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.
So filthy streets are capitalism now?
Well, when they’re filthy due to no one being willing to clean it because there’s no money in it for them… kinda?
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.
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.
This isn’t socialism though, it’s just actual city management.
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.
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
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…
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!
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…
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.
It was a corruption issue. Has nothing to do with fixing issues
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.
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?
They were doing the exact same thing just with a pr team
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?
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.
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Lmao, someone’s been drinking the capitalist Kool-Aid.
What were the other mayors even doing?
Taking kickbacks and speed running corruption.
The level of corruption in the Adams administration was laughable. One of them is now indicted because she wanted a cameo on the Hulu series “Godfather of Harlem” in exchange for canceling plans to install bike lanes. Another tried to bribe a reporter in a chip bag filled with cash.
See some of these (like the chip bag) are so harebrained that you’re just like “surely that doesn’t work right” but it just makes you wonder how many times something like that does work, happens often, and we just didn’t hear about it.
One person doesn’t just randomly decide to take thousands or more of cash and give it to someone because “maybe it’ll work or maybe my life will be ruined”, it’s a risk, but significantly less of one if you know it’s been done before. They’re not robbing convenience stores for rent money out of desperation, they’re bribing people to change public policy that overrides the public because of their own beliefs or agenda because they think they can get away with it. And who knows how often they do.
Unless I’m missing something, this has been in the works since at least 2024. I’m pretty sure I heard about this on a podcast a few months ago, but I’m struggling to dig it up.
Nothing quite as socialistic as public trash bins
socialism is when the goberment does stuff and the more stuff it does the more socialister it is
