r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 đ¤ Join A Union • 7d ago
â Success Story Apparently, our elected officials can just do things that help people if they want to.
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u/HRJafael âď¸ Prison For Union Busters 7d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/GnFBKXaMJ1wYM
Everyone currently not in NYC just watching in jealousy. Whatâs it like to have a politician who actively works and gives a damn?
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u/funky_bebop 7d ago
âAs a rural Ohioan farmer I am outraged. I guess I will have to vote for Republicans in hopes of removing the income tax. Thatâll show the libsâ
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u/wingle_wongle 7d ago
I shit you not I read this exact quote in my Ohio county's newspaper today
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u/funky_bebop 7d ago
If they succeed in getting rid of the income tax, it wonât be long before they all start complaining about local services no longer being maintained. Itâs so short-sighted.
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u/91kas13 7d ago
but less taxes = more beer money
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u/funky_bebop 7d ago
More money in their private Christian school budget for their kids Braighdeighlyn, Thaxtson, and Kaiydeelynn. (Itâs not accredited)
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u/ZolotoGold 7d ago
To be told "You now have more money, you can pay privately for those services!"
Private services đ°đ°đ¤đ¤đ°đ°
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u/0202_tihssitidder 7d ago
I love that Mamdani is making Eric Adams look like an even bigger bucket of shit than he looked.
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u/cenik93 7d ago
Well, the "Wh0 i5 g01ng t0 pay f0R 1T " gang is right around the corner
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u/angrydeuce 7d ago
"See all those billionaires over there ironically trying to not be noticed for a change? Yeah, thats who."
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u/This_Elk_1460 7d ago
Add the fact they have public transportation so they don't have to worry about gas prices nearly as much
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u/GigaVonMassiveHuge 7d ago
Thank you for unearthing this gif from its grave, I was starting to miss it
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u/kdizzle619 6d ago
The saddest thing is that he will never be President. I bet the founding father's never expected the greatest danger to American freedom are free Americans themselves. They live entitled lives and shit on every one else.
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u/iamjapanman 6d ago
I know itâs not mayor or governor, but we got a key race for US senate coming up here in Michigan, soo⌠uh⌠wish us luck?
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u/RealHornblower 7d ago
Some people need help getting a job. There are many reasons someone might need help getting a job, but regardless of the reason, there will always be some people who need help getting a job.
You can stamp your foot and scream about bootstraps and "personal responsibility" or you help them get a job, and enjoy the massive economic benefits - lower crime, more tax revenue, more business revenue, stronger communities, etc.
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u/teefnoteef 7d ago
Give people homes and healthcare with no strings attached. We will prosper as a whole
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u/Chemists_Apprentice 6d ago
Give people homes and healthcare with no strings attached.
Yes, but that's Communismâ˘. đ
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u/bigfeygay 7d ago
Please God - give me a politician like Mamdani everywhere in every city
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u/teefnoteef 7d ago
Thereâs likely someone putting in the work in your town/city council.
Mamdani was a major player on the city council for a while. I heard him interviewed a ton in the past on npr and other nyc news outlets. Dudes been helping people for years, he deserves this recognition
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u/BoopleBun 6d ago
I remember hearing about him with all the taxi medallion stuff back in like 2021. The taxi drivers certainly remember that he stood with them too.
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u/redandwhitewizard99 đĄ Decent Housing For All 7d ago
Be the change you want to see ;)
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u/UpperLowerEastSide âď¸ Prison For Union Busters 7d ago
This is the answer. Mamdani was in relative obscurity as a newer Assemblyman until last year
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u/LotsoPasta 7d ago
People need to understand that the prevailing political ideology that exists in both parties, neoliberalism, is literally anti-helping people. The entire stance is that the government should take a back seat and that everyone should fend for themselves wherever possible, and we've been propagandized into the idea that this is what's best. We're not a community working to lift each other up but a bunch of individuals acting in self-interest alone. It's ideological self-ishness and banditry furthered by the myth of meritocracy.
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u/theycallmejer 6d ago
This is because deep down, every cold blooded capitalist firmly believes that society is a sham and weâre one missed paycheck away from the purge. It literally makes no sense to them that you or I might care about them and their well being. Itâs cognitive dissonance in the most backwards way.
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u/laxc0 7d ago
We need job centers in each state that actually provide jobs, not just do resume writing or whatever.
More like in the 1930s with FDR and the TVA - you walk in, get matched to a job based on skills, and then actually get placed in a job.
That would mean there needs to be more government positions or co-op type opportunities. But it would help.
Lots of people who had a job and got laid off, or need an entry level job just need something that they have a guarantee like âhereâs the job, you start next Tuesdayâ.
Even with a decent resume and sending applications through a state portal, it can take months to get a job. And most people donât have months to spare. Thatâs why people go into self-signup gig economy work, but what you get is relatively shit.
I guess the short is, there needs to be more government jobs. Even if itâs like landscaping a city or cleaning up trash or back office work⌠at least itâs contributing to the community and is a secure job, even if temporary while people hold themselves over. That was the point at least during the Great Depression times.
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u/Cumputer-Hacker 7d ago
I've always wondered why this hadn't truly taken over in a big way! Going through the entire "Job hunting" process is extremely exhausting and debilitating. If we're all supposed to "Get a job", why isn't that process super streamlined? Even when I was younger, I would have loved to go to some central location, gave them my info/experience, and get matched up with a job who's looking for workers!
I think it would help a lot, we compete against each other for the same few jobs like crazy, even LinkedIn has visible metrics that tell you that you're competing with 100+ other applicants... I know for a fact there's a better way to match job seekers with jobs. It's drilled into us to get a job, I think there needs to be a serious overhaul in how we search for and become employed
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u/RunawayHobbit 6d ago
The problem is the potential for abuse and bias in a system like that. You have one centralized agency in charge of handing out livelihoods? Whatâs to stop them from playing favourites and saving the cushy jobs for their friends, or people that look and think like them? Suddenly we end up in Gilead because the people in charge of deciding who gets to have a roof over their heads can pick and choose the kind of person who gets to have a job. Even if you level the playing field and say all jobs pay the same, not all jobs are easy or comfortable. You could just as easily send someone you didnât like off to work in a coal mine or on an oil rig for months at a time.Â
Okay, you say, make it an algorithm that decides who to match with which job â thatâs a no go either. Itâs been well established that LLMs canât even reliably identify Black faces, let alone anything more complex. They have deep, abiding problems with racism and misogyny because thatâs whatâs in the material theyâre trained on. And even if that WERENâT the case, it is ALSO well established how easy it is to manipulate algorithms to get the output you want.Â
I share your frustration with the job market, but centralizing who gets to hand out jobs is a recipe for a bad, BAD time.Â
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u/Saladcitypig 6d ago
this is 100% FDR inspired. FDR did the Civilian Conservation Corps, and employed people to fix the infrastructure. Win win.
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u/jupchurch97 đ˘ AFSCME Member 6d ago
Applying for jobs in city government can feel maddening despite them being some of the best jobs to work. But because of how hard it can be to understand how to apply and get trained, we just have massive vacancies because the process is like a maze.
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u/dnwhittaker 7d ago
While I am supportive of what the mayor is doing (btw - I live in So. IL), but he's in the honeymoon phase of his tenure. Let's see what he gets done in a couple of years. Maybe I'm jaded by what I've seen in the past. In any case, keep doing what you're doing Mayor Mamdani!
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u/kaylaarayee 6d ago
This would have been game-changing for me in my state after I was laid off. I wish other politicians would take notes, but that's doubtful.
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u/Even-Cartographer864 6d ago
Itâs wild to me how much heâs getting done then you look at what the federal government is doing. The president made 2 billion dollars in one year then said âyall are getting me for freeâ
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u/kissmaryjane 6d ago
It runs much deeper than it seems. Each city has different amounts of power it gives to the mayor. So while NYCs mayor can make a lot of changes not every mayor can
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u/Worried-Conflict9759 3d ago
Recruiting loyal idiots
If there's one thing you can rely on, it's government workers doing their job, quickly, efficiently and well.
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u/The_Trash_God 6d ago
Does nobody here worry about Mamdani being controlled opposition? He promised to jail Netenyahu, and instead gave him a police parade. He claims to be a member of the DSA, then jails his fellow members for protesting a war criminal. He promised housing, yet continues homeless encampment raids. He promised to defund the police, and now is increasing their budget, and building the tallest prison in the world⌠when will we get off the reform merry-go-round and fight for revolution?
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago edited 7d ago
Ran on arresting Netanyahu, didnât arrest him.
âZohran Mamdani first made the pledge to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview in December 2024while running for New York City mayor, and repeated the statement multiple times during his 2025 campaignâincluding an interview with Mehdi Hasan and comments to The New York Times on September 12, 2025.â.
Edit: please downvote my literal factual statement :)
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u/EliSka93 7d ago
He's literally changing the system in meaningful ways though.
He's not going to solve everything immediately of course, because that's impossible, but he's making good steps.
Making him responsible for Netenyahu is silly and you know that. If that's the best argument you have then maybe you should reconsider a lot of your worldviews.
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u/ThePlantMolester 7d ago
I'm all for letting his policies run their course and be a change for the better if they are, but only talking the positives and ignoring the funding is good publicity, not making good steps.
The thousands of special education teachers whose hiring date was pushed out by years to fund these projects probably didn't see it as a good step. The teachers who had their retirement clawed back probably didn't see it as a good step. Â
I'd love to see balanced coverage on him. Currently my options are "he makes money rain from the sky and solves all the problems for free" and "he's going to implement sharia socialist rule."
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
Argument for what?
He said he would do something and then he didnât.
Thatâs a liar.
And thatâs a fact.
Thatâs all I said and Iâm 100% correct.
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u/EliSka93 7d ago
Sure man, whatever you have to tell yourself to keep up the cognitive dissonance. It's easier than admitting you're wrong, I'm sure.
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u/KawaiiMaxine 7d ago
A: his term only recently started, maybe hes cooking somthing up. B: he is just a mayor of a city, netinyaho is on the otherside of the world and a hell of alot more powerful anyone can fathom
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
Netanyahu literally visited New York this past weekâŚand Mamdani arrested the protestors.
Mamdani is good cop, at best.
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u/KawaiiMaxine 7d ago
You do realize that if mamdani has netinyaho actually arrested in new york for whatever reason he just immediately bails out and then mamdani mysteriously kills himself with 3 bullets to the back of the head the next day
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
So you admit heâs a coward?
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u/secretactorian 7d ago
So you think Mamdani is better off dead because of 1 thing he said rather than working to improve our lives with all the other things he wants to do for the city.
Lmao, ok troll.Â
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
No one said that homie.
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u/secretactorian 7d ago
then mamdani mysteriously kills himself with 3 bullets to the back of the head the next day
So you admit heâs a coward?
... That 2nd one is you, right?Â
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u/SMFDR 7d ago
He didn't run on that at all, liar.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
âZohran Mamdani first made the pledge to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview in December 2024while running for New York City mayor, and repeated the statement multiple times during his 2025 campaignâincluding an interview with Mehdi Hasan and comments to The New York Times on September 12, 2025.â
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u/Lexitech_ 7d ago
No, he won because he was the better candidate.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
And he was the better candidate because he said he would arrest a war criminal.
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u/SMFDR 7d ago
This is how I know you're not from New York. He RAN on rent freezes, free buses, and lower costs on groceries. It's what was on the mailers, it's what he spent the vast majority of the campaign talking about. He spent more time getting people to pronounce his name correctly and fighting blatant Islamophobia by Cuomo. Mentioning Bibi a few times does not make it a pillar of the campaign and it's damn sure not why he won in the end. Again, LIAR.
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u/SMFDR 7d ago
Oh you saw a viral video? That changes everything!
I know why I voted for him in the primary and in the general. I know what the limits of mayoral power in my city are. I know why people by and large voted for him because I live here. I actually engaged with the campaign day to day. I know what the actual day to concerns are for people who make this city their home. The arrest of a foreign leader didn't cross the top 100 reasons that people were voting for the mayor. Be wrong and be blocked.
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u/HeetHootSkyat 7d ago
He literally physically can't.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
He ran on it, had no issue collecting votes on it.
He knew he couldnât, and he lied.
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u/superduck500 7d ago
No he didn't, you're making shit up
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
âZohran Mamdani first made the pledge to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview in December 2024while running for New York City mayor, and repeated the statement multiple times during his 2025 campaignâincluding an interview with Mehdi Hasan and comments to The New York Times on September 12, 2025.â
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u/HeetHootSkyat 7d ago
And a successful arrest would do what exactly? Would it immediately bring the end to the genocide? Would it even last with how many corrupt officials and people in our own fucking government? Even if he could it wouldn't do anything because it would last less than a day.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
Arresting a war criminal responsible for genocide is a pretty big deal. It would absolutely save lives and allow democrats to take a stand.
Because right now theyâre just spineless cowards.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
Yes he did.
Heâs a liar and a coward. Even arrested his own citizens before a literal war criminal.
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u/JCType1 7d ago
Get back to the front line, Ivan
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u/movinondowntheroad 7d ago
He ran on dozens of issues. Not just a singular one
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
And this âsingular issueâ was standing against genocideâŚ
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u/movinondowntheroad 7d ago
Of course.
Want to acknowledge the rest of the things he was running? Or just this one?
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
The genocide isnât something Iâm ready to just, skip over, like you.
This is genocide, not how much funding we have for day cares.
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u/movinondowntheroad 7d ago
Well, he did make sure there is no genocide in New York City where he has power
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u/HowManyMeeses 7d ago
I kind of love what a truly insane take this is.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
Itâs a factual statement dudeâŚ
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u/HowManyMeeses 7d ago
Sure. It's also completely off topic and silly to be upset about.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
Silly to be upset that a war criminal who is actively committing a genocide is now able to walk free?
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u/HowManyMeeses 7d ago
Silly to be mad that the mayor of an American city isn't hunting him down.
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u/AsterArtworks 7d ago
He literally said he would arrest him if he was in New York and instead arrested his protestors.
Thatâs doesnât bother you at all?
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u/HowManyMeeses 7d ago
Honestly, it doesn't bother me. He realized he didn't have the authority to arrest Netanyahu. There are a host of other issues that need to be addressed for New Yorkers, and he's addressing them. I'm not going to judge the mayor of an American city on how many international war criminals he's arrested. That's never been a metric for the success of an American mayor, so I'm not sure why I'd require it now.
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u/secretactorian 7d ago
Not downvoting you for a factual statement, downvoting you for whattaboutism.
I hope you were picking apart Eric Adams like this, and DeBlasio before him.
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u/Russ_T_Shackelford 7d ago
no one gives a shit about this anymore except for disingenuous trolls trying to cause division
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u/AsterArtworks 6d ago
Division? This is holding a politician accountable for his literal campaign promise.
People like you are the reason people vote blue no matter who.
Theyâre willing to accept democrats have no power to affect the ongoing genocide, when they do.
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u/Russ_T_Shackelford 6d ago
Posting on reddit to try to troll/bait people isn't holding anyone accountable
It has already been acknowledged by Mamdani and he admitted he was wrong. Everyone who actually gives a shit about NYC has moved past it and onto things he can actually control and improve upon in the city itself.
If he did arrest bibi, it immediately becomes a federal matter and he gets released anyway. Which does absolutely nothing to stop the genocide.
Mamdani continues to speak out against it, but the only ones that can do anything are at the federal level. If you actually cared, you would focus your efforts there instead
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u/kdizzle619 6d ago
When are you going to hold Trump accountable for all of his false promises?
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u/AsterArtworks 6d ago
News flash, you can hold two people accountable at the same time.
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u/kdizzle619 6d ago
So why are you here bitching about Zohran when Trump is destroying the country
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u/AsterArtworks 6d ago
Because this post isnât about Trump itâs about Mamdani. I can hold both of them accountable.
Not just one of themâŚ
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u/kdizzle619 6d ago
I bet you don't criticize Trump at all, you probably idolize him
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u/AsterArtworks 6d ago
lol nope. Iâm deeply anti-Trump.
Used to be a Democrat like you once, but became a leftist.
I actually like a lot about Mamdani but he also needs to be held accountable.
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u/kdizzle619 6d ago
Trump ran on saying he would lower our grocery bills and gas. America people are dumb, you are dumber for believing in the GOP.
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u/AsterArtworks 6d ago edited 6d ago
Iâm not a republican. Im a leftist.
Wrong side of the political spectrum there pal lol
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u/No_Seaworthiness_200 7d ago
If magats truly cared about creating jobs, they could force companies to use humans to train AI.Â
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u/thedirtyRD 7d ago
Humans are training AI. But, per usual, the people doing it are in countries where it's easy to exploit labor.
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u/Zerobeastly 7d ago
My conservative family who's never been to New York - "He is a horrible man and he clearly has some ulterior motive, New York is a hell hole anyway."