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Zohran Mamdani Gets 8,000 Potholes Filled in a Single Day (novaramedia.com)
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[–] 351 points 7 months ago (29 children)

Sure sure sure, but did the government make any profit from doing this?

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  • [–] 228 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Business owners whose vehicles now need less repair and maintenance: “This is unacceptable“

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  • [–] 157 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 50 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "Garmin GPS announces next update to bring back missing potholes by playing bang.mp3 without any user input destination needed..."

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    There's a corner gas episode where the small town gets upset after a pothole is filled because it helps reduce the speed of traffic and a speed bump is too fancy

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The movie blew my fucking mind...

    They were a couple a whole time? 🤣🤣

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    it's been over a decade since I've seen any of that show and I can picture a whole bunch of scenes from that episode in my head

    not because I actually remember them, just because the characters and plot are that identifiable

    good show

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  • [–] 58 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I know you're joking, but it is so depressing that this is EXACTLY how so many government officials think and how so many constituents have been brainwashed to think.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    and, equally if not more depressingly, governments can make waaay more money by TAXING THE FUCKING RICH!

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The typical conservative response to that is "but then they'll take their businesses elsewhere and now you get nothing."

    The typical conservative response also fails to even consider just how difficult, expensive, and risky it is to move a large business to an entirely new region. Real estate has to be purchased and sold, employees have to be relocated or replaced, logistics have to be established in the new region, valuable business connections and contracts will have to be severed, and for brick and mortar businesses, the competitive landscape will be different.

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Car infrastructure doesn't need to make a profit don't you know? Its just public transport that needs be a net gain for the city

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Ah, you must be one of those people that needs posts to end in "/s" to get the joke.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Haha I think you might be the person who needs the /s. I was just continuing the sarcasm but making an adjacent sarcastic point

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I don’t need the /s

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    • [–] 98 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Can my city borrow Mamdani for a couple months?

    This guy seems like he’s off to a great start.

    And who would have thought paying people to provide services would work? I’m shocked!

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    He’s young enough that, once he’s done in NYC, he could go off and be mayor of several other cities afterward.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think that's called a governor

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    The pot hole that Governor Kathy Hochul filled once she was elected to took office was finally issuing cannabis stores and farms licenses to grow and sell two years after weed was legalized in New York State, after Cuomo refused to, that corrupt, ass-grabbing jerk.

    And thank you very much for providing me the incredibly rare opportunity to use that pun. I’ve been sitting on that for so very long.

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    • [–] 197 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    New campaign slogan:

    Zohran, he'll fill all your holes.

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  • [–] 103 points 7 months ago (17 children)

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  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago* (16 children)

    I wish those movies were still funny today. They were so great in their time.

    They aged terribly

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Can you share examples?

    I don't remotely remember the one i saw.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Well, just off the top of my head, from very old memories, there's tons of sexual assault. Also lots of making fun of fat people and people with different bodies in general. I'm sure there's a lot more.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There's also the fact that half the 'jokes' were just a scene going on longer than you'd expect.

    I think a lot of the body shaming jokes don't land not because we are uptight PC wokies, but because when you don't stigmatise something, it loses its social power. Oh that person has a mole? So what? The boomer humour was 'oh, it's bad to have a mole, but you should never say anything about it!' when you don't believe either of those statements there is no joke, and the scene goes on for like 5 minutes...

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't the whole point that it's riffing off the sexual misconduct in the bond movies? Also, Its been a while, but I recall Austin always being overtly consensual as a contrast to the Bond series

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Yes, that's the satire. Which is lost on folks who did not grow up with the old bond movies, instead tossing it in the "boomer humor" category without understanding that the reason it was funny to the last generation was because it played off stuff from the previous generation.

    Time moves on. Like a poster above us said, the movies aged badly because the comedy isn't timeless, say like Who's On First.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Sexual assault like this?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Someone else mentioned that it's actually pretty consensual. I assumed it wasn't, but I guess I must be wrong. Again, it's been a very long time since I've seen them. I know that consent wasn't the big talking point then that it is now, so I just thought they'd have fucked it up. It's good to see they didn't totally.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I find the first one aged better than the rest. I still laughed out loud after watching it recently. The later movies, not so much.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Agree, the first one has aged like fine milk (opinions differ of if its spoiled or turned to cheese) and the opening bit of the second film where they had a real budget for a split second.

    The part there thats aged well is of all the actors cast in the parody opening, Danny Devito is the only one who isnt problamatic.

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    • [–] 56 points 7 months ago

    Crazy what not settling for less when it comes to public office will do for you for once.

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    [–] 53 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Of course.

    Actual uplifting news and it's something Zohran Mamdani did. Sucks that this guy isn't eligible for the presidency.

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    • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    By himself? That's quite a work ethic.

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    • [–] 36 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

    This should be in every Mayoral job-orientation handbook.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    The problem is, you see; hardly anyone reads books these days.

    I have dozens of books (that warn exactly, with instructions) on how to avoid this exact situation.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I have like 30 books that I think "Hmm, that looks interesting".

    But then I'd feel guilty for doing nothing with that time.

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    • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ever since the day I first saw him I knew this was a man who can fill a hole

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    • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Makes you wonder what Eric Adams was doing all day

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    • [–] 53 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Great things happen when the wealthy pay their fair share.

    This is exactly why they never want us to see it happen.

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    • [–] 26 points 7 months ago

    Turns out you can improve both public transit and driving! It was sort of being implied by haters that driving was going to get way worse under him IIRC.

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