted in or we will roll our eyes and tut at you forever. What are the alternatives? There's gotta be someone who at least won't make everyone cringe every time he opens his mouth.
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LegionAreI posted:I am a filthy upstater, but you NYC goons please make sure that idiot doesn't get voted in or we will roll our eyes and tut at you forever. Counterpoint: Give me my loving money! Seriously, after Trump I really don't care how embarrassing the idiot in charge is. If he wants to put control of the metro back into city control, that sounds great. If he wants to send me money, even better. Let him YOLO plank in Grand Central Terminal while dabbing dank vape videos about bitcoin. More importantly, does his UBI plan replace welfare payments? Or is it in addition to them?
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Counterpoint: Give me my loving money! replaces always has he's just a grifter
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Apr 23, 2021 15:31
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His plan replaces all government benefits with a lump sum payment worth significantly less. He will take money away from you
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Apr 23, 2021 15:35
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All the city pension funds moved to bitcoin What could go wrong
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Gunshow Poophole posted:replaces Great, now I hate him.
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In Training posted:I fuckin hate Andrew Yang
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"This basic income program will start with providing those who are living in extreme poverty with an average of $2,000 per year." lol I didn't realize how comically small this is, I decided to actually read his platform today
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LegionAreI posted:I am a filthy upstater, but you NYC goons please make sure that idiot doesn't get voted in or we will roll our eyes and tut at you forever. Hey, can you upstaters stop electing morons who keep voting against funding our subway? The mayor doesn't matter, who gives a poo poo, they're all terrible.
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Matt Zerella posted:Hey, can you upstaters stop electing morons who keep voting against funding our subway? Sorry, I'm surrounded by people who are terrified to ride Metro North, much less the subway in the city. 
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Have any of the so called socialists we elected to the State Legislature said anything about impeaching Cuomo for murdering all those old people and for being a sex pest?
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KomradeX posted:Have any of the so called socialists we elected to the State Legislature said anything about impeaching Cuomo for murdering all those old people and for being a sex pest? Not since the last batch. Everyone is waiting for the investigations now
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haveblue posted:Not since the last batch. Everyone is waiting for the investigations now Ahh so they're just waiting for this to be officially buried. Cause even if you wasnt to wait on the sec stuff it's more than clear he got thousands of New Yorkers killed for his donors
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KomradeX posted:Ahh so they're just waiting for this to be officially buried. afaict that's just not impeachable or in any way a problem from the eyes of a state lol for us
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Tulip posted:afaict that's just not impeachable or in any way a problem from the eyes of a state Love this country
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the republicans in the state assembly tried to impeach him for the nursing home deaths in feb (early March? I forget exactly) like two weeks before the abuse allegations started going public.
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Apr 23, 2021 20:51
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There's an impeachment proceeding going on as we speak. Although it's not being seen very favorably by the former staffer group: https://twitter.com/harassment_free/status/1385576456890327045
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I assume Cuomo would have a easier time covering things up from an investigation run out of the AG's Office rather than by the Legislature, or am I misinterpreting that?
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KomradeX posted:I assume Cuomo would have a easier time covering things up from an investigation run out of the AG's Office rather than by the Legislature, or am I misinterpreting that? He doesn't seem to think so: Absurd Alhazred posted:L, and I cannot stress this enough, OL - Cuomo is starting to badmouth Tish James, he's getting real desperate. Although this could, itself, be some kind of wacky maneuver. I'm starting to get flashbacks to the Women's Equality Party he set up for the explicit purpose of messing with WFP when he didn't like that they endorsed (then desperately backed out of endorsing because of that all important ballot line) Zephyr Teachout for governor in 2014.
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