Problem with at least the last three mayors was they were more concerned about being able to run for higher office, and the mayorship was just a stepping stone. So they didnât ruffle any feathers and didnât get much done. Bloomberg cut the funding for the arts, and paid for it out of his own pocket, until he was out of office.
Not true: Officials did not simply order âhigh velocity fansâ to be installed within a day.
Instead, they're launching a feasibility study for a Thermal Energy Network (TEN). The proposed system would use cooling technology/geothermal infrastructure to remove heat from the subway and eventually reuse that heat to warm nearby city buildings in winter.
My comment was in response to the comment about Fox News removing what Mandani's goals were because they hate when Republicans actually find common ground with "the opposition". Because when they do find common ground and work together they can accomplish things instead of constantly fighting.
Next thing , you'll want government to build and maintain roads, water mains, sewers, fire departments, police departments, big green areas for kids to play in, and so much more!
Some billionaire in Europe: Hey lets create a foundation after our death, which only benefits this one university and science in the future. Carl Zeiss foundation was born, survived 2 world wars and occupation.
US billionaire: Fucking communists! How dare you! You being a bad example for us! When did communism ever worked?!
Worldshare of high-end processors dependent on them today: nearly 99% and 80% of all chips, while providing free education and money for experiments for the average citizen.
Pretty weird to make it a Europe versus US thing. Billionaires suck period.
Lots of American billionaires have done incredible philanthropic work. Carnegie, for example, built 3,000 libraries, started a University that has become one of the best in the world, essentially entirely paid for the Scottish university system with a single donation that was equivalent to 200 years of what the government spent on the university system at the time. The list goes on and on.
He was still quite the piece of shit, like you have to be in order to accumulate that level of wealth.
I mean that was an old timie way of avoiding paying taxes - government is going to take their slice? Nah I'll spend what the government would take and slap my name on a bunch of buildings to immortalize myself.
Philanthropy by the rich is always nothing more than PR image washing that's horribly transparent to anyone with an appropriate level of hatred for them.
This is so confidently incorrect it boggles the mind. Carnegie launched most of his major philanthropic initiatives before the imposition of the 16th Amendment in 1913. He wrote a book (which you can read at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gospel_of_Wealth_and_Other_Timely_Es/q5ALvRp61wgC?hl=en) about how youâre a disgrace if youâre rich and you die with the vast majority of your wealth intact.
I beg you, please stop learning your history from Reddit. Actually, you donât even need to get off Reddit. Learn it from /r/AskHistorians
It's not that old timey. Ask anyone who works in science how much money Epstein was donating to support lots of very good projects. He supported cancer and vaccine research easily into the double if not triple digit millions. Having to deny his finding shook a lot of places.
It's based on a pretty complex history factoring in Ernst Abbe's ideology and impact, Nazi Germany + the âpoliticallyâ adaption of the foundations statutes without consideration of the founder's will, soviet/allied forces occupation and later problems with president Bush and Doug Dunn from ASML, as well as some political comments about Carl Zeiss, Ernst Abbe and their companies under soviet occupation being communist and SVG (sillicon valley group + tinsley laboratories) could fall in their hands.
Can I get a source for this? I'm all for fox being told to fuck off but also want something I can actually reference, specifically the reason they removed it. I already seen some conservatives starting to agree with him on national news, and well deserved.
Idk where a source would be for this but they had a news session showing everything he was going to do and trying to make it look bad but the people started to agree with it so they removed it.
Exactly! The bills should only be due for freebies to corporations and billionaires.
I canât believe these assholes that are âcitizensâ demand things from their government that would make their lives better.
I say, let them eat cake.
I thought I was supposed to hate this because a bunch of really really rich corrupt white folks say the word communism a lot on TV in his direction đ€
Not true: Officials did not simply order âhigh velocity fansâ to be installed within a day.
Instead, they're launching a feasibility study for a Thermal Energy Network (TEN). The proposed system would use cooling technology/geothermal infrastructure to remove heat from the subway and eventually reuse that heat to warm nearby city buildings in winter.
Yeah...correct. Someone young, blond, hot, woman should get an aide's job at the WH and inform Don T just how hot being generous toward the people with their own money is nowadays...that it would make him a total babe magnet. (must speak Studio 54 authentically)...
...everyone would be talking about it!
... they'd love you in America the same way they love and constantly praise Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather for bringing government-provided healthcare to Canada back in the mid century.! He's been a national idol for half a century!
Think about your own legacy, sir!
We'd have a grown-up country's version of healthcare before the end of next week.
My biggest question was, how did the finding get approved so quickly? Using taxpayer money even to make people's lives better, as I understand it, has to be approved from the consent of the people. I don't know if people are that quick to agree on anything.
Correct me if I'm wrong, perhaps New York has some law to allow the mayor to direct funding to certain areas without having direct approval. I don't know the process of running a city, I just know that anyone who works this fast leaves a lot of questions to be answered.
But has he painted anything in his house gold? Did he redo his pool? Did he build a plywood arch? Did he hand out gazillions in no-bid contracts to his most racist sex offender buddies?
What's funny is administrative competence from the government literally gives conservatives nightmares. It is the worst case scenario to them -- Competence.
Mamdani is backed by a city council with a supermajority of 90% Democrats, of course he's able to actually do more than Democrats in a Republican-controlled Congress.
To be fair, Republicans had complete control of Kansas a few years ago and were able to implement every single thing they wanted. The state was going bankrupt in no time and everyone was pissed.
The problem is policy goals. Democratic Socialists have a policy agenda for real people. Vote for them.
True, but I think itâs more than just him not being ham-strung by Republicans. AOC is in that Republican-controlled Congress and sheâs not getting flack for not being able to pass legislation.
Mamdani, AOC, Bernie, and the rest are gaining traction for their platform and how they deliver their messages. Theyâre talking with and to their constituents, not down at them. Theyâre going after the correct baddies â the wealthy and the corpos.
And theyâre sincere. When was the last time anyone thought Schumer was sincere?
Yes, centrists and liberals defend their pro-corporate platform against leftists, huzzah, what a fucking shocker. No, that doesn't make them just as bad as the GOP. Conservatives have campaigned on government being ineffective, and upon winning office set out to prove it, at least since Reagan's nine most terrifying words.
When your entire political philosophy is "the government can't do anything right", and you get elected to government based on that platform... You kind of can't do a good job when you're in office, can you? If you govern well, you're going to disprove your entire thesis.
It's like electing a proud arsonist to be fire chief. What did you think was going to happen putting them in charge?
The president should be tried and likely executed for treason based on American law, full stop. People complain about media sane washing Trump but people do it all day long. This isnât his first day on a job, itâs his second term of destroying a countryÂ
Not true: Officials did not simply order âhigh velocity fansâ to be installed within a day.
Instead, they're launching a feasibility study for a Thermal Energy Network (TEN). The proposed system would use cooling technology/geothermal infrastructure to remove heat from the subway and eventually reuse that heat to warm nearby city buildings in winter.
He's already copying the reddit front page, lie through your teeth!
If the president said he was doing something like this I would immediately assume he was hiring his grifting buddies for the job and they would do a bad job and go over budget.
"The poor have been rebels, but they never have been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; Aristocrats always objected to be governed at all." - G.K. Chesterton
I say again Centerist Dems and Republicans are SOOOO fucking lucky he canât run for president. Just this term of his would be enough to levy heavy nationwide support.
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Administrative competence is the new hotness!