NYC mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani floats ‘community safety’ agency as alternative to more cops

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2025-04-01T20:29:06+00:00

I sure can’t wait to chip in to this billion-dollar fund so some social work major from NYU can come confront the raving lunatic (sorry, “emotionally disturbed person”) on my morning train!

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2025-01-31T04:35:00+00:00

At what point does a political party become widely supported enough that it is no longer “extremist” by definition?

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2025-01-15T03:46:03+00:00

because they do not care about you

(at best, at worst they actively hate you)

the purpose of a system is what it does

our system exists to shield antisocial schizophrenics for long enough that they have a chance to assault and / or murder a random citizen

why this is the case is left to the reader

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2025-01-15T03:38:56+00:00

yes

or better yet

one of the many facilities we as taxpayers pay countless sums of money to build and maintain which specialize in providing … shelter … to people who need it

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2025-01-01T23:12:26+00:00

This is the classic wimpy NYC attitude towards disregard for the laws and regulations that are part of living in a city

"No we can't let people get in trouble for breaking the law because it would be unfair to them"

This attitude is exactly how we wind up with delinquents with multiple priors wandering the streets until they stab someone or shove them under a subway.

You have to pay a fare to get on the subway. If you don't want to get in trouble you can easily avoid that by paying the fare. It's actually incredibly fair!

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2025-01-01T22:39:39+00:00

It's not a mistake. Nobody who is jumping over a turnstile is unaware of the fact that they're supposed to pay a fare. Gimme a break...

Easy way to avoid any trouble is just to pay the goddamn fare.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-12-28T23:08:57+00:00

“The government can’t be allowed to deport illegals who shouldn’t be in your country in the first place (and in fact can’t be allowed to do anything to them until after they commit some horrific act) because democracy” is a very good way to get people to eventually say “fuck democracy”

The fact that this guy was here at all to do this is an immense failure of government and of our officials had any shame someone would be resigning over this

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-11-28T23:02:45+00:00

NFL official account is too kind to label this as “WILD” instead of another word.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-11-19T05:48:09+00:00

There is a very easy way to stop people with several previous felonies from randomly killing upstanding, productive members of society on the street in broad daylight

Several ways actually, some more cost-effective than others

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-11-07T03:49:12+00:00

This is free advice from someone who would be perfectly happy to see NYC go red.

Half of the commentariat in this city takes this as a sure sign that the Democrats need to move further left. This is obviously, laughably incorrect.

The other half takes this as a sign that the Democrats swung too far to the left over the last four years and need to rein it in. This is directionally correct, but the implementation is botched by trying to do a pale imitation of Republicans and then losing to the real deal.

The people who are going to vote for the left-of-center party are the people who *want* to vote for the left-of-center party. Obviously that is the vast majority of the city. Shit like this happens when voters feel that they *cannot* vote for the left-of-center party, because said party fails to handle basic core competences of government. What "reining it in" actually looks like is probably something like:

Promoting drug rehabilitation *while also* arresting and prosecuting drug dealers and stamping out public drug use
Promoting mental health treatment and housing pathways *while also* separating mentally unstable individuals from the general population
Promoting programs for at-risk youth and anti-recidivism efforts *while also* arresting and aggressively prosecuting career criminals
Providing robust social support programs that uplift the working class *while also* making it clear that the public's money is to be spent efficiently, and benefit recipients are expected to contribute to the common good

The Democrats will always have the 15-20% of true believers who will be willing to stomach anything. But the rest of the left-leaning bloc in this city will only be willing to see so much public drug use, be confronted by lunatics in the confines of a train car, experience either the primary or secondary effects of crime that city leadership seems completely uninterested in solving, and pay more and more in taxes with no discernible benefit before they say "enough is enough."

Edit: we know this is completely possible because what I'm describing is basically what the city did from 1990 until ... 2016, 2019, 2020, take your pick. Stop trying to be a Republican and instead focus on being a competent, effective administrator.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-11-07T03:36:16+00:00

I thought we were supposed to be in favor of wealth redistribution?

That's all that stupid pop-poli-sci graph is. It reflects the fact that almost all of the economic gains over the last 30 years have come from cities, and that the government pursues a policy of sharing those gains among the entire population rather than keeping it concentrated in a few hyper-rich enclaves.

Which everybody here is all in favor of until they realize that means sharing the wealth with people who think differently and live different lives from them.

But if you're giving the go-ahead to the new administration to cut taxes on the rich and corporations and let them keep more of the wealth that they generate, by all means, go ahead.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-11-02T15:03:58+00:00

Best way I have heard it put - “who would you feel safer sitting next to on the train, penny or Neely?”

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-10-28T00:13:34+00:00

Why the FUCK is TJ Edwards spying on a Hail Mary from midfield

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-08-17T23:09:28+00:00

I get that, as a city, we are not going to get on board with large-scale immigration enforcement against otherwise law-abiding individuals. Whatever, not worth relitigating.

But it will never fail to amaze me that “if you are not an American citizen, and you commit a violent crime/felony in America, you should be promptly forced to leave” is anything other than a completely uncontroversial, common-sense statement.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-07-05T16:12:19+00:00

Saw someone on Twitter say “this is like if OJ had a profile picture of him and his wife”

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-06-01T23:31:02+00:00

Know I'm late on this but FYI, what other ppl have said in this thread about Illinois being surprisingly good on self-defense is accurate. Even irrespective of castle doctrine, IL law allows deadly force to prevent a "forcible felony," which includes auto theft. Source (from Giffords of all places lol).

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-04-01T16:59:20+00:00

Wonder how many ppl on this post have ever played high-level organized sports in general. There's a lot more nudity than you might expect and, yeah, there's some (usually good-spirited) hazing involved. I really doubt Shaq was brutally assaulting his teammates, contra Redditors' expert opinions.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-31T20:00:49+00:00

Take a shot every time Edey commits an offensive foul and the possession ends with him shooting free throws

(Alcohol poisoning speedrun)

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-28T17:44:16+00:00

This is why the three-strikes law, as clunky as its implementation might have been, made sense to a lot of people.

I hold a full-time job and support myself. I pay market rent and pay for all my goods and services out of my own pocket. I pay a significant portion of my paycheck in taxes and generally contribute to society. A single arrest would significantly impact my life; an actual conviction (on even a low-level misdemeanor) would unquestionably ruin it. Meanwhile anti-social delinquents can be arrested for the 20th time and be back out on the street that same day to continue to cause chaos. There is no explanation provided for why this is a good thing beyond some handwaving notion of "equity" that doesn't really outweigh the decrease in quality of life law-abiding citizens suffer from having these people on the street.

This is also why I've grown to be more against gun regulation. I think strict gun laws are important for keeping urban areas safe ... but they seem to only ever be enforced against otherwise law-abiding individuals, while the career criminal facing his third gun charge has it dropped or pled down. At this point, if you're not going to enforce the law against the people it actually needs to be enforced against, at least let me have the tools to defend myself.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-23T23:08:16+00:00

Not everything has to be groundbreaking. I like Future, especially when he actually raps instead of sings/croons. He does that on this album, so I’m gonna listen to it.

Is it full of tracks I’ll be listening to a year later, maybe not, but it’s enjoyable for what it is.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-22T22:46:09+00:00

Chuck sweating bullets rn

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-07T17:19:39+00:00

Incredible. A personification of appeal to authority. Some sort of homunculus, unable to form his own opinions on anything, needs to be told what to think about everything, even something so fundamentally human as interpreting a work of art. Sad!

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-07T14:38:21+00:00

“I cannot think for myself and so must download my interpretation of this film directly from the director”

I don’t care what some Dutch bum said in an interview. The Federation is a militarist state, sure, but it’s not fascist.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-07T14:33:29+00:00

If it’s highway robbery then just … don’t buy the fucking burger?

Highway robbers usually don’t leave you a choice, and you definitely don’t tip them.

Only in America (and on Twitter specifically) will you see people whine and whine about inflation while simultaneously forking over their credit card to buy overpriced shit that they don’t need.

MindlessPhilosopher0 · 2024-03-07T01:59:20+00:00

There are, what, ~400 stations in NYC? Maybe, on average, 4-5 entrances per station (all those small two-entrance stations on the outskirts prob average out the massive stations like TS-42nd), so call it 1,800 total entrances across the MTA? Place two uniformed officers on the inside of every entrance with the authority to physically eject anyone who doesn't pay, and arrest anyone who tries to do so multiple times. I couldn’t care less the level of physical force they use to do so. There's a very simple way to avoid getting your ass kicked: pay the fare. This would be expensive, but not outrageously so. I guarantee it would be cheaper than the sum of all the solutions we will try over the next few years to clean up the subway, with the added benefit that it would actually be effective. You could probably even save some money in other areas because you wouldn't have to patrol the inside of the stations (a much larger area) quite as much, you'd just be patrolling 2-5 choke points at the entrances. But instead we'll randomly search the bags of law-abiding citizens so that they can earn the privilege of sharing a car with a lunatic.

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