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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?
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
What were previous NYC mayors doing?
Making money serving the Epstein class.
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.
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"
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.
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.
Probably what all other politicians usually do: Fill their pockets with money and power
Best not ask what Ghouliani was doing, bad for your mental health
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, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.
What were the other mayors even doing?
Taking kickbacks and speed running corruption.
Giving money to billionaires is exchange of almost no benefit to the people of the city
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/24/mamdani-cuomo-debate/
Socialist Communist Mamdani is genociding the Rat majority population of New York by wiping out their food supply /s
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.
