Where's the line, in his current situation? What if he just backpedals on one policy? "It's just one concession, and he had to in order to win. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good?" What about all that he conceivably could do but avoids, e.g. New York City is the finance capitol of the world and he seems to think they don't present that much of a specific problem.

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What about all that he conceivably could do but avoids

what do you think these things are

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just gave an example?

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

you put e.g. in front of -thinking- finance capital is a problem, this is a nonsense parameter.

if there are concrete actions a mayor could take against finance capital Mamdani has failed to promise/rolled back, bring those up. I'll give you one: rent freeze. If Mamdani voluntarily gives up rent action (as opposed to endless state/federal intervention and court cases as will likely be the case) I'll be first in line to torch the dude's campaign

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

you put e.g. in front of -thinking- finance capital is a problem, this is a nonsense parameter.

I'm sorry, are we contesting if finance capital is one of the biggest problems in the world?

if there are concrete actions a mayor could take against finance capital Mamdani has failed to promise/rolled back, bring those up. I'll give you one: rent freeze. If Mamdani voluntarily gives up rent action (as opposed to endless state/federal intervention and court cases as will likely be the case) I'll be first in line to torch the dude's campaign

Obviously there are ties between real estate and finance capital, but the one is not the other. I know that he's proposed actions against landlords, grocers, and functionally also gig transit, which are good, but also demonstrate that he has the awareness of a need to address specific sectors and not rely on genericized solutions like UBI, which in turn makes it strange to me that he hasn't really put forward anything regarding finance capital since, again, NYC is the world capitol of it and it's one of the more malignant things on the planet.

My gripe at the moment isn't that he hasn't put forward whatever my pet solution is, but that he literally doesn't have any specific policy here afaik. A public bank could be neat, and also New York City is just a hive of both white collar crime and white collar activity that is at best sort of in a gray zone but should be considered criminal: https://www.nycbar.org/in-the-news/fee-sharing-unethical-says-new-york-city-bar-cdr-news/