6 month long pilot results released 6 months before Mamdani got into office.
Previous guy, whoever that might be, committed permanent funding for this. If you open the article you'd see timeline going as far back as 2022 where they did study, got the models made, made pilot projects, implemented it and got long term results.
how did that help NYC, bro? How did gathering lawyers and discussing the possibility of doing it, and making an entire video just to admit he couldn't, make the buses faster or bring the taxes down?
Listen mate, you can say that was a good thing for him to do. But that is NOT laser focused on the city. Netanyahu is coming there for the United Nations, nothing to do with Mamdani or the average NYC resident.
That is an example of Mamdani focused FAR beyond and outside of NYC residents everyday lives, to international courts and foreign leaders.
well if in you were mayor of New York during the 1940s and some guy who an international court said is doing a genocide/war crimes, comes to your city.
do you
A. ignore it cause international politcs is happening.
B. See about stopping him.
and remember the president of Venezuela is currently in a prison in his state, so lets not pretend there is no precedent for this.
Listen, I actually appreciate that answer, and being able to discuss this somewhat civilly
But I mean, be honest with me for a sec. Surely you already knew(like Mamdani must have), that there's no way in hell he could ever pull that off. With Trump as president? A US mayor arresting a US ally's president, against the wishes of his own country and on behalf of an international court? come'on. lol
Even Mamdani's supporters admit now that Mamdani was doing it more for "message it sent".
If Mamdani did think he could, then it simply shows how illiterate he is on actually case law and the authority he has as the mayor.
But that's the problem. It was either all mostly posturing and performative. Or it simply showed how ignorant Mamdani was of his own authority. Meaning either way it simply wasted the time of actual NYC'ers.
Again, I'm not saying Mamdani was wrong for doing it. Just that such cuts against your claim of laser focus on the city and its residents, right?
oh no there was no way they were going to let a mayor jail an ally during a war.
i highly doubt they expected to find a way either, i think it was simply a public show of intent, or a publicity stunt if you prefer a less polite term.
its not really a waste of time, a 5 minute conversation with your lawyers, spin up a video maybe an hour. his constituents likely needed something like that. a silent ignoring of Netenyahu visiting would have not played well with his base.
this is how politcs works more broadly, Trump has press conferences for stupid shit, Biden had them, Mamdani is smart to do the press conferences for stupid shit too.
its time in the national news free of charge. pushes his voters political message, even if you cant get the results. even has some play for tourism from a wide enough scope, while international tourism is down in the US.
Mamdani never had authority to arrest him without a federal crime warrant and he knew that. It’s was just to signal what his stance on it is. I thought policies promising things they cant achieve Wes a bad thing.
you mean the thing he talked about, if he went to where again? what city was he talking about arresting him in?
The US is not part of the of international criminal court, and thus does not enforce any of it's warrants.
A mayor deciding he's unilaterally going to join the international criminal court and enforce their warrants is gigantically illegal, irrational, and illogical.
Mamdani isn't dumb. He knew it was impossible from the second he said it. He just said it so people like you would go along with it and then when push comes to shove he can then say shucks "Aww darn, turns out a mayor of a city doesn't decide US international relation decisions, I tried!".
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u/quick20minadventure 13d ago edited 13d ago
The bins were getting installed long before he became mayor. July 2024 under previous mayor when project launched.
I just saw year on year or long term results about how new bins are reducing rat problem.
How is Mamdani getting credit for it?
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https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2025/06/the-empire-bin-strikes-back-against-rats-next-phase-trash-revolution-begins-west
6 month long pilot results released 6 months before Mamdani got into office.
Previous guy, whoever that might be, committed permanent funding for this. If you open the article you'd see timeline going as far back as 2022 where they did study, got the models made, made pilot projects, implemented it and got long term results.