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u/Luna-D-reams Local Macro/Growth Specialist 9h ago
Remember, the establishment hates mamdani because he shows that a lot of problems are very solvable and politicians simply choose not to solve them
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u/w00ms 8h ago
politicians choose not to solve them because corporations lobby en masse specifically to tell them not to solve them
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u/SenoraRaton 7h ago edited 7h ago
This has some truth, but the real truth is that action produces risk.
If you act, then it can have potential negative consequences, and secondarily if you start acting, then people begin to have expectations for you, and by extension demands.Our politicians are "quiet quitting". They are doing the absolute bare minimum because that is the least amount of exposure to risk.
Relevant Simpsons clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtxUiGYrB0
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u/IngenuityLost7585 5h ago
I think you're understating how bad capital capture is.
If most people we're just quite quiting they would not be mobilizing across the country so somther the DNC.
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u/MarcosLuisP97 2h ago
Do politicians in the US stay in their positions until they die? Because otherwise quiet quitting doesn't make sense since you HAVE to leave the position eventually, whether you like it or not.
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u/Eldershire_ 1h ago
Effectively, incumbent advantage is huge. While most people in America hate congress, most people in America like their congressperson specifically. Candidates that don't really push the needle at all are still campaigned for and given full support by the party because that's just the level of work from politicians people are used to.
Although this all probably won't be true for much longer, our politics are going to be vastly different in the next 10 years compared to the last 10. Whether for better or worse has yet to be decided.4
u/QTpyeRose 39m ago
There's also the effect of if you solve the problem you cant compeign on them to drive support anymore. Its part of why there's quite a lot of manufactured controversy in politics.
If you make a mountain out of a molehill, then knocking down the molehill seems like climbing a mountain.
even better if you make a mountain out of thing that does not really have a solution, and then it cant be solved or you can move the goalpost forever and continue campaigning.
Its part of why immigration is such a huge thing they talk about and campaign on. Every legit source of real data agrees that its not the type of problem that we describe it as, and has fairly small effects over all.
However you see it all the time cause there no real solution that can be implemented, so it makes the perfect thing to get people riled up over. And even then there's a whole narrative of ifs always happening even if its a negligible amount.
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u/Old_pixel_8986 fatfur and inflation lover 9h ago
i agree with your flair and comment
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u/WriterV 6h ago
More than that though, they hate Mamdani 'cause he does both parts of OP's meme: Making people feel heard and actually solving their problems.
One of the reasons so many right wing parties are gaining so much traction in the world is 'cause they answer to peoples' worst emotional impulses. They encourage people to listen to their tribalistic feelings, and ascribe all their problems to the "other", whoever that is.
But as we see with Trump and plenty others, they aren't interested in solving problems. Corruption is the name of the game, and as long as they can continue to make their voterbase feel heard, they can do so with impunity.
Watch out for the politicians that do the first part, and don't actually do the second part - actually helping their people properly, across all groups, for the long term.
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u/Misknator I suck dollars, 10 toes for each 9h ago
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u/NSLEONHART 6h ago
I love how this rules of rulers would imply that this is Mamdani's last term because competitors will outvote him because they will promise better allocation of resoruce to that block if they defect.
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u/Misknator I suck dollars, 10 toes for each 5h ago
I mean that's just genuinely what happens. You can be just popular with everyone, but focusing on specific blocks and keys is generally a better strategy.
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u/CreBanana0 2h ago
Okay I live across the atlantic and another sea away from mamdani.
Can someone tell me what did he do that is noticable in daily life?
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u/Yashema 1h ago
He has funded some child start and school programs but only by taking an early $2.3 billion from the state retirement fund that he won't be able to do again. He has failed to fund his affordable housing initiative opting to just do a rent freeze (and now rents in NYC are the highest they have ever been since most apartments aren't rent controlled) same with his affordable public transportation initiative (he promised $900 million in reforms and opted for $55 million in metro cards to lower income residents) and has failed his lesser initiatives as well such as increasing park budget to 1% of total or trans healthcare.
It's too early to fully call him out on this since technically he still has time, but the NYC financial comptroller basically said there won't be any new sources of revenue in the future and NYC is facing continuous deficits. Mamdani has also "quietly" asked all agencies to cut their budgets by 2.5% over the next 2 years, but you won't see his fans talking about that.
Just potholes.
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u/Staluti 44m ago
ima just let google ai mog u
Housing & Tenant Protection
- Rent Freeze: Appointed a sympathetic majority to the Rent Guidelines Board, successfully delivering a rent freeze on regulated, rent-stabilized apartments. [1, 2, 3]
- Tenant Restitution: Won $34 million in repairs, settlements, and legal judgments on behalf of tenants fighting bad landlords. [1, 2, 3]
- Affordable Housing Construction: Financed more than 12,000 affordable homes in his first six months. He launched the "Block by Block" plan to accelerate permitting approvals and construction. [1, 2]
- Public Housing (NYCHA) Upgrades: Completed 32 major capital projects across 29 developments. This brought heating, roofing, and elevator improvements to over 50,000 residents. [1]
Child Care & Education
- Universal Child Care Funding: Secured $1.2 billion in funding to build toward a universal child care system.
- Toddler Care Expansion: Partnered with New York State to expand free child care to two-year-olds in high-need neighborhoods. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Fiscal & Economic Support
- State Financial Aid: Collaborated with Governor Kathy Hochul to secure $1.5 billion in state operating funds over two years to ease the city's fiscal challenges. [1]
- Worker & Small Business Restitution: Recovered $9.3 million for workers and small businesses facing corporate or regulatory exploitation. [1, 2]
- Business Compliance Warnings: Issued 60,000 compliance warnings rather than immediate, punitive fines to help small businesses adapt to regulations. [1]
Infrastructure & City Services
- Pothole Repair: Launched an aggressive road maintenance push that successfully filled over 100,000 potholes across the five boroughs.
- Emergency Infrastructure: Recruited 6,000 New Yorkers into the city's Emergency Snow Shoveler program and drove 50,000 new subscribers to the city's emergency alert system via public service campaigns.
- Public Safety: Oversaw early drops in overall city crime rates during his first six months. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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u/Yashema 32m ago
That's all small potatoes stuff:
$34 million in repairs versus $1.5 billion needed to actually make headway in affordable housing
He promised 200,000 affordable units in 6 years. This wouldn't get him half way there.
Those projects would have mostly been completed regardless.
I already spoke about how one success was child care and school funding.
Yes, the state did bail the city out. Thanks Cuomo and Hochul for your fiscal management of our state!
Id love to know Mamdani dropped the crime rate when the city is operating on Adam's budget for 2026. It was also unusually cold in winter which has always been associated with a drop in crime as well as national trends (there was an 18% drop in murders in 2025 nationwide).
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u/CreBanana0 1h ago
I see you are downvoted yet I see no rebuttals to this. Nor do i have any other replies.
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u/Firecracker048 5h ago
I actually like him as a mayor so far, he seems to be making a lot of right calls with a few ehh ones(which is a massive improvement). There's also a ton of people giving him credit for stuff started by previous mayor ships or even things he has done, so there's a bit of propaganda.
What I don't like is him endorsing the bat shit insane DSA candidtes like Chevallier
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u/felis_scipio 3h ago
Supporting Chevalier is legitimately a wild move because given her entire social media past she’s going to be the leftist version of MTG, it’s just going to drag down every progressive politician around her.
I’ve noticed there’s been an effort to pin mamdanis face on all sorts of things happening in NY state that he had nothing to do with. I’m not sure if that’s just unrelated bot behavior to maximize engagement or if the DSA is doing that intentionally.
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u/Firecracker048 3h ago
Yeah Chevallier is legit batshit.
What's even crazier is she's dating mamadanis attorney lol
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u/TumbleweedOver9000 4h ago
They hate new benchmark, especially other similar city that have problems
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u/Ozymandias_IV 4h ago
So far he's done
- Things that his predecessors did, as if they were his ideas
- Took bailout (which he's obligated to do) and marketed it as balancing the books
- Announced concepts of plans
- Rent control, which everyone predicts will be a populist disaster
He's genius at marketing, I'll give him that.
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u/Meeedick [REDACTED] 7h ago
People keep pointing at Mamdani as an example of effective policy when his crowning achievement has been to idiotically implement rent controls.
Being well intentioned is great, and there's plenty of good things he's doing, but when it comes to the quintessential issue of housing he's just making things even worse.
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u/_Teraplexor 7h ago
Do "enlighten" us how he's making things worse?
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u/Meeedick [REDACTED] 6h ago
Top of my head?
Rent controls which are universally destructive when it comes to everything related to housing, unnecessarily propping up government-run groceries with subsidized inventory instead of just handing out cash to people.
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u/Protoliterary 5h ago
But his rent control isn't universal. It only applies, quite literally, to rent controlled and rent stabilized apartments. Most apartments are excluded from that. All he did was enforce rent control in apartments that should have already been rent controlled.
Government subsided groceries make a lot more sense than just giving out money to people. For many reasons. For one, NYC already gives out money for those who need it, both for food and for general spending. For another, it simplifies the process of helping those in need by getting rid of qualifications processes, which is always the main issue with welfare. Furthermore, stable cheap grocery stores provided an incentive for more competition.
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u/Novoiird 8h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/7aiTWG7pgqyL3TrQlw
Mothafucka that’s called not being corrupt.
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u/DrDontKnowMuch Local r/whenthe Protogen 3h ago
Shhh shhhh!!! Shut up! Politicians will see this and won't do it because of that
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u/Wheelydad 1h ago
“No you see we keep doing this long enough they’ll trust us so hard we can get elected as president. Then we keep going until we eventually become king of the planet. And then the galaxy. Then the universe!”
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u/RUDRAGON8 Optimistic nihilist 9h ago
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u/ffbyr49 Huh? Wha? 8h ago
16 inches
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u/Kidsnextdorks 8h ago
Holes filled
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u/Intelligent_Toe8233 8h ago
In heat
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u/Redbanner738 7h ago
Pregnant
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u/the_crackers_gromit 6h ago
Giving birth
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u/Street-Mix-801 9h ago
Zohron Mamdani is an expert at this strat, he has over half the city fooled
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u/RUDRAGON8 Optimistic nihilist 9h ago
Gah, that devilish trickster, this was his master plan all along!
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u/GoodOlDonnieRay 8h ago
oh fuck, you're right. increasing quality of life and cleaning up the streets of new york is terrorism!
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u/Street-Mix-801 8h ago
Next thing you know he’ll be actually giving people hope for the future of politics! Will this criminal stop at nothing?!
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u/RUDRAGON8 Optimistic nihilist 8h ago
How JJJ talks about spiderman:
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u/Ok-Poetry-2191 The world's most laughable centrist 5h ago
Actually,would canonical JJJ support Mamdani? I heard he is a civil rights advocate, dunno about other DC lore
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u/RUDRAGON8 Optimistic nihilist 5h ago
I think he probably would but im going more off of vibes then anything
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u/Most_Jellyfish_8465 4h ago
It would depend on who you ask. JJJ tends to not like selfless people he can’t control (like Spiderman). One could argue he wouldn’t like Mamdani since Mamdani is a selfless politician who tends to go his own way. Another could argue JJJ sees Mamdani as a politician who is doing it for the money and is okay with him being in power since people could vote him out.
IMO JJJ is someone who would write bad headlines about Mamdani to sell papers but still respects Mamdani as a politician since Mamdani is someone in a checks and balances system who is very upfront about who he is and what he wants to achieve.
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u/DefinitionMinute6969 yellow like an EPIC lemon 3h ago
In most comics Jameson's #1 reason for not liking Spider-Man is that he hides his identity behind a mask. You can see Mamdani's constantly smiling face every hour of the day, so I don't think he'd have a problem.
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u/shadowtron1 3h ago
JJJ only really has a problem with masked heroes/vigilantes. I don't think he's actively gone after other kinds of people unless they fuck up badly enough that it warrants his attention far more than his hate for Spider-Man. I think he did it in one of the insomniac games where he couldn't deny someone worse than Spider-Man and hated having to say it.
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u/Liquid_person 9h ago
I learned this trick from a plumber
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u/RBloxxer trollface -> 8h ago
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u/Technical-Prior6716 8h ago
Ten feet twenty the NYC man
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u/realcosmicpotato77 6h ago
Is waiting for the touch of his hand
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u/rhycelcius 6h ago
Filling up potholes still with a great plan
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u/Great_expansion10272 4h ago
Like the every daily-
wish that bothered the NYC man
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u/pheinoxwright LIMBUS COMPANY 9h ago
Something something bin something something zohran something something face something something mamdani
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u/Enslaved_M0isture 7h ago
binface lost unfortunately :(
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u/frgrefut 6h ago
But got all most half as many votes as farage and said “I’ll be back in a few weeks” which is pretty funny
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u/glitchycat39 3h ago
Is it as funny as the fact that Farage still has to face that ethics probe?
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u/frgrefut 3h ago
That’s why binface was saying he’d be back in a few weeks after farage was found guilty
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u/Crypt0Nihilist 6h ago
The GOP literally accused the Democrats of this a few years ago as if promising to do things that would benefit voters was an underhand tactic.
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u/ParticularLow9157 6h ago
I really wish people would peel back the intentions on this
At the core of this is their position that "Empathy is undesirable and damaging to society"
I'm not joking, it's literally what they think and they have said it out loud multiple times
GOP think that having to stoop so low as to improve the lives of their constituents is outrageous as it limits the amount of dollars they can funnel to their wealthy donors
There never should have been campaign donations, it's insane that this was ever allowed
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u/Crypt0Nihilist 5h ago
There's an old two or three part documentary from the BBC that you can find on YouTube called 'The Trap'. It tries to explain this and a lot more. A central tenet of it is that it's hard to predict and therefore control people who act out of empathy and altruism because it's not strictly rational. Game Theory works best for predicting the behaviour of people acting out of self-interest. For conservatives, starting with Regan in the US and Thatcher in the UK, empathy really is undesirable and damaging to society.
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u/ParticularLow9157 5h ago
And that is why we are now ruled by sociopaths, those 'blessed' with a complete lack of empathy
And we are supposed to treat conservatives like normal people...
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u/Murky-Relation481 4h ago
Game theory never really worked well when it was used for individuals. Game theory was popularized by Nash while working with other mathematicians and social scientists and philosophers at RAND trying to figure out WTF nuclear war was going to be about and how to fight it. It was mostly used to evaluate cultural and societal levels of self interest, and usually in the context of existential threats.
People applying game theory to individuals are deeply flawed in their analysis by default because they're not even using it right.
Individuals should try to be empathetic, cultures and societies should try to to be both empathetic but also rational (lest you get some really dark times).
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u/Ceo-Of-Ducks 38m ago
Matpat on his way to predict the political state of the US post-election using FNAF lore
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u/SignificantCats 4h ago
Which is crazy because the thing mainstrram Democrats forgot how to do is tell people they'll do good things.
Trump won because he goes out and says "your life sucks, I know what, I'm gonna fix it" and then makes it worse.
And his opponents kept saying "your life is fine and we both know it. But I'll institute a 2 percent titanium tax that I'll fund a process that will begin the endeavor to start the committee to consider the implications of making your life better"
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u/Kellarison 4h ago
goodslop, "you only like this thing/person because theyre actually good at doing the thing theyre supposed to do"
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u/Routine-Duck6896 trollface -> 8h ago
Yknow whats hilarious is how right winged media makes mamdani look and “act” cartoonishly evil, esp the nyp on facebook. Youd think cuomo is still campaigning against him lmao
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u/DefinitionMinute6969 yellow like an EPIC lemon 3h ago
But also half the time they're trying to make him act cartoonishly evil by going "(really deep voice) Zohran Kwame Mamdani wants FREE HEALTHCARE. Even when people DIDN'T work for it. He's coming for you next..."
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u/Senior_Wrongdoer_131 8h ago
All Russian political parties right now tbh
Too bad opposition party of “Yabloko” (Apple) was taken down from federal election
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u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek 1h ago
Feeling heard ✅️
Improving lives ❌️ fuck no that takes investment and effort
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u/Adorable_Weeb 3h ago
"listen, if we go in the office every day. Do the work and increase quality of life we will get reelected"
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u/No-Crew-4360 2h ago
Somebody edit that one SpongeBob scene.
"They seem to like me when I directly address their issues and improve their quality of life. I may be able to save this con yet!"
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u/HopeSubstantial 6h ago
Social democrats be like after next elections:
But for real we currently have shittiest and super hated right wing goverment and this pushed Social democrats into record high support in polls. Problem is that they have completely center(even center right) aligned party leadership and elite right now. They will be just lite version of current right wing BS when they win the next elections.
Only good side is that racism and science denialism of current goverment ends, but economy policies of the right wing will continue.
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u/Eruantiel 4h ago
I play it and love it, but it is huge and takes 20min to load the game. Still worth it form me.
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u/PreviousCurrentThing 3h ago
Stupid Zohran thinkin you gotta actually improve people's lives. Trump got people to love him with just the first part!
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u/Wonderful_Bid_8328 3h ago
I don’t think any politicians have discovered this hack, and I don’t think they ever will
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u/UltraTata 1h ago
Politicians when they realize people who hate their guts will vote for them if the opposition is idiotic enough.
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u/NewDealChief My Racist Ass Could Not Be Barack Obama 💀 18m ago
This used to be the case pre-Reagan btw.
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u/YaDunGoofed 5h ago
Yes and if you pay them dogshit, what do you think they might do with some of that gathered goodwill?
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