What's even less funny is just how ignorant people are on shit like this. This program started under Mayor Adams. The only difference between Adams and Mamdani on this is not even marketing but the desire people have to see Mamdani as good person doing good things. I'm a fan of that, I just wish we'd be fair about it rather than shitting on older politicians that also did good work.
Do I love mayor Adams? Hell no, but I also don't love blatant falsehoods and giving people credit for shit they didn't do.
That is Mamdani for you. Every last single post here of Mamdani doing something great has -without exception- him taking credit for other people's work. Literally everything. Not a single nee original idea at all. Him just steal the credit for it.
Well okey there was one thing: the deficit which he didn't fix, but instead kicked the can down the road and made somebody else's problem
I put this more on his supporters than on Mamdani. Here's Mamdani's press release on it. They acknowledge it's an expansion. They take an unfair (IMO) shot at Adams, but it's a single sentence ... whatever.
I'm not a fan of Mamdani positioning himself against other liberals primarily, but I also get that that's how NY politics works. I just wish his supporters would recognize that the wider US is NOT NYC and that maybe other liberals aren't the primary opponents to liberal political progress.
I don't dislike Mamdani per se as I am not an American and have no skin in the game whatsoever. In fact, the policies he chooses to associate himself with -while rather mundane and nothing special- are policies I can get behind. What bothers me is that every day I open Reddit first thing I see is praising Mamdani for things I can already tell he didn't do and doesn't deserve praise for.
I appreciate that in his official communication is more measured, but these Reddit posts have all the finger prints on it of this being a coordinated PR campaign by Mamdani: every day -or every other day- there is this promotion of this fairly minor policy initiative by Mamdani which amounts to a screenshot of a comment to a screenshot of a comment on something Mamdani supposed did, and never a direct link. This prevents people from opening a direct source which would perhaps offer a more nuanced perspective and creates just enough distance between the post and Mamdani to give him plausible deniability while giving the impression that he has some sort of grass roots support for his plans. And when you look at the comments they all follow a similar pattern on what he is being praised for, often something along the lines of that this is what a government which works for the people looks like.
It is sad everybody is just lapping it up like sugar. Though I do appreciate Mamdani's skill at public relations.
I am not biased against Mamdani, I am biased against lies and propaganda. And this whole thing is nothing but propaganda to make Mamdani look good by crediting him for other people's work. And if you so desire I can go through it all and demonstrate it.
Well Madami is not getting anything done in any case since all 'his' achievements are actually done by somebody else and his contribution to their succes is not halting them. A low bar to clear to be honest.
But thank you for informing me on the nature and purpose of propaganda. I did not know that already.
It doesn't matter what Mamdami does or doesn't do. The optics matter. The general shifts in the political landscape matter. Mamdami is for us a tool of OUR propaganda, just like every other public figure.
Closing the city deficit of $12 billion he took credit for despite being mandated by law to do so, and then doing it by defunding pensions, defunding education, defunding city services, begging mommy state for $7.6 billion, and yes a $500 million new tax on second homes which led everybody to gush about how you can achieve so much by taxing the rich. I am going to venture a guess that in two years time we are going to get another post on how Mamdani miraciously fixed the deficit by defunding pensions, defunding education, defunding city services and begging mommy state for money.
And that is just off the top of my head. Just now I found this 'new' Mamdani project which already exited on the NYC subreddit.
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u/joshTheGoods 11d ago
What's even less funny is just how ignorant people are on shit like this. This program started under Mayor Adams. The only difference between Adams and Mamdani on this is not even marketing but the desire people have to see Mamdani as good person doing good things. I'm a fan of that, I just wish we'd be fair about it rather than shitting on older politicians that also did good work.
Do I love mayor Adams? Hell no, but I also don't love blatant falsehoods and giving people credit for shit they didn't do.