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    In der Zwischenzeit erledigt Zohran gerade seine Dinge

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    1. zubuneri on

      Wow when you elect a progressive instead of a DNC stooge, things get done?  Who knew?!

    2. 1cl3nstd4yt on

      He’s like the productive version of Bernie.

      Instead of making socialism his core identity, and shoving it in everyone’s face, he focuses on achievable – and yes, __incremental__ and __pragmatic__ policies. Verboten to rigid ideologues, but central to traditional progressivism.

    4. codecrodie on

      That’s like the Toronto mayor, Chow. She occasionally gets drawn into provincial politics, but generally keeps to nuts and bolts municipal issues. Given her past, she is probably quite a bit left of center in her own politics, pro-palestine, etc, but rarely engages in that space.

    6. SlugOnAPumpkin on

      >Fixing potholes may not be “socialist,” but Mamdani’s aggressive effort to escalate small infrastructure fixes is part of a much broader plan to restore faith in the public sector’s ability to get things done. Mamdani is fighting against decades of neoliberal ideology that told people, in Ronald Reagan’s words, that the “scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the opposite is true: that when you’re struggling, the exact thing you want is for a city worker to show up and help, because they’re good at their jobs, they care about you, and they don’t send you a fat bill.

      This is an excellent insight. You can’t expand the role of government until you’ve proven to the people that government can be trustworthy and competent.

    7. Arkady_Chim on

      I like Zohran and would like to read an assessment of his efforts that isn’t written by Nathan J Robinson/Current Affairs.

    8. detsd on

      The article’s headline oversells it a bit.

      What he’s “getting done” is:

      Filling potholes
      Tweaking regulations
      Enforcing labor laws
      Rolling out small service improvements

      That’s not nothing—but it’s also not a revolution. It’s competent, incremental city management dressed up as a bigger ideological story.

    9. ihohjlknk on

      Zohran’s best initiative is simply restoring people’s faith in government.

    10. fr0z3nf1r3 on

      Went to my parents house recently and their conservative news is NON STOP talking about this guy.

      Like New York City’s news is national news for some fucking reason.

      I wish they scrutinized their own leadership this much.

    11. malac0da13 on

      Are New Yorkers actually approving of their mayor? When’s the last time this happened?

    12. CoachDT on

      I love Zo. I think there’s a lot of attempts at manipulation when it comes to the narratives about him.

      Dems actually have been putting in work recently. I recently found an account on twitter that compiles a list of dope shit democrats are doing and while I had my thoughts, it was nice to have it all in one place a list of shit that’s actually getting done.

    13. PissLikeaRacehorse on

      I live in NYC in harlem and voted for Mamdami, but was skeptical that he would be a great mayor, but liked that he said he wanted to try to be one based on his plans.

      Listen, I don’t know if it was him/his staff, or just coincidence, but a lot of smaller projects have been done around me, and so far I’m am pleasantly surprised.

    14. _n8n8_ on

      Fixing potholes is great and all but I want to see him actually deliver on housing (besides rent control)

      Its too early now, but I want to see construction permitting skyrocket and new buildings going up all over the city.

    16. buddhist557 on

      The people saying government is the problem are grifter greedy assholes who want nothing impeding their psychopathy

    17. viotix90 on

      I love it when politicians aren’t rockstars in the news but just administrative nerds who make my life easier and I never have to think about them.

    18. Vegetable-Error-2068 on

      The DNC: „la la la la la, I can’t hear you, don’t make me look at the filthy leftist, la la la“

    19. my5cworth on

      Love to read about it.

      I’m still waiting for Zoran to take up Dave’s idea of adjusting the siren levels of emergency vehicles to match the severity of the emergency to lower the overall noise pollution in the city.

    21. A8Bit on

      This piece is all about saying it isn’t Socialism that’s making things better, it’s just because he’s a good mayor. With the subtext being, even a good conservative mayor would get the same things done.

      It’s not Socialism making your life better. Don’t change your opinion on how evil Socialism is.

      It’s giving the cons a response for when people start saying how much better things are getting with him in charge.

    22. Risaza on

      This is what all elected officials should be doing, not playing grab ass all day.

    23. MrPanda663 on

      Right: Mandani is doing the bare minimum for new york and don’t get me started on the taxes.

      Left: We need less benefits for million and billionaires, why isn’t he going straight to the problem and opening government funded grocery stores???

      Moderates: I think Zohran is a pretty good guy, I just wish he did more for everyone.

      Progressives: Y’all are really stupid.

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