Hey folks---THIS is why elections are important. YOU (not me!) voted this piece of filth in not once, but TWICE--mostly by not bothering to show up at the polls. Only 21% of eligible voters actually voted, and that's how you end up with people like this, the dregs, in office. And that's how you piss away your rights, your decent neighborhood, your ability to drive your car without being stymied by insane remodeling of roads with bike lanes, left turn lanes eliminated, lanes now only to be used by buses, etc., your not having homeless shelters or jails right in your neighborhood. Sit on your fat apathetic rear end at home on election day, pay the consequences for years to come.
Creeping towards FASCISM.
I LOVE your NY posts but they would be much easier to read by better formatting-———more spacing and paragraphs.
That said,keep posting! :-)
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fascism - why own it when you can control it. much better that communism.
https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/The%20Vampire%20Economy.pdf?file=1&type=document
Impulse control disorders are characterized by four main qualities, Psychiatric Times states, which include:
The perpetuation of repeated negative behaviors regardless of negative consequences
Progressive lack of control over engaging in these behaviors
Mounting tension or craving to perform these negative behaviors prior to acting on them
Sense of relief or pleasure in performing these problematic behaviors
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/co-occurring-disorders/impulse-control-disorder
This POS is making even Dinkins look good.
If anyone thought the handwriting was on the wall before, it’s in bright, bold letters now.
Leave while you can.
I always have to point out the huge irony. Marxist-in-short-pants De Blasio is only able to have a voice and implement his schemes, solely because he sits in a position which inherited the ability to skim off the world’s center of financial, currency and debt trading and its participants. The even greater irony is that a few hundred of these crony-capitalists in NY City pay for De Blasio’s schemes, even though his ideology hates them.
It simply proves two things - all socialists are parasites, and all socialism is some form of cronyism in disguise.
The city already controls which building goes where and how high it will be. This is called "zoning." Perhaps someone could tell the mayor. The city already has a major say in approximately what rents will be through its zoning powers. "Who gets to live in it" is a bit trickier. Zoning certainly sorts people out by class. Mandated quotas of affordable housing units at various price points give the city even more control.
So the question becomes: just what, in addition to its existing powers, does the major think the city should be able to do?
The question is not rhetorical. The real issue, I suspect, is that de Blasio wants the power to unilaterally tear up existing contracts and forcibly change the rules on an ongoing, ad hoc basis. The questions he should be asked is whether law is binding on government, whether citizens have any rights against government, and precisely who in government should be empowered to seize people's property.
Yes, because government officials are so good at deciding what should be allowed to be built, who should live where, where businesses should be allowed and what they should be allowed to do, who should be allowed to be on television, along with what types of cars, internet access, and light bulbs we should be able to purchase. And lets not forget the food people. Who should be allowed to drink soda pop, eat meat, and buy fast food. Obviously government powers and authority need to be expanded. /S
He can give that a shot on the south shore of Staten Island.
But there better be PLENTY of room at the hospitals and morgues if you try to tell me where i can live and next, what i can drive, and then try to ENFORCE it.
And don’t worry about the gun laws.
Most of us lost ours at sea last week.
Laws the IGNORE the 2nd Amendment are to be IGNORED.
The real war isn’t red v blue, or dem v pubbie, or socialists v capitalists, or us against them...
It’s Control Freaks v Freedom Lovers. Everyone gravitates toward one or the other (although there are many sheep).
Control Freaks are driven by internal fear—a mental illness—and they never, ever give up. They are driven to control everything around them, and even though their rationalized schemes always fail, it does not matter. Control for control’s sake is what they crave. Morning, noon, at night, in their sleep and dreams, they never stop.
Whereas Freedom Lovers usually just say, “leave me the hell alone,” and go about their business.
On the left, they couch if in phrases such as, “doing it for the public good.” In fairness, there are some on the right, though usually they mask it behind religion.
It must be called out for what it is. Making people aware of the never-stop Control Freaks, calling them out for it, labelling them. Pointing out their actual motives. That’s how to defeat them.
Because nobody likes a Control Freak.
D‘ Blasio is a tyrannical communist pig. Whoa the day he ever attains real power.
A former client of mine in the real estate development business once told me that the government regulations, bureaucracy, and contract requirements for building a project in NYC are worse today than it was in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Robert Moses probably bears more of the blame for this than anyone else.
Too bad a Trump did not run for mayor of NYC. I come to the conclusion most people are just plain stupid and America is apathetic and in decline.
All they want is absolute power over property and people, including conduct and thought. But it’s not fascism, don’cha know.
DeBlasio sees the writing on the wall....plunging NYC property values-with no future Wall St ‘boom” to rescue it as happened the last 20 years.
the only reason cities exist any longer is to coalesce power-generally to the benefit of Democrats.
There is no reason to aggregate human capital, financial capital or material any longer.
Cities have been on life support since the 1960’s. As the national line of credit is exhausted, watch them all fold
In East Germany during the Cold War, the totalitarian dictators had to build a wall around Berlin to prevent people from escaping to a better life.
But in cities like New York today, dictators like Mayor DiBlasio can do anything they want to their citizens — overtax them, abandon their streets to the homeless, and inflict hundreds of other indignities — and the citizens will remain — and not only remain, but also vote for ever-more Stalinesque dictators who will inflict ever-worse living conditions on them.
Why do 8 million people want to live in what amounts to a Communist prison?
Only 21% of eligible voters actually voted...
I'll wager that the percentage among this audience is orders of magnitude higher.