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GO gently caress YOURSELF posted:What's the story with Cuomo... just a publicity stunt? Always
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gobbagool posted:Many of us upstate would be glad to give everything south of Orange and Putnam county to NJ. You could then outlaw guns and cars and meat and whatever else you don't like and leave the rest of us alone lol yeah the city is the real burden on the state
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Feb 2, 2017 20:15
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Terrorist Fistbump posted:Republicans are the cool kids with the fancy toys, but only politicians with a D next to their name are electable in parts of the state. It's a strange artifact of how 1. the national split between the parties doesn't really represent state and city issues very well and 2. election turnout is terrible in general, doubly so for state elections, and triply so for primaries. I wish we had the Canadian system of parties
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Feb 2, 2017 20:59
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I don't think people should have to die in the cities so some rear end in a top hat in Owego can have an assault rife and buy bunkers full of ammo with no paper trail. What undue burdens does the SAFE act place on upstate? Even the nys sheriffs were only opposed to the assault weapons and high-capacity mag restrictions. It was written specifically to stop another sandy hook massacre, which most certainly didn't occur in the inner city
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Feb 2, 2017 22:31
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gobbagool posted:FYI, it is. Try getting out of Brooklyn, there's a whole big world out there lol I was born and raised in Erie, and I'm pleased as gently caress to have gotten into brooklyn. I love the charge of New Yorkers being close-minded and insulated when I can walk ten minutes in any direction and get food from any continent I choose instead of never-ending swaths of subways and McDonald's. Fracking is, best-case scenario, very environmentally risky and its benefits are an economic band-aid. energy companies pit land-owners against each other in a milkshake scenario so they lease for pennies, only work in counties that give them huge tax breaks, and import labor from other sites far more than they train locals. Then, when the extraction costs get too high for the market, they ship the gently caress out without bothering to cap the wells or clean up the pumps So yeah, I don't appreciate putting the water supply of millions of people between the finger lakes and the Great Lakes in peril so a couple dozen assholes who won't educate nor relocate can be middle class again for four years
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Feb 3, 2017 06:17
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haveblue posted:Never forget the best moment of the 2013 mayoral race: The time someone asked Joe Lhota if he would let the subway run over kittens and he said yes. My favorite part was going to the first dem debate at town hall in tsq and they were doing a borough roll call in the crowd so you get big cheers from Brooklyn and queens and even people from out of the city, then you get to Staten island and maybe a dozen people cheer. Have you ever heard a thousand people snicker at once? It's magical
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Feb 3, 2017 22:10
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My friend is attempting to collect all of the activist activities on one page: http://brokelyn.com/week-activism-know-rights-party/
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Feb 8, 2017 20:52
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get that OUT of my face posted:did i mention how loving much i hate cuomo so I went back to refresh my memory of how we were stuck with Cuomo: -so obama told Paterson to drop out -Cuomo ran unopposed, a la Hillary? I.e. Keeping viable contenders out of the running? -dude barely wins reelection, 54% -now he wants to be president I guess and is triangulating the gently caress out of his policies? -uuuuughghhhhgghggh
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Feb 9, 2017 09:46
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and he announced his candidacy on the steps of the tweed courthouse. I said to myself "surely that is not named for the infamously corrupt democratic politician boss tweed, of whom I had learned a great deal about in social studies classes stretching back to fourth loving grade"
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Feb 9, 2017 09:50
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I tried to construct a metaphor for the longest time but couldn't because tweed is the literal textbook example of American political corruption
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Feb 9, 2017 20:14
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goose willis posted:I'm finding all of the pro-Chelsea articles unnerving because MA is an actual blue state and NY is blue in name only
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Feb 10, 2017 06:12
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Yeah but you're talking about a state whose republican ex-governor has his name on uhc legislation
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Feb 10, 2017 22:09
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:I scrolled along the map to the town on long island where I grew up and there's a neat little line between the blue & orange dots and that line is literally the train tracks do the tracks spell out "MOSES WUZ HERE"?
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Feb 25, 2017 07:56
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Did you know that "bomb threats" are a thing that happens very often, and usually they are called in against non-denominational public schools. do you need a loving t-test or something?
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Mar 6, 2017 12:43
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Grondoth posted:I wonder if Cuomo will gently caress us on this. Any other year yeah he'd sell us out for a dollar slice but we could try to convince him it'll help him for 2020
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Mar 7, 2017 23:56
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get that OUT of my face posted:does she have residency in NYC? if not, no chance of that happening "Nothingburger" was a term Mook et al used to describe hillary's email scandal, usu shouted when plugging his ears
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Mar 16, 2017 20:02
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CaptainPsyko posted:I mean he wasn't wrong. But we're post-facts in national politics. Locally I have a bit more hope. There's a difference between "what it should be" and "what it is" though and the campaign pretended the emails weren't perceived as a big deal
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Mar 16, 2017 23:01
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don't call it a ban and don't call it a tax, especially while plastic bags are still ubiquitous. ffs, don't even call it a tax internally. incentivize reusable bags and plastic bag return and get people used to the alternative. Spend the thousands of dollars you would loving lobbying and give out reusable bags (a dime apiece in bulk) and/or have plastic bag return/recycling so the can collectors can take care of it. Do it like styrofoam where you clean up something already on the downswing or like bottle deposits (see how this isn't called a tax here?) and not like Bloomberg's soda ban/tax where the chuds get riled up about are plastic bag freedoms and NY1 brings on some elderly Asian couple who can't keep their buffet afloat without plastic bags and dog owners who won't have anywhere to put their poo poo. I swear to Christ if you use your whole budget to buy loving seven figure millennial marimba and sans serif text ad campaigns calling for a ban/tax in front of every YouTube video and the bill goes down in flames on the assembly floor instead of just leveraging systems for trash pickup/recycling or pushing for more easily recycled bag materials or just loving buying the bags yourself I will be loving pissed
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People think they reuse plastic bags a lot too, but it's a math problem. I could fit all of the garbage from a 6-bag (12 if they're doubled) grocery run in one bag and most other people can too, so you think you're reusing bags a lot and then forget the instances when you clean out under your sink and throw out the couple hundred remainders that have accumulated because you use a couple bags a week for garbage. The only people I know who run plastic bag deficits are dog walkers.
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Apr 11, 2017 20:04
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GlyphGryph posted:I've never understood plastic bag bans. It just means I have to buy my plastic bags separately instead. I guess it prevents the assholes letting their bags go flying outside though so in that way it's not bad. That's some pretty crazy numbers for NYC though, how do they actually use 10% of the nations plastic bags? everything in NYC is double- or triple-bagged because people have to lug groceries etc. by foot or public transit instead of the few feet needed for car-centric cities. also because of this, people shop more often for smaller amounts of groceries, so you can easily end up with four or six bags for a meal's worth of shopping. also, the city has a lot of really really lovely grocery stores that use tissue-paper strength bags that necessitate triple-bagging if you want your eggs to survive the eight block trip to your apartment
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Apr 11, 2017 23:35
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MizPiz posted:We really don't have much of a budget to work with. Everyone's paying out of pocket for anything that we do since the national office is focused on getting state attorney generals to open a case against Exxon for burying evidence about climate change, which New York has already joined. We have been giving out reuseable bags the sanitation department have donated to us (they're in favor of the ban since plastic bags are one of the most difficult forms of waste to manage, including when they're recycled). Besides, both the tax and ban have been effective when implemented, so I don't see a reason to shy away from it. Greenpeace really isn't a slow reform type organization anyway. I'd recommend doing cheap things like surveying where plastic bags are most used and then distribute or encourage reusable bags there. You might not be able to curb bodegas giving out bags for a sandwich, but you may find more acceptance of reusables at grocery stores, especially around food deserts. Maybe find places willing to do reusable bag returns/exchange or encourage people to "upgrade" their unused plastic bags for reusables (it would probably be a giveaway in reality, because there's no way you could offset those costs with a handful of plastic film). Also, (you've probably done this) seek out other groups with the same aims and pool resources
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Apr 11, 2017 23:54
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they cost more (an unbearable burden on every single retail outlet, they will say), are weaker, feel different/are louder (remember biodegradable sunchips bags?), people won't actually know to recycle them (we switched to single stream because people don't know/care how to separate recyclables, they can't biodegrade in normal compost. they're basically the clean coal of biodegradables
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MizPiz posted:I legitimately did not know that, learn something knew eveyday. If you have to do a tax, tax them on the supplier/retailer side imo. The enemy here is anything public-facing; if they see a line-item 5c bag tax, they'll loving flip but absolutely wouldn't notice anything under a 10% price increase on bagged goods, especially considering how fluid grocery pricing (esp wrt sales) is
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he terminated an anti-corruption task force when it started looking into his cronies
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Mechafunkzilla posted: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. lol normal country
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GalacticAcid posted:what would it take to get someone on the ballot on a third party line to run against maloney? the wfp willing to sacrifice ballot access and potentially an R victory
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Alexandria go on chapo Alexandria go on cum town
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NY-18 checking in, what’s there concrete to hate about Dilan aside from being a machine stooge? gimme some damning votes pls
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Speaking of which, Albany just had a whole week of (camera) shootings for the new season of Punisher. I wonder how much the city got out of it, beyond expenditures on police diversion of traffic. disclaimer: I work on this job all non-core crew and actors/extras were locally-hired, hotels for the cast and crew every night, crew destroying their livers every night at the bars/restaurants, permit money for the shooting locations, money paid to the locations for shooting (though it was mostly road work), money paid to the location where background holding/catering was held, local cops, dot employees, ambulance drivers, fire department getting ot for the shoot. it’s not a windfall (especially because it was on the highway and not in local businesses), but not a bad amount of money either
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idgi unless the joke is that malba is the chuddiest part of ny-14
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soooo civil court judges? how do I choose? I’m pumped to vote for Nixon/Williams/Teachout/Salazar tomorrow but I don’t know where to find a good guide on civil court judges
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#44 in Bushwick, Salazar’s district. saw one canvasser for her, two for Dilan. I voted for her because he’s a huge entrenched slimeball who’s not even putting up a single positive policy decision, just attacks. I would much rather a politician misconstrue their upbringing than actively conceal campaign contributions
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get that OUT of my face posted:idk why they didn't include that in the image, but it's the increase in primary votes compared to 4 years ago so it’s a 200% increase or 200% of the original value?
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Sep 17, 2018 23:34
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still better than an absentee legislator voting for absentee landlords
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grah posted:Julia Salazar is cool and good until her record in government proves she is not, and at that point she will be replaced. There are no heros, no one is special. Everyone is corruptible by power, just elect people that want to do good and when they fail kick their asses out. It's not individuals but strong mass movements that change the world. it’s exactly right. don’t wait to have the perfect challenger to strike at an incumbent, because every failed challenge causes them to entrench their power. it’s much easier to vote out a one term political neophyte than a seven-term operator with access to cronies and media power. we’re fortunate dilan was caught with his pants down and only carried water for real estate because a year or more of advance warning from a perceived-as-credible challenger and he’d have tossed out a bunch of populist breadcrumbs
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Shageletic posted:Hey are there any good wrap up pieces about last weeks primary or podcasts. because it’s cheap for a reporter to call Salazar’s high school classmate to hear “yeah she lived in a palatial estate with servants who carried her to class” and expensive to get exit poll data and analyze it
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Sep 24, 2018 23:19
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BdB probably wont abuse the powers bestowed by #2, but a slimier mayor like el Bloombito or Giuliani would have
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Anybody have opinions about the election next week? I know Jumaane has great endorsements but my councilor Rafael Espinal showed up to an arts advocacy group meeting (NYC Artist Coalition, we were instrumental in overturning the Cabaret Law and are working on MARCH raids and housing protections next) and I thought that was rad, but I fear progressive vote splitting.
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