Posted on 02/02/2026 12:53:38 AM PST by Olog-hai
First a foot of snow, then the plowed-in cars, and now frustrated New Yorkers are furious over mountains of trash piling up on city streets, as collection has been reduced by January’s massive winter storm.
A reporter from the New York Post took in the “unsavory sights” of the aftermath and documented heaps of garbage bags and cardboard boxes littering the sidewalks as the Department of Sanitation was still playing catch-up in several neighborhoods since the winter onslaught.
Garbage is not the only problem, as snowplows have tended to deposit high banks of the white stuff against cars parked along the curbs.
Actor Michael Rapaport reported on that problem, saying as he posted a video on X Sunday morning showing a car trapped by the filthy snow, “This poor bastard ain’t getting out until the Spring.” …
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Haha. Mamdani and those who voted for him are going to quickly learn that management isn’t ideological, it’s practical. And a young guy with zero experience at management and a head filled with bad ideological dreams is going to make a huge mess in a complicated city like New York.
Garbage is as garbage does.
Enjoy the suck, residents of NYC, you voted for this POS, now you find out what you did to yourselves. LOL!
Mamdani doesn’t have time for petty nonsense like garbage collection, he’s bringing New York into the bright sunshine of a socialist future, into the warmth of government-enabled collectivism!
He'll just blame the white people.
But the people who have to suffer from his mismanagement will see his ever-smiling face at the wheel.
They NEED the garbage to feed the rats which will become a prime food source of protein.
Just think how easy the Naked and Afraid people could find their protein in NYC.
The opening phrase in the quote—"Existing society is the history of class struggles"—is a slightly shortened and rephrased version of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' famous line from the Communist Manifesto (1848):"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."However, the rest of the quote—everything about the garbage collector as the "hidden pole of accumulation," heaps of refuse as the "dialectical negation of profit," and the "material shadow cast by the gleaming commodity-form"—is not from Marx (or Engels). It doesn't appear in the Manifesto, Capital, or any of their other writings. Extensive checks for those distinctive phrases turn up no matches in Marx's texts or reliable scholarly sources.The rest of the quote isn't from Marx, and it's not a direct quote or close paraphrase from anyone else identifiable. It's best classified as a modern, anonymous pseudo-Marxist riff or fabrication.
Well, This is Mamdani’s opportunity to shine (-:
We’ll see how he does.
What would Jesus do and What would Patton do?
Reading that quote from comrade Marks made me think about a Kamala Harris word salad. They both make about as much sense, but Marx knows a lot more impressive-sounding words than would ever occur to Kamala.
I find it amusing that Mamdani is so close to the spelling of madman. An Islamic Communist is about as bad as it gets. And this is the city where Islam murdered 3000 people and took out 2 of the World’s tallest buildings! Insane!
That was my impression, too, when I read the quote. An idiot, albeit an evil one, trying to disguise BS with big words.
What more would you expect from a young son of a multiBillionaire.
He has lacked for nothing his entire life.
He has never HAD to work.
He’s never been hungry unless the foie grass was running low.
He will suffer no consequences from his actions, never has, never will. He doesn’t care if anyone ever suffers, his servants will do the caring.
What a life.
EC
I think it was 20 years ago NYC had a garbage strike or something where it was not being picked up before Christmas. One creative person wrapped it in Christmas paper and left it in their car door unlocked, within a short time it was gone.
But enough about his cabinet selections.
Marxism/collectivism is purely ideological–dreamy and impractical like DEI. Capitalism, on the other hand, is purely practical.
Success demands that you do what works, regardless of ideology.
I don't think Mamdani's father is a billionaire. He's a professor.
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