corruption. they were lining their pockets with corruption.
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Just you wait. Any day now the connection between mamdani and big trash will become obvious
All these threads are hilarious.
Dude gets elected to the job of running the city and actually RUNS the city and everyone's shocked.
Like take a step back and realize that if actually having potholes fixed and garbage collected is 'new' maybe you all need to stop re-electing the same loser assholes year after year.
It's because he's Muslim.
That's it. He's talked about so much because he's a brown person doing good things and that goes against the white American collective hive mind.
Has NYC finally quit it with their stupid idea of just letting trash bags sit on the street? This is something that basically every other city in the world has figured out.
It was a corruption issue. Has nothing to do with fixing issues
Except like, the entirety of Japan.
I haven't been to Japan, but from what I hear, it's not the kind of place where you're going to find piles of trash bags on the street.
I have been there. You do. If you are actually interested in learning about it, look up how there deposal system works and maybe visit e.g. Tokyo once. Tokyo can be nasty.
Well that's how trash pickup is done all across the country. Clear plastic bags (usually you have to purchase them specific to each ward and each trash type) on the footpath a few times a week. Usually gone by lunch time. Apartment buildings can end up with huge piles of them. The crows love picking apart the bags and spreading trash about.
Japan really isn't some mythical cleanly place and I've no idea how they managed to get that stereotype. I've seen fly tipping, piss jugs, trash along the motorways, riverbanks covered in empty drink bottles. Its the same as anywhere else.
Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a "modern" trash bin? Isn't a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection
the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection
Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.
That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I'm not sure I'd want those rats getting into my bags, 😛
NYC has a reputation for Rodents of Unusual Size, so I'm honestly not surprised.
other mayors were/are pocketing that money
This has had actually been in the works for a while, it’s not like he just materialized this out of nowhere.
But, it has been constantly getting delayed and put through “trials”. So, it actually getting implemented is good.
The best part is seeing idiots who want any excuse to attack a DSA politician trying to argue that loose trash bags are better than dumpsters. Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Especially when 99% of their 'culture war' audience (who of course don't live in NYC) already use trash bins and dumpsters in their everyday lives.
"why aren't they burning the trash"
What were previous NYC mayors doing?
Making money serving the Epstein class.
They were doing the exact same thing just with a pr team
If they were doing the same thing there would be nothing for Mamdani to fix
Giving money to billionaires is exchange of almost no benefit to the people of the city
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/24/mamdani-cuomo-debate/
I love how the only arguments people have against them is "they're ugly" and "they'll take away parking spots" as if piles of trash bags look better, and NYC doesn't already have an expansive public transit network with plans to increase bus service.
If public anything is socialist, then every nation on Earth has always been and is socialist.
I think that's a little too broad of a definition, but I'm not a political scientist.
p.s. NYC always stank like garbage and urine in summer, nice to see some progress. Maybe weld a urinal onto the new garbage bins?
So I haven't been able to figure out where I fit because the classifications are too broad and don't fit a modern society anyway. I mean half the shit we argue about (capitalism, socialism, communism) seems to my uneducated eye to be economic systems, not political systems, so i get severely confused when people talk about them like political systems. Why can't we have democratic communism for example?
Again, I haven't taken a political science course, but I don't see an inherent contradiction in calling myself a democratic libertarian communist. People should be free to do as they please with some perhaps common good exceptions, but the means of production should be controlled by the people by way of voting. That doesn't seem contradictory.
But you tell that to someone who studies this more seriously and they look like I've grown three heads. I don't get it TBH.
I think most people would just call that libertarian socialism. In general some form of public political participation is implied when you say youre a socialist
I would argue that "democratic" and "libertarian" are inherently at odds, but otherwise agree (and believe most people do)
Not to rain on everyone's parade, but this is not Mamdani's initiative, though of course he is making the correct choice in continuing it.
Don't misunderstand me, I hate that corrupt piece of shit Adams, but the truth is important anyway.
Eric Adams just did it because he has a lifelong hatred of rats
So he is self loathing.
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What make them modern?
They can only be accessed with a keycard by building staff or sanitation workers, adding a layer of control that city officials say will reduce mess and illegal dumping.
No dumpster diving in NYC.
It's still a real health hazard. Stopping dumpster diving is not inherently bad, the bad thing is what causes people to need to dumpster dive in the first place.
Reduce, reuse, recycle programs ought to remove the incentive to dig for free stuff too.
Under rules like the New York State Food Donation and Food Scraps Recovery Law, major commercial food waste generators must separate and recycle or donate their food scraps instead of trashing them.
Socialist Communist Mamdani is genociding the Rat majority population of New York by wiping out their food supply /s
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