"White Female Mamdani"?

Seattle mayor Katie Wilson added a BUS LANE.

Daily Mail is pure garbage.

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[–] 356 points 4 months ago (23 children)

They tried their damnedest, but somehow they still make the mayor sound based as hell.

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  • [–] 270 points 4 months ago (18 children)

    In one line I got:

    • She's comparable to current rockstar mayor

    • She fixed bus service

    • She hersekf uses bus service

    • She noticed a problem and fixed it

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  • [–] 123 points 4 months ago* (12 children)
    • She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor's salary, but wisely chooses to ride the bus because of its many benefits to society
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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor’s salary

    Definitely couldn't before though! Hence why her parents help her cover childcare expenses.

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    To give more history about this route, there is a annual "race the 8! event scheduled by seattle urbanists where people start off on the worst part of its route and do increasingly outlandish activities on foot while still beating it to its designations. Folks have beat it juggling, walking backwards, dancing, etc. Katie and her kids participated before she was the mayor, and you guessed it, beat it.

    This route serves an intensely dense part of the city and has been failing people for years. The city/county have been making piddly, empty changes for nearly a decade that fixed nothing, like adding a 1 block bus lane. Yup, one block only.

    The bus is regularly 30-40 minutes late, which makes using it miserable and unreliable. The reason its route is terrible is that there is a highway onramp thats right there near Amazon HQ. So for years and years people commuting in and out of the city have been prioritized over people who live in it, and no previous mayor had the stones to push back and fix it for actual residents.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago*

    It is not just prioritising car commuters from outside vs locals, it is simply an extremely wasteful use of limited traffic capacity. The bus, not clogged down in traffic, has a way higher capacity than probably even two full car lanes at the highest performance. A bus lane is the only rational thing there. If that makes the highway off ramp redundant because there is no capacity for cars left to justify it, simply tear it down. It is fake capacity anyway if the traffic cannot be supported further down the road and it would even benefit car drivers, as it would remove a clogging point and free up capacity on the highway.

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  • [–] 76 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Right? Like the worst thing they could say is that she.... Fixed the public bus system so it actually functions on time instead of being inconsistent? Like, I don't get how these people think that's such a bad thing.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Cause they had an extra lane for their private vehicle and they feel like a service their taxes paid for has been robbed from them to serve people "that haven't worked hard enough for it." They worked hard to buy and pay for their car and they feel upset if their ability to use their private vehicle on public infrastructure has been diminished. Despite the fact that cars have been given the vast majority of space and funding for decades. There is also nothing stopping them from using the improved bus service except their preconception that "its for the poors."

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    [–] 287 points 4 months ago (25 children)

    That’s my mayor! On the campaign trail, she raced the eight (the bus she is adding a lane for) by walking while holding her child, and beat the bus to the end of its route. The bus lane is very needed, and she is cool as hell for delivering on her campaign promises.

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (15 children)

    If you can best a bus in a footrace, that bus route needs to be improved. As simple as that.

    My rule of thumb is: taking a cycle should be slower than bus (when starting at the same time) but the waiting time should not make the bus slower.

    Edited: wording

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I have done similar in my city (sans baby). I had like a 3 mile commute and while usually the bus would get a ahead of me before I got to work I had a thing where if I got to 2 miles in im not taking the bus for the last mile. That situation was not uncommon. I would stop and look behind so if it was close to two miles and I saw it I might still take it.

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    [–] 114 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    The GOP’s worst insult was comparing her to the coolest mayor in recent memory. over a bus lane.

    lol

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    [–] 94 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Isn’t Mamdani doing extremely well as mayor?

    So isn’t this a compliment?

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Yes. But the right has basically stopped covering him since he met with Trump and tamed him with charisma.

    So, they basically just bring him up to mean "communist that is going to destroy your city" because that's where they left it. If they don't cover him as actual governor mayor then they can keep pretending he's bad.

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  • [–] 55 points 4 months ago*

    Let me get my daily fail headline translator out real quick:

    "Came under fire" == "somebody tweeted"

    "Fury" == "a bot tweeted"

    "Outrage" == "one of our staff tweeted"

    "Slammed" == "somebody liked our tweet"

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  • [–] 53 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    "Takes away lane of road from motorists" is a wild way to say "Created a bus lane". These people need help.

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    [–] 42 points 4 months ago

    Gets elected to mayor, fixes the bug, resigns.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    "White female mamdani" is just fucking insane 💀 Also seattle is extremely woke compared to the rest of the us so good luck creating backlash. Its gonna be all the people from several states away who have nothing to do with it that complain. Same thing with NY, a lot of the people saying how "new york will fall" were from texas and whatever.

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    [–] 38 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Mamdani had a sex & race change? Fair enough.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Daily Mail is GOP propaganda.

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    [–] 31 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Meanwhile Doug Ford and Ken Sim killing bike lanes to shave 30 seconds off theor personal commutes.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    More like add 2 minutes due to increased congestion and lack of alternatives. All the studies done showed that the bike lanes actually improved travel times in most cases.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    I'm not versed into English poetry, but mysogyny and racism put asside, can someone tell me is it suppose to be a well written sentence or as ugly as I feel this is ?

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    [–] 27 points 4 months ago

    Mamdani is living rent free in those dipshits head. What really hurts them is that its working.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago

    I get why they're mad. They never expected a mayor would do what she campaigned on doing.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Daily Hate doing its thing with "White Female Mamdani

    Each of those three words designed to reinforce the rightwing views How dare a WOMAN make decisions! Suggests that weak willed white people being converted to Brown people thinking! We should not allow bus lanes even though they routinely carry 20% of the population.

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    [–] 22 points 4 months ago

    Mayor removes a lane of a road that wasn't working so that Transit can actually function instead.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That was a really hard to parse title

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    [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    not sure ive ever read such an obviously goofy headline. over the top

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    [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How many contrasting qualifiers does it take for a comparison to become useless?

    • Mamdani?
    • Female mamdani?
    • White female mamadani?
    • Seattleite white female mamdani?
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    [–] 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    They takin' our lane, fuckin up everything

    why don't to you take the bus?

    ain't nobody take no busses, deys to slow.

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    [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Daily Mail is pure garbage.

    Well . . . yeah

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    good in her, my IQ was lowered a little more reading that screenshots though.

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    [–] 17 points 4 months ago*

    Based as fuuuuck

    More bus lanes please.

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