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gobbagool posted:It's obviously not a financial burden, but there's a huge cultural divide, and it really doesn't make sense to pretend it's one state. Look at the SAFE act as a perfect example. What makes perfect sense to a NY Times writer living in the upper east side, makes zero sense to a guy in suburban albany, or buffalo. The cultural sensibilities of NYC should not drive politics for the whole state, but they do. Not too many people upstate would claim that USNY would be better off financially without NYC, but most would also be willing to pay the price. NYC cultural hegemony is strident and oppressive enough that most would be willing to be less wealthy to get away from it, which is one of the reasons that USNY has been bleeding people so hard for so long According to a SUNY study in 2011, upstate NY has 36% of the state's population, generates 28% of its tax revenues, and receives 42% of its spending. Take away NYC and its suburbs and you'd basically have to slash per capita state spending by a third, which is enormous.
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gobbagool posted:Basically nobody registered their ars and aks so the law has been ignored. Make libs furious with this one easy trick! So, if the laws are ineffective and everyone still has their guns, why does anyone give a poo poo? Where's the strident cultural oppression you're going on about? How does NYC's supposed political hegemony (which is absurd, the state senate is dominated by upstate Republicans and has been for 50 years) affect the lives of upstate residents in a negative way?
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Feb 2, 2017 23:08
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Can anyone summarize the DiBlasio thing for me? Is it just a big nothingburger?
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Mar 16, 2017 18:51
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CaptainPsyko posted:In 2014, BDB did a lot of fundraising for various upstate democrats - especially those running for senate. In addition, he has been linked at various times to a variety of donors who have relationships with the city and who have been investigated or even charged in various other unrelated shady campaign finance nonsense finally, during his first run for mayor, there was an outside PAC (the Campaign for One New York) that he was occasionally accused of working too closely with. Thanks for this.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:59
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just lol if you don't wear huge cargo pants to the supermarket and forego bags entirely
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Apr 12, 2017 18:55
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The ultraorthodox are kind of their own thing and they're pretty much all awful. But if you want to discuss them don't just say "Jewish". It's like if you were talking about the Amish, but only referred to them as "Christians".
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Jul 19, 2017 07:46
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It's just so wrong on its face. As if living in prewar buildings in upscale neighborhoods isn't also insanely expensive.
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Aug 3, 2017 06:00
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That lady isn't from New York, is she.
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Aug 26, 2017 03:49
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Got my voter guide in the mail. Thoughts: a few major babes running for city council this year
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Sep 6, 2017 05:19
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Cool story, bro! a decent smattering of hunks as well
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Sep 6, 2017 06:02
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:The greater question is what kind of dum dum registered for the green party in a solid blue city? In the general you can still vote for your JO Crystal candidate, but before you do that, maybe you could help steer the party who is going to win to be more progressive? Yeah, what kind of Green Party voter is also incredibly dumb? That's a tough one for sure
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E-Money posted:It's fun to go back and forth about whether or not she's racist but there are plenty of other reasons not to vote for her and vote for Fox or Brisport. Her platform is all about courting big money to come to our neighborhood without any concern for the fact that longtime residents are already struggling and being priced out of their neighborhoods. She's a gentrifier who seems to think her constituency is the neighborhood itself rather than the people who currently live there. All her policies are for the rich white people that are currently/are going to live here as she continues to let unchecked development displace all the longtime residents. Hey if she's already got affordable housing under construction that's pretty drat good.
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Gingerbread House Music posted:so, #notalljews? 
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Sep 8, 2017 02:44
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CaptainPsyko posted:Governor Ratfucker has never met a Rat he did not wish to gently caress vigorously and with great enthusiasm. Do we really want to leave this rat half-hosed? Hindsight is 20-20, and sure, starting to gently caress the rat may not have been the best decision, but he got us into this mess and I say we give him a chance to finish the job. Four more years.
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Mar 21, 2018 07:32
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Real hurthling! posted:building workers update: demands were met. new contract. no strike 
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Apr 14, 2018 18:05
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Really though, who are we to criticize this man. I say, let he who has not decked a woman right in the face for rebuffing his advances cast the first stone.
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May 8, 2018 22:31
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get that OUT of my face posted:i'm praying for a woman to come forward about cuomo, or more than just one Cuomo's too much of a pro for that to happen, he would've have them killed well before any allegations could come out
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May 8, 2018 22:33
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Real hurthling! posted:while we are wishlisting, death penalty for leaving dog poo poo on the ground Confession time: About 10 years ago I was walking my dog in the city and he had diarrhea. I didn't know what to do since you can't pick up a liquid puddle with a doggie bag. I think I just stared at it for a while and walked away when I thought no one was looking. 
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Jun 20, 2018 02:48
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If I was working at a foster agency and a group of children in my care started being followed by a loving news crew I'd want to protect their privacy too. Mechafunkzilla has issued a correction as of 18:49 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Jun 20, 2018 18:34
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That agency's program for fostering unaccompanied immigrant children is neither a secret nor a consequence of the new Trump policy: http://cayugacenters.org/programs/immigrant-foster-care/ I could maybe see someone making an argument that providing short-term support for kids in a really awful situation is helping to sustain a larger oppressive system, but this Pizzagate-for-the-left poo poo isn't helpful. Mechafunkzilla has issued a correction as of 21:37 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Jun 20, 2018 18:49
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Matt Zerella posted:What the gently caress? I wasn't implying anything pizzagatey about it at all by posting it? Every other post in that twitter thread is speculation that those kids are being smuggled as part of an ICE sex trafficking ring. "The kids are beginning to arrive here" isn't even accurate, the agency has had that program since 2014 and we don't know what the circumstances of those particular children on the video are. Maybe they're unaccompanied as a result of the Trump policy, maybe they were sent here unaccompanied, maybe it's some other situation. We don't know. Taintrunner posted:lol there’s actual reported child abuses from the foster system these kids wind up in but go ahead call it leftist pizzagate Yes, abuses can and do happen in foster care, and it would be great if the system was given the resources it needs to ensure a quality of staffing and caretaking that would eliminate those abuses. A news program following foster kids around with a camera and speculating wildly about something it has absolutely no context or evidence for is something else. Like, they're asking social workers -- who are legally and ethically prohibited from disclosing any information about clients without their consent -- who the kids are and where they come from, and then painting their refusal to discuss it as nefarious secrecy. Mechafunkzilla has issued a correction as of 19:09 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Real hurthling! posted:galaxybrain: bring kids you say you dont want in the country 2000 miles deeper into the country from the border they arrived at away from their parents with no records to put them back together so they might be deported as you profess to want. Our immigration policy is horrific -- especially now -- but it's actually a good thing that those kids are winding up at an agency where they will receive supportive care, medical and mental health treatment, and most importantly have case workers who can advocate for them and facilitate reuniting them with their families. It's hosed up that they have to travel so far to receive those services, but that's more a reflection of how deficient social services are in the vast majority of the country. I really doubt that DHS or ICE has anything to do with the decision to send these kids to New York -- again, even assuming those kids are a) undocumented and b) were detained at the border. I would assume it's HHS that's finding them placement at an appropriate agency, and it's not surprising to me at all that when your requirements involve large agencies with bilingual staff and experience working with undocumented populations, you'll be much more likely to find them in diverse urban areas like NYC. Mechafunkzilla has issued a correction as of 23:11 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Shageletic posted:You know that means alot of those kids will never be reunited with their parents again right The damage is being done at the point of separation. Since the record-keeping is so deficient, this is why it's actually preferable that the kids wind up somewhere with capable and available case workers who can advocate for them and help locate their families, even if they have to travel to get there. Like, DHS is dumping thousands of unidentified, unaccompanied kids on HHS's doorstop. They're children and need to be cared for. You can't just put them up in the nearest hotel. Mechafunkzilla has issued a correction as of 23:27 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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So, Maloney is my district -- anything nefarious about Patel I should know about, aside from the obvious carpetbagging? He seems to have a fairly palatable social democratic platform.
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Jun 21, 2018 04:38
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CaptainPsyko posted:He sure does seem to have an awful lot of money in his campaign fund for a no-name supposedly from-the-Left primary challenge to an already fairly progressive congresswoman... I thought he comes from a wealthy family of hotel owners who are bankrolling him.
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I think this story got kind of lost in the whole child concentration camps thing, but it's infuriating: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ice-detention-unaccompanied-minors-20180620-story.html Basically, ICE is using the administrative gap between undocumented kids aging out of foster care and being placed with family sponsors to detain them and move them out of NYC, so that they no longer have access to legal services. It was discovered because kids would suddenly stop showing up at school after their 18th birthdays. loving evil.
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uncurable mlady posted:I seem to recall the Sanders people doing something similar. It's not a bad idea. It's an incredibly bad idea.
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Jun 22, 2018 04:58
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Why is approaching people on false pretenses bad? Are you kidding?
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Jun 22, 2018 05:07
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uncurable mlady posted:but it's not false pretenses, they say what they're doing when someone chats with them. If they were using their actual pictures (or a picture of the candidate) and the account was clearly identified from the outset as being for the purpose of canvassing for the campaign, then whatever. But misrepresenting themselves to initiate the conversation, then disclosing afterwards, is flat-out unethical -- and that's in addition to the fact that dating is something people tend to be emotionally invested in, and pretending to be an attractive person who matches with someone and begins talking to them just to immediately reveal that it's a ruse is awfully unkind. Mechafunkzilla has issued a correction as of 05:36 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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LegionAreI posted:Pretty sure he got stonewalled on it. ICE apparently has a gag order on all agencies they are using. HHS, not ICE. Don't let a bad actor off the hook by blaming everything on ICE.
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Crowley down 16 points with over half reporting, wow
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Jun 27, 2018 02:21
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very cool, congrats to everyone in the thread who worked on her campaign or voted for her
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Jun 27, 2018 03:00
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GalacticAcid posted:https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1012701018352545793 Bloomberg...is bad? 
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Jun 29, 2018 15:38
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GalacticAcid posted:i'll never get over him being a keynote speaker at the DNC as he was simultaneously raising money for pat toomey  I forgot that he spoke at the DNC. Incredible.
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Jun 29, 2018 15:41
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Guardian Angels are some dork-rear end poo poo, also racist
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Jul 11, 2018 08:02
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The subway issues are really more about being an annoyance and loving up your day when you have to commute daily. It's not something that should stop you from using the subway if you're just visiting.
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Jul 24, 2018 05:27
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De Blasio's heart is in the right place but he is just astonishingly bad at the whole "politics" thing
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Aug 14, 2018 03:50
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The article's okay, but the single comment by a profoundly insane person is way better
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I support bike lanes because we can use them to cordon off and then murder all the cyclists and then use them as extra sidewalks
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