I know, I know. I was being tongue-in-cheek.

You guys got the shaft, it's okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we'll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn't cause its own extinction first.

Lay your weary head to rest, we've got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh...

In my experience Gen Xers have allowed Boomers to stay longer. Obviously this isn’t Gen Xers’ fault entirely and I’m not trying to paint with a wide brush here, but from what I have seen growing up Gen Xers have been useful to Boomers in that there are token Xers who have been allowed power as long as they enact the policies that allow Boomers to stay longer.

I am taking about the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, or people like the HR administrator I know who worked to allow retirement to accrue longer so that people wouldn’t feel forced to retire as soon and now finds herself in her 50s without having made it passed HR administration.

I’m not even sure that things could’ve turned out differently if Gen X had tried something, I’m just saying that in my experience “oh well, whatever, never mind” isn’t exactly the whole story.

You grew up with "children of the corn" to learn from... but you didn't listen.

This isn't a contest, but it's worse for millennials as a whole because the line is, waaaay backed up. Gen Z has it one step worse than us, too. It's a cascade of bullshit from these assholes.

I want to get off Mr Bones' wild ride...

I don’t think they want people dead per se, a large peasant class for labor that they can demote people to and raise people from suits them just fine

Or get a roller coaster that crashes in a fiery explosion.

"I want to get off Mr Trump's Wild Ride"

Are you being for real right now?

Knowing him, he probably didn't even drown or explode guests for fun, either.

Yeah, actually I would build that rocket launch ride and then turn the speed up as high as it would go and watch it launch people to their dooms...

But at least I learned about the importance of sanitation in areas with high population densities!

And I never actually played Sims, but my nintendogs are probably all skin and bones, my tamagotchis are likely dead, and all my animal crossing neighbors have probably moved out of my sad, decaying town.

But I didn't say that I personally would be saving everyone from the boomers' neglect!

I know you tried, I only mentioned Gen X because they're usually forgotten about entirely.

Thanks for punk rock and third-wave ska.

I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces. Only recently has the attitude toward cars shifted from some kind of unwritten civil right that you get to take your four ton metal box wherever you please to hmm, maybe not everyone should be allowed to park anywhere all the time.

I can't wait for that. My neighborhood is having a spasm over removing about 10 parking spots on a major road for a bus lane. The kicker is those 10 parking spots force a choke point for traffic, slowing everything down.

I'm assuming it takes away parking spaces

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Well on my list of the most important things it's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

I use to believe that as well, till you realize that the truth is whatever the victors say it is.

there's a big one one the pic though

So he is self loathing.

I hope they fart in his drinks.

He's willing to suffer the consequence of success.

"If you’re going to hang out with the boys at night, you’ve got to get up with the men in the morning"

"All my losses are lessons"

Lol, still scheming to acquire that vineyard in the golan heights. There has never been a mayor that has worked so hard for himself as the mayor of New York. I know he's been trying to get citizenship in Israel and Turkey for a while, he just got citizenship in Albania. Seems he took the "mayor of the world" but literally.

Some of my favorite Eric Adams quotes.

• "You know the first stop is always Istanbul."

• "...when I wake up, it scares me that I'm not scared."

• “I don’t care what anyone says, there are ghosts in there, man.”

• “Lay hands on our media. Heal them. Put honesty in their hearts.”

• “We can talk about erectile dysfunction but not clitoral stimulation – something’s wrong. Something is just wrong.”

• "I am the pilot, and you are all passengers. Pray for me to land the plane, cause there’s no parachutes on this plane, we’re all going down together.”

• "Imagine how many love affairs would have been great if we did not live within the boundaries of our own intellectual capacities."

• "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success"

It’s because he puts the needs of the workers over the needs of those with so much wealth their entire lineage will never have to work again.

They’ll use him being a Muslim to turn us against him and against each other, but that’s not why he’s opposed by the billionaires who own the media or the billionaires who fund the GOP and establishment Democrats, all of whom teamed up to try to keep him out of power.

When it was Bernie, they tried to divide us by gender and generation. When it’s a Muslim, they try to divide us by religion. When it’s a young white Christian man, they try to divide us by lying about him being a fucking vegan sexist racist.

There’s no war but class war.

Yeah, people seem to still not get this part… it’s factually a race issue like most problems in this he US

I think it's because he's socialist. Americans have spent the past forty years (at least; probably longer, but I'm only 41) being told that socialism was evil and would inevitably lead to bread lines and mass death and corruption and like...perpetual rain or something. But now we've got a socialist running the biggest metropolitan area in the USA, and actually everyone there is doing great, while the Republican presidency is doing the mass death and corruption stuff. Americans are having their preconceptions rewritten in real time.

This isn't socialism though, it's just actual city management.

Is horrible when one Mayor big project is something like bike lanes and then next mayor for an opposing party came and stop all construction of expansion, or worse even destroy what had been done, so it's opponent doesn't get any additional credit

Mamdani is also the beneficiary of a $1.3bn windfall due to an accountancy error last year, so he has a one-time slush fund to play with, and the rest of the policies are paid for by deferring things like reducing classroom sizes to some nebulous point in the future and by one-time grants from Albany designed to shore up his standing.

He’s not god, he’s just the wizard behind the curtain like all the others.

See some of these (like the chip bag) are so harebrained that you're just like "surely that doesn't work right" but it just makes you wonder how many times something like that does work, happens often, and we just didn't hear about it.

One person doesn't just randomly decide to take thousands or more of cash and give it to someone because "maybe it'll work or maybe my life will be ruined", it's a risk, but significantly less of one if you know it's been done before. They're not robbing convenience stores for rent money out of desperation, they're bribing people to change public policy that overrides the public because of their own beliefs or agenda because they think they can get away with it. And who knows how often they do.

and the more stuff it does the more socialister it is

It evolves into communism after it becomes so social it's socialest, but you have to use a water stone.

— Carl Marks

I haven't been to Japan, but from what I hear, it's not the kind of place where you're going to find piles of trash bags on the street.

Also, Barcelona and many other Mediterranean cities

"why aren't they burning the trash"

I was trying to devil's advocate this and all I could think of is if these would fit in tighter streets while a trash truck tries to picks them up and put them back down, but that's pretty much all that I could think of and it shouldn't take too long, most of that time was probably corruption related

"Socialism" does not mean "government doing stuff". (The one reply you'll find here claiming it is a joke.)

The name of "government doing stuff" is "government". It exists to do stuff.

No.

That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I'm not sure I'd want those rats getting into my bags, 😛

Oh that is a cool idea.

I guess in the same spots the giant stinky piles of trash bags have been going?

I'm in the woods of eastern Kentucky but we just have bins that we roll to the the of our driveway. At businesses and apartment complexes in town they usually have one large communal dumpster at the end of the parking lot, paid for by the business owner or landlord, and Rumpke (our local trash service) comes by on their day and just back the truck up to it and dump it. On some roads that have residences all along them they have these little forks that lift and dump the wheelie bins folks put out so they just drive down the road and don't even have to get out of the truck.

In downtown NYC though if there are no parking lots, no alleyways, etc., I guess folks will just have to get creative. They could probably have a single dumpster per block or something instead of having one for every single customer on that street.

Random question but where are you getting that 1,616 number for number of mayors in the USA? That is way too specific to be an approximation but also feels way too low for the number of cities and towns in the US with municipal governments structured in such a way that they have a mayor/city executive

I don't think it's hero worship to recognize the apparently amazing job Mamdani is doing, either. I'm just very wary of falling into the hero worship trap.

I would argue that "democratic" and "libertarian" are inherently at odds, but otherwise agree (and believe most people do)

You’re doing fine, it sounds like the people you’re talking to aren’t as politically educated as you think they are.

I think most people would just call that libertarian socialism. In general some form of public political participation is implied when you say youre a socialist

There are two categories, both part of the same program:

https://www.nyc.gov/...
https://www.nyc.gov/...

The following is a primary source (i.e. Adams' propaganda) but it still serves to lay out the timeline:
https://www.nyc.gov/...

Reduce, reuse, recycle programs ought to remove the incentive to dig for free stuff too.