Isn't the whole point that it's riffing off the sexual misconduct in the bond movies? Also, Its been a while, but I recall Austin always being overtly consensual as a contrast to the Bond series

Agree, the first one has aged like fine milk (opinions differ of if its spoiled or turned to cheese) and the opening bit of the second film where they had a real budget for a split second.

The part there thats aged well is of all the actors cast in the parody opening, Danny Devito is the only one who isnt problamatic.

Sexual assault like this?

Someone else mentioned that it's actually pretty consensual. I assumed it wasn't, but I guess I must be wrong. Again, it's been a very long time since I've seen them. I know that consent wasn't the big talking point then that it is now, so I just thought they'd have fucked it up. It's good to see they didn't totally.

He's a mayor. Unless 8000 known pedophiles work for the city of new york, that's not in his purview. Potholes are

See Thats the issue, you hit it right in the head! Do we have even halfway decent transit, bus routes and trains? No we do not.

Fix the transit and fund it so it doesn’t cost me $5 to travel 10km in 3 hours, and I’ll consider saying fuck cars too. But 99.9% of anti car people live in this fantasy world where transit is lovely and funded like the military and everything is accessible to everyone always.

Get your head out your asses and realize that in order to reduce cars, we need to give people ways to get around.

And one thing bike hipsters love is to ignore anyone with disabilities or families, cause they’re selfish and think everyone is a silver spoon downtown baby.

why don’t I throw my wheelchair ass on a bicycle, and toss my kids on my shoulders and ride them to school and the doctor in -20 winter. Cause fuck cars?

Yeah, it's pretty nice for 1997.

wow, its almost like socialism can benefit society.

If there was a mechanism to make him president right now, I am sure he would.

Are there also 8000 to fill? You may need to count them all.

So... the pro-car infrastructure is to blame? That sounds like fuck cars to me.
Disability friendly buses and trams are a thing too.

The guy you were replying to was even asking for better train and bus lanes, not even mentioning bikes.

The mole was a pun on the 'mole' meaning an embedded spy.

Sounds like they need to invite Wanksy round for a visit

Yeah they can use the pothole debris to kill all the pigeons. Pay attention.

Define "mechanism" 👀

(IT'S A JOKE FEDS)

Tokyo seems to be bigger than New York and it's only issue with transit AFAIK is overcrowding, which is also a consequence of other things.
My "USA state"-sized country can get me from one end to another in less than a day of trains too.

The issue still doesn't sound to be size, but awful management over decades. It's too far gone to easily fix, and it's not the people's fault, but it still sounds like something to take the piss out of the country for.

Blight compared to what? Moving the people to the suburbs or killing all the people? Cities are much better for the environment than equally populous suburbs or exurbs.

It's possible they're all fresh new potholes. The reason there's more of them is the trend from cars to SUVs.

Then drivers swerve into bike lanes to avoid the potholes.

Ever since the day I first saw him I knew this was a man who can fill a hole

I mean this really isn't socialism this is just basic general government work and somebody actually pushing for the people that do the work that they're being paid to do already.

Sounds like a waste of good drugs

NYC has bike lanes which have waaaay less pot holes....and too many double parked cars.

You'll rarely feel a pothole in a bus, but sure good point.

Also a good point, revisit these same potholes in 30 days and see how they’re holding up before celebrating it in a press release.

It looks like a promo for a new Law & Order spinoff.

Ty for the reply. Hope is powerful.

Ive just seen this same press release from mayors nationwide a dozen times...because im old.

Ps i ride a surly long haul trucker and I very rarely hit potholes, because bikes can dodge a lot of them w/out dramatic movement. Bikes rule!

No thanks, cake makes you soft. BRING ME PIE!!!

It was more alluding to the fact that he is a socialist and his interest is in bettering the city rather then enriching himself.

I base this all on my SIL and her friends who are all silver spoon downtown kids who hate cars, except when they rent em cause they tired, they go on about the environment, except when they have to travel across the world twice a year and rent diesel cars to travel the third world and pretend that people’s poverty is an adventure. The kind of people who go on about bike lanes but want nothing to do with road education and safety of pedestrians. The ones who say you need to grab your disabled ass and put all your kids on a bike and haul them to the dr in -20 snow weather.
Btw what transit? It sucks unless of course you’re a downtown silver spoon baby who thinks transit and accessibility is city level everywhere, even in rural areas

Almost like the propaganda about government workers being inefficient and lazy is capitalist propaganda if the socialist politicians are the ones driving efficiently making government work.

Every good Mayor does this. There is nothing unique or ultra special about him doing his job.

New York Mayors love to brag about filling pot holes. https://hoodline.com/2025/01/new-york-city-celebrates-500-000-potholes-fixed-under-mayor-adams-leadership-aims-to-enhance-roadway-safety/

Also, New York is a market of 5+ million people. They won’t ignore that because of high taxes.

I agree that a good mayor does stuff like this. But with the state of american politics in general, and NYC in particular, this kind of behavior is far from the norm. Otherwise this post wouldn't get any traction.

Okej but why do you want to define a human person or whatever, in this scenario? I don't care about cis/trans or anything, I don't identify as cis or man or woman. But grouping people based on things they have no choice in and then telling them because you are born like this, it's your responsibility to do whatever I ask of you, sounds weird to me. People are dealing with their own issues as people who identify as trans are.

🫡poop

What the fuck is a trans person and a cis person?

Yes, that's the satire. Which is lost on folks who did not grow up with the old bond movies, instead tossing it in the "boomer humor" category without understanding that the reason it was funny to the last generation was because it played off stuff from the previous generation.

Time moves on. Like a poster above us said, the movies aged badly because the comedy isn't timeless, say like Who's On First.

No but why should I, why is this the most important problem that should consume my time and energy, while there are 1000 of other global problems. Mass starvation, war, poverty, racism, anti trans, Eco terrorism, getting fucked by politicians. What is so bad in new York for trans people, is it forbidden to be trans, I actually don't know because I don't live there, but it seems like it has a healthy community?

This is exactly the norm. New York politicans are always doing bursts of road maintance and bragging and trying to outdo the previous one. I checked the last 15 years and found every single mayor did this. Not all of them filled in more than the previous which is why there is stats like Filled in X by X date or filled in X in a single day or filled in X over the term.

I like Mamdami but I also like living in reality I also think presenting this as Mamdami is the first guy to fill in potholes completely undermines peoples trust in the government. I am happy to be shown im wrong and that this is exceptional but from what I see its nothing more than a good headline.

So it was a PR stunt that fixed more potholes than the DOT usually does in a week, and it further established credibility that socialists can perform at least as well as the best capitalists.

I’ll be interested to see how Mamdani’s longer term infrastructure plans work out.

At the very least it is evidence that socialists can govern at least as well as capitalists.

No ones saying he's first guy to fill potholes...

Adams

he approved a "study on trash cans(how people were throwing thier trash away)" in NYC which costs millions.

I need more of this guy. This and the snow is all I heard.

I need the d

In the entire fucking rest of the world Mamdani would just be viewed as a boring centrist bureaucrat that does their job. But "spending money on public infrastructure" is somehow seen as radical left socialism in the US.

I'm afraid in 5-10 years, the pendulum might swing back to jokes like "How many Jews fit in a Volkswagen?"