That’s part of the beauty of his plan: the taxes aren’t predicated on them LIVING in NYC, but rather on them DOING BUSINESS there.
That way, not only can’t they escape their responsibilities by relocating (a favorite pastime of billionaires), but all OTHER billionaires who want to do business in one of the financial nexuses of the world (which is very nearly all of them worldwide) have to pay closer to their fair share too!
Revolution sounds exhausting
It is. But at some point, the tank fills and continuing to bend over backwards to survive the boring dystopia becomes even MORE exhausting.
Whether we’re there yet is debatable, but more and more people seem to think so.
(I can tell from the rest of your comment that you were being facetious if not downright snarky, but figured I’d take the opportunity to share my musings anyway 😁)
No. Once again your blind trust in institutions leads you astray.
There are tens of millions of Americans for whom voting is made extremely difficult and time-consuming if not downright impossible to do by deliberate voter suppression tactics from (mostly but not exclusively) Republicans.
If there had been free, open, and fair elections, the GOP would never be able to win a nationwide election.
You don’t fix the system by assuming that it works as officially intended and blaming the powerless for the outcomes created by the powerful and corrupt.
Both of those times were through an antiquated and unrepresentative system and with less than 50% the vote with low voter participation.
Less than a third of the eligible to vote population ≠ the country.
Well-meaning people pretending/being fooled into honestly believing that the presidential elections accurately reflect the will of the people without any trickery and downright fraud is how the corrupt demagoguery is allowed to persist.
In general, the people ARE actually pretty progressive (as evidenced byprogressive policies tending to be favored by overwhelming majorities when not attached to the name of someone the establishment has spent millions if not billions vilifying).
The main problem is that the political system has fallen so deep into corruption that it’s a representative democracy in name only.
It’s way past time for rebellion against not just the fascists, but also the system itself and the Democrats who consider it more important than the general welfare of the people.
I’m fully expecting them to. The Dem leadership supporting an ACTUAL leftist is only SLIGHTLY more likely than them going full fascist and endorsing Curtis Sliwa…
If Cuomo runs 3rd party
He’s running as an independent, yes.
and the Dem establishment supports him
Unless they suddenly fall back in love with Adams or go full Sliwa, they will. They fight the left exactly as much as they accommodate the far right.
It would take a catastrophe for him not to.
His opponents in the general are as follows:
The corrupt former governor sex pest he just beat, running as an independent in order to get a do-over
Current mayor in spite of being a hair’s breath from prison until he went full MAGA, always being a fascist cop (but I repeat myself) and genuinely unhinged, Eric Adams
Perennial loser and hyper-racist vigilante lunatic Curtis Sliwa.
Not only are they all awful candidates in themselves, their core demographics also overlap to such a degree that it’ll be an upset if more than one of them reaches double digits!
How does that even “bring the institution into disrepute”?
Reasonable people (read: anti-zionists and neutral non-zionists) would argue the exact opposite.
Alas, a lifetime of pro apartheid propaganda (as in “in favor of apartheid” AND "professional apartheid apologists ") is a hell of a drug…
checks comment history of ArbitraryValue
Yup, sure seems to be a zionist at any rate…
Insisting on “Viable centrist candidates” no matter how far right the GOP moves the Overton Window is how you get fascism.
At this point, a “Centrist” in the US is far right by the standards of democracies in general.
Thanks, I love it! ❤️
Most people’s pension funds invest in all the awful companies they like to complain about
Which is also bad for everyone who’s not already rich, compared to old fashioned pensions NOT dependent on what is basically a casino with socialized losses and private gains for the already obscenely rich.
You can despise capitalism
Thanks for the permission, kind sir/madam/other 🫡
we still need to exist in a capitalist society.
Short term, yes. Probably medium term too. But long term, we CAN change the system into something much better than the global pyramid scheme we have going on now.
Capitalism isn’t a law of nature. It’s a choice, and an awful one at that.
You better believe it!
Yeah, I’m viking by birth (born, raised, umpteenth generation Scandinavian) but am a far left anticapitalist and anti-authoritarian pacifist 😁
dont hate the player, hate the game.
Awful expression. If you’re playing an abusive game on purpose, you’re still being abusive. I’ll hate both, thankyouverymuch.
Guess she got an inflated sense of her own influence when the Dem leadership used her as an excuse to not raise the minimum wage a few years ago.
The Parliamentarian of the United States Senate is a purely advisory role.
To expect fascists to follow procedure to the detriment of their agenda when nobody is forcing them to is peak Neoliberal delusion.
This is probably just them trying to wag the dog to drum up support for their war crimes.
Good luck living through the ever-increasing frackquakes…
…says guy who gets free healthcare and is paid by a public who he does nothing good for and billionaires who bribe him to hurt the public.