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Is every NYC mayor an outright criminal, trying to transfer the wealth from Americans to their rich real estate buddies? Adams is doing it right now. de Blasio

Is every NYC mayor an outright criminal, trying to transfer the wealth from Americans to their rich real estate buddies? Adams is doing it right now. de Blasio did it. Bloomberg was a Bloomberg, and did it. Giuliani is so crooked that post-mayorship he lost his license to practice law while working for another well known long time thief and scammer in the NYC real estate scene (Trump, which they became criminal partners while Giuliani was mayor); I bet if I keep going back, I'll keep finding names associated with the real estate machine. I'm surprised this Adams guy thinks there will be no repercussions. America is pissed and wants revenge: we, collectively, don't care who gets thrown under the bus as long as they're a politician or a businessman. NYC made a bad bet on trying to maintain modern day slavery. The City should suffer, not the people who live there: force the real estate scammers to go bankrupt and take their skyscrapers, tear them down, replace them with something the city needs.

pclmulqdq 3y ago
Welcome to NY. The city government and the state government are both incredibly corrupt, and basically always have been. Giuliani may have actually been the most honest one in recent history (only because he put down the mask), it just hasn't caught up with the rest of them yet. Chicago is the same. New Jersey is probably worse than NY. SF less so, but also pretty bad. I hear Texas is also really bad. Basically anywhere you have a political monoculture (and thus no risk of getting booted for a scandal), you get corruption.
- eep_social 3y ago
  Arizona checking in. Joe Arpaio is still in AZ politics in 2023.
paulddraper 3y ago
> modern day slavery If there's any way to make people laugh at your otherwise cogent points, it'd be this
gamblor956 3y ago
NYC made a bad bet on trying to maintain modern day slavery Today I learned that working in a nice, air-conditioned office with a view for lots of money is considered "modern day slavery."
- paulryanrogers 3y ago
  The slaves are the ones cleaning the place or commuting hours to work other lowly service jobs. They too suffer when too much space is devoted to offices and not enough to housing.
cjbgkagh 3y ago
A key part of slavery is that you’re not allowed to leave, what is keeping people in NYC?
leotravis10 3y ago
There's a huge reason why for many (myself included), the last competent (aka good) NYC mayor was the late David Dinkins. 30 years ago to the day he left office. That's how far NYC has fallen, maybe you can say it has been like that since the 1970s if you go that far in history.

pclmulqdq 3y ago

Welcome to NY. The city government and the state government are both incredibly corrupt, and basically always have been. Giuliani may have actually been the most honest one in recent history (only because he put down the mask), it just hasn't caught up with the rest of them yet. Chicago is the same. New Jersey is probably worse than NY. SF less so, but also pretty bad. I hear Texas is also really bad. Basically anywhere you have a political monoculture (and thus no risk of getting booted for a scandal), you get corruption.

eep_social 3y ago
Arizona checking in. Joe Arpaio is still in AZ politics in 2023.

paulddraper 3y ago

> modern day slavery If there's any way to make people laugh at your otherwise cogent points, it'd be this

gamblor956 3y ago

NYC made a bad bet on trying to maintain modern day slavery Today I learned that working in a nice, air-conditioned office with a view for lots of money is considered "modern day slavery."

paulryanrogers 3y ago
The slaves are the ones cleaning the place or commuting hours to work other lowly service jobs. They too suffer when too much space is devoted to offices and not enough to housing.

cjbgkagh 3y ago

A key part of slavery is that you’re not allowed to leave, what is keeping people in NYC?

leotravis10 3y ago

There's a huge reason why for many (myself included), the last competent (aka good) NYC mayor was the late David Dinkins. 30 years ago to the day he left office. That's how far NYC has fallen, maybe you can say it has been like that since the 1970s if you go that far in history.