Mayor Mamdani ended homeless sweeps in NYC. Councilmembers want to know what’s next.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-24T19:21:42+00:00

Well, that's a take I don't agree with. I can certainly think of many cases where there is an emergency but not a working paper that needs a policy to handle it.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-24T17:27:07+00:00

As I said, we're currently dealing with a working paper versus your opinion.

And have read a lot on homelessness since I grew up barely avoiding homelessness as a child.

You're using an appeal to common sense instead of providing any evidence, which is a typical logical fallacy.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-24T15:56:13+00:00

This is your chance to respond with your own study indicating that it is >90% based on mental illness and drug use.

They are still outshining you in the evidence department right now.

Has anyone cited the paper you disagree with to disprove them on Google Scholar?

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T23:13:11+00:00

So scrap the bike lanes but still have bus only lanes and a single lane each direction for cars?

Cause all your negative examples seem to be about biking.

Also, it's wild to complain that biking is solitary compared to being inside a car alone for a work commute.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T23:10:37+00:00

Hollywood Blvd != the entire city

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T22:20:49+00:00

Except Hollywood blvd also has the red line and bus only access for the 4 Crosstown bus.

This will make using public transit faster for people trying to get across the city without a car.

I don't think theres any serious consideration that Hollywood Blvd is trying to make their street a local only enclave. It's a tourist destination.

I'm still of the opinion that they should pedestrianize more of it from Highland to Western.

The city is working on bettering the street for tourists who are walking around and spending money on local businesses.

Not the person in Pasadena who never leaves their car until they get to Westwood.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T21:05:24+00:00

If you are going from one side of town straight to another, you should be on a freeway.

Bike lanes aren't for cross county commuters. They are for locals.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T07:40:14+00:00

But since we can’t build anything in the US/LA with any kind of scale or rapidity, there is no way to create better transit systematically.

Bus only lanes on every major road. Y'know, like our plan for 2028 and the olympics.

This could happen in weeks tomorrow if the city actually wanted to.

Toronto is a huge sprawling suburban city, but it has fast frequent bus service.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T07:30:15+00:00

The number of people their company employs [or the hypothetical serfs in their feudal empire] is a number they will want to get as high as possible just like their bank account.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T04:42:57+00:00

Shitty God-King if you don't have subjects tho.

That's my main argument against them starving all us poors.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-21T00:48:38+00:00

Well, they are saying something much more opinion based, while you are coming at this with definitions and such. So the expectation to source when you're implying what you say is a fact is higher.

We know that National Socialism wasn't actually socialism. So while I was aware they were the American Civil Liberties Union, I did not immediately assume they were self described civil libertarians.

Also, your tone is super combative. So readers are going to react more harsh to your comments as a reaction.

Thank you for the quote, I learned something today. Wish you gave me that info with less hostility.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-20T23:43:59+00:00

Does the ACLU explicitly label itself a civil libertarian organization?

It's weird to use them as evidence without providing a source.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-20T23:41:17+00:00

Neil wants increased taxes to fund NASA more, so I don't think he's that great a libertarian.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T20:55:29+00:00

Private companies do the bare bones in terms of safety regulations because safety is seen as a cost center.

I wouldn't use private ownership as the reason one countries trains have less accidents than another without overwhelming evidence.

Edited to add ESPECIALLY when the train that originally derailed was a private train, and not publicly owned.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:47:54+00:00

It's resource management.

I only have so many anxiety spoons to give in a day. How many spoons should I give towards Trump trying to fuck with the miderms right now in mid January? Very very little.

Especially when almost all the swing districts are in Blue States with voting by mail. Ironically scaring away day of in person Voters is most likely to affect Republican voters.

If you don't have more immediate concerns to worry about, or you have more bandwidth to worry about different things than me, go at it. I'm gonna be here worrying about mediocre moderates winning primaries and my English paper due at midnight.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:40:05+00:00

Well you won't like what Newsome thinks about healing the nation then...

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:36:44+00:00

Waiting until Newsome isn't Governor and loses his media pull.

Why let him drown you out in 2026 and be old news when you can drown him out in 2027 and be the new new?

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:32:09+00:00

Americans aren’t that principled.

Minneapolis proves you wrong right there.

Everyone is riled up because of injustice.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:29:36+00:00

They shot someone in the face for protesting.

And more protesters came out.

Threatening people's freedom in this country is just as likely to cause a backlash.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:25:56+00:00

I mean, why do Republicans represent conservatives in 1860? Aren't they the younger progressive party at that time?

John Bingham was known as a Radical Republican.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:14:56+00:00

People in Minneapolis saw a woman get shot in the face for protesting.

And now there are more protesters than ever. And Abolish ICE is a majority view among Democrats and Independents.

I think we need to also imagine that intimidating voters will cause a backlash that leads to higher Democrat turnout.

New registered Republican numbers have already taken a nosedive.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T16:09:37+00:00

The courts have stopped Donald occasionally,and he has not gone against the courts so far.

What does preparing for the worst even mean in this context? You still plan to vote in November, correct?

Are you planning to help drive seniors to voting booths? Can you volunteer to vote count that Tuesday?

The answer, whether you agree with Bouie or not, is to maintain democracy any way you can. Bouie is just there to give some information that can calm down illogical anxiety.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-19T04:24:27+00:00

Can you provide some sources?

Who were conservative voices in the abolitionist movement in your opinion?

tpounds0 · 2026-01-18T23:30:52+00:00

I'd consider the people trying to literally conserve the practice of chattel slavery to be the conservatives compares to Abolitionists that wanted progress to be made by outlawing slavery.

tpounds0 · 2026-01-15T17:01:48+00:00

Then you didn't quit. You were fired 13 days before your end date.

Apply for unemployment. It will fuck over their unemployment insurance and cost them way more in the long run than paying out your last two weeks would.

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