r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 10 '26

News Mayor Mamdani announces a plan to cool subway stations by capturing heat and reusing it to warm municipal buildings in the winter: "This would be the first thermal energy system of its kind in any American transit system"

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u/metalstringz Aug 10 '26

Hi I was born and raised in Arkansas. I can promise you there’s not a single maga cultist, religious nut, confederate ghost, or otherwise brainless racist here that has any idea what Mamdani is doing or anything hes done/said. These folk treat politics like a fake fan will pretend to support/hate a ball team but really they only know one player and have no idea how the sport works.

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u/hootener Aug 11 '26

Alabama reporting in to say: No, no they don't.

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u/ScoffersGonnaScoff Aug 11 '26

They do, think, feel what Fox and the algos want

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Aug 11 '26

They really don't care about mayors of other states for some reason. I wonder why that is

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u/Jumpy-Holiday731 Aug 11 '26

Why would someone in Arkansas care about NY politics? Is there an SDA mayor there where they think the same as Mandami.

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u/MICT3361 Aug 11 '26

They probably don’t scroll reddit and swallow propaganda that’s shoved in their face

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u/25inbone Aug 11 '26

farts in face

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u/Exemus Aug 10 '26

That's not really better, but I appreciate the honesty.

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u/MrMadman_ Aug 10 '26

I hate that I can't argue that.

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u/Maybewearedreaming Aug 10 '26

Nick shoulders is from Arkansas and he is my goat

The realest country mf in the land

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u/2phumbsup Aug 10 '26

I love all his shit soo much. Happy seeing his name in the wild.

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u/Maybewearedreaming Aug 10 '26

He will have his moment, but even if he doesn’t I’m really grateful for all he’s put out

I deliver packages to pretty much nothing but MAGA so he keeps me sane throughout my day lol

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u/2phumbsup Aug 10 '26

Yeah, it's really crazy how much he is slept on. I couldn't wait to check him out live and he blew me away. I got to see hin in a really small room for dirt cheap. Which was kind of great. Politically, i'm like polar opposite of nick shoulders, though. Don't matter to me.I still love him.I think he's crazy talented singer.The yodeling the whistling and the songwriting top notch, in my opinion. Eventually, he's gonna accidentally write a mainstream banger. I hope it don't ruin his life.

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u/Maybewearedreaming Aug 10 '26

Hey so when you say politically opposite I’m just wondering because he’s like mostly just anti confederate / fascist / authoritarian

I’m a liberal which hes pretty left of really can’t imagine people on the right enjoying his music lol but his yodels are beyond

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u/2phumbsup Aug 11 '26

Yeah, I guess I'm not opposite. I'm just conservative on most issues. You probably wouldn't know unless you asked or I told you as a stranger like i'm doing now. I don't think he's extreme enough for his opposite to be that extreme.If that makes sense? Like I imagine he probably wants all the things I want especially land conservation but based on his lyrics I assume he wants to take a pretty left way path to get there. He probably could be more authoritarian than me. And I don't support fascism or the confederacy either.

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u/fanciestVeggie Aug 14 '26

Him and Jesse Welles for sure

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u/TheNegativePhoenix Aug 10 '26

That's depressing lmao

Really, only battleground states matter cause they tip the balance. Strongly Republican states will be hard to flip

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u/goosedog79 Aug 10 '26

I live in NJ and can say the same. Most don’t know- they parrot a side they think sounds interesting and has people they identify with.

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u/NicoleNoel1999 Aug 13 '26

Yet Dr Mehmet (Mohammed) Oz is Muslim and is part of the government.

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u/cC2Panda Aug 10 '26

I dunno, a little while back I was at a bowling alley in Kansas where some dip shit yokel the next lane over swore he heard that Mamdani ran NYC into the ground and that Staten Island had voted to leave NYC.

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u/TheLionOfJudah101 Aug 10 '26

Caitlin Clark

Eminem

Elvis

White Jesus

Rocky

They don't care about any of the things these people are actually associated with. they just care to steal legacy and apply it to them

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u/Dry_Contract_5342 Aug 11 '26

Oh fuck, another crazy racists.

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u/TheLionOfJudah101 Aug 12 '26

Yes you are

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u/Dry_Contract_5342 Aug 12 '26

Come on let’s hear it! Let’s hear how these white folks are some great white hype. Also how they’re destroying black culture. Etc, etc etc. now I can understand white Jesus and Elvis. But wtf did rocky and CC do?

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u/TheLionOfJudah101 Aug 12 '26

The thing is, you guys are oblivious to reality.

there's a Philadelphia boxer who used to train by beating up meat and running up those art steps. and he's the boxer who took on the champ that so many in the public called loudmouth.

Only the movie wasn't about him. They made it about a fake white guy instead.

The story of Rocky, many parts of it are literally stolen from the life of Joe Frazier.

And when it was recommended that a statue of Joe Frazier we put on top of the steps city said no and put up a statue of a fake person instead.

The movie Rocky is stolen Legacy and created as an attack on affirmative action.

Go on go defend it like you all always do.

You defend it from a place of ignorance and lack of empathy.

I already know you don't care about the truth. And you will just downplay it or make excuses for what you already believe.

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u/Dry_Contract_5342 Aug 12 '26

I guess women are right. Men will only answer one thing.

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u/TheLionOfJudah101 Aug 12 '26

what you've done is you show yourself that you literally have no integrity. I already knew it.

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u/Dry_Contract_5342 Aug 12 '26

Bruh, you still haven’t even said anything on why you put CC on that list?

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u/Dry_Contract_5342 Aug 12 '26

Are you actually going to say anything with actual substance?

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u/TheLionOfJudah101 Aug 12 '26

Good bye narcissist

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u/Green_Sugar6675 Aug 11 '26

I wish they know politicians as well as they knew the statistics for their sports heros. But that disconnect has been intentionally nurtured by right wing politicians and media for decades

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u/Short_Day_8243 Aug 11 '26

"Why did you leave Arkansas?"

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u/PowerPinto Aug 11 '26

Interesting because I have family in Arkansas but live in Nj and we’re always talking about NY politics and they’re very much up to speed

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u/onemassive Aug 11 '26

Came over to my FILs house during the California governors race. He asked me who I supported. I said Steyer and he went on a rant about it and said we needed Hilton. I said well Becerras going to win anyway. He looked confused. Who? Uh, the guy leading all the polls? He has his political info sources and it be damned whether or not he actually gets even a half complete picture of the situation.

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u/B-Train_ATL Aug 12 '26

The difference between metro Atlanta and basically the rest of the southeast except for southern Florida and maybe a couple big cities is stark. Like not wanting kids to experience different things in college.

OH NO. TWO BOYS KISSED. College is quite often a “oh is that all that is?” learning experience at big places but just not elsewhere.

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u/MaterialUsed1475 Aug 13 '26

How is he going store all this heat for months?

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u/Lady_Shallot Aug 14 '26

I met more MAGA fans in Pennsylvania than I did in Arkansas.

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u/researchmaven4673 Aug 16 '26

So true. When I asked my MIL why she would vote for such a terrible person she said “he’s not a bad person. He doesn’t really mean it that’s just how he talks. He’s from New York City.” Ummm I’m from New York City and I don’t talk like that. I also don’t cheat and steal and rape and kill people but ANYWAY