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Mamdani supports biking in NYC (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah to us he is just doing something that we see every day and we are supposed to find it appealing...

Over there seeing a politician on a bike is a novelty, thats the sad reality.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

For me, it's not the cycling but the fake smiles and waving like they haven't seen somebody for weeks

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

Well, it's specifically a novelty for politicians in MAJOR cities. Small towns (and even plenty smaller cities) have mayors with real civic engagement.

Fun anecdote from an unspecified Chicago suburb: My coworker and I always made small talk with the same guy in line at our Friday lunch spot. One day after getting his food he turned around and said (paraphrased), "Hey...did you see the proposal to repave [street] with a bricks? It will be so expensive and harder to maintain! Aahh! All right gotta run!"

We looked at each other like wtf then the shop owner said, "you know that's the mayor, right?" Nope, we sure didn't!

I would never want to live in that town specifically (wealthy but with an inferiority complex because of wealthier neighboring cities lol) but I love civic leaders who practice what they preach