Mamdani could walk out onto the street corner and just stand there, and Republicans would just shit their pants and scream all day. it's their job. just the fact that he exists is absolute torment to them.
I love it
he's their new Obama. remember the tan suit and the dijon mustard bullshit? it's what they attack because they have nothing else.
They complained that he violated pool dress code by jumping into a pool with his suit on, to start the season off. What the fuck kind of complaint is that, honestly. Unless hoards of children start jumping in with full business attire, I think we'll all be fine.
They're manufacturing things to be upset about, because he has a serious amount of popular momentum. It must be hard as he continues to fucking kill it in terms of policy. All the charts showing the achievements as if they are a bad thing are all you need to understand how out of touch these folks are.
The weird talking points like complaining about him jumping into a pool in a suit tend to come around when more substantive arguments aren't materializing.
They complain about anything petty they can possibly complain about, because it distracts from their political positions, which are desperately unpopular
he rode a Citi Bike to work one of his first days in office, and the right collectively shit their pants. FOX News hosts went hoarse from screaming about it non-stop for a week
But you see, as he notes himself in the article, the students are under performing. So we should be removing money from the schools to punish them. That will help the grades come up, you see
Unironically the logic used by the same caste of people who keep backing dump trucks of money into the "AI" bonfire when it will never be profitable at its current scale
The irony is that the US actually does spend more per capita on education than pretty much any other nation, but only because we've gutted public funding in favor of private providers and schools.
Same for our healthcare.
Our basic services are insanely expensive because we refuse to socialize them like a normal fucking country.
The result is hypocritical conservative headlines like the above that amount to a "NO SERVICES FUNDING, ONLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE" version of the frisbee dog meme.
If you need money to compensate for the tax breaks for billionaires and their companies and money to fund weapons and wars for Israel, you gotta save somewhere, duh!
Sufficient funding and wasteful spending are two separate categories. Because yes every school could use a ton of more funding. But I do feel that a lot of schools have become very top heavy in administrative personnel and a bit light were the actual teaching happens.
Yeah, I can’t remember who it was that was screaming this over and over, but some right wing politician was freaking out saying “do you know how many New Yorkers are on Medicare?“ And all I could think was, “anyone who can’t afford their own,” because that’s what New York does. If you’re below a certain income level, and can’t afford your own insurance, New York State will cover you. I know this because that’s how I had health insurance when I lived in NYC. It’s awesome.
And here’s this Republican asshole, freaking out, making it sound like everyone having health insurance is somehow a bad thing, lol
He lucked out that a bit of creative accounting “saved” the city a couple of billion this year, but that’s a one-time deal. Next year he’ll actually have to put the work in.
But the school budget is "bloated," how could he give more money to the public school system? Charter schools need that money so we can teach our future about being taken advantage of and being propagandized.
This bitch is crying that they spend too much on education in the same article that he talks about how edution stats from last year show that students are falling behind. And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase. Pretty fucking marginal. He's specifically whining that those dollars don't go to police instead.
The majority of that money is going to keep schools funded and open whose enrollment is dipping, because otherwise you have school closures, redistricting, and lost teaching, administrative, service, and maintenance jobs, etc. And that only after months or years of limited resources and worse overall education and opportunities for the students.
That's the thing though. Less education and more police is exactly what these people want. They don't want well-educated poor people. Because well-educated poor people don't vote the way they want them to. They know their rights and they have the intelligence to make informed decisions. And this is terrifying to the elite class in our society. Educated peasants are the most dangerous thing to a feudal land owning group.
It shows voting differences in correlation to the level of education.
Green party | far left party | libertarian party | a new weird split off from the far left party | center left party | center right party | far right party
In fairness, I think the budget itself had already increased this year before this new increase. This is 680 mil on top of the already increased budget.
How do media outlets report like this and still get taken seriously by any human being on this planet?
Schools and teachers are so underpaid and under budgeted that it's WIDELY known and universally accepted as a systemic problem all across the united states.
The only payment teachers should need is the joy and satisfaction they get from helping children
We should cut all the school budgets and give the money to people that truly deserve it, politicians, political advisors, and the lawyers working hard to keep these hard working patriotic pedophiles out of prison
I liked it when he froze the rent and a lot of Republicans started ranting about how people didn't have to pay rent at all. They might not know what a policy even is, but if it's Mamdammy, it must be bad.
This is extremely valuable to see wins on the local level, and that it is getting national press.
It will serve to blunt the years of "socialism = always bad" propaganda that has been endemic since forever. More local wins so we can elect and win on the state and national level in numbers with a mandate to actually get something done.
Hey, $700M is a lot of money! That's $81.50/ per New Yorker! That's $6.80 every month! Where are poorer New Yorkers going to get that kind of money? From some kind of public transit discount?!
Yeah seriously. I wonder what the article itself has to say about it. Probably nothing. Or just throwing absolute numbers around, like Joe Sixpack could never afford.
In a budget for 8½ million people, 700M is not much.
Some neolib putz on Mastodon was arguing with me about Mamdani not including enough money to the budget for education. I guess he has to shut the fuck up now.
I just finished a game of pool with two confused, but eventually very amused prostitutes. There were allusions made about eight balls going into holes. Overall it was a cringey experience, and it was quite hot, as in I sweat a lot.
So your practical teaching is at least on par with the explanatory defect.
In the end it was fun and I got my queue chalked, but not in the metaphorical manner.
I agree with the title of the article. It's definitely a problem. Why would you "quietly" add to the school funding? You gotta do that loud and proud my dude
Why is there a picture of an even browner man in the top left? The gleefully happy school commissioner? NYP implies corruption along "racial" (i.e. skin tone) lines?
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homes@piefed.world · 223 pts · 52d
Mamdani could walk out onto the street corner and just stand there, and Republicans would just shit their pants and scream all day. it's their job. just the fact that he exists is absolute torment to them.
I love it
he's their new Obama. remember the tan suit and the dijon mustard bullshit? it's what they attack because they have nothing else.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 52d
Republicans fume at the mere existence of anyone different than them
hayvan@piefed.world · 40 pts · 52d
In this case it's not about being different, but being successful and popular. Fascists don't have competence, they can't compete against competence.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 52d
That's different for them.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 64 pts · 52d
They complained that he violated pool dress code by jumping into a pool with his suit on, to start the season off. What the fuck kind of complaint is that, honestly. Unless hoards of children start jumping in with full business attire, I think we'll all be fine.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 52d
It's a party of Karen's. What do you expect?
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 52d
BTW he took his shoes off.
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 52d
They're manufacturing things to be upset about, because he has a serious amount of popular momentum. It must be hard as he continues to fucking kill it in terms of policy. All the charts showing the achievements as if they are a bad thing are all you need to understand how out of touch these folks are.
The weird talking points like complaining about him jumping into a pool in a suit tend to come around when more substantive arguments aren't materializing.
protist@retrofed.com · 6 pts · 52d
They complain about anything petty they can possibly complain about, because it distracts from their political positions, which are desperately unpopular
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 52d
has he been spotted riding a bicycle already? That was among the most ridiculous of the Obama "scandals".
homes@piefed.world · 17 pts · 52d
he rode a Citi Bike to work one of his first days in office, and the right collectively shit their pants. FOX News hosts went hoarse from screaming about it non-stop for a week
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 52d
lol so predictable
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 52d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPTi5srqxU
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 52d
Yeah he participated in some bike day thing, where they closed down a street every year for a day or week or something, with a bunch of kids.
pedantichedgehog@sh.itjust.works · 172 pts · 52d
"Bloated" lmao. I don't think there's a single school district in the US that has sufficient funding
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 126 pts · 52d
But you see, as he notes himself in the article, the students are under performing. So we should be removing money from the schools to punish them. That will help the grades come up, you see
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 52d
Unironically the logic used by the same caste of people who keep backing dump trucks of money into the "AI" bonfire when it will never be profitable at its current scale
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 21 pts · 52d
This is literally the logic used to route public money toward "charter" (private) schools.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 52d
I remember that season of The Wire!
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 52d
It’s bloated because it’s not “their kids.”
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 52d
To be more accurate it's not "white" kids. 😒
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 27 pts · 52d
The irony is that the US actually does spend more per capita on education than pretty much any other nation, but only because we've gutted public funding in favor of private providers and schools.
Same for our healthcare.
Our basic services are insanely expensive because we refuse to socialize them like a normal fucking country.
The result is hypocritical conservative headlines like the above that amount to a "NO SERVICES FUNDING, ONLY EDUCATED WORKFORCE" version of the frisbee dog meme.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
If you need money to compensate for the tax breaks for billionaires and their companies and money to fund weapons and wars for Israel, you gotta save somewhere, duh!
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
The private schools the rich gather are prolly are
facelessbs@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 52d
Sufficient funding and wasteful spending are two separate categories. Because yes every school could use a ton of more funding. But I do feel that a lot of schools have become very top heavy in administrative personnel and a bit light were the actual teaching happens.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 143 pts · 52d
Josh Johnson said it’s like Mamdani found the “make government work” button that nobody else wanted to press.
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 52d
But when government does stuff, that's socialism. And the news tells me that is scary.
homes@piefed.world · 17 pts · 52d
Yeah, I can’t remember who it was that was screaming this over and over, but some right wing politician was freaking out saying “do you know how many New Yorkers are on Medicare?“ And all I could think was, “anyone who can’t afford their own,” because that’s what New York does. If you’re below a certain income level, and can’t afford your own insurance, New York State will cover you. I know this because that’s how I had health insurance when I lived in NYC. It’s awesome.
And here’s this Republican asshole, freaking out, making it sound like everyone having health insurance is somehow a bad thing, lol
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 52d
The news tells you it's scary because for the people behind it it is.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 52d
He lucked out that a bit of creative accounting “saved” the city a couple of billion this year, but that’s a one-time deal. Next year he’ll actually have to put the work in.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 69 pts · 52d
But the school budget is "bloated," how could he give more money to the public school system? Charter schools need that money so we can teach our future about being taken advantage of and being propagandized.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 52d
School budget is bloated but the
genocidemilitary fund could use another trillion or two.jtrek@startrek.website · 59 pts · 52d
Can we make the New York post just... Go away? They're a net negative on society
Blibly@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 52d
This but with right-wing ideology as a whole
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 52d
That shit rag is necessary so nobody forgets and puts the guard down against the forces of evil trying to make everything foul.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 52d
But if we got rid of the NY post, whose going to write articles blaming the immigrants?
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 52d
This bitch is crying that they spend too much on education in the same article that he talks about how edution stats from last year show that students are falling behind. And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase. Pretty fucking marginal. He's specifically whining that those dollars don't go to police instead.
The majority of that money is going to keep schools funded and open whose enrollment is dipping, because otherwise you have school closures, redistricting, and lost teaching, administrative, service, and maintenance jobs, etc. And that only after months or years of limited resources and worse overall education and opportunities for the students.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 52d
That's the thing though. Less education and more police is exactly what these people want. They don't want well-educated poor people. Because well-educated poor people don't vote the way they want them to. They know their rights and they have the intelligence to make informed decisions. And this is terrifying to the elite class in our society. Educated peasants are the most dangerous thing to a feudal land owning group.
saimen@feddit.org · 7 pts · 52d
This figure from Germany shows it clearly:
It shows voting differences in correlation to the level of education.
Green party | far left party | libertarian party | a new weird split off from the far left party | center left party | center right party | far right party
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 52d
(Certain) Americans: wait what, seven parties? How do you even remember them all?
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d
Isn’t inflation currently like 4.1%? So this is not even a budgetary increase commensurate with inflation? Clowns.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
In fairness, I think the budget itself had already increased this year before this new increase. This is 680 mil on top of the already increased budget.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 51d
How do media outlets report like this and still get taken seriously by any human being on this planet?
Schools and teachers are so underpaid and under budgeted that it's WIDELY known and universally accepted as a systemic problem all across the united states.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 51d
The only payment teachers should need is the joy and satisfaction they get from helping children
We should cut all the school budgets and give the money to people that truly deserve it, politicians, political advisors, and the lawyers working hard to keep these hard working patriotic pedophiles out of prison
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 51d
Most people don't take the Post seriously
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 50d
It’s the New York Post; a Murdoch-owned rag barely worth lining your pet’s litter bin with - let alone taking seriously.
kboos1@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 52d
Tax the rich and educate the public. He must be evil
zd9@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 52d
He literally is...
if you are an ultra wealthy oligarch that has a malignant cancer of greed.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 4 pts · 52d
Or their butt licker
ceenote@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 52d
I liked it when he froze the rent and a lot of Republicans started ranting about how people didn't have to pay rent at all. They might not know what a policy even is, but if it's Mamdammy, it must be bad.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 52d
new York post be like
Mamdani seen petting a dog and calling him good boy. this is the worst thing that has ever happened in NY history.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 52d
NYPost is written for leaded gasoline survivors.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 52d
It's a replay
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 52d
Schools make you intelligent. Intelligence is anathema to conservatives/regressives.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 52d
It makes you articulate, and it builds critical thinking.
captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 51d
Critical thinking!?! That's the weapon the wokes use to indoctrinate our young to the alphabet cult!
/sIAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 50d
this person has never been to a public school
also knowledge ≠ intelligence
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 33 pts · 52d
Many other politicians are also very effective. Just not for their voters.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 52d
NYPost editor sounds like a miserable shell of a human.
SnapZinger@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 52d
I just want to put this here for context...
Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/nyc-must-spend-700-million-to-cut-class-sizes-watchdog-says
NY Independent Budget Office FY 2026: https://www.ibo.nyc.gov/assets/ibo/downloads/pdf/education/2025/2025-december-a-slow-start-limited-progress-in-first-years-towards-class-size-compliance.pdf
stephen@lazysoci.al · 27 pts · 52d
Thanks for these. The New York State law that the city just comply with further contextualizes things.
What’s not to like?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 10 pts · 52d
So he spent 700 million on schools ... in order to comply with state law.
Obviously, the Republicans are outraged. They hate complying with laws.
tea@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 52d
This is extremely valuable to see wins on the local level, and that it is getting national press.
It will serve to blunt the years of "socialism = always bad" propaganda that has been endemic since forever. More local wins so we can elect and win on the state and national level in numbers with a mandate to actually get something done.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 52d
I like how they say bloated. Carry that implication that public school bad.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 52d
It is bad. But only because it's been so chronically underfunded and dismantled by decades of abuse.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 52d
IE not becuse it's bloated. Quite the opposite.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 51d
Do you know a school that has a bloated budget, do they exist?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 51d
Charter/Private schools.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 50d
I can't WAIT to VOTE him Out and get that Money OUT of Schools and into Elon's Pockets!
-LITERALLY Republican Voters!
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 51d
Doesn't seem quietly at all if the New York Post writes about it.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 52d
Hey, $700M is a lot of money! That's $81.50/ per New Yorker! That's $6.80 every month! Where are poorer New Yorkers going to get that kind of money? From some kind of public transit discount?!
Amdouni@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 52d
At least they are "over spending" on education tho
pipi1234@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d
Somehow directing millions to people's education is wasteful, but having a trillionary ($1.000.000.000.000) is totally reasonable.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 52d
That's the problem! Dumb Wokedani isn't giving money to trillionaires to build data centers! Argh
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 52d
Trillionaire would be $1.000.000.000.000, wouldn't it?
$1.000.000.000.000.000.000 would be quintillionaire?
pipi1234@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Yes, thank you.
zd9@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 52d
bLoAtEd
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 52d
Yeah seriously. I wonder what the article itself has to say about it. Probably nothing. Or just throwing absolute numbers around, like Joe Sixpack could never afford.
In a budget for 8½ million people, 700M is not much.
n4ch1sm0@piefed.social · 10 pts · 52d
Some neolib putz on Mastodon was arguing with me about Mamdani not including enough money to the budget for education. I guess he has to shut the fuck up now.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 8 pts · 52d
I love how they chose a picture that makes him look like he has the coke sweats.
decolo@piefed.social · 3 pts · 52d
Look, he just got out of the pool, there's no pleasing you people
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 52d
Haven’t you ever heard of shrinkage?
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
For those uninformed in the partake of white powdery stuff, could you explain said phenomenon
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 52d
I'm really bad at explaining things so just pick up an eight ball and two hookers and experience it for yourselves..
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
I just finished a game of pool with two confused, but eventually very amused prostitutes. There were allusions made about eight balls going into holes. Overall it was a cringey experience, and it was quite hot, as in I sweat a lot.
So your practical teaching is at least on par with the explanatory defect.
In the end it was fun and I got my queue chalked, but not in the metaphorical manner.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 52d
That comment was a hole-in-one!
DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 50d
I agree with the title of the article. It's definitely a problem. Why would you "quietly" add to the school funding? You gotta do that loud and proud my dude
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
Really targeting Arch users with the term "bloated."
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 52d
That fucking bastard did what now?
Doesn't he know that educating people is a bad thing?!!?
20cello@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
A man of the people
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 52d
Why is there a picture of an even browner man in the top left? The gleefully happy school commissioner? NYP implies corruption along "racial" (i.e. skin tone) lines?
toxicbubble@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 50d
When money goes to schools the budget is bloated, when all the money goes to the military it's natural and necessary.