Maybe you should do a reverse-Kirk. Find all those who wanted to leave and expose them publicly, document them if they have actually left the city or not.
Maybe you should do a reverse-Kirk.
Drink blood through a hole in your neck?
Bravo, you magnificent bastard.
Alan Dershowitz said in July he would blow his brains out on live television if NYC elected Mamdani.
Someone should interview him with a loaded gun on the table between them. The interviewer should make no verbal mention of the gun and only quickly glance at it after saying anything.
That sounds like a good way to get shot as a reporter
Some journalism involves risks
More likely a comedian
Hey man, nice shot.
let’s see it!
TBH I would rather see him hauled in front of a jury for his ties to Epstein. He should die in a cell after seeing his entire legacy and name be destroyed.
Study after study has been done on every election looking for people who publicly say they are moving if their party lost. They found consistently that the number of people who follow through are in the single digits.
Trump famously said he was going to leave the US when he lost to Biden. We all begged him to go but nope.
MAGAs have repeatedly said they are going to move to Russia or Argentina or other conservative places only to realize they wouldn’t be in the ruling class.
I did this myself, when Connecticut rejected a constitutional convention in 2008. I believe that representatives are generally for sale and a direct initiative is absolutely necessary. So I moved somewhere where I have more of a voice.
If CA didn’t ask my permission to redistrict, I would’ve been mad about it. But the additional oversight makes a huge difference to me and I’m quite happy with today’s result.
well, there is always this one heart warming story: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/american-family-moved-russia-seeking-better-life-got-drawn-war-ukraine-rcna220463
great win for USA
Oh I remember this one. And it was 🤌
Not everybody has the conviction of flying squids!
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Some people said similar stuff before Trump was elected and while they didn’t move there are a ton of people being deported
I first saw this each time Bush was elected. So many people vowed to move to Canada if that bastard got elected.
Then the bastard got elected. And Canada reported like a tiny spike in traffic to their immigration information website. I think actual applications were up a statistically insignificant amount.
I guess it’s like the difference between filing for bankruptcy and Declaring It, Michael.
Conversely, many who voted for him are leaving the country by being deported. Bet they didn’t see that coming, although any moron should have because that is what he campaigned on. They just got what they voted for. Hurray.
Conversely, many who voted for him are leaving the country by being deported.
The “haha, Trump supporters are self-deporting” always seems to put a veneer of schadenfreude over what is a monstrous crime against a population with virtually no democratic representation. The brunt of these ICE assaults are in liberal cities, targeting black and brown people, many of whom are being punished while in the process of following the law. Agents snatching people at court hearings or while filing visa or green card paperwork. Agents assaulting people at hospitals and schools. Agents snatching parents from their children in line at the airport. The overwhelming majority of these residents can’t even vote.
One of the grossest aspects of modern liberalism is this naive need to believe Trump’s policies are some kind of karmic justice. Nothing about this is just. Nothing about it is going to “self-correct”. The nation is being raped and pillaged.
Moving from a state/city to another is relatively easy, at the cheapest (assuming rental apartment) you can. Move from city to city in the US for around 3-6k depending on distance. Leaving the country is much harder, especially if you have items you care about, pets, family… Etc.
Also fuck him its my home the can leave if its so bad. That’s like having a shitty houseguest for an evening and just ceding the property to them.
funny, because funny
They’re are probably dead, wasn’t it a war zone wasteland?
Except for trump tower of course
That would be an outcome I’d be happy to see
Stick to your porn
Is this how I find out he won? OMFG, I’m ecstatic!
Uh huh!
Congrats! 🥂
I admit that I’m moving away for other reasons but I’m certainly more enthusiastic about moving now. (With that said, I’d be happy to leave Cuomo behind almost as much.) But I’m moving to the Bay Area so it’s not much of an improvement in terms of politics. I miss New Hampshire.
Have you read the book “A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear”? It’s quite entertaining.
I’m familiar with it (although I haven’t read the whole thing) and I think it’s not representative of what living in New Hampshire is actually like. I went to college there and then more recently I lived there for four years. Some stuff was weird even to me (my neighbor set up an improvised firing range behind his house, and driving without car insurance is legal) but overall the towns where I lived seemed well-governed and most people valued their independence but not to the extent that they would reject the rules necessary for an orderly society. What some weirdos did when they came to New Hampshire says more about weirdos than it does about New Hampshire or lowercase-L libertarianism (as opposed to the Libertarian party, which is marginal even in New Hampshire).
Get lost, we don’t need you.
I’m moving to the Bay Area
Found the Techbro Pedophile
Just move to South Carolina or Texas already.
We don’t need any more of that shit in SC, thanks. Already an uphill/vertical battle as is.
SC cities are full go to TX or FL.
Why not live in New Hampshire then?
Fact is, these places that MAGA wants to label as hellholes are the cultural and economic engines of our country. Even places like Texas are driven entirely by their urban blue counties.
eh maine aint far behind. Poor white people everywhere are druggies
Serious answer to a rhetorical question: Because I was willing to give up the advantages of living in a big city (for me, chiefly better access to jobs) but my family and friends weren’t. Most of them aren’t politically aligned with Mamdani supporters but they have more affection for urban life than I do and they’re more pragmatic than I am too - even if they think a politician will make things worse, they’re not going to move away unless and until things do get worse.
my family and friends … they have more affection for urban life
Affection for what about it though? 🤔 Why NYC and the Bay Area specifically? There are plenty of areas that offer an “urban life” experience.
For most of them, NYC because it’s where the family first came as immigrants. If we had come to a different city, then I think they would probably be living there instead, but NYC specifically does have advantages for them: a very developed mass transit system, a large community of other immigrants who speak the same language for the older people, and whatever it is that some people like about big-city life that there’s more of in NYC than elsewhere for the younger people. (I’m the kind of guy who told my real estate agent “I’m moving to Manhattan for work but I don’t like Manhattan and I want to live in a part of it that doesn’t feel like Manhattan” so I don’t really know what that is.)
For my best friend, the Bay Area because of the gay community and the fact that this is the place to be if you want to found a tech startup. (Plus he would never leave California because the climate everywhere else is so much worse, and that limits his options.) My sister also lives in the Bay Area - she came here for a job and for the larger dating pool but now that she’s married she’s planning to move away to somewhere with a lower cost of living and less crime. She’s more liberal than I am but local politics matters a lot less to her than those practical factors, so her next job interview is in Texas.
Sooooo a functioning economy, public services, and progressive culture. Got it.
I never said NYC had nothing going for it. On the contrary, NYC is currently one of the best cities in the USA. That’s why I wanted a “more of the same” mayor rather than someone who thinks dramatic changes are necessary.
EDIT: this gif was in response to the original comment (“NYC will get worse unless Mamdani fails to achieve his policies”) before they edited to completely change their comment
Do you want to be around other New Hampshireans?
Manchester is the state putting up a “normal” face, everything north of there gets fiercly independent and rural pretty quick. This was the state that tried to create a libertarian utopia that failed due to a bear problem.
Love New Hampshireans, love the state, but yall are scary.
To be fair to New Hampsire: it was the libertarians across the USA who wanted to take over the state (then had to scale back their plans and took over one tiny town). The state government and the majority of state residents were not enthused by the Free State Project. However, the state’s politically-conservative roots meant that they didn’t have the cultural or administrative tools to stop that train-wreck.
Oh I’m very aware of how childish New Hampshire politics is and the bear town. I just want to hear the commenter’s reason why.
