• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    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…

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      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.”

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      I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces. Only recently has the attitude toward cars shifted from some kind of unwritten civil right that you get to take your four ton metal box wherever you please to hmm, maybe not everyone should be allowed to park anywhere all the time.

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      Billionaires don’t want happy people. They want most people dead and only a small servant class for themselves. Hence why no effort was ever made to make anything better for people. In fact, they’ve worked to the contrary.

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    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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        I hope they fart in his drinks.

        He’s willing to suffer the consequence of success.

        “If you’re going to hang out with the boys at night, you’ve got to get up with the men in the morning”

        “All my losses are lessons”

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      The bins in that article are 55 gallon household ones. The ones on the article are almost car sized and stay on the side of the street. Those are not the same ideas of hire to pick up trash.

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    What were the other mayors even doing?

    Taking kickbacks and speed running corruption.

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        Lol, still scheming to acquire that vineyard in the golan heights. There has never been a mayor that has worked so hard for himself as the mayor of New York. I know he’s been trying to get citizenship in Israel and Turkey for a while, he just got citizenship in Albania. Seems he took the “mayor of the world” but literally.

        Some of my favorite Eric Adams quotes.

        • “You know the first stop is always Istanbul.”

        • “…when I wake up, it scares me that I’m not scared.”

        • “I don’t care what anyone says, there are ghosts in there, man.”

        • “Lay hands on our media. Heal them. Put honesty in their hearts.”

        • “We can talk about erectile dysfunction but not clitoral stimulation – something’s wrong. Something is just wrong.”

        • "I am the pilot, and you are all passengers. Pray for me to land the plane, cause there’s no parachutes on this plane, we’re all going down together.”

        • “Imagine how many love affairs would have been great if we did not live within the boundaries of our own intellectual capacities.”

        • “All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success”

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    Combine a good, honest socialist mayor with probably the richest city in the US by tax revenue and this is what’s happening. Constant improvements and actual policies that are good.

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      socialism is when the goberment does stuff and the more stuff it does the more socialister it is

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    This is awesome to see. I was astonished when I visited by the amount of piles of trash bags you would see piled up in certain spots. It was very easy to see why there were often so many rats and cockroaches around.

    Good to see someone taking sanitation seriously.

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    Probably what all other politicians usually do: Fill their pockets with money and power