Anonymous wrote:If only the Palestinian children's lives could have been saved by releasing the hostages and Hamas's surrender. That could have happened on October 8. Every one of those children's lives would have been saved.

Anonymous wrote:House Republicans condemn Mamdani for eating with bare hands: 'go back to the Third World'


https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/house-republicans-condemn-mamdani-for-eating-with-bare-hands-go-back-to-the-third-world

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Anonymous wrote:City budgets are spent on Sanitation, Education, Public Safety, and Infrastructure (such as roads, schools, parks).

Yet we elect mayors that “inspire” us or debate their positions on international affairs. Things that a mayor has no impact on. Most humans are just dumb, we need technocrats as mayors. I miss Bloomberg, you could literally see the improvements made to the city week-to-week, everything was getting cleaner, parks improved etc. I could have cared less if he was pro Israel or Palestine, it wasn’t his job at that time nor should it be.

Mamdani has stated repeatedly that his focus will be on NYC. He can't do anything about the fact that everyone keeps questioning him on irrelevant foreign policy stances. Almost like they want to distract and divide. 🤔

Anonymous wrote:City budgets are spent on Sanitation, Education, Public Safety, and Infrastructure (such as roads, schools, parks).

Yet we elect mayors that “inspire” us or debate their positions on international affairs. Things that a mayor has no impact on. Most humans are just dumb, we need technocrats as mayors. I miss Bloomberg, you could literally see the improvements made to the city week-to-week, everything was getting cleaner, parks improved etc. I could have cared less if he was pro Israel or Palestine, it wasn’t his job at that time nor should it be.

Anonymous wrote:As Jihadists push through the Sahel into Ivory Coast, displacing millions and killing Black people, where is the outrage? There isn't any. What about Sudan which has similar Arab racism against Blacks causing genocide?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No thanks.

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor, has come under fire from critics who label him a "communist" – a charge he dismisses as a distraction.

However, the criticisms may not be as unfounded as Mamdani claims. Videos show the NYC mayoral candidate espousing language and theories rooted in communist revolutionary language.

In one 2021 video, Mamdani urges fellow socialists at a conference to not compromise on goals like "seizing the means of production." In a second video, released on YouTube by progressive advocacy group The Gravel Institute that same year, Mamdani discusses the need to turn housing from a private commodity to a public one, calling for luxury condos to be replaced with communal style living that would include things like shared laundry facilities and food co-ops.

In the video, Mamdani points to post-war communist Vienna as an example of how removing privatization from the housing market can be good for society. However, he does concede that currently in Vienna, "residents still pay part of their earnings in rent to cover operational costs and a sizable chunk of the population lives in private housing."

After describing the so-called Vienna model, during which he puts forth a vision of communal living with shared laundry, kitchens, food co-ops, bathhouses, pharmacies, lecture halls, swimming pools and more, he suggests a way forward that includes establishing "community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership."

"If we want to end the housing crisis, the solution has to be moving toward the full de-commodification of housing," Mamdani says. "In other words, moving away from the status quo in which most people access housing by purchasing it on the market and toward a future where we guarantee high quality housing to all as a human right."

Private property =/= personal property. He's talking about ending housing and an investment vehicle for rich people and using it to actually...house people. It's sad that that is such a radical concept. We do not need a parasitic rentier class. We need affordable housing.

No mention of BlackRock?
Larry Fink owns Mamdani.

Anonymous wrote:City budgets are spent on Sanitation, Education, Public Safety, and Infrastructure (such as roads, schools, parks).

Yet we elect mayors that “inspire” us or debate their positions on international affairs. Things that a mayor has no impact on. Most humans are just dumb, we need technocrats as mayors. I miss Bloomberg, you could literally see the improvements made to the city week-to-week, everything was getting cleaner, parks improved etc. I could have cared less if he was pro Israel or Palestine, it wasn’t his job at that time nor should it be.

Anonymous wrote:Why are Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries still supporting the evil Netanyahu?

Anonymous wrote:No thanks.

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor, has come under fire from critics who label him a "communist" – a charge he dismisses as a distraction.

However, the criticisms may not be as unfounded as Mamdani claims. Videos show the NYC mayoral candidate espousing language and theories rooted in communist revolutionary language.

In one 2021 video, Mamdani urges fellow socialists at a conference to not compromise on goals like "seizing the means of production." In a second video, released on YouTube by progressive advocacy group The Gravel Institute that same year, Mamdani discusses the need to turn housing from a private commodity to a public one, calling for luxury condos to be replaced with communal style living that would include things like shared laundry facilities and food co-ops.

In the video, Mamdani points to post-war communist Vienna as an example of how removing privatization from the housing market can be good for society. However, he does concede that currently in Vienna, "residents still pay part of their earnings in rent to cover operational costs and a sizable chunk of the population lives in private housing."

After describing the so-called Vienna model, during which he puts forth a vision of communal living with shared laundry, kitchens, food co-ops, bathhouses, pharmacies, lecture halls, swimming pools and more, he suggests a way forward that includes establishing "community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership."

"If we want to end the housing crisis, the solution has to be moving toward the full de-commodification of housing," Mamdani says. "In other words, moving away from the status quo in which most people access housing by purchasing it on the market and toward a future where we guarantee high quality housing to all as a human right."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No thanks.

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor, has come under fire from critics who label him a "communist" – a charge he dismisses as a distraction.

However, the criticisms may not be as unfounded as Mamdani claims. Videos show the NYC mayoral candidate espousing language and theories rooted in communist revolutionary language.

In one 2021 video, Mamdani urges fellow socialists at a conference to not compromise on goals like "seizing the means of production." In a second video, released on YouTube by progressive advocacy group The Gravel Institute that same year, Mamdani discusses the need to turn housing from a private commodity to a public one, calling for luxury condos to be replaced with communal style living that would include things like shared laundry facilities and food co-ops.

In the video, Mamdani points to post-war communist Vienna as an example of how removing privatization from the housing market can be good for society. However, he does concede that currently in Vienna, "residents still pay part of their earnings in rent to cover operational costs and a sizable chunk of the population lives in private housing."

After describing the so-called Vienna model, during which he puts forth a vision of communal living with shared laundry, kitchens, food co-ops, bathhouses, pharmacies, lecture halls, swimming pools and more, he suggests a way forward that includes establishing "community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership."

"If we want to end the housing crisis, the solution has to be moving toward the full de-commodification of housing," Mamdani says. "In other words, moving away from the status quo in which most people access housing by purchasing it on the market and toward a future where we guarantee high quality housing to all as a human right."

Loneliness, especially among youth and young adults, is at an all time high in the US. A movement towards more communal living g sounds great to me! I was never happier than when I lived in my tiny NYC apartment with roommates and using the laundromat downstairs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No thanks.

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor, has come under fire from critics who label him a "communist" – a charge he dismisses as a distraction.

However, the criticisms may not be as unfounded as Mamdani claims. Videos show the NYC mayoral candidate espousing language and theories rooted in communist revolutionary language.

In one 2021 video, Mamdani urges fellow socialists at a conference to not compromise on goals like "seizing the means of production." In a second video, released on YouTube by progressive advocacy group The Gravel Institute that same year, Mamdani discusses the need to turn housing from a private commodity to a public one, calling for luxury condos to be replaced with communal style living that would include things like shared laundry facilities and food co-ops.

In the video, Mamdani points to post-war communist Vienna as an example of how removing privatization from the housing market can be good for society. However, he does concede that currently in Vienna, "residents still pay part of their earnings in rent to cover operational costs and a sizable chunk of the population lives in private housing."

After describing the so-called Vienna model, during which he puts forth a vision of communal living with shared laundry, kitchens, food co-ops, bathhouses, pharmacies, lecture halls, swimming pools and more, he suggests a way forward that includes establishing "community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership."

"If we want to end the housing crisis, the solution has to be moving toward the full de-commodification of housing," Mamdani says. "In other words, moving away from the status quo in which most people access housing by purchasing it on the market and toward a future where we guarantee high quality housing to all as a human right."

Private property =/= personal property. He's talking about ending housing and an investment vehicle for rich people and using it to actually...house people. It's sad that that is such a radical concept. We do not need a parasitic rentier class. We need affordable housing.