cadoc.bsky.social
RPG nerd, gym rat, aspiring decent human being. He/Him.
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Overwhelmingly he won't be able to enact them, and he must definitely know that - so the fact that he at least wants to do good things for NYC is arguably more important than policy specifics.
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I wish they didn't lose them to the giant NIMBYs that are the Greens, but there aren't exactly many great alternatives
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Second, it's NY Dems, I'm open to bets as to what happens first - a non-shitty state party, or blue Florida lmao
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*cross-aisle 😔
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First, maybe calm down a little bit. I think everyone here, including me, wants Mamdani to win considering he's the only realistic alternative to Cuomo at this point. Let's just be real about what's coming next.
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Considering the narrative online, I was really surprised to learn that the US has fewer cops per capita than France, Germany or Spain, and basically the same number as the UK - and in the UK insufficient numbers of police officers is a cross-isle hot-button issue
(2020 numbers tho)
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Sure dude, but you know, it's New York Dems, they're going to do their thing. Hochul knows that she'd risk the suburban vote if she agreed to more debt or higher taxes and she doesn't care about housing affordability in NYC because that'll hurt the mayor, not her.
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What am I defending? All I said is that funding the police has broad support, but building public housing does not.
I'm not a big defund the police guy, but obviously that was an overblown issue and nothing actually got defunded.
Likewise, public housing is not my #1 solution but it's still good.
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Yeah, he mentioned raising taxes to pay for *other parts of his agenda*, but that's only $10 billion, and, again, that's for the non-housing part of his agenda
Not to mention that Hochul already said she'd veto any tax increase, but at least that's something that the nex gov might buckle on (maybe)
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The backlash to "defund the police" was so severe, I'd argue it has actually set back reform efforts. Now everyone suggesting any kind of positive change in police departments has to also insist they won't cut funding and they hate criminals and all the crimes they do
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Maybe you should tell Mamdani it's that easy? Because his plan for finding the $70 billion in funding isn't to tax the rich, it's to issue municipal bonds - a plan that's essentially guaranteed to be vetoed by the governor.
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What are you basing that on? Everything I've seen, polling-wise, suggests that "defund the police" is incredibly unpopular. Election results point that way too.
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Eric Adams belongs in the same camp as Sinema or Gabbard - people without a single principle or belief who became Democrats because that was the route to power in their circumstances.
I think recent history has proven you cannot ever rely on those politicians.
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That's exactly what I'm saying lmao
Worth pointing out, though, that even if Mamdani cut the NYPD budget to $0, from the current $5.3 billion, it'd still take 14 years to cover the $70 billion for his housing plan.
I'm all for affordable housing, but this is not happening.
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Yes, there's a broad support for well-funded police, but building state-owned housing is a partisan issue.
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*worse not work 😔
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To be fair though, if the pilot program actually has good results, that's promising, even if oddly it flies in the face of results elsewhere.
Either way I'd consider it marginally harmful at worst, so it's not a big deal.
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Sorry, but I'm not going to take seriously any economist supporting rent control. It has been tried, it has failed, it continues to fail. There are ideologue economists that argue otherwise, but they deserve as much respect as the Austrian school.
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Really MTA just needs better design to cut down on fare evaders. It's ridiculously easy right now, and I have genuinely never seen so many people push their way through turnstiles anywhere else - UK, Germany, Japan, France, even poorer countries like Poland or Croatia. It's extremely strange.
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I think you're misremembering that particular fact - the city spends more on catching fare dodgers than *those people* "cost" the MTA.
MTA brings in ~8 billion via fares. NYPD spent $150 million on fare enforcement. Fare evasion is currently estimated to cost the MTA ~$800 million.
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It's a large expenditure that is quite consistently shown *not* to increase ridership, particularly amongst low income people, and makes it more vulnerable to being defunded by a hostile administration.
Really the main point is that the money should be spent expanding & improving transit instead.
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That doesn't make Mamdani supporting rent control good. It just means he's just as bad on the subject as some (not all) of the other candidates.
Tbh most of his other policies just won't happen (public housing building spree) or are marginally harmful (free transit), so ofc he ranks above Cuomo.
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Genuinely no idea. Housing is the most important part of the mayor's policies, though, stuff like their views on Palestine just doesn't matter.
That being said, Cuomo is obviously just as bad or worse on the subject.
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Yeah, he's straight up not going to have the money to build all that affordable housing. It's a ridiculously expensive and unrealistic plan.
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He's for rent control, a policy proven time and time again (even in NYC!) to make the housing crisis work.
His housing policies in general aren't great, though he seems to have gotten better on the subject.
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If so, I don't get it 😔
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The most interesting part is that, somehow, there have been no confirmed reports of US aircraft being attacked by Stingers - apparently at least in part because the CIA ran a clandestine buyback campaign through the 90s.
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Ackshully 🤓 the US never armed the Taliban - the Taliban only arose after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The weapons were delivered to the Pakistani ISI, who distributed them to at least 7 different groups of their choosing.
Also, most Taliban weaponry was Soviet in origin.
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I've used it to learn hiragana and katakana, and it really helped!
I'm now using Wanikani for vocabulary and kanji, and it's pretty great
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The unlikely scenario where Israel & US manage to destroy Iran's nuclear capability and maybe even precipitate regime change, all without the conflict escalating and spilling out through the region, would be good.
Likewise, if this somehow leads to a negotiated solution.
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Nice! 💪 What kind of program are you running?
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As an aside, while looking for that scene I've found a site called liftsinfilm.com, and yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like lol
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I don't really read it like that. The protagonists are not "heroes" - in particular, Ernie just wants a paycheque and Venkman is both greedy and sleazy. The Ghostbusters essentially save the world by accident
The EPA guy is an antagonist, not a villain, and the elevator scene implies he has a point
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...ignore the link
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Honestly if you love GB1 and just want more GB it's fair to say GB2 delivers!
I guess I never felt like the movie NEEDED a sequel, so for me it'd need to do something new
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This you?
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Tbh I did catch myself hating, but I think it's the experience of the modern GB movies tainting my perception too
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Bill Murray himself said he was "tricked into the sequel under false pretenses", and that Harold Remis had a different, better idea for the film.
He sure acts like he doesn't give a shit, tbh
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Comedies in general have a tendency for poor sequels, but compare GB2 to Gremlins 2.
G2 gives us a great new location, doubles down on the humour, breaks the 4th wall - it's its own movie.
GB2 is essentially the same movie, to the point of clumsily having everyone disbelieve ghosts now.
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That's because the first movie was about a bunch of glorified exterminators, and especially Bill Murray's character was just a straight up sleeze bag. That was the joke.
2 did away with the joke, and went for a more generic plot, with a moral for the kids.
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It's a forced sequel, a rehash of the first movie, and the writing is fairly weak.
Modern Ghostbusters movies just led it getting rehabilitated a bit, same as with SW prequels. It's still a bad movie though, same as the prequels.
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Friends imply their friends are pedophiles
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They've since clarified that this was an Unreal Engine 5 demo in the world of The Witcher, but not actual game footage.
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For presidency? Sure. #2 shouldn't be automatic, though, if they have popular but old local politicians.
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Coolidge seems to have roughly the same level of sympathy for people everywhere, that level being 0
The guy wouldn't even sign postcards to be auctioned off or make a public address during the Mississippi flood
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Yeah no, Britain has some amazing restaurants - as long as they serve foreign cuisines - but in general the food culture is dire. The slop people get at the local chippy or carvery is unbelivably bad, and the usual work lunch is a bag of crisps and the world's blandest sandwich.
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Nice, enjoy! I've only been once, and can't wait to go back.
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How long are you staying in Japan for?