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... that is an unbelievable number. As in I literally don't believe it.
That would be pretty much 100% of all non Mamdani voters according to the election results.
If these guys voted instead of threatening to move, Mamdani probably wouldn't have won.
This is similar to how rich people will threathen to leave a country if taxes for them go up yet never do, because they live were they live and do business were they do business because of how good for them it is to live there and how much more profitable it is to do business were people are more prosperous and the Law actually works.
Turns out that such people want the quality of life they get living were they are and the juicy profits from operating their businesses there, whilst not paying for what makes it all possible themselves and thus be parasites on the rest, is just the cherry on top: they have no problem in saying whatever it takes - because talkie-talkie costs them nothing - to keep on getting that quality of life and profits whilst somebody else pays for the conditions that make it possible, what they're not fine with is the actually doing what they say they will do because if they do act as they threathen, it will cost them said quality of life and profits.
Unsurprisingly (for those who question things a bit further and don't just accept at face value the theatrics of society's top parasites) that "Paradise" free of "government oppression" called Somalia has failed to attract any of those those who claim they will leave the place were they live and do business when society elects somebody who will make them pay their fair share for that quality of life they so enjoy.
Even rich people who moved to texas from california like rogan and musk constantly bitch about how much texas sucks.
You get what you pay for.
Around the world, rich people often do relocate personally for tax purposes. One of the reasons we don't often see rich people in the United States do this is that we have incredibly low taxes compared to the rest of the world. And that's just nominal tax rates; in practice the super-rich pay almost nothing, which makes it even weirder how rabidly anti-tax they are.
There is quite a bit of business relocation that happens because companies are lured to different locales through tax abatements.
Wait until it happens. I can't count the number of people who dramatically stated they'd relocate to another city or country if some politico or other was elected and never followed through. Most people who say that are all talk and no walk...
i agree that it is not going to happen, but relocating to a different city is massively easier than relocating to a different country (still not easy)
mfs going to migrate to upstate new york in search of Albany style steamed hams
I'll believe it when I see it!
Because when I see it, I'm moving to NYC!!
And if the improbable actually happens, it just means that Mandani managed to lower house prices on his own.
Right wing empty threats. No one is leaving.....
Just a bunch of chest pounding and whining
Oh no! The horror of free bus transportation and affordable housing. Aaaaaaaaaaa!
Coincidentally, this also solves NYC's asshole problem.
Other disappointments when people didn’t flee from a lost election:
(He also said it in 2024 in reference to Harris… such a missed opportunity)
To be fair, if he had lost in 2024 he may have had to face sentencing for all the felonies (also probably not though)
1 million republicans, landlords included, threathened to leave new york.
The propaganda machine against Zohran won't stop now that he's been elected.
but will it stop affecting us innocent non-United Statesians?
My fucking wife doesn't know the name of OUR CURRENT MAYOR, yet she knews about Zohani.
Go Zohani, but I don't want to hear about local affairs from the US
EDIT : my bad on his name, he doesn't deserve that kind of shit; it's Zohran Mamdani, but I am leaving the mistake up for the record.
Fwiw, not that you're under any obligation to care as a non-citizen of NYC, his name is Zohran Mamdani. Not Zohani.
I figure the man is about to have every two-bit piece of shit out there fucking his name up, whether intentionally or not, because it "ain't American". Least we can do is get it right.
Lol, I live in California, and sometimes catty Republicans like to make snide comments about how they don't want to live here because of the "politics".
Every time I hear this, I get excited. Like... "Really? Where do you live? Is it nice? Go the fuck away please."
i'm laughing harder at the posts from TX saying 'the south is full, so don't come down here when NY turns into a communist hellhole'.
"oh no, my rent is frozen! we've got to get out of here!"
"where are we gonna go?"
"mexico.... ish"
I always laugh when conservatives describe Cali as a "shit hole". Yes, that's exactly why property is so cheap in California, because nobody wants to live in such an awful place.
honestly left leaning places should do this more. the right does it when they make cruel laws to torture dissidents - all the left needs to do is trigger them and get them to leave.
idk what else?
Uh, that first one is kinda dumb. Very much unnecessary and kinda goes along the same line of thinking as republicans giving up their rights so that minorities have it worse.
Wealth tax. Probably more useful than maximum wage, anyway.
maybe require identification on social media
Social media ID cuts both ways. Fascists would be the ones willing to use it to fuck people.
Require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people.
There was a guy in DC that got roasted, fined an entire apartment building because he found a single can in the trash stream. I like the idea, but there's a lot of power in that inspector postion.
massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end “prison culture”,
I like it, we also need to super prop up the people that get out. Strong programs to keep them employed and fed and a support net to keep them from dropping back through the cracks. Most would be willing to work and become productive but the system is designed to reclaim them.
build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,
That's fine if you never want to leave the city. A cheap driveshare program dedicated to city users with easy access from the subway would probably be needed. Also the subway is somewhat more unreliable than I'd like to see that pass.
ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something
That's another hard one. If the local government owns it, if the right gets in again, they could just destroy the poor. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have some working social systems, but building a utopia probably can't start in the middle of NYC. We'd need to go disney style and put in something semi rural as a testing ground.
Good except:
ID on social media: I believe in a fully anonymous web, maybe instead mandate them to ban right wing and alt left accounts?
Ban private schools: This hurts alternatives to governmental things
Mandate vaccines: Good, except that this would worsen their reputation, mandating would be more conspiracy-able
Government takes rental properties: No, the alt left tried that, no, just no. What could work is the government determining the rent on a property.
You know how Texas just threatened tariffs on people moving in? He should do the opposite; a large% tax on anyone attempting to change their residency to a non NY one.
Youre a bilionaire who wants to leave NY? cool- that $10M in property you own should just about cover it, along with a check for a couple million. Otherwise you can keep paying taxes here.
1,000,000 claim they are going to pack up, sell their homes, find employment in another city, and move... but they couldn't be bothered to vote? Bunch of snowflakes.
Probably can't vote in NYC because their legal residence is already Florida, Nevada, or somewhere without income tax. And they won't leave because The Villages just doesn't have the food, parties, or culture that NYC has.
Nobody is leaving. This is a Post story. They're bloviating nonsense artists.
I think NYC is going to have more of a problem of people moving to the city thanks to Mamdani
So are rent prices going to increase? He's already making everything worse already \s
Oh my god! Affordable food and housing!
runs away
Same kinds of people who flee to Russia to avoid DEI and other "western degeneracy". It's probably for the best. Or it would be if any of them had the balls to act on their idiotic words.
I moved away from USA when Trump won the first presidency. So not all of us are bluffing.
they cant go to texas , because ABBOT said he will "sanction" any NYer that flees to texas.
