BREAKING NEWS: Zohran Mamdani has sex with Bonnie Blue for a total of 1000 offspring; potholes deemed obliterated.

“FUCK CARS… wait where is my uber and my food delivery? Why is my Amazon late? But I wanted to rent a car to go to the pumpkin patch and to go to the airport to travel to the third world so I can feel superior!”

-downtown people

Cars are objectively bad for the environment, for planning, for space, for human community and sociability. There's a lot to criticize about cars

I appreciate you sitting through all of this for our benefit :)

I wanna see mamdani be successful but I'm wary of putting politicians up on a pedestal as our saviors and hope, as I'm learning from my elder leftists that thats gone wrong a lot of times before 😅

Still rooting for him though :)

Well, just off the top of my head, from very old memories, there's tons of sexual assault. Also lots of making fun of fat people and people with different bodies in general. I'm sure there's a lot more.

I have like 30 books that I think "Hmm, that looks interesting".

But then I'd feel guilty for doing nothing with that time.

I wonder what will be considered horrible in 5-10 years from now? What awful thing we are doing now that we are unaware of?

By himself? That's quite a work ethic.

The important thing about having books is the option to read them.

Reading is doing something.

Tantalizing me until the retirement I will never see, nice.

Time better spent rotting your brain on the internet with the rest of us.

gigachad

There's also the fact that half the 'jokes' were just a scene going on longer than you'd expect.

I think a lot of the body shaming jokes don't land not because we are uptight PC wokies, but because when you don't stigmatise something, it loses its social power. Oh that person has a mole? So what? The boomer humour was 'oh, it's bad to have a mole, but you should never say anything about it!' when you don't believe either of those statements there is no joke, and the scene goes on for like 5 minutes...

You're a cis people dumbass

"Cis" is not a sexuality. The only person going on about sexuality is youuuuuu.

There's a flip side. My country has roadworks everywhere right before election time lmao

Potheads in shambles

He's used to filling holes since college days

Cis people are people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. It's basically anyone that isn't transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.

It matters in this contect because while transgender people can advocate for their own rights, they don't have the leverage needed to succeed unless cisgender (cis) people help.

A cis person is the oppossite of a trans person.

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall . . .

Red flag!

Should've used rats to fill them in. .

Boom, two birds, one stone.

I should be mayor. Amateurs.

Turns out you can improve both public transit and driving! It was sort of being implied by haters that driving was going to get way worse under him IIRC.

All it took was one single governor not being a sociopath.

Mind blowing!

Crazy what not settling for less when it comes to public office will do for you for once.

I find the first one aged better than the rest. I still laughed out loud after watching it recently. The later movies, not so much.

What matters is what’s meaningful, not what’s expedient.

This isn’t impressive. NYC roads are in rough shape, and patchwork fixes are routine work often dressed up for press. I don’t care about cars.

Bikes cause negligible wear. Vehicles are what degrade roads. Designing n repairing infrastructure around cars feels outdated.

Focus on what actually moves the needle: stronger schools, addressing the $25 billion deficit, supporting people in need, and investing in water infrastructure.

Those are lasting impacts.

I may come off critical, but as Socrates once said- an unexamined life is not worth living.

Dude spoilers!

I think potholes are way more meaningful to bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles than cars from a usability standpoint

Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.

You seem confused.

Cops need loving, too.

As a non-American, how far does this strawman get his food from? A lot of food couriers in my city get by with bikes and public transit. Same with uber, do you guys not have trains? (Or buses)

We can have revolution AND cake!

I get the sentiment, but we don't have much in terms of hope in our government/politicians these days. Hopefully this is just a stepping stone.

It's important to remember there is no default or baseline for defining a human person. With race, if someone just says "person" without specifying race/color, does that imply "white" (or whatever other default) to you? And if I just say "people", does that mean straight people only and not gay people?

How about gender? Are "people" just the men, or just the women? Cis/trans is the same. There is no default here, just a bunch of people with different backgrounds trying to do their best.

Also, if it just so happens you're one of the folks who considers "cis" a slur, I'd ask if you feel the same about the most accurate terms for your gender, race/ethnicity, etc.

You wanna get 2 birds stoned at once?

You talkin bout Pigeons?

I mean presidency eligiblity seems to be up in the air these days. Maybe it's not impossible

Same with uber, do you guys not have trains? (Or buses)

Tens of millions of Americans quite literally don't have either of those things available to them for delivery services.

A German ex once told me that "people from the EU simply cannot understand how large and spread out the USA is until they travel here."

Now do Blackburn, Lancashire.

What about the busses?

You ever hit a pothole on a bike because it looked like a little water and you didn't want to go further into traffic? Definitely a painful and potentially expensive experience.

Yeah, big shit needs to be accomplished but these initiatives compound and get the public behind fixing stuff and making life a little better. Would I like to see empty rentals be taxed at 2-5x the rate of occupied dwellings, fuck yes, will it happen soon, probably not.

Immigrant took my jerb which I would never do.

The job is to hire a survey team, count the potholes, then hire consultants to decide which outside contractors to get to fill the potholes, and don't verify they do anything at all, if they don't steal the asphalt and sell it to local driveway contractors.

That's how it's done in my city.

It's too cold for proper patches, so most of the patches will just fall apart in a few weeks.

Better uplifted news would be "Zohran Mamdani Also Gets 8,000 Pedophiles Fired from Governmental Positions in a Single Day."