So filthy streets are capitalism now?
Y’all remember How It Should Have Ended? Back when Tron: Legacy was coming out, they did a HISHE on the original 1982 TRON. It was hilarious, but my favorite part (which I still repeat today sometimes) is at the very end when Flynn just types “
UNINSTALL” and deletes the MCP. He says, “…OK guys, I did it…i-it was really easy…”I feel like so far Mamdani’s administration is just…that, but repeated daily over eight months.
All these threads are hilarious.
Dude gets elected to the job of running the city and actually RUNS the city and everyone’s shocked.
Like take a step back and realize that if actually having potholes fixed and garbage collected is ‘new’ maybe you all need to stop re-electing the same loser assholes year after year.
It’s a collective “wait this is what socialism is” moment.
It’s because he’s Muslim.
That’s it. He’s talked about so much because he’s a brown person doing good things and that goes against the white American collective hive mind.
I think it’s because he’s socialist. Americans have spent the past forty years (at least; probably longer, but I’m only 41) being told that socialism was evil and would inevitably lead to bread lines and mass death and corruption and like…perpetual rain or something. But now we’ve got a socialist running the biggest metropolitan area in the USA, and actually everyone there is doing great, while the Republican presidency is doing the mass death and corruption stuff. Americans are having their preconceptions rewritten in real time.
It’s because he puts the needs of the workers over the needs of those with so much wealth their entire lineage will never have to work again.
They’ll use him being a Muslim to turn us against him and against each other, but that’s not why he’s opposed by the billionaires who own the media or the billionaires who fund the GOP and establishment Democrats, all of whom teamed up to try to keep him out of power.
When it was Bernie, they tried to divide us by gender and generation. When it’s a Muslim, they try to divide us by religion. When it’s a young white Christian man, they try to divide us by lying about him being a fucking vegan sexist racist.
There’s no war but class war.
Yeah, people seem to still not get this part… it’s factually a race issue like most problems in this he US
I don’t want to fall into the trap of hero worship but yeah, this seems like what mayors should always be doing.
I don’t think it’s hero worship. There are 1,616 mayors in the United States; the fact that there’s basically one who’s doing his job, and that he happens to be the one at the helm of the biggest municipality in the country, is noteworthy.
Put another way, the respect and esteem owed to the mayors of the USA is just all being piled onto the only high-visibility one who actually deserves it.
I don’t think it’s hero worship to recognize the apparently amazing job Mamdani is doing, either. I’m just very wary of falling into the hero worship trap.
Random question but where are you getting that 1,616 number for number of mayors in the USA? That is way too specific to be an approximation but also feels way too low for the number of cities and towns in the US with municipal governments structured in such a way that they have a mayor/city executive
The 1616 is for towns over 30,000
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/levels-office/local/women-mayors-us-cities-2024
Oh dang, you’re right. I remembered the 1616 number because it’s the Marvel number with a 1 in front, and I forgot it was just for bigger cities.
Wiki has it at 135k for mayors+town council members. Which seems far more accurate.
Yep. 1,616, aside from looking like the number of the main Marvel Comics universe with a 1 on it, is the number of big city mayors. I had forgotten about the qualifier for the stat deep in my brain.
I had it in my brain from a research deep dive I had gone into at one point (in all honesty because of the Marvel Comics number) and forgot that it was just for big cities and towns.
Has NYC finally quit it with their stupid idea of just letting trash bags sit on the street? This is something that basically every other city in the world has figured out.
I left NYC many years ago. I was still young when i had to leave. But I remember how dirty it was. I recently went back. It still is dirty. It’s by design. Sometimes the only trash bags I’d see get picked up by the city were the ones the homeless taped together over the sewer/ subway to make vents so the hot air could reach into people’s "tents’.
It was a corruption issue. Has nothing to do with fixing issues
The entire countries of Egypt and Jordan would like to have a word with you.
Except like, the entirety of Japan.
I haven’t been to Japan, but from what I hear, it’s not the kind of place where you’re going to find piles of trash bags on the street.
I have been there. You do. If you are actually interested in learning about it, look up how there deposal system works and maybe visit e.g. Tokyo once. Tokyo can be nasty.
Then you visited a different Tokyo then me. Cleanest city I’ve ever been in, and I’m from Germany.
Well Tokyo is huge. But e.g. shibuya isn’t that niche and I walked on a sticky ground through broken glass there.
Tokyo is mostly clean. I am not saying that it is dirty.
I am saying, in Japan, seeing trash bag on the street is not usual (for collection usually) and e.g. Tokyo CAN be nasty.
Fair enough. I think we can agree there.
Switzerland outside the massive amount of graffiti , it was the cleanest place I’ve ever been
Well that’s how trash pickup is done all across the country. Clear plastic bags (usually you have to purchase them specific to each ward and each trash type) on the footpath a few times a week. Usually gone by lunch time. Apartment buildings can end up with huge piles of them. The crows love picking apart the bags and spreading trash about.
Japan really isn’t some mythical cleanly place and I’ve no idea how they managed to get that stereotype. I’ve seen fly tipping, piss jugs, trash along the motorways, riverbanks covered in empty drink bottles. Its the same as anywhere else.
Also, Barcelona and many other Mediterranean cities
Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but this is not Mamdani’s initiative, though of course he is making the correct choice in continuing it.
Don’t misunderstand me, I hate that corrupt piece of shit Adams, but the truth is important anyway.
The truth is one of the most important things. 👍
I use to believe that as well, till you realize that the truth is whatever the victors say it is.
I have a million dollars!
Edit: dang it, it didn’t work. I’m a Victor and what I said didn’t become truth. 😭
Yuk yuk yuk
Well on my list of the most important things it’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Yet, some people can’t handle the truth.
So help you god?
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there’s a big one one the pic though
Eric Adams just did it because he has a lifelong hatred of rats
So he is self loathing.
It’s the most basic lesson from Rollercoaster Tycoon. More trash cans = less litter = happier people.
Out of the way, Boomers. It’s the Millennials’ time to shine. We’ve been preparing for this our whole lives, and it’s past time for us to take the reins.
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).
This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.
Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”
I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.
Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”
I know, I know. I was being tongue-in-cheek.
You guys got the shaft, it’s okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we’ll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn’t cause its own extinction first.
Lay your weary head to rest, we’ve got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh…
Such a polite burn. I’ll go and rest my weary head now. ☺️
Hey, I resemble that.
This isn’t a contest, but it’s worse for millennials as a whole because the line is, waaaay backed up. Gen Z has it one step worse than us, too. It’s a cascade of bullshit from these assholes.
Yes. Boomers really fucked us all. “The ‘me’ generation“ indeed. It’s why I get so irked when the younger generations lump GenX in with Boomers. We’re not them. They fucked us over too.
Gen Z even calls Millennials boomers. The word is losing meaning…
In my experience Gen Xers have allowed Boomers to stay longer. Obviously this isn’t Gen Xers’ fault entirely and I’m not trying to paint with a wide brush here, but from what I have seen growing up Gen Xers have been useful to Boomers in that there are token Xers who have been allowed power as long as they enact the policies that allow Boomers to stay longer.
I am taking about the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, or people like the HR administrator I know who worked to allow retirement to accrue longer so that people wouldn’t feel forced to retire as soon and now finds herself in her 50s without having made it passed HR administration.
I’m not even sure that things could’ve turned out differently if Gen X had tried something, I’m just saying that in my experience “oh well, whatever, never mind” isn’t exactly the whole story.
Little of both probably. Boomers heavily outnumbered GenXers too, and held all the money, so GenX were sort of left in a bind. Hakeem and that HR rep aren’t doing those things out of spite for their own generation or later generations. Boomers still run the show upstream.
Not spite for the whole generation, but it definitely speaks to something that I’ve seen in every generation. It’s the same conversation that comes up when we talk about developers who work for Google or Microsoft. There’s always somebody who’s willing to fuck over other people for money. Even if they don’t exactly see themselves as fucking over other people. And there’s always somebody who is in a desperate situation enough to hold their nose. I even commented a couple of weeks ago that currently being unemployed I don’t know if I could turn down a job from Google or Microsoft. As with everything there’s always lots of nuance.
You grew up with “children of the corn” to learn from… but you didn’t listen.
Billionaires don’t want happy people. They want most people dead and only a small servant class for themselves. Hence why no effort was ever made to make anything better for people. In fact, they’ve worked to the contrary.
I want to get off Mr Bones’ wild ride…
Feels more like we’re on Mr Bonestripper
This used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Now billionaires instill the same fear in me.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to seizing the means of production.
I don’t think they want people dead per se, a large peasant class for labor that they can demote people to and raise people from suits them just fine
Oh God, not RCT. Don’t complain too much or the government will drop you in a lake.
Or get a roller coaster that crashes in a fiery explosion.
I mean, how long before the Trump admin decides to randomly cut funding to ride regulations??? 😂
“I want to get off Mr Trump’s Wild Ride”
You joke but I still remember Mamdani, 11, being quoted asking for Sim City 3000 in a magazine. He most certainly has tried Rollercoaster Tycoon, lol.
Are you being for real right now?
I looked it up, and yep, it’s true. He was actually 11 at the time, though. Apparently he hoped to get some books, FIFA 2003, and Sim City 3000 for the holidays.
https://screenrant.com/zohran-mamdani-simcity-3000-game-mayor-nyc-candidate/
Misremembered the age, I’ll fix my comment haha.
Aw, looks like he’s always had that golden smile
Knowing him, he probably didn’t even drown or explode guests for fun, either.
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
Hey man, we fucking tried. The boomers were against us. And we raised you to be better than us, instead of abandoning you to the wilds like we were, which was the whole point: to leave the world better than we found it.
e: that ‘better’ was you.
I know you tried, I only mentioned Gen X because they’re usually forgotten about entirely.
Thanks for punk rock and third-wave ska.
Thanks for anime and public defiance.
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
We were always building rollercoasters that ended in brick walls or busy foot-paths. Did you play the Rollercoaster Tycoon?
I bet your Sims are all properly cared for too. 🏊-🪜=🪦
Yeah, actually I would build that rocket launch ride and then turn the speed up as high as it would go and watch it launch people to their dooms…
But at least I learned about the importance of sanitation in areas with high population densities!
And I never actually played Sims, but my nintendogs are probably all skin and bones, my tamagotchis are likely dead, and all my animal crossing neighbors have probably moved out of my sad, decaying town.
But I didn’t say that I personally would be saving everyone from the boomers’ neglect!
I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces. Only recently has the attitude toward cars shifted from some kind of unwritten civil right that you get to take your four ton metal box wherever you please to hmm, maybe not everyone should be allowed to park anywhere all the time if it means there isn’t literal piles garbage filled bags on the street.
I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces. Only recently has the attitude toward cars shifted from some kind of unwritten civil right that you get to take your four ton metal box wherever you please to hmm, maybe not everyone should be allowed to park anywhere all the time.
I can’t wait for that. My neighborhood is having a spasm over removing about 10 parking spots on a major road for a bus lane. The kicker is those 10 parking spots force a choke point for traffic, slowing everything down.
I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces
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Great, so now there’s going to be younger people in charge of the machine that burns the world and makes life miserable for almost everyone. I’m sure they’ll give it a dazzling new coat of paint!
Don’t even need security guards if the guests are all too happy to consider vandalism.
This has had actually been in the works for a while, it’s not like he just materialized this out of nowhere.
But, it has been constantly getting delayed and put through “trials”. So, it actually getting implemented is good.
The best part is seeing idiots who want any excuse to attack a DSA politician trying to argue that loose trash bags are better than dumpsters. Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Especially when 99% of their ‘culture war’ audience (who of course don’t live in NYC) already use trash bins and dumpsters in their everyday lives.
“why aren’t they burning the trash”
Why on earth do you need to trial putting things in a bin?
I was trying to devil’s advocate this and all I could think of is if these would fit in tighter streets while a trash truck tries to picks them up and put them back down, but that’s pretty much all that I could think of and it shouldn’t take too long, most of that time was probably corruption related
What were previous NYC mayors doing?
Making money serving the Epstein class.
corruption. they were lining their pockets with corruption.
Just you wait. Any day now the connection between mamdani and big trash will become obvious
I love how the only arguments people have against them is “they’re ugly” and “they’ll take away parking spots” as if piles of trash bags look better, and NYC doesn’t already have an expansive public transit network with plans to increase bus service.
Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a “modern” trash bin? Isn’t a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection
the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection
Oh that is a cool idea.
Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.
That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I’m not sure I’d want those rats getting into my bags, 😛
NYC has a reputation for Rodents of Unusual Size, so I’m honestly not surprised.
Don’t forget about the giant turtles too!
Where I am (a small provincial town in north west France) we at least nice small bins on the street. With MASSIVE GREAT BIG BINS underground where the actual rubbish goes.
Nope, no alleys in NYC, nowhere to put dumpsters that isn’t in the way. Not sure where these are gonna go.
I’m in the woods of eastern Kentucky but we just have bins that we roll to the the of our driveway. At businesses and apartment complexes in town they usually have one large communal dumpster at the end of the parking lot, paid for by the business owner or landlord, and Rumpke (our local trash service) comes by on their day and just back the truck up to it and dump it. On some roads that have residences all along them they have these little forks that lift and dump the wheelie bins folks put out so they just drive down the road and don’t even have to get out of the truck.
In downtown NYC though if there are no parking lots, no alleyways, etc., I guess folks will just have to get creative. They could probably have a single dumpster per block or something instead of having one for every single customer on that street.
I guess in the same spots the giant stinky piles of trash bags have been going?
The trash bags were there one day a week for a few hours until they got picked up. These things will be taking up space all the time…
Also they weren’t stinkier than dumpsters can be, lol. Trash is trash. The NYC trash piles shock American tourists, but on a global scale it’s a pretty normal way to deal with trash. I’ve seen it in “nice” cities in both Europe and Asia.
Well if Rudy was anything to go by, trying to bang underage girls and sweating away the last vestiges of their credibility in a landscaping company forecourt.
The last one was spending the majority of his time taking bribes and doing crimes. Funny how no one really talks about how Eric Adams is now legally a citizen of Albania.
Still can’t believe he’s gotten away scott free, but I guess he did warn that “All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success”
“All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success”
I hope they fart in his drinks.
I hope they fart in his drinks.
He’s willing to suffer the consequence of success.
“If you’re going to hang out with the boys at night, you’ve got to get up with the men in the morning”
“All my losses are lessons”
Does he ever say anything that doesn’t sound like he plagiarized it from a self-stylized “life coach” on instagram?
“Lions don’t lose sleep over the opinions of the sheep.”
Lions, with extremely rare exceptions, have a lifestyle of comprising in near totality eating, sleeping, shitting, fucking, and dying. All of this, mind you, happens outdoors in climates they can rarely, if ever, stray from. To date, exactly zero lions have set foot on the moon, or even merely boarded a plane by themselves. None are known to us for their penchant for philosophical rumination, and if they quote each other, we sure as fuck don’t know about it.
When the entirety of humanity has devolved to live exactly as they do now, I will give that quote all the consideration it deserves. Which is exactly none, because I’m a lion and have no idea what the fuck a quote even is.
“I am the mayor. This is the city of nightlife. I must test the product”
“I am perfectly imperfect, and have occasionally eaten fish.”
Is there anything he wouldn’t steal?
“I am Gandhi-like. I think like Gandhi. I act like Gandhi. I want to be like Gandhi.”
“Deep down, I think I must be (a) little bit Dominican.”
Is he going to go live at Jared Kushner’s pedo resort?
One of the other mayors was doing exactly this. Large municipal projects take time. This project, which includes large on-street municipal garbage bins, and new residential garbage cans, was started under Mamdani’s predecessor. This is an Eric Adams project that is only reaching the point of installations during Mamdani’s tenure.
Mamdani is great and all, but he’s not the one solely responsible for every good thing that happens in NY.
This is true and is an example of an inconvenient truth.
But it’s also important to note that Mamdani didnt cancel the project because it was the predecessor. That’s often all too common in political leadership positions and is why it can be so bloody impossible to get long term benefits/plans to be executed.
Spite, ego, politicking all makes for terrible leadership but it’s often what seems to be celebrated. Good on Mamdani for seeing something worth having and not needing to be the author of it just for optics
Is horrible when one Mayor big project is something like bike lanes and then next mayor for an opposing party came and stop all construction of expansion, or worse even destroy what had been done, so it’s opponent doesn’t get any additional credit
It’s so much worse as you scale up projects too. When neighbouring cities or regions need to work together it often only takes one douche canoe to torpedo the whole thing. Especially infrastructure projects and the like
Great example: San Mateo and BART. Check out a map. They refuse to allow a station that would let BART make a giant loop around the Bay.
Mamdani is also the beneficiary of a $1.3bn windfall due to an accountancy error last year, so he has a one-time slush fund to play with, and the rest of the policies are paid for by deferring things like reducing classroom sizes to some nebulous point in the future and by one-time grants from Albany designed to shore up his standing.
He’s not god, he’s just the wizard behind the curtain like all the others.
I think this is true of any political ribbon cutting. Nixon took a victory lap for the moon landings. The issue is when politicians don’t want to hand over something then nothing gets done.
large municipal projects take time
I think Mamdani has been working tirelessly to dispel this notion.
