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- Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.worldEnglish28 days
He’s probably not on the take from big business and realizes he’ll never get donations from the wealthy. So he has no problem passing legislation that will harm them in favor of the consumer.
- 28 days
Apparently the button to turn off the orphan crushing machine was on the desk all along.
Real answer is that he is basically doing his job. the question is how come every other mayor/politicians isn’t doing their job?
- halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish28 days
Their corporate donors don’t want them to. And they want those donors happy for two reasons, so they can get rich via kickbacks and insider info because Congress is apparently exempt from insider trading, and when they leave office they get a nice cushy lobbying job using the connections they made in office to deal.
- 28 days
ie, corruption. every single politician like that should rot in a jail cell. it’s so normalised that we have basically one major exception
- 28 days
It’s almost like the ability to do it was there all along and people choose not to do and then tell you they can’t 🤷♀️
- Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish28 days
Assuming the administration attempted to show the ambition to do so, but didn’t actually need it done. Obstructionist republicans noted, but the will to finish is probably the true difference here.
Order of magnitude larger effort at the federal level as well, but again, will is likely the true difference
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish28 days
Just do it. That’s all it takes. The fact that most don’t should tell us a lot.
- 27 days
Shockingly he appears to be working for the people.
Fucking communist.
- NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish28 days
Compared to Canada it seems kind of absurd to me how much power mayors in the US seem to have
- xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish28 days
New York City is a strange case because his constituency is larger than 38 states. Nearly as many people as all of Switzerland.
Los Angeles is huge, too but has a relatively weak mayor because of how the city council is structured.
- xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish28 days
Not combined of course, but as of 2025 NYC has a population of about 8.6 million… so there are only 12 US states with a population greater than that.
California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, and Virginia (but just barely).
- halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish28 days
Most states don’t actually have that many people. Most of the 300M+ Americans live in the same handful of cities.
- Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish28 days
Idk, as an American Doug Ford seemed to have a lot of power when he was mayor. And now as
governorpremier he’s overriding the Constitution (notwithstanding) or maybe I’m misunderstanding
28 daysDoug Ford was not the mayor of Toronto. It was Rob Ford, his brother that was the mayor.
- Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish28 days
OH right! It was his crack smoking brother Rob that was the mayor. I always forget that Doug lost that election in 14
Thank you
- halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish28 days
I totally thought it was the same dude. Not very good marketing there to differentiate from his crackhead brother.
- 27 days
He was a hash dealer, not a drug user. Easy to confuse: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/
- 27 days
Mayors did not have a lot of power until Doug gave some of them Strong Mayor powers recently: https://www.ontario.ca/document/ontario-municipal-councillors-guide/10-strong-mayor-powers-and-duties#section-3
Before then they were just one vote.
- uszo165@futurology.todayEnglish28 days
Tankies whining: “B-but voting does not change anything at all. It does not matter who gets elected. All parties have the exact same policies. LBJ and DJT are the same guy, they are one person.”
- 27 days
People should continue to vote for folks who do fuck all to stop bad things? Because they are better than those who do the bad things?
- JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish28 days
I just want a mayor that wants to do the job and can spell the football team’s name. Is that too much to ask?
- JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish28 days
Oh no. I’m joking about Mayor Parker of Philly. I made a bad joke.
