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Absurd Alhazred posted:He doesn't seem to think so: Realize Cuomo has since kind of power over the legislature, even if the IDC is dead, I guess the only hope is that the AG is lookong to head hunt to propel her name in NY politics to get a shot at being governor. Instead of this just being theater for us top just clouds up why nothing will happen abd Cuomo will keep on winning reelection. Love how healthy the American political system is
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Every single communication from these people and their various unions convinces me that they're overpaid. https://twitter.com/NYCPDDEA/status/1386812200774508547
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Apr 27, 2021 04:02
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lmfao cool
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Apr 27, 2021 04:09
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wish it had been a katana
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Every single communication from these people and their various unions convinces me that they're overpaid. Why was he "attacked" right as they were filming? Why does the guy seem in no hurry to run away? Why does the detective appear to be having a heart attack after a light tap on the head from a plastic rod?
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Apr 27, 2021 13:50
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...is he even in any way identifiable as an NYPD officer? Like he's just a fat old white dude in a Performance Fleece writing on a clipboard
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betaraywil posted:...is he even in any way identifiable as an NYPD officer? Like he's just a fat old white dude in a Performance Fleece writing on a clipboard It says NYPD on the back in giant letters. You can see it when he turns. edit: 
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Apr 27, 2021 14:22
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Hm. Guess his story checks out then. My bad everybody!
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Apr 27, 2021 14:44
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betaraywil posted:Hm. Guess his story checks out then. My bad everybody! Nah, video is still phony as hell. But that isn’t why.
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Apr 27, 2021 14:47
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All the NYPD officers with any kind of theatrical talent have been lured away by the various L&Os.
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y'all i'm doing the NY State citizen public health leader training that they partnered with Cornell to facilitate (I think I mentioned this in the Discord?) and let me know if you see anything here that they're missing lmao
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mask wearing is not population wide quarantine is not population wide vaccination is not population wide these people call themselves public health professionals and have so many more initials than I do after their names
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Every single communication from these people and their various unions convinces me that they're overpaid. overpaid, because they are. https://twitter.com/syracusedotcom/status/1387160906795261955 quote:The audit was sparked by a Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard investigation in September that reported on the practice of sending officers home to avoid work but paying them for those hours to be on call. RadiRoot has issued a correction as of 04:47 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Apr 28, 2021 04:42
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oops stringer's a sexpest! https://gothamist.com/news/former-campaign-intern-accuses-scott-stringer-sexual-harassment
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In Training posted:oops stringer's a sexpest! Sounds like he can't comptrol himself
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quote:Stringer pushed back on Kim’s characterization as an unpaid intern, saying instead that she was a “peer” on the campaign and that they had a consensual relationship. “We had an on-and-off relationship over a few months. I was 40, and she was 31,” Stringer said. So, uh, the best case scenario for Stringer here is he was a 40 year old dude sleeping with his workplace subordinates? That's, uh, not optimistic... Edit: uuummm waaaaaaaaaaat?? quote:Asked if Kim was the only campaign volunteer with whom he had a relationship, Stringer said, “To the best of my knowledge.” mrmcd has issued a correction as of 22:25 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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mrmcd posted:Edit: uuummm waaaaaaaaaaat?? oooooooooof
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mrmcd posted:So, uh, the best case scenario for Stringer here is he was a 40 year old dude sleeping with his workplace subordinates? That's, uh, not optimistic... Where's that quote from? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/04/jean-kim-says-scott-stringer-repeatedly-groped-me.html Leon Sumbitches has issued a correction as of 22:57 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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hope morales can surge from this, shes the only one with a respectable platform and now people can't lean on stringer's "experience" to pretend he's a remotely left-leaning candidate. or he'll stay in the race, gently caress it, nobody has any public accountability to sexual assault so he probably won't drop out.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Where's that quote from? https://gothamist.com/news/scott-stringer-denies-sexual-abuse-accusations-mayoral-rivals-call-him-withdraw-race
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Sounds like he can't comptrol himself See, this here's the difference between a quip and a bon mot Ed. We did it! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/nypd-robot-dog-backlash.html quote:In response to a subpoena from City Councilman Ben Kallos and Council Speaker Corey Johnson requesting records related to the device, police officials said that a contract worth roughly $94,000 to lease the robotic dog from its maker, Boston Dynamics, had been terminated on April 22. ... In an interview, Mr. Miller said the lease had been scheduled to end in August and that the police had planned to test the robotic dog’s capabilities until then. So that's $100,000 for 6 months. Great toy dipshits. Ed. of ed. Oh no, dumber than that: https://twitter.com/phara4assembly/status/1387723862398443522?s=20 betaraywil has issued a correction as of 15:38 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Big ol' long read https://twitter.com/RossBarkan/status/1387940522833100801 quote:The best way to understand Andrew Yang, municipal Democrat, is to imagine Michael Bloomberg without billions of dollars—and with far more sympathy for the left wing of the Democratic Party. Yang’s top consultant is Bradley Tusk, Bloomberg’s former campaign manager. Tusk, a multimillionaire, waged war against the de Blasio administration, successfully forcing Uber’s entry into the five boroughs, allowing for-hire vehicles to clog city streets and decimate the yellow taxi industry, spurring a rash of suicides among immigrant drivers. Uber’s business model is borderline fraudulent, relying on endless venture capital cash to price rides at an artificially low rate, and perfectly encapsulates the Big Tech ethos that Tusk and his allies celebrate. (Let’s pause here to note that many Democrats cheered on Uber’s invasion of New York, including Scott Stringer.) Tusk is very open about his disdain for progressive Democrats and his wish to wrench the party in a more neoliberal direction. His firm, which also lobbies the city, has consulted for the PBA, the reactionary union representing NYPD officers, and his dislike of the teachers’ union has bled into Yang’s campaign. Tusk’s significant financial interests in casino gambling very well could have influenced Yang’s bizarre and unworkable idea to place a casino on Governor’s Island. quote:Yang is often presented, on the left, as a revanchist neoliberal, the kind of Democrat who will open New York’s hen house to Bloombergian wolves. On one hand, this is understandable, because it is undeniable Bloomberg veterans will have much more of an opportunity to influence this City Hall than they did under de Blasio. quote:Here we come to Yang. To hear the broad left, on Twitter at least, bemoan Yang is to wonder whether the apocalypse is really upon us. Yang is fundamentally a moderate, “normie” Democrat with some intriguing left impulses. He is against defunding the police, but you won’t get a defund mayor as long as the middle class Black and Latino voters of Brooklyn and Queens don’t want one. Dianne Morales probably isn’t winning the race and if you really think Stringer or Wiley, facing down this electorate, will enact deep NYPD cuts at a time gun violence is spiking, I’ve got a Governor’s Island casino to sell you. Yang’s flirtation with cracking down on street vendors, as concerning as it is, will probably be negated by the City Council’s expansion of licenses, which Yang says he supports. There will probably be no lasting reforms of the NYPD—it will remain the highly-militarized citadel that it is—which will be of great disappointment to the left.[...] quote:Education, for leftists and various reformers, presents more reasons to oppose Yang. He does not support eliminating the SHSAT, the standardized test used for New York’s specialized high schools.[...] quote:Whatever you think of Yang’s ideas—from the admirable, like a public bank and cash transfer proposal modeled on a successful program in Stockton, California, to the misguided, including a tax break for working in-person—the reality of his City Hall is that it would have to play by the existing rules of politics. As Matt Thomas pointed out, Yang is guaranteed to welcome some sleazy and dubious local business tycoons into the fold who pitch him destructive ideas. But unlike Bloomberg, the left can easily organize against all of that. Yang will be a conventional Democrat, like de Blasio, and he will not have an endless reserve of money to draw from. He will not be able to bludgeon anyone. It’s possible, even, that he farms out the day-to-day governance of City Hall to one of his mayoral rivals, like Kathryn Garcia, who led Sanitation and NYCHA for de Blasio. quote:The City Council, come 2022, is guaranteed to be the most left-wing in New York history. As many as six DSA members may sit in the chamber, along with many Democrats who agree with DSA on a vast majority of issues and will want to mimic their politics to avoid a primary challenge. With the outer borough Democratic machines severely weakened, the next speaker will be repeatedly challenged from the left—if he or she doesn’t just end up being one of their own. The state legislature, for perhaps the first time in modern history, will operate to the left of the sitting mayor. Democrats hold supermajorities in both chambers. quote:Yang wasn’t an anti-labor presidential candidate, though Tusk and the Bloomberg acolytes who might populate City Hall would rather these unions weaken or disappear altogether. Labor knows better, though; they haven’t endorsed Yang, but they probably aren’t readying massive independent expenditures against him either. Why? He doesn’t have Bloomberg’s billions. Bloomberg could defy organized labor because his wealth insulated him from their pressure. Wealth is its own political machine. quote:On Wednesday, as Stringer denied he sexually assaulted a former campaign volunteer, Yang released his affordable housing plan. For a leftist who dreams of a social democratic New York City that decommodifies housing and saps the strength of predatory landlords, Yang’s proposal left much to be desired. But in the context of what Democrats have pitched over the last 20 years, it had a lot to recommend. His goal of hitting 250,000 affordable housing units over eight years, if reached, would exceed what de Blasio accomplished. He wants to fight back against the ability of a single City Council member to kill a rezoning because it happens to occur in their district. He would legalize single-room occupancy units, which gave millions of poor New Yorkers an affordable way to live in Manhattan for decades, and accessory dwelling units. He would end mandatory parking minimums, which fed the car culture. quote:Yang does not represent a break from the post-1970s status quo: all mayors, from Koch onward, have made it their primary mission to make New York attractive to wealthy investors, heavily relying on tax revenue from Wall Street and pursuing policies to benefit that engine of uneven growth, real estate. Police are well-funded, in part, to safeguard capital. This is what neoliberalism is and Yang will not be any kind of departure from that reality. But no one, outside of Morales, promises a return to the pre-Crisis social democratic city. This has got to be the longest article that takes the prospect of a Yang mayorship seriously and analyzes what might actually happen. I didn't even embed most of the links in the article. tl;dr - "Tusk would probably be the new BerlinRosen", Yang is more of a normie Democrat than people think, he will be constrained by a leftist City Council, labor unions can probably pressure him, he's much poorer than Bloomberg and won't be able to buy his way through like Bloomy did, his housing plan is promising, the sober truth is that most of the other candidates except for Morales are little better than Yang on a lot of these issues.
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But also he's annoying as gently caress.
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I think it’s a pretty good (and fatalistic) analysis. Yang is a dilettante moron and will get steamrolled by most everyone, but he’ll have enough control of the administrative state to stymie reform that we’ve run out of time to implement. but also lmao look who the president is so “steamrolled by people to his left but it’s not enough” is probably the best we’ll get AND an improvement
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Maximo Roboto posted:Big ol' long read This is a much long-winded version of the optimistic leftist case for Yang that I flirted with at the beginning of primary season before settling on deciding he sucks too much for me to be optimistic. But the shorter version of said optimistic case is: In the absence of a strong mayors office that can actually accomplish something anyway, we have little to lose by rolling the dice on someone who, at the minimum, is generally willing to gently caress around and find out with an interesting idea.
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is it compelling enough to rank Yang 5, if just to keep Adams out?
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https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/1387780885764771845 garrrrrbage
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sounds pretty bad for addicts, giving them enough cash to buy more drugs but then getting rid of the homeless services so they have nowhere safe to go after they've spent their UBI
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with 2000 dollars they can rent a room at the plaza for a weekend so problem solved forever
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the homeless can pool their resources and have hotel parties every weekend
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Fleetwood posted:the homeless can pool their resources and have hotel parties every weekend Get a AirBnB using a fake account that claims it's a rich family visiting from France!
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Apr 30, 2021 13:23
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"Private philanthropy" is the laugh-line right
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hmmm *looks at New York real estate* I know where we can resolve inefficiencies! Social programs!
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a guy leafleting for ray mcguire stopped me in my hall. i had to leave, but said i couldn't remember who ray mcguire was at that moment, and I was told he is "the black candidate" and "lots of rappers support him" i asked "wasn't he a cop?" and the campaign volunteer said "no, he was on wall street." I said i didn't think ray was my guy great ground game, ray, in ocasio-cortez's district
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new Barkan https://twitter.com/RossBarkan/status/1389351820171087873
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so I’m voting for Diane morales right
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yeah she's my #1, still trying to figure out if it's even worth putting Wiley 2nd or just leaving the one choice.
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In Training posted:yeah she's my #1, still trying to figure out if it's even worth putting Wiley 2nd or just leaving the one choice. Not filling out your full ballot is dumb. Your 2-5 literally do not count unless and until it is mathematically impossible for your #1 to win. Even if #5 is “well, I guess I’d rather a moron than a cop” tiebreaker participation.
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