r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 8h ago
PositiviTea š What progress looks like.
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u/NextAd7514 7h ago
It's almost like its not hard to do the right thing in those positions.
We've been conditioned to think republican scum and corporate dems are all we haveĀ
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u/Soggy-Confection 7h ago
Let's not undersell what Mamdani is doing. It probably isn't easy. You have to care and you have to work hard. The problem is we keep electing people that don't care and don't want to work hard.
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u/2001_Arabian_Nights 6h ago
Give me ācares and works hardā over any politico-theoretical-ideological dogma every day. Itās a job. Do it.
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u/universal_friend1 7h ago
Somebody posted a video of their local pothole in LA and tagged Mamdani in it. Thing got fixed that day and that's not even his city.
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u/justdisa 6h ago
Embarrass your local government! They'll look bad by comparison if they don't fix it.
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u/RedRider1138 6h ago
Okay thatās hilarious š I was jokingly saying āYo Mamdaniā to myself while driving by a pothole yesterday thinking about the folks saying that on videos (and they get fixed!)
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u/CantaloupeFluffy165 7h ago
Is this guy running for President?He's got my vote.
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u/mpjjpm 7h ago
Heāll run for senate eventually, or get a presidential cabinet appointment. Based on his success getting stuff done in NYC, I would love to see him as Sec of Housing and Urban Development or Sec of Transportation.
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u/Sariscos 6h ago
Imagine a dream team administration of folks getting stuff done for the American people and telling corporations to get stiffed? Not in my lifetime, but I can dream.
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u/justdisa 6h ago
Oh man. I've never cared so much about Housing and Urban Development. He'd be fantastic.
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u/drcobosjr 8h ago
Too bad heās a radical Islamic leftist!
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u/Majestic-Pack-8969 8h ago
/s?
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u/drcobosjr 8h ago
Yes, didnāt think I needed it lmao
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u/SacredSepia 8h ago
This is Reddit and there are many people who do think he is a radical. So unfortunately the /s is needed.
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u/Acceptable-Ad8780 7h ago
Yeah I got it be because I also add !! when I'm sarcastic, but have been playing it safe just largely due to both and there seems to be more people that think like that have been in higher numbers lately.
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u/couldntbeasked 8h ago
His ideas on how to run the mayor's office certainly are radical compared to his inept predecessors.
Fun fact: calling his predecessors inept is fine, but reddit says it's not okay to say c*rrupt.
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u/Sid-Phillips-495 7h ago
This is a straight up lie. Broadway in Brooklyn is still a pot hole ridden mess and the portion of the jackie under the overpass is missing more chunks of road then ever - they can't even be called holes anymore. There are rats in Williamsburg and Greenwich, wherever there are outdoor eating stalls.
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u/MagnusRusson 6h ago
Where did the post say there's no more potholes?
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u/Sid-Phillips-495 6h ago edited 5h ago
It says fixed problems he's tagged in. I've tagged him, hasnt helped one bit.
edit: looks like his professional social media team is here to downvote but not explain why he hasnt addressed East New York
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u/Constant_Ad_8028 8h ago edited 6h ago
Wow 50-100 bucks of work on a pothole.
Don't get me wrong it's great to see stuff get done, but people are still hungry and homeless and under paid.
Victories are great both big and small but gotta tackle the real issues and not just the small ones just to appease the people without spending the money on real important issues.
Don't settle for less NYC!
Edit: I guess the downvotes come from people who are satisfied with a 1/5 milllion chance at an Opera tickets, a few grocery stores, and some potholes filled?
Or maybe from west of the Hudson.
I'm on the side of NYC here ya bums! lol not against progress.
Just sayin don't get so overly exited with the "little victories," but to keep insisting more, so you can eventually settle for what you want.
Be thankful, sure, but keep on demanding better. That's how you negotiate and not get taken, regardless of whatever guy you give your problems to, to fix.
Edit2: On second thought, if you don't want anybody to stand up for you, and be on your side, standing up for the people of NYC by demanding more, then that's on you now.
Funny, the way you complain about the help, you'd think all the down voters were from Jersey.
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u/KayoticVoid 7h ago
They're not settling for less and he is fighting for more. But if this level of progress seems to be unprecedented.
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u/Vibrantmender20 7h ago
Yeah guys obviously that 50 bucks spent on a pothole is whatās holding back fixing homelessness
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u/Sharp-Bluejay2267 7h ago
Yeah exactly, at that cheap might as well not do it like all previous mayors.
Big problems onlyā¦ or something braindead like that.
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u/Constant_Ad_8028 6h ago
Disingenuous much?
Yeah, cause that's exactly what I said /s "to not do anything" lol
Get outta here with that nonsense.
Read it again. Put glasses on this time if that'll help.
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u/Wickedocity 8h ago
Progress would be having a government that functions without having to contact a mayor.
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u/Fridge_living_tips 8h ago
You think the mayor/the person in charge of the road has a map of all the problems in the city?
A nonfunctional government would be people tagging the mayor and the mayor doing nothing
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u/MikeLikesIkeRS 8h ago
As someone who worked for a road department, we did actually. There's a service we contracted out that would go over every square inch of the roadway with cameras, and gave us an extremely detailed report of the health of the roadway, alongside any major problems.
I don't know why people are downvoting OP, he's absolutely correct. A functional government would be a government where you don't need to contact the mayor, instead being able to submit any and all problems conveniently through a road dept's website and/or phone/email.
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u/Wickedocity 8h ago
He is responsible for the city agency that should handle those reports. Fix the agency.
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u/DontForgetYourPPE 8h ago
So desperate to find an issue to complain about aren't you?
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u/Wickedocity 8h ago
lol, I guess you never state anything negative about the government?
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u/DontForgetYourPPE 8h ago
Not when they are doing a good job and getting stuff done. There's plenty of real criticism to be had, I'm sure, but digging in to criticize stuff getting fixed is wild
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u/Fridge_living_tips 8h ago
There is 6,300 miles of road.
Is it more effective to let citizens alert of pothokes or hire ALOT of people to do that
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u/Meowakin 8h ago
User reports are all well and good, but will always be inherently reactive. We should always be looking to be proactive whenever possible. Whether thatās feasible here or not, I donāt know. But I suspect mapping something like that could be done in an efficient manner with proper planning.
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u/Fridge_living_tips 5h ago
Patching potholes is always reactionary and cant be proactive unless you rip up all 6300 miles and replaxe it with AsplatX which doesnt crack and isnt possible
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u/Meowakin 5h ago
Iāll admit I donāt know the science behind potholes, but surely there are ways to predict where they are likely to occur? Thereās also just active monitoring for them rather than passively waiting for some citizen to report it.
What I do know is that relying on user feedback alone is so insanely error prone and it should never be a first resort for managing anything. It can be an important signal, it should not be the only signal. People will often assume something has been reported by someone else, and ultimately nobody has reported it. Or nobody has reported it to the right channel.
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u/Vibrantmender20 8h ago
Progress is useless without perfection is a pretty juvenile take, my guy.
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u/Wickedocity 8h ago
Who said that or had that take?
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u/Vibrantmender20 7h ago
You literally just insinuated that what Mamdani is doing isnāt progress because it doesnāt happen automatically
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u/Wickedocity 7h ago
Just because that is what your bias got out of a post does not mean that is the meaning.
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u/Sid-Phillips-495 6h ago
One is more effective as a PR stunt, the other is more effective for everyone in the future. Which do you think is happening?
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u/Medium-Violinist-903 8h ago
Oh no, people have to actually say something to get help instead of just being silent, the horror!
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u/Meowakin 7h ago
Did you like the days when if your internet went out and you had to call the ISP and go through all that troubleshooting, only to find out an hour later that thereās an outage in your area and none of that troubleshooting mattered?
Or do you prefer now, when the ISP notifies you that thereās an outage in the area within minutes without you ever needing to call them?
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u/Medium-Violinist-903 7h ago
I prefer the internet to get fixed in general.
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u/Meowakin 7h ago
Duh. But youād prefer if they fixed it without you having to say anything, right?
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u/Medium-Violinist-903 7h ago
Yea, duh, kind of like how potholes werenāt being fixed before, and they are now. So itās better now.
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u/Sid-Phillips-495 6h ago
Pouring $5 worth of asphalt isnt fixing anything. The fixes are the worst ever, quantity over quality I guess but they are already re-opening.
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u/Meowakin 7h ago
Better, yes. But we should always strive toward an ideal, rather than rest on our laurels.
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u/Medium-Violinist-903 7h ago
I never said we shouldnāt try to keep improving. But we can still celebrate steps forward instead of complaining theyāre not enough.
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u/Meowakin 7h ago
We can do both, yes.
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u/Medium-Violinist-903 6h ago
The person I was responding to initially was only complaining about something that is positive solely because it was not positive enough.
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u/Wickedocity 8h ago
They have a webpage to report potholes. Shouldnt that be the correct method and shouldnt it work?
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u/Medium-Violinist-903 7h ago
Why is tagging something so much worse than going to webpage to report things?
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u/Wickedocity 7h ago
Because it should function without having to hope one person sees a tag.
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u/Medium-Violinist-903 7h ago
Is it really that much better to hope that someone that is monitoring the webpage does their job?
I get that in a perfect world, nobody would have to report anything, not even a webpage, the potholes would just be fixed immediately. But we don't live in a perfect world, and we never will. So in the meantime, its a good thing that potholes are being fixed, even if it does come from people tagging posts. If all you can do is focus on how this good thing isn't good enough, then you'll clearly never be satisfied with anything other than perfection, a perfection you'll never get.
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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 7h ago
Contact government with problem -> government fixes problem is the exact workflow we DO want. The f$&# are you smoking?Ā
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u/Wickedocity 7h ago
I want a city's reporting system to work without tagging someone on a social media app. Taxpayers pay for the reporting system. It should work. Take Mamdami out of the equation. Would you think tagging a public official to get something done when the taxpayer-funded system doesn't work is a good thing?
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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 7h ago
You're staring progress in the face and shit talking the incompetence they're fixing.Ā
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u/Wickedocity 7h ago
They aren't fixing the incompetence if you have to tag someone on social media to get anything done. That is not progress. That is a failure to fix existing taxpayer-funded departments.
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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 7h ago
Getting work done at an unprecedented rate isn't fixing incompetence?
I guess the bot farms are back up, because this is some dumb ass AI early in it's training, to be this fucking stupid.Ā
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u/Wickedocity 7h ago
You cannot counter my points, so you resort to personal attacks. You repeatedly ignore non-functioning departments. I guess that's all you have got.
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u/Any_Specialist3714 8h ago
Either Mamdani has an amazing PR team, or previous mayors have all been hilariously incompetent and/or corrupt.