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https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/885357305268711424 Democrats!
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Fernando Cabrera needs a little backstory. He's a city councilman for a northern district in the Bronx. He's an evangelical minister, once worked for Focus on the Family, and is a hardcore theocrat. In other words, he's a Felder- or Diaz Sr.-style conversative Democrat. On two occasions (2014 and 2016) he primary challenged state senator Gustavo Rivera, a progressive Democrat who became the primary sponsor of NY Health when Bill Perkins left for the City Council. I'm not sure what his motivation was for Cabrera's first run, but I suspect it was because Jeff Klein doesn't like Rivera and wanted him out. The second time was because a group of charter school billionaires gave him and three challengers for State Assembly a bunch of money because their four targets voted against a charter school measure. Rivera won handily both times, and the charter school candidates went 0-for-4 in 2016. It was during his first challenge that people found out his homophobic past. Currently, Rivera is trying to get his revenge and is supporting Randy Abreu as a primary challenger. He's supposedly progressive, but he's also fresh from DC, so that makes me a bit skeptical. Nonetheless, he also has the support of the WFP, which is always comes into play. There's also a socialist primary candidate named Justin Sanchez, but I've heard no word on whether DSA NYC has endorsed him (they've already endorsed two Brooklyn candidates, so there may be something behind this). I want to believe Cabrera will be out on his rear end next year, but I have no idea about the district's trends.
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Jul 14, 2017 04:41
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CaptainPsyko posted:Silver conviction overturned. Prosecutors have the option to try again. Except that there's no replacement for Preet to go through with it. lmfao
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Jul 14, 2017 05:11
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Plunkitt did nothing wrong!
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Jul 14, 2017 05:14
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it's worth noting that last year's SCOTUS decision to narrow the definition of public corruption cases (a unanimous decision, not the usual 5-4 bullshit) is what got silver free
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Jul 14, 2017 05:44
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They didn't overturn on the merits, they overturned because of jury instructions. And they are going to retry.
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Jul 14, 2017 13:22
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nobody should have to beg in this city. seems like even the biggest homeless hating piece of poo poo has an interest in solving the problem as much as the folks that care about their fellow man. idgi. hoping it gets cold enough to get them off the street each winter isn't a workable homeless policy but its all de blasio seems to have.
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Jul 15, 2017 02:35
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Real hurthling! posted:nobody should have to beg in this city. seems like even the biggest homeless hating piece of poo poo has an interest in solving the problem as much as the folks that care about their fellow man. idgi. hoping it gets cold enough to get them off the street each winter isn't a workable homeless policy but its all de blasio seems to have. Homelessness isn't something that a city can solve by itself. It's a societal problem that stems from the fact that we don't want to provide permanent housing to those that cannot afford it. How would YOU "fix homelessness?"
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Homelessness isn't something that a city can solve by itself. It's a societal problem that stems from the fact that we don't want to provide permanent housing to those that cannot afford it. How would YOU "fix homelessness?" with houses and money taken from rich people at gunpoint
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Jul 15, 2017 03:26
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Real hurthling! posted:with houses and money taken from rich people at gunpoint  But I don't think De Blasio has the ability to do that.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:
Who's going to stop him? The police will be turning their backs on him anyway.
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Jul 15, 2017 03:28
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i'm sitting here watching that million dollar listing show where dudes are selling 10 million dollar apartments that take the whole floor of a building that used to house hundreds of people and i'm thinking like yes there's surely no resources to shelter the 3-4 thousand people in this city with no means. they got an entire block of the east village that they turned into only 85 units. good karma
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Jul 15, 2017 03:31
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Real hurthling! posted:i'm sitting here watching that million dollar listing show where dudes are selling 10 million dollar apartments that take the whole floor of a building that used to house hundreds of people and i'm thinking like yes there's surely no resources to shelter the 3-4 thousand people in this city with no means. This number is at least an order-and-a-half magnitude too small.
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Jul 15, 2017 05:47
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the city estimates that there are only that many "rough sleepers" there are like 60k covered by the shelter system
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Jul 15, 2017 06:36
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Real hurthling! posted:the city estimates that there are only that many "rough sleepers" there are like 60k covered by the shelter system I was counting people in the homeless shelter system as homeless, by definition. Current shelter's aren't intended to be permanent housing, afaik.
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i said quote:yes there's surely no resources to shelter the 3-4 thousand people in this city with no means. i didn't say whatever you're arguing about.
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Real hurthling! posted:i said Ah, my bad. You were talking about the people that weren't covered by the current shelter system. I was talking about the current total number of homeless people which includes the people in the shelter system.
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Jul 15, 2017 07:07
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Jul 15, 2017 07:09
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There's enough empty buildings in the city that have probably been sitting empty for years that you could house a chunk of them permanently if you just seized.
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Jul 15, 2017 12:27
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get that OUT of my face posted:Fernando Cabrera needs a little backstory. He's a city councilman for a northern district in the Bronx. He's an evangelical minister, once worked for Focus on the Family, and is a hardcore theocrat. In other words, he's a Felder- or Diaz Sr.-style conversative Democrat. On two occasions (2014 and 2016) he primary challenged state senator Gustavo Rivera, a progressive Democrat who became the primary sponsor of NY Health when Bill Perkins left for the City Council. I'm not sure what his motivation was for Cabrera's first run, but I suspect it was because Jeff Klein doesn't like Rivera and wanted him out. The second time was because a group of charter school billionaires gave him and three challengers for State Assembly a bunch of money because their four targets voted against a charter school measure. Rivera won handily both times, and the charter school candidates went 0-for-4 in 2016. It was during his first challenge that people found out his homophobic past. i'm not sure if there's really any way to eliminate the rot in ny and nj democrats short of cleansing flame, the machines here seem to be unbreakable
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Jul 15, 2017 13:47
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KomradeX posted:So in yet another instance of the NYPD are the biggest man children in the world, a bunch of them turned their backs on DeBlasio again at the funeral for that cop that got shot, claiming he wasn't supporting them enough. The new Praetorians.
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Jul 15, 2017 14:12
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get that OUT of my face posted:Fernando Cabrera needs a little backstory. He's a city councilman for a northern district in the Bronx. He's an evangelical minister, once worked for Focus on the Family, and is a hardcore theocrat. In other words, he's a Felder- or Diaz Sr.-style conversative Democrat. On two occasions (2014 and 2016) he primary challenged state senator Gustavo Rivera, a progressive Democrat who became the primary sponsor of NY Health when Bill Perkins left for the City Council. I'm not sure what his motivation was for Cabrera's first run, but I suspect it was because Jeff Klein doesn't like Rivera and wanted him out. The second time was because a group of charter school billionaires gave him and three challengers for State Assembly a bunch of money because their four targets voted against a charter school measure. Rivera won handily both times, and the charter school candidates went 0-for-4 in 2016. It was during his first challenge that people found out his homophobic past. Cabrera is my councilman and he is a piece of crap. I cannot tell you how fast I signed to get Abreu on the ballot.
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Real hurthling! posted:i said Also, a nonzero portion of the homeless people not in the shelter system aren't not in there because of a lack of means. They tend to be the ones that resist the shelters, whether because of legitimate fears of violence/crime/conditions there, mental illness, or whatever. It is arguably the portion of the homeless population that you can least solve by just building more housing.
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Jul 15, 2017 21:39
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CaptainPsyko posted:Also, a nonzero portion of the homeless people not in the shelter system aren't not in there because of a lack of means. They tend to be the ones that resist the shelters, whether because of legitimate fears of violence/crime/conditions there, mental illness, or whatever. Deinstitutionalization was a hell of a drug. 
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Jul 15, 2017 21:43
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Ogmius815 posted:there is this goddamn couple of white assholes with dreadlocks who panhandle at the end of my block in front of the liquor store and I'm pretty sure they have some alternative to being there but are just horrible lazy burnouts so... cities make people more empathetic
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Jul 15, 2017 21:53
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one way to deal with the homeless problem is hoping that the worst case scenario for climate change comes true, where NYC gets more heat stress than bahrain. that'll "deal with" a lot of themOxxidation posted:i'm not sure if there's really any way to eliminate the rot in ny and nj democrats short of cleansing flame, the machines here seem to be unbreakable
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Jul 16, 2017 02:54
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Grondoth posted:cities make people more empathetic oh stop it. I know who the real needy people in my neighborhood are. like the homeless double amputee veteran I push up the hill a all the time. These two are like, kids whose parents kicked them out who could go home if they'd just stop smoking pot in the house.
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Jul 17, 2017 13:54
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Lol Joementum posted in this in the suck zone: https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/886643007914749955
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Jul 17, 2017 15:17
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Clio Chang and Alex Shephard in the New Republic ~ How Andrew Cuomo Keeps the Left in Check: There is plenty of room to mount a progressive challenge against the Democratic governor. Why hasn't anyone stepped up?
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It's really shocking that no one better has come forward to challenge Cuomo and that the best we could do last time was some random law professor. Even with no history of public service, no name in politics, and no history of involvement in public administration, this person managed to get a third of the vote just by not being Andrew Cuomo. There's clearly an opportunity there and it's just withering on the vine. Machine politics is a hell of a drug I guess.
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Jul 17, 2017 19:02
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Preet and Schneiderman were the big hopes -- although I guess even they are wildcards. They'd be better on "good governance" (aka anti-corruption) but no clue whether they hold progressive views on fiscal policy.
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Jul 17, 2017 19:06
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GalacticAcid posted:Lol Joementum posted in this in the suck zone: That headline is a little disingenuous. The Dems lost the senate nearly 8 years ago, not just 8 months ago.
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GalacticAcid posted:Preet and Schneiderman were the big hopes -- although I guess even they are wildcards. They'd be better on "good governance" (aka anti-corruption) but no clue whether they hold progressive views on fiscal policy. basically this is my mood for the rest of my life because lol if you think a corbyn is in any way possible in this country 
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Jul 18, 2017 04:38
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A woman named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is running against Crowley in the primary. It seems like she's still getting her poo poo together and I don't really know anything about her personally.
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Jul 18, 2017 05:08
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https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/887170954476040192
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Jul 18, 2017 05:48
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Lmao holy poo poo
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Jul 18, 2017 05:50
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Is he... uh, a serious candidate for the City Council?
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Jul 18, 2017 05:52
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GalacticAcid posted:Lmao holy poo poo https://twitter.com/VoteLopezPierre/status/887135564184551425 Screencap it before he deletes it. Grondoth posted:Is he... uh, a serious candidate for the City Council? All signs point to not anymore if he ever had been.
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Jul 18, 2017 05:53
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Absurd Alhazred posted:https://twitter.com/VoteLopezPierre/status/887135564184551425 For posterity 
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GalacticAcid posted:For posterity The ZOG thanks you. 
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