Has NYC finally quit it with their stupid idea of just letting trash bags sit on the street? This is something that basically every other city in the world has figured out.
Except like, the entirety of Japan.
Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a "modern" trash bin? Isn't a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.
That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I'm not sure I'd want those rats getting into my bags, 😛
other mayors were/are pocketing that money
This has had actually been in the works for a while, it’s not like he just materialized this out of nowhere.
But, it has been constantly getting delayed and put through “trials”. So, it actually getting implemented is good.
The best part is seeing idiots who want any excuse to attack a DSA politician trying to argue that loose trash bags are better than dumpsters. Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Especially when 99% of their 'culture war' audience (who of course don't live in NYC) already use trash bins and dumpsters in their everyday lives.
What were previous NYC mayors doing?
Making money serving the Epstein class.
Giving money to billionaires is exchange of almost no benefit to the people of the city
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/24/mamdani-cuomo-debate/
I love how the only arguments people have against them is "they're ugly" and "they'll take away parking spots" as if piles of trash bags look better, and NYC doesn't already have an expansive public transit network with plans to increase bus service.
If public anything is socialist, then every nation on Earth has always been and is socialist.
I think that's a little too broad of a definition, but I'm not a political scientist.
p.s. NYC always stank like garbage and urine in summer, nice to see some progress. Maybe weld a urinal onto the new garbage bins?
So I haven't been able to figure out where I fit because the classifications are too broad and don't fit a modern society anyway. I mean half the shit we argue about (capitalism, socialism, communism) seems to my uneducated eye to be economic systems, not political systems, so i get severely confused when people talk about them like political systems. Why can't we have democratic communism for example?
Again, I haven't taken a political science course, but I don't see an inherent contradiction in calling myself a democratic libertarian communist. People should be free to do as they please with some perhaps common good exceptions, but the means of production should be controlled by the people by way of voting. That doesn't seem contradictory.
But you tell that to someone who studies this more seriously and they look like I've grown three heads. I don't get it TBH.
I would argue that "democratic" and "libertarian" are inherently at odds, but otherwise agree (and believe most people do)
What make them modern?
They can only be accessed with a keycard by building staff or sanitation workers, adding a layer of control that city officials say will reduce mess and illegal dumping.
No dumpster diving in NYC.
It's still a real health hazard. Stopping dumpster diving is not inherently bad, the bad thing is what causes people to need to dumpster dive in the first place.
Reduce, reuse, recycle programs ought to remove the incentive to dig for free stuff too.
Under rules like the New York State Food Donation and Food Scraps Recovery Law, major commercial food waste generators must separate and recycle or donate their food scraps instead of trashing them.
Not to rain on everyone's parade, but this is not Mamdani's initiative, though of course he is making the correct choice in continuing it.
Don't misunderstand me, I hate that corrupt piece of shit Adams, but the truth is important anyway.
The truth is one of the most important things. 👍
Eric Adams just did it because he has a lifelong hatred of rats
So he is self loathing.
Socialist Communist Mamdani is genociding the Rat majority population of New York by wiping out their food supply /s
What were the other mayors even doing?
What 98% of government officials do. Figuratively and/or physically rape us.
Those are malevolent evil government officials
Mamdani is a competent benevolent government official
Also receptables for useless ex-mayors.
One of the other mayors was doing exactly this. Large municipal projects take time. This project, which includes large on-street municipal garbage bins, and new residential garbage cans, was started under Mamdani's predecessor. This is an Eric Adams project that is only reaching the point of installations during Mamdani's tenure.
Mamdani is great and all, but he's not the one solely responsible for every good thing that happens in NY.
This is true and is an example of an inconvenient truth.
But it's also important to note that Mamdani didnt cancel the project because it was the predecessor. That's often all too common in political leadership positions and is why it can be so bloody impossible to get long term benefits/plans to be executed.
Spite, ego, politicking all makes for terrible leadership but it's often what seems to be celebrated. Good on Mamdani for seeing something worth having and not needing to be the author of it just for optics
Is horrible when one Mayor big project is something like bike lanes and then next mayor for an opposing party came and stop all construction of expansion, or worse even destroy what had been done, so it's opponent doesn't get any additional credit
It's so much worse as you scale up projects too. When neighbouring cities or regions need to work together it often only takes one douche canoe to torpedo the whole thing. Especially infrastructure projects and the like
I think this is true of any political ribbon cutting. Nixon took a victory lap for the moon landings. The issue is when politicians don't want to hand over something then nothing gets done.
It's the most basic lesson from Rollercoaster Tycoon. More trash cans = less litter = happier people.
Out of the way, Boomers. It's the Millennials' time to shine. We've been preparing for this our whole lives, and it's past time for us to take the reins.
Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...
Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...
Hey man, we fucking tried. The boomers were against us. And we raised you to be better than us, instead of abandoning you to the wilds like we were, which was the whole point: to leave the world better than we found it.
e: that ‘better’ was you.
I know you tried, I only mentioned Gen X because they're usually forgotten about entirely.
Thanks for punk rock and third-wave ska.
Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...
We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).
This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.
Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”
I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.
Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”
This isn't a contest, but it's worse for millennials as a whole because the line is, waaaay backed up. Gen Z has it one step worse than us, too. It's a cascade of bullshit from these assholes.
I know, I know. I was being tongue-in-cheek.
You guys got the shaft, it's okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we'll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn't cause its own extinction first.
Lay your weary head to rest, we've got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh...
Hey, I resemble that.
Such a polite burn. I’ll go and rest my weary head now. ☺️
The last one was spending the majority of his time taking bribes and doing crimes. Funny how no one really talks about how Eric Adams is now legally a citizen of Albania.
Still can't believe he's gotten away scott free, but I guess he did warn that "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success"
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