I don't want to fall into the trap of hero worship but yeah, this seems like what mayors should always be doing.
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All these threads are hilarious.
Dude gets elected to the job of running the city and actually RUNS the city and everyone's shocked.
Like take a step back and realize that if actually having potholes fixed and garbage collected is 'new' maybe you all need to stop re-electing the same loser assholes year after year.
It's because he's Muslim.
That's it. He's talked about so much because he's a brown person doing good things and that goes against the white American collective hive mind.
It’s because he puts the needs of the workers over the needs of those with so much wealth their entire lineage will never have to work again.
They’ll use him being a Muslim to turn us against him and against each other, but that’s not why he’s opposed by the billionaires who own the media or the billionaires who fund the GOP and establishment Democrats, all of whom teamed up to try to keep him out of power.
When it was Bernie, they tried to divide us by gender and generation. When it’s a Muslim, they try to divide us by religion. When it’s a young white Christian man, they try to divide us by lying about him being a fucking vegan sexist racist.
There’s no war but class war.
Yeah, people seem to still not get this part… it’s factually a race issue like most problems in this he US
Has NYC finally quit it with their stupid idea of just letting trash bags sit on the street? This is something that basically every other city in the world has figured out.
I left NYC many years ago. I was still young when i had to leave. But I remember how dirty it was. I recently went back. It still is dirty. It's by design. Sometimes the only trash bags I'd see get picked up by the city were the ones the homeless taped together over the sewer/ subway to make vents so the hot air could reach into people's "tents'.
It was a corruption issue. Has nothing to do with fixing issues
The entire countries of Egypt and Jordan would like to have a word with you.
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corruption. they were lining their pockets with corruption.
Just you wait. Any day now the connection between mamdani and big trash will become obvious
Well if Rudy was anything to go by, trying to bang underage girls and sweating away the last vestiges of their credibility in a landscaping company forecourt.
This has had actually been in the works for a while, it’s not like he just materialized this out of nowhere.
But, it has been constantly getting delayed and put through “trials”. So, it actually getting implemented is good.
The best part is seeing idiots who want any excuse to attack a DSA politician trying to argue that loose trash bags are better than dumpsters. Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Why on earth do you need to trial putting things in a bin?
I was trying to devil's advocate this and all I could think of is if these would fit in tighter streets while a trash truck tries to picks them up and put them back down, but that's pretty much all that I could think of and it shouldn't take too long, most of that time was probably corruption related
Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Especially when 99% of their 'culture war' audience (who of course don't live in NYC) already use trash bins and dumpsters in their everyday lives.
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What were previous NYC mayors doing?
Making money serving the Epstein class.
Not to rain on everyone's parade, but this is not Mamdani's initiative, though of course he is making the correct choice in continuing it.
Don't misunderstand me, I hate that corrupt piece of shit Adams, but the truth is important anyway.
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Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a "modern" trash bin? Isn't a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection
the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection
Oh that is a cool idea.
Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.
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Where I am (a small provincial town in north west France) we at least nice small bins on the street. With MASSIVE GREAT BIG BINS underground where the actual rubbish goes.
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It's the most basic lesson from Rollercoaster Tycoon. More trash cans = less litter = happier people.
Out of the way, Boomers. It's the Millennials' time to shine. We've been preparing for this our whole lives, and it's past time for us to take the reins.
Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...
Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...
We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).
This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.
Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”
I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.
Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”
I know, I know. I was being tongue-in-cheek.
You guys got the shaft, it's okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we'll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn't cause its own extinction first.
Lay your weary head to rest, we've got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh...
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I love how the only arguments people have against them is "they're ugly" and "they'll take away parking spots" as if piles of trash bags look better, and NYC doesn't already have an expansive public transit network with plans to increase bus service.
Giving money to billionaires is exchange of almost no benefit to the people of the city
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/24/mamdani-cuomo-debate/
other mayors were/are pocketing that money
What you really need are the TARDIS bins and a Moncher
These are about to pop up in Williamsburg for 1260 a month. I joke, but, there's truth in every joke. People are prob already boosting these things to be used as housing come November
One of the other mayors was doing exactly this. Large municipal projects take time. This project, which includes large on-street municipal garbage bins, and new residential garbage cans, was started under Mamdani's predecessor. This is an Eric Adams project that is only reaching the point of installations during Mamdani's tenure.
Mamdani is great and all, but he's not the one solely responsible for every good thing that happens in NY.
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The last one was spending the majority of his time taking bribes and doing crimes. Funny how no one really talks about how Eric Adams is now legally a citizen of Albania.
Still can't believe he's gotten away scott free, but I guess he did warn that "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success"
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Socialist Communist Mamdani is genociding the Rat majority population of New York by wiping out their food supply /s
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