Huh… that almost sounds like a public… good. Tickle me that.
I’m seriously shocked the Fox media team didn’t bother photoshopping horns on his head, distorting his pleasant, lovely smile into a menacing grimace, or altering his skin color into the brimstone-red spectrum.
Or, to be even more crude, him as a caricature of Mohamad.
(Please don’t ban me mods, we live in a world where this could actually happen on national TV).
What a monster! Making the lives of people better, like a maniac!
That’s some poor propaganda, comrade fox news. You should’ve rendered it in Arabic or Chinese to scare them out
This is the future that those who are controlling the conservative platform are trying to prevent.
Make no mistake this is and always will be a class war about stealing the value of workers for their own personal gain.
Democrat leadership is also not happy with Mamdani. He isn’t following the rules, like David Hogg, or AOC.
Fuck the establishment Democratic Party reps, run them all out of office because they will never get it. We need a new deal not conservative appeasement.
100%
Democrat leadership is tepid dogwater
Hi I’m a socialist transit worker and I thought free bus fare was a no brainer until I worked in transit, it’s an awful idea. Transit cannot function effectively as transit when it is being forced to operate as a mobile shelter and bottle and wagon transit system. Fund shelters and ease the burden shouldered by transit.
(By all means make transit incredibly inexpensively accessible to anyone who needs it)
I apparently wasn’t clear enough here, I’m sure there are places where free transit works great because people are so well cared for and general safety is so high that it’s not an issue. That sounds wonderful, I want that here. However, I have learned the hard way that transit needs to continue being accessible to the majority even when there are people who have slipped fully into the margins who present hazards to transit customers. (Customers meaning people who need transit to travel)
well duh. that’s not a transit issue, that’s a shelter issue.
Agreed, the problem comes when the issue gets pushed from the shelter system onto the transit system.
Point blank, that is not an issue caused by free transit. This is the logical equivalent of saying the school system is broken because people keep showing up to them with guns.
Point blank, the inability to deny people entry to transit and to use transit as a mobile shelter is having catastrophic impacts on overall transit use. This is the equivalent of saying the school system is broken because people keep showing up at schools and screaming at people, assaulting people, soiling themselves and the facilities and the staff have no ability to separate them or remove them from the school, so the rest of the students get home schooled or private schooled and effectively don’t have access to public school. (Oh yeah, and tons of teachers and staff quit)
They need HELP and a transit system as a shelter and drug safe use space is just about the least efficient way I can imagine to help them and makes it less safe and accessible to everyone else.
You can care and advocate for more than one thing, just so you know. Housing someone is less tax money on you personally than keeping them on the street costs and there are more empty living spaces than there are folks without a home.
But, go ahead and villainize the people with nowhere to go and no other option, they’re definitely the problem, aren’t they?
Edit: You’re literally just bitching about your job and asking for this to not affect you personally. That’s a shitty as fuck take on the situation.
I feel like you didn’t actually read what I wrote. I ABSOLUTELY WANT THEM TO BE HOUSED AND CARED FOR. I am in no way villainizing them, this situation is not their fault. The reason we have a giant crisis of homelessness and drug use is not because we “let them”. The system needs to be fixed so that population can be helped and the numbers falling into that are cut. In the meantime though, we are doing nothing and it doesn’t work!
This is specifically a post about doing something. Notice that first box of words in the picture?
Yes… I was in favor of a lot of it… I was trying to educate people that there is more to the issue of free bus fare. Because I’m a transit worker who used to think free bus fare was a no brainer, but now believe it is unworkable without FIRST significantly improving other issues.
Staten Island (the forgotten borough) has a free subway. It works pretty well.
Never been let alone worked in Staten Island, couldn’t tell you if there’s more to the story there or not. Sounds great though, hope it stays great. (I do think islands have a decent ability to be insulated from some amount of societal problems that tend to accumulate in city centers, I know the staten island ferry is free but it still may provide some barrier)
Luxemburg has a great free transit system, what you guys need it to deal with homeless people and drug addicts. I mean this in a humanly way, where these people get the help they need.
Couldn’t agree more, a system where the number of homeless drug addicts and marginalized people is so low that we literally don’t need to worry about it sounds much better. But in the meantime the people who aren’t using the bus as a shelter have a civil right to access to safe and effective transit as well that they are currently not getting and transit is dying because of it. I have no illusions on the ways in which society has failed these people, they are largely foster kids who aged out of the system and people who were only a little on the margins but functional until rent went up AGAIN and they literally couldn’t afford to have a place to live anymore and spiraled from there. Free transit won’t fix that though, the interim period where free transit doesn’t function is very real and valid.
Also, seriously though, Luxembourg conservatively has less than a twentieth the poverty rate as the US.
Americans will just go “this guy wants to instate free healthcare, cleanse police corruption, and to stop bombing the middle east!” and expect you to reel back in disgust.
Groupthink is a real thing
and its evolved over the last few decades.
Because their MAGAt base will in fact reel back in disgust if any of those things are proposed. If “the libs” want it, then MAGA is programmed to hate it.
See how the fox piece looks? It has the politicians face, then they let MAGA know the guy is a “lib”, likely with the set up talking points. That is all MAGAts need, a face and to know the person is on the other side … from there anything else mentioned about the person is automatically bad.
In 3 years Fox news will just show a picture of the political opponent’s face with the caption “this guy is a lib” which will send every MAGAt into a murderous rage
Like Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984
I remember seeing video of a MAGAt rally. Trump vs. Biden election. They had a picture of Hillary up on the screen while the MAGATs chanted “lock her up”. I didn’t get it. She wasn’t running … it made no sense.
In this case all they needed to know he’s bad is to hear his name unfortunately.
This might be a humor magazine, but I’ll be honest on my perspective out here in NJ.
That $30 minimum wage thing scares the living daylights out of me, especially with the congestion pricing still in effect. Raising the minimum wage in the City that far will make the already ridiculous costs in NYC skyrocket. It’s going to make it functionally impossible for average people who work outside NYC to regularly go in and do things. You know that business owners aren’t going to eat the loss of profits, the prices will just go up to match. Rents will go up, costs will go up. I do respect the idea of trying to get to a living wage. I’d love to see a viable plan, but the best way to do it is to keep all costs down, not massively increase labor costs.
I think the bus idea is a better use of tax money than 90% of what NYC has right now, as long as the funds are focused on maintaining vehicles and paying drivers who perform well, rather than lining some suit’s bank account. I don’t know if that’s going to be possible, but hey, the worst that happens is they try it, it fails, and the buses go back to being fare-based.
It’s that wage idea that’s going to really, really suck.
He’s not going to get $30 minimum wage. He’s starting high so he can negotiate to a middle ground. He’s not going to be King of NYC. He’s doesn’t just get what he wants that easily.
Fair enough. He beat the party establishment. If he wins the general, he’ll still have to deal with the City establishment. Still, increases in NYC’s minimum wage do typically end up hurting those of us stuck in the orbit. So like I said, I’m scared. All I can do is brace for the impact, and hope that the increase in costs don’t give NJ business owners ideas about how much more profit they can gouge because of the NYC cost for goods and/or services. Note that I don’t actually have high hopes on that. If there’s a chance they can make more profit, most places won’t risk leaving money on the table. They’ll raise the prices, and then lower them partway later on so they’re still increased but it feels like a discount.
Can the subway be fare free aswell?
That’s purely done by the MTA and would have to be at the state level. The state legislature and Hochul would have to stop profiting off the subway for that to happen.
Its crazy that NYC still can’t afford free public transportation. City literally has more expensive apartments than yearly cost of operating busses.
The point is you need pretext to remove people who use the system as a living room instead of transit.
Sure but why would a fee do that? If anything that would encourage this behavior because if I pay 2$ I feel entitled to spend there as much time as I want.
This is pretty well established theory now in behavior economy:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation_crowding_theory
We already invented the most effective and humane fix for this - social workers. I don’t think anything can work better then another person trained in handling social situations correcting the issue themselves.
Free buses aren’t something you really need to “afford” because even in smaller cities the economic value returned through that way of operating is given back and then some. Like, they’ve been throwing free money on the ground for decades upon decades and it’s about time shit catches up to reality.
Bus fares make up only like 2% of the income for my cities public transit system. They can afford to go free.
Right but I think you’ve missed my entire point somehow. Literally it is cheaper to not charge anything for transit. You don’t need to afford it, you just have to do it. It is free money, understand?
Here’s how I think they see this:
Landlords will go out of business. For-profit grocery stores will go out of business. People I don’t know won’t suffer (there’s even more letters at the end and I don’t know what they mean; that scares me). Businesses will have to pay more to operate, therefore prices will rise for me to protect profits. Brown people will still be where I have to see and interact with them.
Conservatives are fearful. They think when someone gets something good, it’s by taking from them. Fuck 'em.
Brown people will still be where I have to see and interact with them.
They don’t even try to hide their racism anymore.
You know they’re mad
Look at this monster.
Yes but many of these would require taxing the rich, which I’m against because I might somehow become rich one day through virtually no effort or understanding of how one becomes rich to begin with
/s
That’s it right there. Just mentioning the phrase tax the rich has become enough of a catalyst for the punching down to intensify. Keep the pressure on.
City owned grocery shops? I…wut. This breaks my mind. Not in WTF is this way, just how would this work. Curious how it will come out and hoping for the best.
There are already gov. owned stores in some states (liquor stores, but that’s close enough).
It’s a pilot program for a few stores.
The city currently has a program where they’re paying private grocery stores to try and mitigate food deserts, but there’s so few strings attached it’s just free money to the shops.
He’s proposing ending that, and using the money to directly open grocery stores in food deserts run as city owned coops.
It’s not infringing on private business because they’re not operating in these areas anyway.
The city owns and runs the grocery stores. They’re not required to make huge profits and can therefore offer reasonable prices. They can buy directly from local suppliers, thus creating or securing local jobs. Basically, if you cut out all the bloodsuckers, things become much better.
Public grocery stores are a useful solution to food deserts without forcing high wages or ideologically preferred suppliers. It is a zero cost option in that the stores can sustain themselves. It is a big benefit to neighbourhoods and property owners in those neighbourhoods.
The thing is, actual capitalist theory suggests it wouldn’t “cut out” bloodsuckers at all. It would force them to compete but they would survive, presumably just fine.
A public option is definitely a socialist platform, but unless the government stores are allowed to operate at a loss indefinitely, supplemented by tax dollars, they pose NO real threat to those businesses, only to greedy gouging.
If there was a functioning market economy, none of this shit would be necessary in the first place.
