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Tweezer Reprise posted:Upstate politics are extremely good and as depressing as ever. Rural areas, man.
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Erie county's racist sheriff who keeps the county jail staff afraid of forced overtime MIGHT lose to a black FBI agent But yeah, we're not... we're not good over here
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Nov 8, 2017 05:26
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Well... gently caress, I'm glad to hear all this
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Nov 8, 2017 06:06
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Kurtofan posted:why do those guys caucus with the gop So they can get into office on the backs of minorities and get donations from rich people
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Nov 23, 2017 18:58
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If the dems in suburbs around here don't run on "these fuckers raised your taxes" I'll die The only people seeing a direct hit immediately are henrys in blue states
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Dec 29, 2017 20:11
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:If dems are running on fiscal responsibility how is that any better ? It's not fiscal responsibility, it's that people who thought themselves the upper crust are just another part of the population having their wealth transferred upwards. If you're a democratic canidate in the red parts of NY, you can literally say "those fuckers raised your taxes for real" and it'll be true, to not bring that up is insanity.
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Dec 30, 2017 08:29
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Cuomo didn't call special elections again. I fuckin' hate that guy so muych
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Jan 2, 2018 21:02
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Korthal posted:Upstate NY Politics report: http://buffalonews.com/2018/01/14/i-dont-know-is-frequent-answer-as-sheriff-testifies-in-inmate-death-lawsuit/ quote:Hudson asked whether mental health topics are covered during certain training programs. Just won election
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Jan 15, 2018 06:18
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Ogmius815 posted:I don't understand. you're upset that good students can start out where they belong now without stopping at a garbage tier school first? No, he's worried that community colleges, which are already tight on funds, are being stressed even more. If you think CCs are lovely garbage for people on the wrong side of the meritocratic divide, then this shouldn't worry you.
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Jan 28, 2018 11:02
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I donno, Broome's got a point. 95% of the new buildings have been built to be empty, and NYC is quietly shuffling people it has failed away from the city instead of changing things. The wording is hosed up and shows that the real problem he's got with it is ungrateful moochers are coming in and taking their services, but it is kinda hosed up to just quietly send people upstate like they're the dogs we took to the vet who never came back. This isn't an agreement between governments, either, that's the issue. NYC is just sending them away from the city.
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Mar 9, 2018 18:25
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Lawman 0 posted:Don't you towns in other states that ship their homeless to New York though No? I mean, maybe by lack of resources they go to cities, rural and suburban poverty is plagued by the fact that there's hardly anything for those people. But I'm pretty sure there aren't agreements set up to send needy families to NYC, especially when it's crossing counties.
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Mar 9, 2018 19:12
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:If the city has a choice between providing some number of homeless people housing in the city, or can instead rent out that housing to wealthy people, and use the revenue to house twice as many homeless people in the cheaper suburbs, there's a pretty compelling case for helping more people. There is a huge opportunity cost to housing them in the city and NYC pays for it either way. I don't think the NYC government should need permission of a municipality to buy housing on the open market there and then use it for its intended purpose. Letting rich cities buy up poorer areas to send their undesirables is not a good precedent. In fact, it's kinda hosed up
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Mar 9, 2018 22:46
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I realize that living upstate without having to pay rent sounds a lot like a concentration camp to your average nyc resident but uhh, no, it's not. It's just rent for one year, it's nothing else. They don't give them a job or anything. They have rent free living(and who knows what that covers, exactly. What utilities do they have to pay?), but are now in a position where services for the poor are much harder to come by.
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Mar 10, 2018 00:21
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get that OUT of my face posted:Binghamton is the seat of Broome County, and yes, it's incredibly depressed in more ways than one. Endicott, a suburb, was once the home of IBM, and they left years ago. The first Dick's Sporting Goods is still in Binghamton but their headquarters aren't. So right there you've got tens of thousands of jobs that were once there that up and left. The only major places of employment left are the county government and the university. Long lines to get into food pantries are a common sight- when I lived downtown at grad school, I was a couple doors down from one. Downtown is a food dessert, you have to go a mile outside of downtown in order to get to a grocery store. Also, it's almost always raining or overcast because it's on the tail end of the lake effect. How hard is it to get around? A big issue I saw in Chautauqua county was loving GETTING places. Without a car, it was very very hard to even pick things up. People were hitchhiking to get to court dates, and this was in 2012. That, BTW, is one of the reasons why it's harder to get aid in rural areas. There are services and lots of people trying very hard to help, but it's much harder to get to them, and much harder for them to find you. Even if you have a house, it is difficult(and expensive) to get to the places you need to go. This is nothing less than NYC shirking it's responsibility to its poor. They're not shipping them off to rich suburbs who get upset, they're sending them to a shell of a city to make themselves look better.
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Real hurthling! posted:building workers union is maybe gonna strike friday midnight if they dont get a new contract Would it be statewide?
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Apr 4, 2018 19:21
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GalacticAcid posted:via skull.gif in the succ zone, better strap in why i hate this state. I hate this world I hate everything
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Apr 13, 2018 20:23
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Absurd Alhazred posted:https://twitter.com/CityAndStateNY/status/988611824282226688 Hey by the way the dems in the race here are... pretty upset that Cuomo brought this up. The only one left supports medicare for all, legalization of marijuana with amnesty, and says stuff about holding drug companies to account for the fact they loving started the 2nd heroin epidemic. Cuomo butts in and says YEAH MY LT GOV. CAN PROBABLY WIN THERE instead of... supporting the candidate already there.
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Apr 25, 2018 00:29
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LegionAreI posted:In NY-19 news that surprises no-one: quote:“Is a guy who makes a rap album the kind of guy who lives here in rural New York and reflects our lifestyle and values?” said Mr. Benjamin, a longtime political science professor, adding that he personally did not consider rap music to be “real music.” Like every SINGLE white kid now has tried to record a rap album
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Jul 22, 2018 02:43
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Absurd Alhazred posted:https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1023112624765059074 It specifically says he's "playing the long game" which is hilarious because the judges ARE the long game
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Jul 29, 2018 21:49
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Wasn't that the guy that sent out like three different racist joke emails He sent out so many he got thrown off a school board
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Aug 13, 2018 05:13
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It's totally legal to nominate someone who doesn't know they're running, apparently
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Aug 24, 2018 18:19
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whatis posted:i'm in a pretty solid red town in collins' district and the polls this morning were dead. there were a handful of 20-somethings casting their ballots and that's it. i'd be shocked if mcmurray won, but he's been campaigning in person all over the area and has endeared himself to a lot of people that would otherwise normally never consider voting democrat. I'm in with the henrys in EA, and the polls were packed. I also see basically no collins signs anywhere, but there are a lot of McMurray/Molinaro yards. I'm gonna be surprised if nate wins too, but Collins is a scandal-ridden like... garbage candidate. Did you see the ad he put on TV and nowhere else that had a guy with a southern accent talking about "values?" He's only gotten where he is because this district was made for him and he never showed his face here so no one even knew who he was.
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Nov 6, 2018 19:41
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Collins IS being charged with Insider trading though HA HA NOPE HE LOST Jesus CHRIST Grondoth has issued a correction as of 05:27 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 05:17
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Boy did the centrists pick a bad thing to fence sit on, they're gonna get it for not pushing weed
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Jun 19, 2019 20:46
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get that OUT of my face posted:considering that the "centrists" you're talking about are mainly based in Long Island, no, they definitely won't "get it." the suburban mentality there is powerful and all of the LI Dems embody it (i know that i defended Thomas earlier ITT but at the end of the day, he's still the cream of the crap). only a handful of counties in the state wanted to opt out of legal weed and two of them were Nassau and Suffolk. they have another year to do it and do it right, but given their continued reluctance i wouldn't give it good odds Oh. Well gently caress Been seeing and hearing a lotta "divers liscences for illegals but no WEED???" outta people, which makes me wonder a lot about how this didn't get through cause this isn't a very big political risk. I guess the calculus is way different than I thought.
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Jun 20, 2019 00:42
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get that OUT of my face posted:When it comes to weed, Peoples-Stokes and a lot of urban Democrats in the Assembly wanted stronger protections for people formerly incarcerated for weed-related charges, as well as some percentage of the money made to go back into communities that have historically been heavily prosecuted in the past. I'm gonna guess that the gap between them and the Senate was way too much to close in a couple of days. I guess they passed further decriminalization measures but who cares. Oh, that makes a lot of sense and I'm not surprised there's sticking points there. More or less everyone wants legal weed, but addressing the systemic injustices carried out in banning it for as long as we have is a much bigger task. I apologize for barging in here and saying uninformed things. Not every thread is the trump thread.
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Jun 20, 2019 02:36
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whatis posted:chris collins announced he's resigning and plans to plead guilty to pending charges It was... close last time But yeah I can't wait for everyone here to die
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Hey why is Cuomo not signing a lot of stuff?
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