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> hard to believe it got past the editors and into publish. Whether it is blocking Amazon HQ2, or the disastrous handling of the pandemic (If NY was its own co
by woodpanel 5y ago
> hard to believe it got past the editors and into publish.
Whether it is blocking Amazon HQ2, or the disastrous handling of the pandemic (If NY was its own country it would have had one of the highest per capita nCov2-mortality-rates of all industrialized nations), or the deteriorating security situation – decades of one-party rule leave behind a dysfunctional, rotten, place.
All of those failures where known to happen in the moment the root-cause policies were enacted. Dysfunctional places enact them inspite reality's warnings, because by now reality is a white supremacist.
The subway-cars can become a place to forni- and deficate for the homeless for weeks, making it unusable for citizens. But critique cannot make a dent, becaue it is guilty by association.
That's why even if tax-payers flee the place day by day, its institutions must defy that reality. Insitutions like the NYT are a major part of the city's dysfunction. They are to blame, thus you see such rediculous articles getting "past the editors".
- alibrarydweller 5y agoOne party rule? The mayor before Deblasio (D) was Bloomberg (R)?
- ashtonkem 5y agoThis is exactly what the article was talking about. People predicting the decline of NYC based on these statements, while it turns out that NYC actually gained a ton of residents. Also, the idea that the subway is unusable to the citizens of NYC is utterly divorced from reality. There are issues, of course, but New Yorkers depend heavily on the subway for their transit.
- istorical 5y ago"The subway-cars can become a place to forni- and deficate for the homeless for weeks, making it unusable for citizens. But critique cannot make a dent, becaue it is guilty by association." this is the type of stuff people who don't live in NYC say. guess what, I use the subway all the time and things go perfectly well! it's definitely got its problems and there's a real homelessness crisis in NYC (although nothing like the west coast tent cities exists here), but to say it's 'not usable'? you're out of touch.
- systemvoltage 5y agoRecommend watching Louis Rossmann's coverage on how NYC is deteriorating, it is shocking.