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rg's avatar

I'll be watching events and commentary to get a better sense of what the Mamdani Op is really about. But I think he's probably working for the financiers and is putting up a massive smokescreen to obscure things that they will be doing. It might be related to a planned stock market crash, heavy buying of real estate at a market bottom, and/or other items on their agenda.

Mamdani is obviously an actor, and a good one, though not in the entertainment business. He's been trained and maneuvered into this position, and he'll be rewarded very well for his services.

Butterfly2510's avatar

Kind of like Obama

webstersmill's avatar

Reminded of another recent presidential political figure . . .

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

See the current San Francisco model

Sir Tom of Northfield's avatar

He will be an astonishing failure. Reality bats last.

BJ Kahl's avatar

They were warned and didn't listen. Get ICE in there and deport him for being an Islamic terrorist as shown on multiple videos.

GardenGranny's avatar

It alarms me he took his oath of office on a book (that is not a Bible) that is incompatible with the Constitution.

Robert M Poormon's avatar

New governor indeed!

Thus I was pretty crestfallen to see Stefanik so abruptly pull out of the picture. I know she was widely derided by establishment voices, but hell, she could surely do a better job as governor than DJT has done as President.

Anyway thanks Ms Cox for another plainspoken essay.

Let’s dump Jokel !

Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox's avatar

We definitely need a new governor! Hochul has destroyed so much of NY. This is the year we take our State back!

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

NYC, a "sanctuary" city.......how many illegals voted? Ballot harvesting?

The city is about to sink into an abyss worse than the "Fun City" days.

Dog's avatar

He and his cronies will fail miserably. The unknown is how much damage they will do along the way and what horrors will they unleash.

Jason Brain's avatar

Every high school senior should have to read The Road to Serfdom by Hayek. It's so good and also falsifying of the young socialist's misconception of fascists as the opposite of socialists.

Dale Buchberger covid nerd's avatar

Also the Naked Communist by Skousen

Mark Brody's avatar

Many people, in attacking socialism, forget that socialism is the wrong answer to a real problem - namely that unfettered capitalism tends to result in all manner of crimes committed against the laboring classes. Many of these crimes are then covered up by the criminals, preventing corrective marketplace forces from taking hold. In other words, both capitalism and socialism are ideal political/economic systems as long as everyone behaves. This has never happened in all of history. Since the Luddites of the eighteenth century, through the AFL-CIO of the nineteenth and into the largely failed labor movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, capitalism continues to have predatory powers. Just look at what's been going on over the past 6 years! Hello, Technocracy! Just look at what's happened to regulatory agencies in our federal government - a complete joke! We need a system that provides the necessary checks and balances on the wealthy so that they don't press their advantage and stop playing by the rules. How to do that without them capturing the regulatory system is a problem no-one has solved. One possibility is empowering regulatory commissions composed of representatives of industry, consumers, scientists and other "experts" and regulators to oversee the economy. It wouldn't be government, it wouldn't be private. It would be a synthesis. Even such commissions would be subject to capture and would need to be policed. Who would police them? How would they be kept from being captured? Socialism is not the answer, and capitalism, though better, is slowly transmogrifying into "Stakeholder capitalism" which is nothing more than totalitarianism. What's a citizen to do!?

Neural Foundry's avatar

Brilliant breakdown of how collectivism actually plays out in practice. The core issue here isnt the ideal of collective wellbeing but who gets to define what that means. I've seen similar dynamics in corporate settings where "stakeholder value" becomes code for executive control over everyones work. Once decision-making power centralizes, even well-intentioned polices start serving the intrests of the few who hold that power.

Mic's avatar

Bobbie…. All true but I’m predicting that it will soon be clear that his intent is for NYC to be the Islamic capital of the US. To me , this will be worse than what words and imaginary doctrine he is currently spewing.

TY for your tireless work

Spuds1964's avatar

Unless Bruce Blakeman wins, NY State as a whole is doomed. The only "Peaceful Solution" is dividing the State with the 14 counties to the South being "South New York" and the remaining 48 to the North, "North New York". For decades the State has been 2 different economies and 2 different cultures, so it won't be very hard to divvy it up. West Virginia exists because it was not being properly represented in Richmond and of course, a Civil War was going on, much like today albeit, a "Cold" one.

Even if Hochul wins, NYC will collapse upon itself, taking the whole State with it and things will definitely get violent if Hochul tries to implement her Unconstitutional Quarantine Regulation to reign in anyone who disagrees with her, even people of her own party.

Dividing the State is a Win-Win-Win be a North New York gets to control the energy transmission (gas and electric) and most of NYC existing water supply and food supply. The Communists in Ithaca and Rochester would have to flee because their fraudulent "social programs" would be eliminated, NNY would be an Energy Powerhouse for the Whole Northeast and Control the largest Transportation Operational Corridor in the Region.

SNY will lose its economic base and the socialist utopia will become a Comfy Concentration Camp because nobody will be allowed to leave the "Collective". ...and they thought "Logan's Run", "Rollerball" and "Escape From NY" were just Science Fiction.

cat's avatar

In what world is individualism "frigid?" His statement makes absolutely no sense at all, although I hope he finds out how "rugged" individualism can be in the face of his "warm" totalitarianism.

Douglas Jack's avatar

How colonial 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Oligarch empire language has been skewed to the opposite of etymological meanings, by institutionalized left & right from its once 'indigenous' (L 'self-generating') true cultural 'economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') origins as COLLABORATIVE LANGUAGE. Both left & right are dysfunctional actually complementary fragments of a once integrated collaborative indigenous whole.

https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/5-collaborative-language

1) 'Socialism' (Latin 'socius' = 'friend' originally refers to 'bottom-up interpersonal contributors to provide social goods & services', not top-down state bureaucracies handing out inappropriately scaled cruel institutional autocracies).

2) 'Communism' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service' originally a 'community' movement, also referring to taking responsibility for each other from the bottom-up, not top-down state bureaucracies institutionalizing everybody')

3) 'Cooperatives' (L 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'multiple-stakeholders') whereby such as Founders, Workers, Managers, Suppliers, Townspeople & Consumers are recognized each for their unique contributions. Originally coined as a term referring to all humanity's worldwide 'participatory' (L 'part' = 'share') Production-Society-Guilds, where each contracted contribution receives String-shell as a value-unit. String-shell integrates: a) 'Capital' (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence' from contribution, experience, expertise & decision-making-acumen). b) ‘Currency’ ('flow' as in recognition & empowerment from diverse stakeholders), c) 'Condolence' = 'social-security' for all conditions, d) Collegial 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, e) time-math-management Communication, f) professional Costume for identification of essential goods & service expertise & more. This Guild system of Progressive Ownership provided everyone with the ability to invest & own according to their Contributions, Experience, Expertise & Decision-making Acumen. When19th Century activists such as at Rochdale co-ops, adopted 'One-member / One vote, it became impossible for Multi-stakeholder collaboration, so since that time no Multi-stakeholder co-op has succeeded. Over 99% of co-ops are single member, mostly consumer or worker, which without collective intelligence, leads to completely bureaucratic operations.

FOLLOW THE MONEY (7000 year old institutions with license to print & issue as loans to intimates)

A most honest & instructive 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Oligarch once advised humanity, "Permit me issue & control a nation's money & I care not who writes the laws. The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favours, that there’ll be no opposition from that class."

4) 'Capital' (L 'cap' = 'head' meaning collective intelligence. For 7000 years western now Multi-Trillionaire Oligarchy controls the issue of its

5) fake 'Money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory'). Oligarch undeclared shareholders with minority-shares triangulated across the main US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England & Bank-of-International-Settlements, issue 'money' as forgiveable loans to family, friends & associates. This cabal employs its unearned $$ in Mega-Projects such as the Manhattan Atomic Bomb, Nuclear-power (with million year half-lives of the most toxic radiactive isotopes known to humanity. Whether Oligarch issued for War, Arms, Munitions, Pesticides, GMOs, mRNA Mega-projects, this tainted money trickles down in banking networks as loans to cohorts at each level, till it finally reaches the mass of people at the bottom.

FROZEN FUNDING SYNDROME: Oligarch systems are hidden but incredibly bureaucratic, equal to what fake Communist & Socialist systems (instituted by Oligarchy) are known for.

'GREAT-GOOD-WAY-OF-KINDNESS' aka 'GREAT-LAW-OF-PEACE' aka 'CONSTITUTION'. Knowing our ancient indigenous strength can help folks implement a positive transcendent path for themselves today. The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. On Turtle-Island the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People of the extended-rafters' aka 'Welcome') 6 Nation Confederacy for example call this 'Kaianere'kowa'. Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi = 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency'), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'.

All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices are described in the worldwide international INDIGENOUS CIRCLE OF LIFE Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation also with Continental & Hemispheric Councils. Livelihood relations of welcome & economic inclusion set the stage for collaborative society. One introduction to all our ancient ways is called the Indigenous Circle-of-Life, summarizing an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life

3 MAIN PILLARS:

1) ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) enable people to specialize in Circular Collective ‘Domestic’ (mostly women) 'Economies' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') providing the very best essential goods & services with people we know & are known-by. Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are considered as supportive Subsets to the primary Domestic. 70% of people live in the Multihome-Dwelling-Complex today. Indigenous law & constitution centres distributed decentralized human agency, power & democracy in the worldwide Multihome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing

2) COUNCIL-PROCESS as Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues (below under Communicate & Both-Sides-Now).

3) TIME-BASED EQUIVALENCY ACCOUNTING on the STRING-SHELL VALUE SYSTEM. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors organized in Cultural 'Fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). Intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. In-order-to understand real 'money', one must study & research all humanity's once worldwide time-based accounting upon the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy

WHICH 'HUMAN-AGENCY' IS REALLY DOING THE WORK OF GOVERNMENT?

DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring /year on Turtle-Island. (Intimate people & relationships at the center) Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are web-based Community-Circular-Economy software:

A) CATALOGUE intake form for individual & business Talents, Goods, Services, Resources & Dreams. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership

B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames

C) ACCOUNT for collective Multistakeholder Participatory contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting

D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Constructive Agreements, Contract Delineation & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues

Sir Tom of Northfield's avatar

It's a blessing in disguise. NYC is the biggest stage on which to display the abject failure that is Collectivism, Socialism, Communism, or whatever they choose to call it. Watching it play out will be very entertaining and enlightening. Donald Trump is changing the World. Stay tuned.

GardenGranny's avatar

I agree they will unleash horrors.

Raphael's avatar

The degree of ignorance of the younger generations is beyond belief...what do they study in school, beside how to become a trans and how white males are the greatest threat to humankind...boho basket waving?

GardenGranny's avatar

They teach how to roll joints and condoms on bananas, to hate God, those people who work hard for their money, and white males. Above all our youth learn Izlam is a religion of peace. In other words, they learn true is false, false is true, communism, vaping and drugs are great, AOC is smart, housework is unnecessary and (most importantly) vaccines are safe and effective, especially flu vaccines, Covid shots and multiple shots for babies.

Mary's avatar

At first I was genuinely concerned about him, but then my better sense took over as I realized there are hundreds of people in the House of Representatives who want to be re elected, Hakeem Jeffries and Governor Hochul (followed by him snubbing her re-election bid) waited until the very last minute to endorse him because they knew he would derail the DNC, and of course, Trump will not let his home city go down in flames. Then there are the obvious lawsuits if he attempts to steal private property or selectively tax people who are “white and rich”. I think he won’t even be able to tell where the arrows are coming from when he embarks on his plan of madness. The other issue is that New Yorkers tend not to come out and vote, so that 50.8% is questionable compared to the whole population of NYC. Maybe this will teach them to vote. But, his opponents were laughable. Cuomo and Sliwa were not going to win anyway.