Math and statistics are clearly conspiring with him to hide the truth. Why else would they use Arabic numerals?
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funny that arabs use Indian numerals and the rest of the world uses Arab ones.
Man, it was so sad how many people took that seriously.
Reality has a well known liberal bias.
That's why conservatives avoid it at all costs.
Not the Arabic numerals! How dare they teach those in school. Back in my day we just had to learn the 1 2 3’s.
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Just for knowledge purposes for others (good joke) -
Hindu-Arabic numerals. Arabic numerals is the Eurocentric nomenclature.
Both Fibonacci and Al-Khwarizmi cited mathematicians and philosophers from the subcontinent in their works but somehow this got lost in Western historiography until more recently.
For those interested - Al Khwarizimi wrote Kitāb al-Hisāb al-Hind (The Book of Indian Calculation) around 825 CE. Fibonacci came across the method 400 years later while in North Africa and wrote Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) in 1202 referring to the number system as the Modus Indorum (method of the Indians).
How the original source got lost along the way is hard to say but some degree of colonial revisionist history likely had a role to play.
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Just a reminder to the Mamdani stans in Lemmy, at some point he will (or already has) done things you will disagree with, because you have to make compromises in politics, and I fear the left doesn't understand that basic fact of the job and are always too ready to completely cut ties with anyone who doesn't check all the boxes at all times. The left's motto is "I want it perfect or nothing at all!" and this is great if you're an artist, not so great if you're trying to push a largely liberal population to better outcomes.
Whatever missteps you think you will think you're seeing are going to get amplified by the worst voices on the left too, with a lot of "Wow I thought I liked this guy, but this is uncool" sentiments. Just be ready for it, don't let yourself be influenced by mobs of people you think are your peers.
edit: yah, lot of people don't understand the actual job of politics and think they do from watching TV and movies. I worry deeply for our future.
Anybody who expects a100% perfect politician is a fool
And then there's the other segment of the population who say "we can never have a perfect politician, SO MIGHT AS WELL ELECT A DUMB VERSION OF HITLER JUST TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS"
Anyone who expects a system based on collaboration and compromise to bend 100% to their will was a fucking miserable entitled jackass to play with as kids.
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Already happening. He has a good working relationship with governor Hochul and endorses her above a DSA candidate.
But she put out her neck for him and made things possible. If he did not reciprocate nobody in Albany would cooperate with him any more.
Somewhat related based on arguments I keep seeing, the number of people who don't understand that Albany is the state capital and that New York is a state as well as a city, and that the mayor of New York has to also deal with a governor, is really frighteningly high. What the fuck are people learning in school? Anything at all?
Prolly depends on where they are from, I'm from SoCal and was convinced that New York was a city state until I was like 11. I could see other people having the same thought for even longer if they aren't told explicitly like how my history and geography classes did, looking at you Utah and your idiotic claim that you guys colonized San Bernardino, you cunts.
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I’m Canadian, so I didn’t learn anything about new York at all.
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There's no DSA candidate in the primary. Hochul was running against another centrist (who has since withdrawn due to no chance of winning).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_York_gubernatorial_election
edit: can the downvoter please name the DSA candidate in the 2026 NY gubernatorial election, it should be pretty easy to find since I linked the article if they exist
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"The Left needs to fall in love; The Right simply falls in line."
This is not about just one political opinion it something common in all political opinions.
lot of people don’t understand the actual job of politics and think they do from watching TV and movies. I worry deeply for our future.
what? there is many good movies and TV-shows that correctly reflect (sometimes even make feel) politics
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NYC should have basically no crime because Spider-Man lives there
If no crime was ever committed then what would Spiderman be doing all day??
Do you want Spiderman to go unemployed????
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Shakira law. They got mixed up.
What happened to Shania Law? Didn't impress you much?
So what I'm getting from this is that Sharia Law works? The Christian Nationalists are gonna be so upset.
Didn’t all the far right fascists said they would leave New York if he is elected? Might explain the low crime.
This is almost entirely due to the fact that January was frigid. It's pretty well documented that cold temperatures reduce crime.
"safest January on record" implies that the stats are being compared to the same time period of different years, no? Was this January that much colder than average?
This was the coldest January in about a decade.
Well, that'll do it. Thanks, wasn't sure
I've gotta be cozy when I'm breaking laws, I'm a comfort kind of guy.
The coldest January since the teens, and this kind of crime always decreases when it’s freezing out. The real measurement is how many crime free days in a row did nyc have?
That makes sense, I was imagining the general 'feel good' nature of a charismatic and energetic candidate might have an effect on the public mood, police priorities, and general alertness.
Day to day policing is incredibly far removed from the mayor. There's multiple career politicians and bureaucrats that would delay any real progress for months.
Wild that Mamdani is doing so much to separate himself from the smooth-talking Obamas of the world.
LOVE IT
It was also a ridiculously cold January, which always suppresses crime. Criminals don't like to go out in the cold.
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Thats a nice stat to start the term off, is there are policy responsible for this? Low crime is super important for increased public transport usage. In my city we are currently dealing with high violent crime on public transport and its horrible.
is there are policy responsible for this?
Probably just a result of the snow. No way any policies got implemented that fast.
Woke sharia putting in the work.
You mean to tell me the xenophobic fear mongering wasn't based in reality? Unheard of. Next you'll tell me the TSA doesn't actually stop terrorists.
Can't wait for Jizyah to be implemented on white libs mashallah
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