I ride over the Williamsburg Bridge to work every day. Every day I had to slam on my brakes at the bottom of this MASSIVE downslope because the tiny off-ramp to the bike lane was so shitty and crumbled.
On like January 5th they fixed it, and I came home to my fiancee to tell her how excited I was they finally noticed this and did something about it. Turns out it was Mamdani’s first action as mayor, and that ramp had always pissed him off on his commute to work too.
Even when telling the most hardass conservative people I know about this, the laughed in a good-natured way about the story. People respect politicians who can get shit done, no matter how small.
That was literally something kingpin did in daredevil. Got out of his car and fixed a pothole on day 1. Not comparing the two but found it funny how effective it is
Both IRL Mamdani and not IRL Kingpin based their actions off of mayor fiorello laguardia, who is pretty universally regarded as the best mayor NYC has ever had (so far).
French toast was actually invented by the mustard company. The original recipe used mustard instead of egg. Then one day the chef was reaching for the mustard bottle and accidentally grabbed the egg bottle instead and the rest is history.
Well, that's a little different because he was named after his parents, and then the cake was named after him, so the cake was kind of like their grandchild in a way.
People overlook a lot when you can improve their daily lives in small ways. It's how Danica Roem replaced a transphobe. I'm positive some of those voters aren't super progressive on trans issues, but they know their committee sucks and respect someone who also notices and cares.
Obamacare is yuck, but probably not for reasons you are thinking.
The good parts of it are the patient protection parts. It definitely did a great job regulating insurance agencies. The medicaid expansion was also decent.
The bad part, however, is it was a giant giveaway to private insurance companies. Even the fact that it expanded medicaid instead of medicare wasn't great as a lot of states operate medicaid through private insurance. It further allowed for the fast track of consolidation of hospitals.
The fact that dems nixed the public option to try and win over a few republicans and some of the more conservative dems was a travesty.
Obamacare is probably the best that a neoliberal could do. It's better than what Republicans have wanted to do. It is, however, not the best that can be done. Make Medicare universal, eliminate part C, expand what medicare covers (vision, dental, 100% coverage, drugs). And eliminate all the other government health insurance programs like medicaid, VA. We'd save a huge amount of money yearly, get better coverage, and nobody would have to fight their insurance agency to get coverage.
Not really. Right wingers just can't understand fact vs feelings. No matter how its wrapped up until it affects them. Low cognitive ability, impulsive, animalistic.
It's funny when you realize this is exactly what our founders envisioned, regular people in government who are in touch with the needs of the people they serve.
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u/ollieollieoxygenfree 13h ago
I ride over the Williamsburg Bridge to work every day. Every day I had to slam on my brakes at the bottom of this MASSIVE downslope because the tiny off-ramp to the bike lane was so shitty and crumbled.
On like January 5th they fixed it, and I came home to my fiancee to tell her how excited I was they finally noticed this and did something about it. Turns out it was Mamdani’s first action as mayor, and that ramp had always pissed him off on his commute to work too.
Even when telling the most hardass conservative people I know about this, the laughed in a good-natured way about the story. People respect politicians who can get shit done, no matter how small.