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Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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Post by ethbr1 »

seidleroni wrote: post #741
rsynnott wrote: post #715

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The sort of people who can set aside a couple tens of thousands of dollars are also the sort of people who probably have good health insurance through their job. Generally, the US's healthcare problems _mostly_ impact low to middle income people, and they usually can't just magic up 30k or so.

100%. I have known a couple of people that did some form of "medical tourism", mostly for expensive dental work. In both cases they did some form of tech contract work as a sole proprietorship and bought their own health insurance (not through a partner). The overlap of people who can save up thousands of dollars for treatment abroad and have poor health insurance is probably not too large.

I know it's popular with the US transgender community, looking for gender reassignment surgery.

Cost of travel to Thailand < savings on medical procedures (with equivalent or better outcomes)

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Post by ecshafer »

dluan wrote: post #541
FuckButtons wrote: post #462

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That may be so, but how far do you think viral radical left wing populism is going to get you towards regaining people who voted for trump?

well Prop 50 to redraw California's district lines passed by a nearly 30% margin and counting right now. That's an absolute spanking leading up to 26 midterms. The story tonight isn't about Trump at all though, it's about millennial DSA types beating the establishment Democratic institution - in NYC, Detroit, Mississippi. In 24 everyone was astonished at the lack of response - "what is DNC going to do about losing to…

Zohran is literally never eligible to be President without a constitutional amendment.

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Post by terminalshort »

matsemann wrote: post #508
terminalshort wrote: post #362

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Just don't commit blasphemy, which is literally a crime you can be charged with there.

"there". Where exactly? Norway's law about this was removed years ago, and for many years before that was a "sleeping" rule basically no one got convicted of.

Here's a case that was taken all the way up to the ECHR where they upheld a blasphemy conviction of somebody who called Mohammed (who fucked a 9 year old) a pedophile: https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/e-s-v-a...

The "where exactly" is the "western europe" from the comment I replied to. Sure, you can't be convicted of blasphemy everywhere there, but the fact that you can be charged with a crime that most sane people assumed hadn't been a thing since the Spanish Inquisition anywhere in Europe is pretty shocking.

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Post by jrm4 »

UncleMeat wrote: post #730
jrm4 wrote: post #358

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I genuinely can't believe, still, that I have to spell this out for people. Obama did not do a U-turn . It is the worst naivete to think that what happened was "he had big ideas and he changed his mind." He had to bring up big ideas to get elected, and then he got elected the first Black president and some of you seem entirely too dense to actually grasp what that means. President. Not King. Subject to all of those c…

Other people have mentioned mass surveillance and other ways that Obama expanded the law enforcement power of the federal government, but I'll add another thing. Based on Rahm Emanuel's advice, the Obama administration did not focus political capital on the federal judiciary. Not only did Obama fail to get RBG to retire when she could be confidently replaced by a liberal, he didn't take judicial placements in the low…

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

pauldelany wrote: post #657
apparent wrote: post #575

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> his policies are relatively common sense and middle of the road Free buses and free child care are not remotely common policies in the US. Ditto for govt-run grocery stores. And freezing rent for controlled units.

Correct - common sense policies != common policies

Doesn't make them middle of the road, though.

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Post by ecshafer »

moregrist wrote: post #340
throwaway81523 wrote: post #240

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Plenty of red states have government run liquor stores. And army bases have government run grocery stores along with government run everything else. I don't see the problem here. Progressive version presumably would be free groceries for everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_grocery_store

When I lived in Pennsylvania, the state-run liquor stores had a monopoly on selling wine and liquor. This survived Republican and Democratic administrations for decades. Mamdani’s proposed grocery stores aren’t a monopoly. Whether they’re a good idea remains to be seen, but they’d be competing against privately owned grocery stores. As I understand them, they’re mostly intended for areas without a local grocery store…

And people hate the government run liquor stores so much they drive to Delaware to buy in wine and liquor in bulk, since the stores are expensive.

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Post by UncleMeat »

busyant wrote: post #736
UncleMeat wrote: post #730

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Other people have mentioned mass surveillance and other ways that Obama expanded the law enforcement power of the federal government, but I'll add another thing. Based on Rahm Emanuel's advice, the Obama administration did not focus political capital on the federal judiciary. Not only did Obama fail to get RBG to retire when she could be confidently replaced by a liberal, he didn't take judicial placements in the low…

> Not only did Obama fail to get RBG to retire when she could be confidently replaced by a liberal, he didn't take judicial placements in the lower courts as seriously as he should have. The courts are substantial part of how we got here. I imagine there was a lot of complacency based on the (erroneous) assumption that Hillary Clinton would be his successor.

It does appear that RBG wanted to be replaced by a Clinton appointee and the Obama administration didn't push terribly hard to snap her out of this. This was, of course, outrageous foolish politicking and contributed to the mess we are in.

RBG was a 75 year old cancer survivor in 2008. She should have stepped down in 2010 and the Obama administration should have put public pressure on her to do so.

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Post by UncleMeat »

jrm4 wrote: post #774
UncleMeat wrote: post #730

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Other people have mentioned mass surveillance and other ways that Obama expanded the law enforcement power of the federal government, but I'll add another thing. Based on Rahm Emanuel's advice, the Obama administration did not focus political capital on the federal judiciary. Not only did Obama fail to get RBG to retire when she could be confidently replaced by a liberal, he didn't take judicial placements in the low…

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It is of course RBG's fault at the base of it. Obama couldn't fire her or whatever.

But by all accounts Obama did not push her very hard or treat this as a priority. He shouldn't have just asked nicely and then gone away once she said no. They could have built a public media narrative around pressuring her to retire.

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Post by tinyhouse »

voidhorse wrote: post #119
tinyhouse wrote: post #100

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Actually demand has being going down and rents have been trending down as a result. The main reason is less immigration and international students. I recall years ago every open house I would go to ended up selling above market value for cash from someone from overseas who "invests" their money on the back of locals trying to buy a house to live in for their family. The billionaires were not the ones to blame for thi…

lol, going down according to who? https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/new-york... I don't doubt that immigration has probably marginally impacted the market, that doesn't change the fact that rent in NYC is still increasing YoY and is way too expensive. And yes, the people extracting exorbitant rent cost are in fact the ones to blame. I don't understand people who seem to occupy a fairytale land in wh…

Maybe NYC lags behind other major cities. Check Boston for example.

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Post by sotix »

debtta wrote: post #678
octaane wrote: post #73

You guys have it all wrong. There was only one candidate for the dem party, Here's the list: 1) Cuomo. Sexpest who has been accused by many women of some pretty shitty stuff. Also a member of a multi-generational dynasty, which is not good. 2) Mayor Adams. Federally indicted by the Feds. They have a 99% conviction rate. Not because they're corrupt, but because they only go after people who have dome some really egreg…

Don't forget: Eric Adams born 1960 Andrew Cuomo born 1957 Curtis Sliwa born 1954 Mamdani born 1991 On policing, on New York's relationship to Israel, on public transit, the so-called 'mainstream' is actually 'the average view of people over 60'.

The median age in New York City is 36.8 years old[0].

[0]: https://popfactfinder.planning.nyc.gov/explorer/cities/NYC?c...

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