It’s why the corporate neo-libs hate him too. They truly are in the business of managing decline instead of doing their fuckong jobs.
The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere.
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UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
David_Eight@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’d rather support a sexual predator that they said should resign from being Governor a few years earlier.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Is there even such a thing as a non-corporate neolib?
UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think there kinda sorta used to be, in 2026? Naw not really.
Zenjal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t remember who said it, but it’s like he got in office and saw the “Get Shit Done” button an jus for the life of him couldn’t understand why previous Mayors weren’t usin it
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Josh Johnson
Zenjal@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Thank you! Josh fuckin rules
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DeBlasio was pretty good about hitting it. Bloomberg could hit it, but only for Evil. Adams was just an incompetent shithead who only knew how to take bribes and do photo ops.
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And awkwardly mention 9/11
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Next, convert Trump Tower into affordable housing.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t wanna live in that gaudy hellhole even if you paid me
Marthirial@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shit no. That would be like living in Mordor. No, to hallow that place turn it into the Trump library with every floor an exhibition of the lies, stupidity, evil and crimes he committed, with the penthouse dedicated to the Epstein Files.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was gonna say to just like every wall on every floor with copies of the unredacted files. Name it the Trump Epstein Corruption Library
Quokka@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
And Trump into compost for affordable food?
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trump Tower isn’t mobile. One star housing. This is the future. Next.
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love in Harlem. He really has been great! He’s just a genuine and nice guy too!
gigaqps@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Edit: word
You don’t have to add “word!” just because it’s Harlem
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Word
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Church.
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Same reason status quo democrats dont like him.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well what about the Democrats huh!
False@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How does converting an office building have zero cost?
knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
No cost to the city as explained in comments written long before yours in this thread
Jump365@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They rent them out, so likely had a contractor do the conversion and then woth the rental income cancels out the cost. “No cost” is also just what that post used, doubt official documents say no cost.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Everything has a cost, even if it’s tickling pandas
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
nyc.gov/…/mamdani-administration-advances-plan-to…
Following a competitive request for proposals process, the city selected GFP Real Estate to develop the site.
Note it said only 1,000 affordable residences, but 4,000 overall. A real estate company is happy to cover the cost and cede 1,000 units to affordable terms in exchange for 3,000 residences at market rate.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
It seems like a significant cost is in reading the whole sentence.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yep.
They are going to reach into your pocket no matter what. The only question is if your money goes to a bunch of rich guys or back to people like you.
gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know if I love that phrase’s use here as it sets up the government as some foreign entity that is stealing from you when, at least in theory, it should be the price you pay for your community’s betterment. Of course that’s not what it feels like in the US (maybe anywhere, maybe federal taxes feel bad always), but that’s an argument for redistributing power and fixing the underlying systems more so than it is to be upset that taxes are a thing (or paint them as… Evil or something which this phrase does).
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That is the point. The taxes are reality, you are going to pay them. Whether they are evil or not depends on what that money is used for.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They are going to reach into your pocket no matter what.
They aren’t even in your pocket, relatively speaking. At the local level, you’re a drop in the bucket beside the big land owners and corporate industries. At the state level, you’re even less relevant. At the federal level, between intentional trade and deficit spending, you might as well not exist.
The joke of modern taxation is how it’s largely unnecessary at the individual level. If the state simply planned it’s economy and managed it’s natural resources, everyone could do the Alaska thing where they pay you to live there.
California hosts multiple trillionaires, ffs. Nobody with an income under seven figures needs to pay a dime to support that state’s spending plan.
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sounds like here it’s letting a private company spend the money to get access to 3,000 residences in exchange for 1,000 affordable ones.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And as usual I don’t know if I should be outraged that a private company is involve that may lead to questionable practices or happy that at least they are 1000 affordable units available. Both maybe? I guess I’m cautiously optimistic.
PNW_Doug@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan.
When you see what good your taxes can do, it makes you question why the rich don’t pay their fair share. They do not like this.
Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The answer is simple: Capitalism has outstayed it’s welcome. Its time to go for Scientific Socialism. You ever watch star trek’s society in tng and go “huh, that would be nice…”? Well thats Scientific Socialism.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No it’s time to form a decentralized autonomous technotheocracy, what are you talking about? This is self-evident how the structure of the mothership will be manifested.
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Username checks out
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I mean, more like moderate socialist, but sure whatever floats your boat.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like.
More like the left way 🥁
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Office buildings are generally unfit for apartment conversions since they have so much interior space that isn’t really appropriate to use as homes - there’s usually a requirement that you get an actual window in your apartment, something I don’t think is particularly unreasonable.
A great podcast episode on the topic: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/551-office-space/
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lies.
Office space is easily remodeled. Most high rise commercial buildings have windows. they are designed for it to be changed every few years.
Older buildings regularly get turned into housing and sell well exactly for their unique characteristics.
I lived in a converted building that had an enormous industrial crane structure inside of it. They had retrofitted a pool, hot tub, and basketball court on the roofs. It even had two stall parking.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They have windows, yeah. They also tend to have way more internal space than your average residential high-rise.
I’m all for reclaiming unused office space, but sometimes it’s just better to build a new building on the lot, that is fit for purpose.
Postimo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Is there a written version of this podcast, all this article says is there are structural and governmental problems, ending with if we want more have the government doing it, which is what they did.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
There’s a transcript here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/551-office-space/transcript/
But really, I recommend you give it a listen.
My conclusion from it was that, sad as it may perhaps be, it’s probably better if we replace these buildings with actual purpose-built apartment buildings. The juice is not really worth the squeeze for these retrofits, in most cases.
gigaqps@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re not converting the building. They’re tearing it down and building new ones.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s a different story then. I could only really go off of the fact that the image said “converting”.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The real solution is to have the municipality build low income housing. The people responsible for the housing crisis should not be involved at all.
thefactremains@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This time with more empathy
The ~~real~~ urgent solution is to have the municipality build low income housing. The people responsible for the housing crisis should not be involved ~~at all~~ in that.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I live in CA, and our tax dollars get squandered. Gotta be progressive and know what your doing. We have one but not the other
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems like CA is doing pretty good actually. What’s up?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems like CA is doing pretty good actually.
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
Newsom is a curse. He’s carved up and sold out the state a dozen times over.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Wasted funds to combate homelessness that went missing, funds not missing where not used strategically. Train to no where that cost billions. Employment Develoment Department fraud, billions lost. Misjudged capital gain spikes as permanent revenue, over stated multi year revenues by billions which triggered multi year budget deficits
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A two letter word defining a direction perpendicular to the standing plane, obviously. You people are dum
sepi@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
BUT HOW ARE THE LANDLORDS (I am not one) GONNA AFFORD TO LIVE????!! THE POOOR LANDLORDS
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BUT HOW ARE THE LANDLORDS (I am not one)
So many of these NYT / WaPo Op-Eds are written by Landlords.
The NYPost is landlord required reading.
stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I wish I could shake this man’s hand. We need somebody to do this in Canada as well. But our politicians are equally as spineless as the rest of them, just with a fresh coat of paint covering their faces like the clowns they are.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
just with a fresh coat of paint covering their faces
Naw, he’s gone now
stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Made me chuckle, I didn’t think of that haha …
I guess I’m just at the point now where I don’t care what government is in place either federally or provincially or locally - if myself and the people around me aren’t feeling any improvements in our quality of life, then I don’t give a fuck what they claim.
Actions speak so much louder than words and the government is proving that their actions ≠ their words in any meaningful way.
Canada needs radical reform. Sorry I can’t help but go off like this nowadays.
Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We can see how using taxes better helps people in many other countries and states, and like this where he can do good work that helps people and society, as public servants are supposed to do. People see it but don’t care. Just look up how much is spent per person for healthcare in countries and their health outcomes. Basic things are getting worse in us due to unhealthy policies they chose. It’s too hard to pass the big changes we want w/o supermajority and for long enough to maintain them. Even if things are passed that they want, they swing the other way a few years later due to propaganda, and it gets destroyed again. Stop doing that, support unions and the politicians that actually do too.
PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey Karen Bass! I’m pretty sure its NBD to get Mamdani on the phone. Just puttin it out there…
darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When basic competent governance is seen as radical, you know how bad things have been/are. I’m so jealous of the city right now. I’m seeing videos pop up every day about some new project. Meanwhile my town wont fix potholes unless you very specifically ask them to do so, and then they will only fix THAT ONE even if there are others nearby. There are not nearly enough trees and basically no functional public transportation, so getting anywhere without a car is a pain. I can’t get anyone in the town gov to answer my emails and while I haven’t been to a board meeting yet, I’ve been told by someone else who has gone that they’re so disinterested in what people have to say some of them have literally fallen asleep on the job. But we’ve just been stuck with them because my town are a bunch of NIMBYs who don’t care as long as their taxes don’t go up.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Corollary: where did those tax dollars go previously?
Scaramanga@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Wow, he’s a magician. He can create something out of nothing. I don’t think he’s heard of secondary consequences !
AuroraZzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think that you are smart enough to know what the secondary consequences would be without being told by Joe Rogan first
deacon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
we already do want it that way and have forever. mamdani just proves it is doable
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s a decent mayor so far and we haven’t had one of those since I’ve been living here
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Until he arrests Netanyahu and stops the NYPD from brutalizing protestors, I’m going to stay highly skeptical of him. At the end of the day, bourgeois democracy will never serve the interests of the people. He’s controlled opposition.
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Rent control is a lottery, some people randomly get a good deal, but most people convertible to be fucked over.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean it’s no khrushchevka, but I suppose it’ll do…
PNW_Doug@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan.
When you see what good your taxes can do, it makes you question why the rich don’t pay their fair share. They do not like this.
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The far right are so virulently anti-Mamdani bcs they know it’ll get the compatible left to even more entrench their support for him even as he’s already drifting towards the positions of the center-right party that he’s adopted, despite them fighting tooth and nail to keep him out of office.
Everything in politics makes way more sense when you stop believing the kayfabe and recognize they’re all on the same team. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
BiteRabbit@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
In red states they’re forcing urban city owned properties to sell. Getting the buildings out of gov. ownership and control is difficult. Doing it this way makes everyone overlook the taxpayer money going to a private investor later. Don’t look too close at the fact that Cochran Gardens, and Pruitt Igoe (StL) were both built buy Minoru Yamasaki, the same man who built the WT towers. It will fail and prolly be demolished in 20 years or so. The building, much like the towers, is probably to expensive to rehab. Also I will just put to people that our nations crubling infrastructure, is not a good sign as far as invasion is concerned. Liquidating government buildings so they’re not liable for their repairs, or so they are not targets of dissent, is also not a good sign. Investors are not investing money in the future. They are invested in the planning process of the future. Roman concrete is reviered not for its composition, but for its ablity to control a society with infrastructure. They say not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but the ‘too good to be true’ rule exists for a reason.
feral_sh@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I think they’re afraid of over reach. A lot of them would love the services he’s building!
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
its why most democrats are against him too
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Slavoj Zizek calls the Democrats “capitalism with a kinder face - LGBT rights and so on and so on.”
That’s really it. They think the core economic system is working. They’re fine to greenlight social policies that don’t challenge it, especially if they think it will win them votes. And that’s all they are.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Let’s not pretend they stand for the T in that acronym.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My thought is that for many many years politicians didn’t really have to do anything to re-elected. And when they were asked to do something they would always say “we can’t afford that.” or they would write a bill that would promise “thing” will get funded 10 years from now. So these lifelong politicians have turned into lazy fucks just there for the money and are pissed at these youngsters that are actually doing the job they were elected to do.
I have to admit I had been lulled into a sense of nothing will change attitude and now that I see how wrong I was I’ve become quite pissed off.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Start rolling out guillotines and i bet they’d start finding ways to serve their electorate rather quickly.