Elections NYC mayoral race

[Mr Holmes]

Did you read that study? What are the main takeaways from it? https://www.congress.gov/118/meetin...s/HHRG-118-JU01-Wstate-CamarotaS-20240111.pdf

What on earth are you talking about here? Can you link a reputable news source covering that story?

LOL yes I read it. Do your own research.

 

[Islam Imamate]

LOL yes I read it. Do your own research.

You're the one making the argument and you claim to have read it, you can't point to the most relevant excerpts or summarize the main takeaway?

 

[Mr Holmes]

You're the one making the argument and you claim to have read it, you can't point to the most relevant excerpts or summarize the main takeaway?

There's already a summary on the top for you.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Not surprisingly, morons are fixated on whether his aunt wore a hijab, whether he said "comrade" in a video 5 years ago, and whether communism killed 50 million or 800 million.

But this video that I posted last week where he outlines his actual policy proposals at length, gets ignored.

He sits there for over 1 hour with four Trump voters (even though they're not hardcore MAGAists) and explains his approach. Red tape, housing, buses, taxes, it's all there.

 

[Islam Imamate]

There's already a summary on the top for you.

I know, I just don't believe you read it. In fact I suspect you just grabbed the first Google link you could find and then pasted it here.

Anyway, turns out the study is bullshit

Another report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds similarly negative results for illegal immigrants. CIS’s main mistake is that it misallocates most of the cost of pure public goods, such as national defense and interest payments on existing debt, to new immigrants. Excluding public goods is appropriate because accepting an additional immigrant does not require additional spending on them.

Correcting its methodology to exclude public goods reverses CIS’s conclusion from a net present value cost to a net present value gain of about $900 billion in today’s dollars. Furthermore, CIS’s estimate fails to account for the effect of immigrants on companies’ capital income, which—as noted above—radically reduces the fiscal benefits of immigration.

https://www.cato.org/testimony/cost-border-crisis#u-s-law-thwarts-legal-immigration

The anti-immigration argument is economically illiterate and only slightly less retarded than Mamdani's ideas and the combination of mass deportation and tariffs advanced by the Trump regime is even more retarded.

 

[Mr Holmes]

I know, I just don't believe you read it. In fact I suspect you just grabbed the first Google link you could find and then pasted it here.

Anyway, turns out the study is bullshit


https://www.cato.org/testimony/cost-border-crisis#u-s-law-thwarts-legal-immigration

The anti-immigration argument is economically illiterate and only slightly less retarded than Mamdani's ideas and the combination of mass deportation and tariffs advanced by the Trump regime is even more retarded.

I'm not surprised you think the study is "bullshit".

 

[Islam Imamate]

I'm not surprised you think the study is "bullshit".

Are you going to address the criticisms of the study?

 

[eddymotto]

Mamdani is a win for everybody.

NYC got a better Mayoral option than a former Governor who was impeached (sorry - stepped down while being impeached) who also happens to currently look and act like a wax statue, and the Incumbent mayor who is openly corrupt.

Mamdani comes armed with a bunch of ideas that would not be out of place in many major cities in "the west" and a real knack for communication. I am skeptical of some (many?) of his policy ideas but none of them require the proletariat to rise up. He won't get magic powers either if he wins. He will face the same challenges to execute his vision as every other big city mayor must come to grip with.

His perceived success will come down to media coverage, his ability to actually execute on day to day city politics, and luck.

On the other side, the right wing warriors get to blame a non-Christian brown guy every time something goes wrong in NYC. It is a big city with the most expansive local media in the USA and so there will be a never ending stream of news to pick from: "white woman mugged on Subway" or "79 year old billionaire moves to Florida because he got his feeling hurt". I know that many of you are like fat kids in front a plate of cookies when it comes to that stuff. Enjoy.

 

[fica]

I don't think he will be bad if he freezes rent it is all good ideas but if you in city or country where people are bad vile or just there to abuse good ideas or to be opposition to it it will never work

 

[UberHere]

Mamdani is a win for everybody.

NYC got a better Mayoral option than a former Governor who was impeached (sorry - stepped down while being impeached) who also happens to currently look and act like a wax statue, and the Incumbent mayor who is openly corrupt.

Mamdani comes armed with a bunch of ideas that would not be out of place in many major cities in "the west" and a real knack for communication. I am skeptical of some (many?) of his policy ideas but none of them require the proletariat to rise up. He won't get magic powers either if he wins. He will face the same challenges to execute his vision as every other big city mayor must come to grip with.

His perceived success will come down to media coverage, his ability to actually execute on day to day city politics, and luck.

On the other side, the right wing warriors get to blame a non-Christian brown guy every time something goes wrong in NYC. It is a big city with the most expansive local media in the USA and so there will be a never ending stream of news to pick from: "white woman mugged on Subway" or "79 year old billionaire moves to Florida because he got his feeling hurt". I know that many of you are like fat kids in front a plate of cookies when it comes to that stuff. Enjoy.

I’ve said since the beginning I hope Cuomo loses. He had no business trying to weasel his way back into politics. If Mamdani has a successful term, then great, but I’m skeptical. He’s going to have to disappoint a lot of progressives to work out.

 

[Rob Battisti]

I’ve said since the beginning I hope Cuomo loses. He had no business trying to weasel his way back into politics. If Mamdani has a successful term, then great, but I’m skeptical. He’s going to have to disappoint a lot of progressives to work out.

What would even qualify as success? I tried to get people to say what they think success means and @Islam Imamate essentially said “if they do things I like”.

 

[UberHere]

What would even qualify as success? I tried to get people to say what they think success means and @Islam Imamate essentially said “if they do things I like”.

Those people also think Giuliani was a terrible mayor when he was the best in my lifetime and it’s not even close. Yeah he tarnished his reputation by not just retiring as a success.

There’s no appeasing radicals.

 

[SurferH2O]

when you warn them after 500 tries and they still wanna experiment because "it'll definitively work this time!" you can't help but laugh

NY...

same with canada. they voted for communists a 4th time after 3 straight disasters and now they're projected to be the worst g7 economy over the next 35 years!

OECD predicts Canada will be the worst performing advanced economy over the next decade…and the three decades after that — Business Council of British Columbia

Ottawa’s economic growth strategy rests on four shaky pillars: accommodative monetary policy to support interest-sensitive sectors of the economy like credit, housing investment, and durable goods consumption; expansive fiscal policy guided by short-term "guardrails" and lacking a long

www.bcbc.com

Would like this post... can't because of dubs.

You nailed it.

 

[fingercuffs]

Those people also think Giuliani was a terrible mayor when he was the best in my lifetime and it’s not even close. Yeah he tarnished his reputation by not just retiring as a success.

There’s no appeasing radicals.

And then ruining two ladies in Georgia's lives.

 

[SurferH2O]

Democrats: We need to appeal to more Americans. We are losing the young male vote big time. Let's get a leader with greater appeal.

Also Democrats: How about a Radical Muslim Commie?

 

[Rob Battisti]

Those people also think Giuliani was a terrible mayor when he was the best in my lifetime and it’s not even close. Yeah he tarnished his reputation by not just retiring as a success.

There’s no appeasing radicals.

I tried to just see what peoples KPIs were so we could objectively view success but it’s like they’re allergic to such an idea

 

[Possum Jenkins]

On the other side, the right wing warriors get to blame a non-Christian brown guy every time something goes wrong in NYC. It is a big city with the most expansive local media in the USA and so there will be a never ending stream of news to pick from: "white woman mugged on Subway" or "79 year old billionaire moves to Florida because he got his feeling hurt". I know that many of you are like fat kids in front a plate of cookies when it comes to that stuff. Enjoy.

I can't wait until right-wingers pretend that NY crime was invented by immigrants or black people.

I don't know about you guys but until New York became a DeMoCrAt RuN cItY I'd never heard of any criminal activity there.

 

[Mr Holmes]

Democrats: We need to appeal to more Americans. We are losing the young male vote big time. Let's get a leader with greater appeal.

Also Democrats: How about a Radical Muslim Commie?

A slight improvement to that obese Latina they were going with.

 

[Rob Battisti]

I can't wait until right-wingers pretend that NY crime was invented by immigrants or black people.

I don't know about you guys but until New York became a DeMoCrAt RuN cItY I'd never heard of any criminal activity there.

Invented? I’d settle for understanding who is currently committing crimes and focusing on them

 

[GhostZ06]

Democrats: We need to appeal to more Americans. We are losing the young male vote big time. Let's get a leader with greater appeal.

Also Democrats: How about a Radical Muslim Commie?

From what ive seen hes not a Crazy Soviet levels of commie. Democratic socialist is VERY different from that Red army soviet shit shit from the cold war. Which stupid people do not seem to understand nor do retarded trump supporters.

Some social reforms/programs are not bad. Free health care, free lunches for children at schools, and stuff like that isnt bad. Its crazy how some retarded people get mad at the though of this and automatically think T-55 rolling down Red square.

oh wait, tiny penis Trump tried to do this with the us military