Sure sure sure, but did the government make any profit from doing this?
Business owners whose vehicles now need less repair and maintenance: “This is unacceptable“
“Garmin GPS announces next update to bring back missing potholes by playing bang.mp3 without any user input destination needed…”
But it was the sound of that specific pothole! How else am I gonna know which pothole is which? Please send help, I’ve been lost in traffic for 4 hours!
Suspension and tire shops across NYC are sobbing
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
YES!! I LOVE CORNER GAS
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
An incredible pull, but hell yea I see you.
Fucking socialist, wasting money on things people need.
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.
and, equally if not more depressingly, governments can make waaay more money by TAXING THE FUCKING RICH!
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.
YUUUUP
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
Ah, you must be one of those people that needs posts to end in “/s” to get the joke.
Haha I think you might be the person who needs the /s. I was just continuing the sarcasm but making an adjacent sarcastic point
I don’t need the
/sI need the
dIf this comment is implying an /s then you got me lol
no, you can see it right there at the end:
/s/s
I’m just trying to fit in.
if this about cars, only the most libertarian would question, if we’re talking about trains tho…
Or also did 20 diff pockets get filled as well??
Who’s going to pay the workers to put the pothokes back?
Ever since the day I first saw him I knew this was a man who can fill a hole
lots of holes are yearning to be filled
Crazy what not settling for less when it comes to public office will do for you for once.
wow, its almost like socialism can benefit society.
I mean this really isn’t socialism this is just basic general government work and somebody actually pushing for the people that do the work that they’re being paid to do already.
So true. Governments have lost sight that they exist to serve the people. They are a collectivist solution to managing large projects the population needs. You can take many approaches to that, but that is the fundamental reason we have them.
Otherwise, we don’t need them and wouldn’t choose to have them.
It was more alluding to the fact that he is a socialist and his interest is in bettering the city rather then enriching himself.
Every good Mayor does this. There is nothing unique or ultra special about him doing his job.
I agree that a good mayor does stuff like this. But with the state of american politics in general, and NYC in particular, this kind of behavior is far from the norm. Otherwise this post wouldn’t get any traction.
This is exactly the norm. New York politicans are always doing bursts of road maintance and bragging and trying to outdo the previous one. I checked the last 15 years and found every single mayor did this. Not all of them filled in more than the previous which is why there is stats like Filled in X by X date or filled in X in a single day or filled in X over the term.
I like Mamdami but I also like living in reality I also think presenting this as Mamdami is the first guy to fill in potholes completely undermines peoples trust in the government. I am happy to be shown im wrong and that this is exceptional but from what I see its nothing more than a good headline.
No ones saying he’s first guy to fill potholes…
No people are actually acting like hes the first guy to fill potholes. There are so many comments saying “omg why could not one else do this” “omg a government actually working for people”. I am correcting the record to show governments do this
At the very least it is evidence that socialists can govern at least as well as capitalists.
I mean honestly that’s just kind of a dumb take. Regardless of him being socialist or not the fact is he’s just doing his job.
Sure, but there a shit ton of people who say that because he’s a socialist, everything will go to hell. It’s important to counter that argument with facts that show otherwise.
In the entire fucking rest of the world Mamdani would just be viewed as a boring centrist bureaucrat that does their job. But “spending money on public infrastructure” is somehow seen as radical left socialism in the US.
Yeah it’s really sad.
I mean we have many countries that prove that aspect we don’t need some dude in New York to prove or disprove that we also have many failed leaders that have failed at that very task as well in the socialist world.
Agreed, and also agreed that Mamdani wouldn’t even be called a socialist in most of the world. But in the American context, everything I said is true. I’m sorry that we’re so distorted from reality that we have to have conversations like these.
Almost like the propaganda about government workers being inefficient and lazy is capitalist propaganda if the socialist politicians are the ones driving efficiently making government work.
🫡poop
New campaign slogan:
Zohran, he’ll fill all your holes.
I wish those movies were still funny today. They were so great in their time.
They aged terribly
I’m so glad someone finally had the bravery and moral courage to take on the scourge of…Austin Powers movies. Truly this is the cause of our time.
Yeah, agreed on all counts 😕
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.
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.
That’s the third one.
Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.
Can you share examples?
I don’t remotely remember the one i saw.
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.
Sexual assault like this?
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.
Yeah, it’s pretty nice for 1997.
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
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.
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…
The mole was a pun on the ‘mole’ meaning an embedded spy.
I wonder what will be considered horrible in 5-10 years from now? What awful thing we are doing now that we are unaware of?
I’m afraid in 5-10 years, the pendulum might swing back to jokes like “How many Jews fit in a Volkswagen?”
Zohran the Hole Destroyer.
You thought Trump’s weird enthusiasm for the guy couldn’t get weirder. Just wait.
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!
He’s young enough that, once he’s done in NYC, he could go off and be mayor of several other cities afterward.
I think that’s called a governor
The pot hole that Governor Kathy Hochul filled once she
was elected totook 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.
I had to read this like 4 times before I got it lmao that’s pretty good
Great things happen when the wealthy pay their fair share.
This is exactly why they never want us to see it happen.
They’re gonna pay one way or the other.
We don’t want cake.
We can have revolution AND cake!
No thanks, cake makes you soft. BRING ME PIE!!!
Nobody has paid anything different yet. The tax year hasn’t even finished. He just decided to spend his funds on something visible to everyday New Yorkers.
By himself? That’s quite a work ethic.
Immigrant took my jerb which I would never do.
He’s used to filling holes since college days
Mamdaddy
It looks like a promo for a new Law & Order spinoff.
Of course.
Actual uplifting news and it’s something Zohran Mamdani did. Sucks that this guy isn’t eligible for the presidency.
Trump won’t be eligible in next election and I’m certain that won’t stop him from trying. Why can’t we do the same?
…because Zohran Mamdani isnt already the president and isnt being supported by the richest men in the world and is actively being worked against.
I mean presidency eligiblity seems to be up in the air these days. Maybe it’s not impossible
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.
New York Mayors love to brag about filling pot holes. https://hoodline.com/2025/01/new-york-city-celebrates-500-000-potholes-fixed-under-mayor-adams-leadership-aims-to-enhance-roadway-safety/
So it was a PR stunt that fixed more potholes than the DOT usually does in a week, and it further established credibility that socialists can perform at least as well as the best capitalists.
I’ll be interested to see how Mamdani’s longer term infrastructure plans work out.
So it was a PR stunt that fixed more potholes than the DOT usually does in a week
No. DOT usually does bursts where they fix a lot of potholes then the mayor articles such as the above. They always hone in on a weird framing of the stat. This is potholes fixed in a single day. Others do potholes fixed total or over a period of time, average pothole fix time etc.
further established credibility that socialists can perform at least as well as the best capitalist
Sure but this was never a concern. Its not that we(socialism haters) think they can use a government department to fix an issue. Its that we think they will interject the government into industries it has no business running and then will lead to inefficient run industry. I dont think Mamdami will do that or anything close to it.
This should be in every Mayoral job-orientation handbook.
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.
I have like 30 books that I think “Hmm, that looks interesting”.
But then I’d feel guilty for doing nothing with that time.
Time better spent rotting your brain on the internet with the rest of us.
Reading is doing something.
The important thing about having books is the option to read them.
Tantalizing me until the retirement I will never see, nice.
There’s a flip side. My country has roadworks everywhere right before election time lmao
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This is good but cis people still need to push him to keep his promise on protecting trans people that he made during the campaign and stand up to Mount Sinai and Langone.
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3mhtvnnr4222c
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“Cis” is not a sexuality. The only person going on about sexuality is youuuuuu.
Cis people are people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. It’s basically anyone that isn’t transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.
It matters in this contect because while transgender people can advocate for their own rights, they don’t have the leverage needed to succeed unless cisgender (cis) people help.
No but why should I, why is this the most important problem that should consume my time and energy, while there are 1000 of other global problems. Mass starvation, war, poverty, racism, anti trans, Eco terrorism, getting fucked by politicians. What is so bad in new York for trans people, is it forbidden to be trans, I actually don’t know because I don’t live there, but it seems like it has a healthy community?
You’re a cis people dumbass
It’s important to remember there is no default or baseline for defining a human person. With race, if someone just says “person” without specifying race/color, does that imply “white” (or whatever other default) to you? And if I just say “people”, does that mean straight people only and not gay people?
How about gender? Are “people” just the men, or just the women? Cis/trans is the same. There is no default here, just a bunch of people with different backgrounds trying to do their best.
Also, if it just so happens you’re one of the folks who considers “cis” a slur, I’d ask if you feel the same about the most accurate terms for your gender, race/ethnicity, etc.
Okej but why do you want to define a human person or whatever, in this scenario? I don’t care about cis/trans or anything, I don’t identify as cis or man or woman. But grouping people based on things they have no choice in and then telling them because you are born like this, it’s your responsibility to do whatever I ask of you, sounds weird to me. People are dealing with their own issues as people who identify as trans are.
Red flag!
You seem confused.
A cis person is the oppossite of a trans person.
What the fuck is a trans person and a cis person?
Should’ve used rats to fill them in. .
Boom, two birds, one stone.
I should be mayor. Amateurs.
You wanna get 2 birds stoned at once?
You talkin bout Pigeons?
Sounds like a waste of good drugs
Yeah they can use the pothole debris to kill all the pigeons. Pay attention.
