They’re also way easier to keep clean.
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They’re also way easier to keep clean.
Because they hate taxes more than anything else.
Marvel movies probably make up a disproportionate share of what I’m talking about here.
I think we can let people enjoy media how they want while also pointing out that they’re probably missing out on difficult questions of moral complexity that youth-targeted media tends to pretend to address via lip service while mostly avoiding through its commitment to simplicity and feeling nice.
Somehow I feel like the person in the wheelchair probably doesn’t need and will not be best served by a long gun, unless they too are joining the militia.
I think it’s a bit of both. Clear some spots for unqualified MAGA people in the super elite schools, see a lot of the less elite schools suffer.
Well, at least we can’t criticize him for being too ambitious.
It’s way too soon for Jeffries to have a response to this.
This has to be it. Homie’s a weathervane.
My hometown - population ~1,000 in the hills of Western Massachusetts, rugged individualists all - gets $600,000 per year from the state and is very much in favor of shrinking government. 🤔
Even if you like the antivax stances, it was abundantly clear that RFK was going to come in and pour gasoline all over everything with a lit match between his teeth and that the resulting fire would not warm the hearts of any of the voters Polis needs to appeal to, so his endorsement was quite odd.
But what if the goal was to make electricity prices go brrrrrrr?
It’s funny because Lucas Sin has a whole thing about trying to do a nice thing by buying out Chinese restaurants with aging owners to open bougie Asian spots, based on the premise that the facilities are already set up for Asian cooking and these people want to retire someday.
Can we build enough housing between now and the 2030 census for it to matter? Feels like we’re three years behind.
I have assumed this is where they’d go because it’s the only logical conclusion.
There’s a reason I froze my credit less than a week into the administration and got all my relatives - especially the elderly ones - to do the same, and I don’t think I’m alone in this. I do wonder whether GOP voters will be more vulnerable due to not seeing the threat (a la Covid).
“Let ‘em burn” is actually still more moderate than the Trump voter position of “let’s burn ‘em” though.
Sir, we banned straws, what more do you want?
The left would rather skirmish over whether we’ve done enough groundtruthing on anything that resembles a solution, with the only acceptable outcome of said groundtruthing being to impose a hukou system.
Also, following this to its logical conclusion (which we shouldn’t), if winning is contingent on white people voting and white people refuse to vote for a person of color (notably: not true), then wouldn’t that dictate that the strategic move would be to never nominate a person of color?
Who exactly are you referring to here? It’s not that easy to fire City employees, basically impossible to fire anyone with a title.
Yes, but I can also see people having extremely irrational (read as: insane) responses to this along the lines of “People living there? But there are CHILDREN! Anyone could live there!”
I prefer to talk about both because I think both are problematic (and golf courses typically don’t come with any transit access).
…how do I avoid exposure?
Hey, thanks, this isn’t about billionaire golf course owners though. I’m guessing you didn’t read the article, which has a section focused on using public assets for housing. Lander had proposed using City-owned golf courses to produce new neighborhoods and add tens of thousands of housing units.
Thank you for mentioning golf courses.
I think it’s more because they like Mamdani and they like candidates who don’t come across as focus group phonies and if you solve for that you can advance transformative policy innovation, but that doesn’t take away from your larger point that money will be lit on fire.
The North Country: highly representative of New York State writ large.
Against Delgado she’s maybe got a chance, but what’s her angle against Hochul? I just don’t see why she’s even going for it.
I’ve fallen asleep on the train and woken up in the Bronx, sureounded (by Latino kitchen staff on their way home).
These are the people (voters) Hakeem Jeffries routinely denigrates.
I live in NYC. I am there to help the adult babies enjoy their time in the city and enjoy their cluelessness.
I think they’re real people. The same real (non-New Yorker) people who flame New Yorkers for rightly critiquing Jeffries fecklessness and amorality in the NYC mayoral.
I don’t think you’re in the minority, but the alternative is the Hakeem Jeffries approach of run everything through an excruciating gauntlet of focus groups until it’s sucked dry of any and all meaning.
Flying in there when I’m traveling for work is the best / worst. “I need to get home and don’t really care about the cost because it’s 11:45pm on a Wednesday.” —> take the air train three stops to get to a taxi stand and participate in a very odd taxi assignment ritual, hit the road 45 mins later.
Just stay off the internet and you should be fine.
Have you been on that sub? Someone last week was suggesting that they would love to stay in a “quiet leafy suburb” like Astoria or Flushing, but their active teen wouldn’t tolerate it. People desperately need travel advice for New York City.
I feel like the technology is probably most of the way there now if someone actually wanted to focus on it, it’s just that no military will pay more for a worse tank.
I’m on this sub. Most people asking questions have no clue about NYC and seem to think anything that isn’t Midtown is either shades of Mad Max or American Beauty. This is a very normal question where “check out Astoria and Park Slope” is the normal / appropriate response.
Canceling all my donations.
Are we *sure* it wasn’t featured in The Sopranos in some capacity though? Because it might have been.
I just didn’t want to sit through gloating. Made it very easy.
If you just think of them as filling the rice cake role versus competing with dumplings then they hold up quite well IMO.
Isn’t that guy Canadian?
Well, they think GenAI can do whatever those people can do, not realizing it offers productivity akin to someone who just finished undergrad.
I like the waffles at the Hampton Inn breakfast though.
…going to the polls.
Also the people who care about woke care less about Cracker Barrel than the people who are mad about this can possibly imagine. They might think about Cracker Barrel once a year. Is it the meme? It might be the meme.
They should be allowed to maintain a Potemkin shadow government while being led to believe they’re still in charge, broadcast 24/7 in the manner of The Truman Show.
Case in point: I just happily paid Milk Street $60 for - I think - four issues a year. And I look forward to it coming.
But the thing is it’s not even about the policy, it’s about not being a machine-oriented fool who only cares about incumbent protection. The groundswell of support for Mamdani includes a lot of people like myself who don’t necessarily agree with him on policy but appreciate the fresh air.
Okay, but none of this explains how she thinks an amount that would cover dinner for two (with drinks) at a neighborhood restaurant amounts to an effective bribe. Did she go off a number she found while watching Boardwalk Empire?
Versus get red-faced mad, close to tears on national television working out really well for Kavanaugh.
“Reporters don’t make much. $140 and half a bag of chips should do it, right?”
The really interesting thing about the Adams administration is that while the bribes have always been laughably small, they seem to be getting smaller even as the scandals get bigger.
Agree with all this, and as a New Yorker I don’t think non-New Yorkers really grasp the depths of our political dysfunction. We are particularly infuriated with Jeffries, Schumer, and Gillibrand because we see them as symptoms of a larger disease afflicting NYC/NYS. Mamdani breaks with that.
Also: her books are mean spirited and don’t do a good job of declaring “being mean spirited is bad”, which is not optimal for children’s books.
Probably but they’re just so, so dumb.
Based on all the data we have, I’m kind of open to the idea that all these Adams admin people are like 90% stupid/10% evil.
If it’s in a red envelope? Maybe.
The red envelope is just too much.
I feel pretty confident that “public transit should be free” becoming progressive orthodoxy is going to be up there with “all new development is bad unless it’s 100% affordable” in its negative consequences.
If you make a point of never reading anything good how would you know when the probability machine is spitting out derivations of the good stuff?
I’ve gone round and round and round with people about this, but without running the numbers at all it strikes me as obvious that if real estate prices are inflated because of artificial barriers that there will be a ton of projects that will pencil if those barriers are removed, regardless of rates.
Screaming from the rooftops: if these doofuses had paid attention in their poli sci classes they would know that authoritarian regimes are very sensitive to public opinion!
My hometown is currently going through the “we were left out of the decision making process” with some solar farms. My hometown is also by town meeting-style government. *You are* the decision making process, my dudes, you just never go to the meetings.
That kind of ruins the charm, honestly.
What if I want to buy a really strong alcoholic beverage of indeterminate origin from a dude with a cooler (cash only)?
Is that how Florida labels it? Because the only place I see raw milk is in Mass, where you’re allowed to sell it on premises, and it has a standard language disclaimer but it doesn’t say that it’s “not for human consumption”, just that there’s a risk.
It will be very funny if he ends up in jail for entirely legitimate reasons.
I keep up with the Joneses by doing cooler shit that costs less money.
Is it secession if we just right the wrongs of the Hartford Convention?
r/RepublicofNE is booming.
The kicker is that he always tags the location to the town and sir, the entire culture of New England is built on a foundation of small towns absolutely being up in your business. No way this ends well.
Relatedly: there‘s a city boy who bought 30 acres in my rural hometown who has proceeded to construct a “homestead” with no permits (and no septic) and posted all about it on IG and YT. I’ve been enthralled watching videos of this guy spending $10s of thousands on fruit trees when he has no house.
FWIW these are the send people who send me memes to try to win arguments, so there’s that.
Co-benefit: this will help us achieve CLCPA targets.
I’d be more sympathetic to him attempting to tank Mamdani for an abuser if it wasn’t so embarrassingly unlikely to work.
My favorite is that I have IRL friends who are deranged about Will Stancil and when I ask “why do deranged” i get a “well my understanding is that he’s bad on x issue” and I’m just like guys, you don’t even know why you’re mad.
My knowledge is limited, but as an Anglo-American who spent some time in Montreal, my impression is that (for reasons I don’t understand) nobody thinks about the Eastern Townships a whole lot, despite them being one of the coolest places on the continent (no hyperbole).
The fact that you can seemingly recall anyone in California for no reason really does seem to add to the dysfunction.
I was there two years ago. The downtown stands out among all the towns I visited in Estrie in that it is completely soulless post-accident. Also there’s literally nothing there so this shouldn’t be that hard.
He leads the Dems in the House until the Dems get a majority in which case he’s rapidly making himself so radioactive that he won’t have the votes to lead them.
Because he’s terrible on housing policy, has always been terrible on housing policy, benefits from terrible housing policy, and is backing the [disgraced] mayoral candidate who is terrible on housing policy while dragging a whole lot of Democratic voters (and donors) through the mud.
Yes, but if the then-unknown assemblyman from Queens hadn’t said anything about Gaza she would’ve won, right?
I think his ceiling is minority leader.
Something a very prominent NYC organizer told me very seriously: “If we had $10m we could knock on enough doors to successfully primary Joe Manchin and replace him with a progressive Democrat.”
Pretty common for NYC places to be open from like 7:00am-midnight though, so it’s definitely possible if there’s a will.
But there might be shadows.
Pre-check digital ID or no? I feel like LGA, anyway, has made it very slow to do non-digital but extremely fast to do digital.
Yes, and: a central point of conservatism is to be realistic and non-idealistic about human nature, but those guys were all bright-eyed idealists when it came to how their very obvious militarily backed democracy building lead balloons would go over.
As someone who checks the “American” box, I find this offensive. Burn the ships!
Somewhere out there, a left NIMBY’s ears are ringing.
But hey, maybe high electricity prices will save a bunch of white collar jobs, so there’s that.
As someone who works in utilities: yes, but the issue is that it’s all very complex - even more complex than things like healthcare and housing - and the solutions are all medium- to long-term, which in the current political climate means the dumbest possible outcome will happen.
Which was common before implementation of the 2019 housing law strengthening rent stabilization. Who signed that bill into law? I forget. Does anyone remember?
When “gaining traction” is tens of thousands of boomers with second homes wondering if Cuomo will take away the rent stabilized apartment they’ve lived in since 1977.
Then how was your point at all relevant?
Okay, so you think the shift to kids staying at home and never being away from their parents’ watchful eyes is…good?
