Political Humor

Huh... that almost sounds like a public... good. Tickle me that.

"Building affordable housing" oh the horror! Who would do such a thing?

As a bus driver in Europe whose driven on free and on paid routes: I understand how fare free buses are a great point for politicians to run on but in reality it doesn't change much bus usage and (the biggest problem IMHO) People tend to respect less the bus hardware and the bus drivers themselves (probably for some psychological reason of directly paying for something gives it value). Augment bus frequency, create more bus/cycling lanes would be a better project.

Access to food, transportation, housing, it’s almost like he thinks the job of government is providing decent infrastructure.

People act like $30/hr is high. Note this would be the mayor of NYC, so it would be raised for NYC only if he got his way. The cheapest place you can get to live on your own there I am finding is 2600 a month. So say you made 30/hr. That's $62,400 working 40 hours a week. Take out Federal/state/city taxes ends up being around $46,112 take home. The place costed $31,200. Making the lowest rent findable in Manhattan 2/3 of $30/hr.

They wouldn't be able to get approved to even live there if they tried. They would have to rent a room from someone else with a 4 bedroom place renting to 4 people for around $1200/ month. And share bathrooms/kitchen/living space with people. And they would still struggle to get by if they paid for health insurance, travel costs to and from work, food, and the whole living crap.

$30 isn't radical for NYC, it's like base needed salary... And hope you have a good stable relationship with someone else making the same, then maybe you can get your own place together, just don't do something stupid like get pregnant because you can't afford to not go to work, and can't afford to put them in daycare so you would both have to uproot and move real quick finding jobs elsewhere.

Jesus would NEVER Approve of ANY of these! AFFORDABLE housing? Jesus would BURN it to The Ground! PROTECTING your Neighbor? LAUGHABLE! This is the MOST Anti Jesus Platform EVER! Where's the ELIMINATING Healthcare? Where's the ELIMINATING Homes? Where's the HURTING your Neighbors? Where's the JESUS!

Here's how I think they see this:

Landlords will go out of business. For-profit grocery stores will go out of business. People I don't know won't suffer (there's even more letters at the end and I don't know what they mean; that scares me). Businesses will have to pay more to operate, therefore prices will rise for me to protect profits. Brown people will still be where I have to see and interact with them.

Conservatives are fearful. They think when someone gets something good, it's by taking from them. Fuck 'em.

Look at this monster.

Americans will just go "this guy wants to instate free healthcare, cleanse police corruption, and to stop bombing the middle east!" and expect you to reel back in disgust.

Yes but many of these would require taxing the rich, which I’m against because I might somehow become rich one day through virtually no effort or understanding of how one becomes rich to begin with

/s

You know they're mad

This is the future that those who are controlling the conservative platform are trying to prevent.

Make no mistake this is and always will be a class war about stealing the value of workers for their own personal gain.

City owned grocery shops? I...wut. This breaks my mind. Not in WTF is this way, just how would this work. Curious how it will come out and hoping for the best.

What a monster! Making the lives of people better, like a maniac!

That's some poor propaganda, comrade fox news. You should've rendered it in Arabic or Chinese to scare them out

Its crazy that NYC still can't afford free public transportation. City literally has more expensive apartments than yearly cost of operating busses.

Of corse they are. All of these things will actually help people.