Or maybe, include the taxes in the price tag like any other place on earth…

Thanks for this detailed context

To all the commenters here that are piling up on Mamdani without actually doing the minimum amount of research. Doesn’t it seem odd to you that he would advise Ossé not to run and try to convince others not to support him? Instead of reacting with your guts and defeatism, use your head. That’s what I did because it was tickling me.

This source was shared in another comment: https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/11/chi-osse-congress/409723/

In an online vote, roughly 52% of eligible members of NYC-DSA’s Electoral Working Group voted against endorsing Ossé’s congressional campaign. In total, 1,205 DSA members voted, with 626 voting against the endorsement and only 555 voting in favor, with 24 abstaining.

Clearly Ossé’s bid for Jeffreys sit is not that widely supported. Those are NYC-DSA members voting!

Mamdani argued that DSA should focus on achieving the affordability agenda that he and DSA had successfully campaigned on during the mayoral race, instead of focusing on launching a likely doomed primary campaign against the most powerful Democrat in the House.

OK, that makes sense to me.

But some within DSA questioned Ossé’s commitment to socialist organization – which he only recently joined – and were reluctant to back him when he seemed to have no realistic path to victory

I don’t follow NY politics closely so that’s an interesting bit of info.

The whole article is well worth reading rather than commenting on the headline of a newspaper that never quite liked Mamdani to start with.

What I get out of this, Jeffreys needs to go but Ossé is not quite the candidate to unseat him and the focus should be on delivering results for NY rather than running expensive doomed campaigns. That’s a far cry from the defeatism of seeing a treasonous Mamdani. It’s either simple thinking or an agenda to split support before he’s even in the Mayor sit.

Aaaaah you definitely can’t resolve any situation without sprinkling a little bit of violence, that’s how it should be

Uuid

I don’t doubt any of these points but it’d be better to bring the receipts:

• China deal: https://www.reuters.com/world/chinas-foreign-ministry-says-xi-trump-did-not-have-call-recently-2025-04-28/
• India Pakistan cease fire: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-will-not-accept-third-party-mediation-relations-with-pakistan-modi-tells-2025-06-18/
• Phone call to Newsom: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/trump-gavin-newsom-call-protests-los-angeles-law-enforcement
• Iran call: couldn’t find a reliable news source about this in the past two weeks

Por que no los dos? There’s no downside for him, either he can spread his hate there and win or he gets banned and screams and whines and wins

I’m not a specialist of the US healthcare problem but if we believe Marc Cuban, insurance is not the biggest cost problem.

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That’s exactly how it works in China, the language is constantly evolving to go around censorship. It gets very creative actually, it’s fascinating.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/chinese-take-creative-approach-internet-censorship

A new lexicon has emerged on the Chinese internet, consisting of code words, homonyms, and vocabulary laced with mockery, satire, or sarcasm. The words “empty chair” refer to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but was barred by Chinese authorities from going to Oslo to accept it. Being “harmonized” means being censored, a reference to top leaders’ frequent calls for creating a harmonious society. Chinese netizens invented the “grass mud horse,” or “cao ni ma,” a mythical creature whose name sounds like a Chinese profanity. The alpaca-like creature emerged online as a symbol of resistance to censorship, setting blogs, and social sites abuzz with images, songs, and poems about it.