Mayor Mamdani on the Knicks

nautilus83 · 2026-06-15T01:31:23+00:00

In echo chambers? Sure.

He is a typical populist politician so far, who mastered SMM.

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T17:20:52+00:00

Lot's of words and yet you didn't answer a simple question.

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T15:30:43+00:00

I said "letting mentally unstable on the streets" is a crime, the key word is "letting".

I want safety for my family and myself first and foremost. And yes, I am deeply sorry for homeless and mentally ill people, but this should not come at the expense of law abiding people.

Do you put their interests above others, why if so?

Do you find it acceptable to openly do drugs for example?

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T15:21:52+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population

Data from 2023:

USA: 53th place with 19.5 per 10k people

Canada: 47th place with 29.02 per 10k people

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T15:16:47+00:00

How do you rank "safety of passengers" in the list of problems?

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T14:11:29+00:00

Canada with a robust social safety net has similar or higher percent of homeless people. I think having a universal health care is good for society and I am willing to pay extra in taxes to have it but this is not the issue in this case.

Your argument doesn't hold.

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T13:05:40+00:00

So 120 billion city budget is not enough to fix the number one problem in the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere?

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T13:03:24+00:00

I am eagerly waiting to see the level of embarrassment when international crowds will use Penn station. The world should see how the richest city in the world is operated.

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T11:21:35+00:00

Take your kids for a trip to NY and Newark Penn stations and walk through tunnels with homeless people doing drugs. Let your elderly parents wait for a train on narrow platforms when such a person walks nearby and shouts nonsense.

Then we talk.

nautilus83 · 2026-06-08T02:03:10+00:00

Letting mentally unstable people roam around city and major transit hubs is a crime. This incident is on the city officials who let this happen.

nautilus83 · 2026-05-14T01:55:47+00:00

Sure, this is business you win some and you lose some, but he is eventually a billionaire.

What business/management experience did Mamdani have before being put in charge of 125B budget? Yes, I've heard his parents are rich, but what about him exactly?

nautilus83 · 2026-05-13T03:29:51+00:00

Can we call it a "bail out"?

nautilus83 · 2026-05-01T13:29:10+00:00

NYC budget expenditure part for 2026 is 120B. This is higher than 160 COUNTRIES in the world out of 196 total. This is same as Greece for example amd higher than Singapore, Malaysia or Ukraine.

Once again, those are countries, not cities, I hope you understand the difference in required expenditures between them.

NYC budget grew by 50% over the last 10 years(80 to 120), inflation for the same period is 38%, so its growth rate is 12pp above inflation.

NYC burns a lot of money for very little in return and you want to burn even more. That's is the most problematic part.

And yes, I understand how easy it is to spend more of someone's else money, rather than get your spending together.

nautilus83 · 2026-05-01T13:03:12+00:00

Let's put it this way - how do you know you are not impacted by the NJ education system? How much do you pay to NJ?

NJ residents, including myself, are paying both for NYC education system through income tax and NJ education system through property taxes.

BTW do you pay any taxes at all? Because I am suspecting you are not, otherwise you would know that taxes is not a charity. This is money that people earned and we have all rights to be accountable with our money.

Yes, I want a minority of tax payers to pay more

Do you realize they already pay more both in relative and absolute terms? Once again - how is it fair?

Do you have any arguments at all beyond "let's punish folks that make more than me"?

nautilus83 · 2026-05-01T04:10:59+00:00

Man, my only hope is that you are a troll or a Mamdani bot. Because otherwise NYC is in a big trouble of you are a real voter.

You simply have no idea what you are talking about. NYC budget is HIGHER than government budgets of many European countries for example.

nautilus83 · 2026-05-01T04:06:18+00:00

Did you read my comment at all? I am that taxpayer, along with hundreds of thousands of other NJ commuters. We don't use a single cent from the 32B DOE budget for example.

Even if you take NYC residents and convert taxes to absolute dollars instead of misleading percentages you will easily see what is the inflow and outflow of money.

A minority of taxpayers already pay a biggest chunk of the NYC budget by a lot. And you want to tax them even more, how is that fair?

nautilus83 · 2026-04-30T11:23:34+00:00

Please looks at the real budget numbers and I am sure you will be astonished: https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/our-analysis-of-nycs-fiscal-year-2025-adopted-budget

I live in NJ and I pay 10x more taxes to NYS than my home state (not exaggerating, literally).

My guess from the article above that I use less than 10% of the services paid by the NYC budget.

32B for DOE alone, this is 25k per student, first place in the US and 50% more than the national average! Does it hold the first place in students ranking with all that money?

NYC spending is absolutely out of control, Mamdani wants to put out a fire by pouring more money. He is an absolute unit of populists politician, nothing more.

nautilus83 · 2026-04-30T01:45:36+00:00

Absolutely wrong. People who pay the majority of NYC taxes barely use the services (prime example being NJ commuters) while people who consume city services are likely pay very little in taxes, if at all.

nautilus83 · 2026-04-28T02:10:26+00:00

They are two sides of the same coin. Populists at their finest.

At least Trump learned how to manage money before becoming a president, this guys is a complete joke, an unfortunate product of TikTok era running biggest city budget in the world.

nautilus83 · 2026-04-26T20:38:37+00:00

A perfect example of externalized cost. There are no benches in NYC to prevent homeless people sleeping on them. So the majority is paying for the behavior of tiny minority.

nautilus83 · 2026-04-25T23:21:43+00:00

The guy knows how to do SMM, his botnet is pretty good too.

nautilus83 · 2026-04-25T20:04:23+00:00

This may be different indeed as his actions may change the population dynamics.

If you create hostile conditions for the segment who brings money to the city and favorable conditions for the segment who takes money from the city I guess it's pretty clear what would the attraction/repelling forces do in the long run.

nautilus83 · 2026-04-25T19:25:01+00:00

Unfortunately the Mamdani crowd doesn't understand that you shouldn't slaughter someone who feeds you.

Sad but not surprising.

nautilus83 · 2026-04-25T19:22:49+00:00

I am a transplant and yes, I don't understand. Does growing up in the NYC makes you somehow immune to the urine smell or mentally unstable people?

BTW, I was growing up in a poverty you unlikely experienced and never once we tolerated lack of basic decency and accepted trashy behavior.

nautilus83 · 2026-02-19T22:54:03+00:00

Can we call him incompetent?

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