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A radical position? You mean the stuff that doesn’t get done because that’s not how stuff works or the stuff that does get done and doesn’t make a difference?
[mention=51]Captainant[/mention] what you and the fanbois don’t seem to understand is that most of what Mamdani’s has proposed with housing policy is just repackaged baby boomer progressive orthodoxy, a mix of obstruction through stakeholder input, wishful thinking, and symbolic action. 
 
Explain please, how is more of the same radical? Other than how he talks and presents himself?

He has a funny ay-rab mooslem name. Don’t get no more radical than that.
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Lol, the sister of the Times’ Nazi source posts on Blue Sky and is dropping family lore:

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These are the types of people Times political editors and reporters think are sophisticated intellectuals. That’s the type of people the Times, WaPo, and other mainstream media institutions hire now to cover politics because their executives think the left went insane in 2020 with the BLM marches.

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11 hours ago, Captainant said:

Yes yes, anyone staking a radical position is just as lame as the mainstream. I'm familiar with the play you're running from Bernie

What are you talking about? His platform is lock stock and barrel the progressive position that has dominated NYC, SF, DC and LA since like the 70’s. As is the rest of his platform, just glossed up on Tik Tok  

Edit: Bozo said it better. 

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21 hours ago, We’reTexas said:

Think “build the wall and make Mexico pay for it” but make it leftist housing policy. 

The first is a shitty fucking goal and the second -- affordable housing --is a good goal.

The first reflects a warped mind and the second a lofty goal.

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On 7/4/2025 at 8:19 AM, Captainant said:

Unless you're prosecuting a trumpist lmfao. How the fuck could you type that sentence on July 4, 2025 with a straight face

Um, that whole 4th Amendment thing?

Speaking in this case about the checkered origin of the truth.

And, again, had the procedures had the time to spin out, he'd be convicted on more than 34 counts.

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43 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

The first is a shitty fucking goal and the second -- affordable housing --is a good goal.

The first reflects a warped mind and the second a lofty goal.

What I am trying to explain is that both approaches are so utterly divorced from reality that they deserve ridicule.

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My main concern is that the Lasker information is, apparently, true.

So, that's a bit of a problem for Mamdani.

A separate issue is NYT reporting it while calling Lasker an academic opposed to affirmative action.  While that is literally true, it's a pretty horrendous minimization of him.

Some other fun tidbits.  Lasker is a PhD candidate at Tceh, but that is one well-hidden fact. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-l-b84457304?trk=people-guest_people_search-card

He's also speaking at a "Natalist" conference held on the UT campus at the ATT Conference Center.  ATT apparently is just a hotel that anyone can book for just about anything but geezus.  "Natalists" are white supremacist eugenicists.

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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

a problem for Mamdani.

People want affordability. Nobody cared that he opposes Israel's genocide, and they won't care how he filled out an online form when he was 17

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The stupid in this thread is astounding. New York City is the most expensive city in the United States by a long shot and one of the most expensive in the world. Affordability is an issue for everyone except perhaps the top 1% (you now have to make a million or more a year to be in the top 1%). 
 

And the NYT is very much in the fuxking wrong on this. They are running hit pieces to help Cuomo, a guy who fucking hates NYC. 

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22 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

The stupid in this thread is astounding. New York City is the most expensive city in the United States by a long shot and one of the most expensive in the world. Affordability is an issue for everyone except perhaps the top 1% (you now have to make a million or more a year to be in the top 1%). 
 

And the NYT is very much in the fuxking wrong on this. They are running hit pieces to help Cuomo, a guy who fucking hates NYC. 

Thank you for the negs. My criticism of Mondami has nothing to do with New York City specifically. I live in a city equally as expensive and have been involved in housing advocacy for a decade. As we are both from Houston, I find your hostility confusing. Might you explain how the housing economics of NYC does not comport with the rest of America?

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46 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

People want affordability. Nobody cared that he opposes Israel's genocide, and they won't care how he filled out an online form when he was 17

I'm not touching on the merits or demerits of Zohran Mamdani.  Just that this is a bit of an issue.  Bit doing some heavy lifting.

It's intriguing to me for a couple of reasons.  While I am now fully of the mind that programs that advantage minorities are justified, affirmative action in the employment and education admissions contexts have often troubled me, because it comes closer to a zero-sum game than most other contexts.  And when you get to problematic attempts to "game the system" (if in fact that's what this is, you can have an interesting argument on that point alone) like this, the problem is underscored.

The other thing here is suppressing factual information because it is a) disadvantageous and b) comes from an extremely distasteful source is extremely problematic.  Another sticky wicket in the First Amendment/Free Expression argument.  Although I submit it's not really a sticky wicket at all.  To the extent truthiness can be determined, let it out.

So, I can't disagree with NYTs decision to report this, but how they reported it may be a different matter.  Funny thing, this factual reporting but with a tinge or spin on some related or background issue is what conservatards point to as lying in the media, while conservative media abandons fact altogether.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

suppressing factual information

Yes it's horrible to see this "factual information" suppressed by getting published in the most widely circulated newspaper in the nation.

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2 hours ago, We’reTexas said:

What I am trying to explain is that both approaches are so utterly divorced from reality that they deserve ridicule.

Doesn’t matter democrats wouldn’t know how to effectively promote affordable housing. They’d just go into policy detail no one gives a fuck about. 

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6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Doesn’t matter democrats wouldn’t know how to effectively promote affordable housing. They’d just go into policy detail no one gives a fuck about. 

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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

My main concern is that the Lasker information is, apparently, true.

So, that's a bit of a problem for Mamdani.

A separate issue is NYT reporting it while calling Lasker an academic opposed to affirmative action.  While that is literally true, it's a pretty horrendous minimization of him.

Some other fun tidbits.  Lasker is a PhD candidate at Tceh, but that is one well-hidden fact. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-l-b84457304?trk=people-guest_people_search-card

He's also speaking at a "Natalist" conference held on the UT campus at the ATT Conference Center.  ATT apparently is just a hotel that anyone can book for just about anything but geezus.  "Natalists" are white supremacist eugenicists.

Apparently Austin is a hub for the Natalist movement:

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  1. December 2023 — The inaugural “NatalCon” was held at the LINE Hotel downtown, marking the first such event in Austin kut.org+10reportingtexas.com+10theguardian.com+10.

  2. March 28–29, 2025 — The second iteration took place at UT Austin’s AT&T Conference Center and the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum natalism.org+5theguardian.com+5kut.org+5.

 

I'd have to imagine they would pay the Bullock to hold it there. but then I am sure they have some deep pockets behind them to rent such places to give them the appearance of being more established than they are.  Bullock's gotta be turning over in his grave, right?

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6 hours ago, We’reTexas said:

Thank you for the negs. My criticism of Mondami has nothing to do with New York City specifically. I live in a city equally as expensive and have been involved in housing advocacy for a decade. As we are both from Houston, I find your hostility confusing. Might you explain how the housing economics of NYC does not comport with the rest of America?

First, I am not from Houston. I lived there for 12 years, but not from there.

Second, there is no city in the US that is equally as expensive as NYC, and I'm not talking just cost of rent/cost to buy. 

Mamdani (spell his name right) has ideas, and some might not work, but he and Brad Lander were the only two who had specific plans to address affordability. 

Housing economics in NYC are a hell of a lot more complex than any other city I've lived in in the US and that includes Austin, LA, New Orleans, and Houston. 

But since you don't live here, take your hatred and hostility of Mamdani and stick up your ass.

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9 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Um, that whole 4th Amendment thing?

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The 4th amendment that has protecting due process for all people? That thing that is being shredded as we speak by Roberts and the very fine supreme court?

It truly is breathtaking how happily and readily you apply different standards to fascists and those who stand against them. 



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