Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pothole purge saw nearly 8,000 craters filled in a single day – the same number that would usually take New York’s Department of Transport (DOT) a week.
Sure, but there a shit ton of people who say that because he’s a socialist, everything will go to hell. It’s important to counter that argument with facts that show otherwise.
In the entire fucking rest of the world Mamdani would just be viewed as a boring centrist bureaucrat that does their job. But “spending money on public infrastructure” is somehow seen as radical left socialism in the US.
I mean we have many countries that prove that aspect we don’t need some dude in New York to prove or disprove that we also have many failed leaders that have failed at that very task as well in the socialist world.
Agreed, and also agreed that Mamdani wouldn’t even be called a socialist in most of the world. But in the American context, everything I said is true. I’m sorry that we’re so distorted from reality that we have to have conversations like these.
At the very least it is evidence that socialists can govern at least as well as capitalists.
I mean honestly that’s just kind of a dumb take. Regardless of him being socialist or not the fact is he’s just doing his job.
Sure, but there a shit ton of people who say that because he’s a socialist, everything will go to hell. It’s important to counter that argument with facts that show otherwise.
In the entire fucking rest of the world Mamdani would just be viewed as a boring centrist bureaucrat that does their job. But “spending money on public infrastructure” is somehow seen as radical left socialism in the US.
I mean we have many countries that prove that aspect we don’t need some dude in New York to prove or disprove that we also have many failed leaders that have failed at that very task as well in the socialist world.
Agreed, and also agreed that Mamdani wouldn’t even be called a socialist in most of the world. But in the American context, everything I said is true. I’m sorry that we’re so distorted from reality that we have to have conversations like these.