I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
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!!"He appointed actual "get things done" types rather than favors for donors. "
Im perpetually disgusted by how incompetent most of our politicians are. So when one breaks through who actually WANTS to make government work we are shocked and amazed.. and it seems like it not actually that hard. You just effin get on with it!
@sleepy62 @Strandjunker I get your point, but in many ways, this is what the system is built to produce. If you require politicians to solicit donations, then you incentivize corruption.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker he sidesteps by just wanting to do good things for people. Everyone else was just lying.
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@Strandjunker once upon a time, politicians were supposed to have charm and swagger and general likability. Mamdani is bringing it back
@cyberwitch one can only hope!
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker balancing a budget is easy when you rob Peter to pay Paul and hard when you try to actually balance a budget
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker bad men do bad things
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@Strandjunker Mayhaps there is no actual such bureaucracy and those that claim there is just don't want those things to happen?
People have been so beaten down and denigrated it's normal to figure everything is basically impossible. No expert can just speak, they must introduce themselves, their credentials and accolades before they even attempt to make their point. some kind of paranoid pre-buffer to any push back.
Politicians that would do something nice defeat themselves in the same way, telling themselves they don't know enough, they need to defer defer defer, ultimately just wasting time.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker Because they think they are being paid to be a figurehead instead of actually do work in figuring out the bureaucracy to make their constituintes wishes true.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker He's not engaging and amplifying, as a political position of power, in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, by causing more polaric vacillations via an overextended #duopoly. He wisely supports the #sustainable middle - #DemocraticSocialism - and appeals to the greater majority of BASIC HUMAN VALUES!!!
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker On the extreme: Austin Texas is an example of a place that tries to do some good and then the state government spends their biennial sessions undoing and banning anything they did or might do.
If the New York state government was against it they'd be preventing everything he's doing, instead they're actively helping him (ex: balance the budget). If Cuomo was still governor they probably would be antagonistic.
But yeah, "bureaucracy" is shorthand for "boogyman".
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@Strandjunker Other politicians are being paid to not make things happen by big donors. Eventually they may get to Mamdani, but for now he seems to be relatively unencumbered.
@adrianco @Strandjunker The record low murder rate is the one that seems like magic. Maybe just giving people hope?
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker Rudy Guiliani got some stuff done when he was mayor. It was mostly bad stuff.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
He wants to.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker Whatever it is, I want whatever he is doing over here in "progressive Netherlands" too. Tax the rich, invest in education. Wild coming from a European.
Big sidenote: The Netherlands, albeit seemingly having better social programs and infrastructure, is rapidly being Trumpified by consecutive neo-liberal/libertarian governments parroting far-right populists and a general media that is hijacked by white conservatives.
White expats coming over here still laud the country for its progressiveness, but they at least do not have to experience or have lived experience with institutionalized racism.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker a reasonable bureaucracy is in place to defend against dictators and royalty. Either the bureaucracy is rolling over and/or the sidestepping is illegal.
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@Strandjunker a reasonable bureaucracy is in place to defend against dictators and royalty. Either the bureaucracy is rolling over and/or the sidestepping is illegal.
@Strandjunker i.e. things Trump does (even if courts later overturn them). Too soon to know if Mayor Mamdani’s will pass legislative scrutiny.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker He cares enough to try
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@DenOfEarth @Strandjunker I'm pretty sure they're comparing him to past NY mayors so arguing whether municipal bureaucracy is easier to get through than federal might not be relevant.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Unions?, but guessing you'd have to look case by case.
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I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
@Strandjunker Because he's popular and a current darling of some new yorker effete clique. That tends to lubricate a lot of the usual systemic resistance. Been a few others like that too if you think about it. When you're the darling of new yorks elite, well, it opens a lot of doors.
...and thats all it is.
