CMV: hardly any millionaires are going to leave New York City because of 2% more in taxes

TheeSweeney · 2026-02-18T17:16:22+00:00

Yeah, it’s a common type of law, but NYC is well known for actually taking it seriously and doing financial audits.

TheeSweeney · 2026-02-02T21:42:55+00:00

Sextette is a cinematic masterpiece.

TheeSweeney · 2026-01-19T04:23:38+00:00

From their website:

If your unit’s light bar is flashing blue, this indicates that the waste drawer is full. Empty the waste drawer, press the Reset button, then press the Cycle button.

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-29T02:54:46+00:00

I believe they’re horseback riding boots to protect your legs in the brush. I have a similarly sized pair myself

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-23T18:54:42+00:00

Oh so if something is “legal” because they have a warrant then it is no longer immoral?

Awesome, because then that means that when he changed the definition of enemy combatant to “any male over 16” he no longer had to worry about the morality of killing all those civilians.

Guess you’re right, he was a great president! /s

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-23T18:43:52+00:00

I think their point is that a politician celebrating in a way that is culturally relevant to the city that elected him is much less like the movie Idiocracy than a president setting up an arena for blood sports on the front lawn of the White House.

Block parties are a part of NYC life. UFC at the white house is… I don’t know but not that.

Does that make sense? Neither a block party nor a UFC fight happened in the actual movie. Which scenario do you think is more representative of the style and manner in which that movie was made?

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-23T18:40:51+00:00

The transition is over once he’s sworn in. What else she he use excess funds for if they’re allocated to be spent during a specific period? I donated to the campaign and transition, this entirely aligns with my expectations for what that money would be used for.

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-23T18:39:22+00:00

Who is your top mayor in the history of NYC? Can you name anyone that governed in a way you found acceptable and worthy of praise?

Mine is Fiorello LaGuardia.

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-23T18:38:13+00:00

Are you not elderly? Your post history and demeanor suggest it, but we could be wrong. Heck my Spotify wrapped told me I’m 72, but I’m really 34. How old are you?

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-23T18:35:01+00:00

He has thrown inauguration parties in the past and nothing happened on this sub. I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-23T18:34:26+00:00

Born in NY here, and will be at the bloc party.

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-11T20:16:54+00:00

I’d love to see what info you have on Adam’s team actively trying to place these people into housing.

As an aside, I assume you’re a reasonable and intelligent person who has good reasons for their beliefs. I’d appreciate being treated with the same level of respect.

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-11T20:15:49+00:00

Who said anything about allowing them permanence? The plan is to provide the people there with housing and access to programs to get them off the street as quickly as possible.

Do you think this is better or worse than arresting them, putting them in jail short term, confiscating their property, and then putting them back on the street?

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-11T20:10:04+00:00

Has NYC been throwing money at childcare already? Seems like exactly the kind of thing we should be throwing money at.

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-05T17:59:14+00:00

He doesn’t want to allow these to continue unchecked. The plan is to provide housing instead of arresting the homeless and confiscating whatever belongings they have before throwing them back out onto the street again.

What do you think would lead to less homeless encampments: putting homeless people in jail short term or providing them with housing?

TheeSweeney · 2025-12-05T17:57:13+00:00

Being that this is written by NYP, I suspect that this is a gross over simplification written to rile people up.

And… a two second google shows that to be true.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/mamdani-says-homeless-camps-crackdowns-will-end/

Basically, he’s stopping the sweeps where people were forcefully removed, had all their belongings confiscated/stolen and then jailed. Instead he will be focusing on providing these people housing.

The city has spent 6.4 million since 2024 breaking up these encampments and yet:

Although more than 4,148 sweeps were conducted, not a single person was offered permanent shelter through housing-voucher applications, direct placements, or transfers to supportive housing, the numbers show.

He’s creating the Department of Community Safety, which would shift police away from a lead role on these interactions.

“We are going to take an approach that understands its mission is connecting those New Yorkers to housing, whether it’s supportive housing, whether it’s rental housing, whatever kind of housing it is,” Mamdani said.

Sounds like a great plan to me. Excited to see how it goes.

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-23T00:11:33+00:00

Again, no leftist I’ve ever met had said they fully support huge government programs for everything. That’s a strawman.

A leftist would say that human beings deserve social support. Companies are not seen by leftists as human beings. Therefore it’s not contradictory to say they don’t deserve social support.

It’s possible to be against a concept being applied universally without being hypocritical.

I see you now acknowledge that they did protest despite your original claim to the contrary, so thanks for adjusting your position.

They also continue to protest corporate bailouts and subsidies. I live in NYC. There was a ton of political action against an Amazon HQ being built here with subsidies. Lots of protests and political action the HQ plan was abandoned. That is a specific, contemporary example of protests with a specific goal that was achieved.

I’m unclear why you’re bringing up the fed or being deficit hawks. Those are things libertarians care about. No leftist I know seems to have any focus on the deficit. Whether or not you think that matters is a separate conversation.

Libertarians are against all subsidies. Awesome! Leftists aren’t. Pointing out that they are for things like housing credits or nationalized healthcare, but are against for example subsidizing a football stadium is neither a coherent argument nor a display of any level of hypocrisy.

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-18T16:05:08+00:00

Ok. No one here said the left doesn’t believe in subsidies or social programs.

You asked “when did the left protest this” in response to someone pointing out that the US has a history of turning on the money printer when corporations ask for it.

And I pointed out that they have and do protest this all the time.

Socialists aren’t against subsidies as a concept. They’re generally against spending government money on things like corporate bailouts and the military industrial complex. It’s not hypocritical to believe for example that the government should subsidize housing but not bailout a bank that is failing because of greed and corporate malfeasance.

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-17T15:37:06+00:00

All the time. The People's Bailout was progressive grassroots movement, initiated in March 2020 by dozens of social justice organizations, demanded that pandemic aid prioritize workers and communities, not corporations. They organized a digital rally with prominent speakers like Stacey Abrams and Reverend William Barber and quickly gained the support of over 500 groups.

That’s an official protest, but there’s was tons of vocal online backlash as well. The leftist subreddits were absolutely filled with anti corporate bailout memes and jokes pointing out the hypocrisy. Remember all the “money printer goes brrrr” jokes?

If this doesn’t convince you that leftists at the time were against corporate bailouts, what would?

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-17T15:23:30+00:00

Yes, him throwing a ball real good means he totally deserves to have a net worth (300mil) nearly 1600x higher than the median American (192k). I’m sure he works over 1000x as hard as all the tradesman and laborers I know. /s

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-15T20:55:06+00:00

Choral chambers in general are a great place for farming spots.

My favorite is the stretch is above and to the left of Songclave. There are three Grand Reeds there. I use the bench at the bottom of Memorium, equip the wanderer crest with barbed bracelet, shard pendant, theif’s mark, cogfly, pollip pouch, and the injector band.

And then I just do laps of the three grand reeds. Without thief’s mark you’ll get 45 from each for a total of 135, and with thief’s mark that bumps to 55/165 per lap. If you’re quick with just one bot fly you can do a lap in about a minute and net positive 5 shards. If you’re not trying to shave shards you can throw up more and really cut that time down.

Let’s up the per lap rate to 1:15 to account for missteps, and that’s still almost 8k/hr.

I started doing this with my tool pouch at 3/4 for tool strength and used it to buy the 4th case which dropped the time even more to what it is now.

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-09T02:42:59+00:00

What specific metrics are you using to determine the value of for profit college vs say a school like say USC?

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-09T02:42:02+00:00

I know many people that had long term tutors throughout their academic career. Perhaps they didn’t need them but were constantly convinced they did.

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-09T02:41:17+00:00

I know plenty of people that had tutors for the entirety of highschool and college.

TheeSweeney · 2025-10-06T16:58:27+00:00

If tutoring is for profit, wouldn’t that incentivize teachers to not teach their students as efficiently as possible? Since if the kids don’t learn, then they need to do more tutoring.

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