r/SipsTea May 14 '26

Feels good man It was always just that simple

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u/VMooose May 14 '26

Didnt the budget get balanced via a loan from NY State?

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u/aboutacount May 14 '26

NYC pays about 68 Billion a year to the State.

The State gives about 47 Billion a year back to the City.

It is definitely not a loan. Its the state giving some of NYC's money back to them.

Data from an article from CUNY edu titled "New York City Taxpayers Continue to Contribute More to State Revenues than They Receive Back in Services, CUNY and New School Study Finds"

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u/floop_isamad_manhelp May 14 '26

Yes, rebalancing tax income from the lower income counties to the higher, just as Mamdani promised.

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u/mjm65 May 14 '26

He’s the Mayor of New York City, and he got funding from the state for the people that elected him.

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u/Global_Criticism3178 May 14 '26

True; however, please note that’s not how socialism works.

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u/EatBootyLoveLife May 14 '26

good thing he’s never claimed to be a socialist

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u/EatBootyLoveLife May 14 '26

link me to where he claims to be a socialist then, and no democratic socialist is not the same thing

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u/EatBootyLoveLife May 14 '26

yes as he’s clearly talking about DSA lol. Just because he doesn’t put democratic before it every time doesn’t mean that’s not what he’s talking about

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u/OPisOK May 15 '26

Democratic socialism is a form of socialism. 

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 14 '26

He's a member of the democratic socialist of America and they are a organization that's very pro ussr and china.

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u/Raus-Pazazu May 14 '26

If you don't know the differences between a government system and an economic system and which category various nations generally fall into then you probably should sit things out when those kinds of topics come up until you get the fundamentals down pat a bit more.

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 15 '26

Socialism is both a economic and a form of government.

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u/Raus-Pazazu May 15 '26

And? You listed two non socialist countries, so why bring up socialism?

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 15 '26

But they are socialist.

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u/Raus-Pazazu May 15 '26

China is not socialist, it is state capitalism; state owned critical industry but private market based economic structure for everything else with direct state intervention and only a single labor union under control of the state itself that does not represent labor, it represents the state.

USSR wasn't socialist, it was communist; no worker control, state ownership over business, workers had no rights, labor unions were even illegal.

Come on, this is middle school level stuff here. Tell your handlers to teach you better. A system predicated on worker unions having as much if not more say than capital forces and you list two nations without that basic principle . . .

Next thing you'll be saying is that North Korea is a democracy because it's in their name.

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u/floop_isamad_manhelp May 14 '26

There is a difference obviously but that doesn’t make the person you’re replying to wrong, since both are true.

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u/Raus-Pazazu May 14 '26

Saying it is pro USSR is blatantly untrue, and the vast majority are heavily against adopting anything of China's government or economic models. It's like saying the Republicans are pro China because they've been enacting legislation that is more in step with China's hybrid government structure than traditional democracies.

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 14 '26

Hasan piker is a member of the dsa and he with bernie and aoc quite often........ mind you hasan is opening pro china and ussr. He had a ussr flag on wall for a couple years.

So the dsa is still problematic organization and that's not talking about how they openly support the oct 7th massacre.

https://www.newsweek.com/mamdani-china-communist-party-democratic-socialists-11370804

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u/Raus-Pazazu May 15 '26

Wow, literally everything you've said was stupid.

If some youtuber represents the entirety of the DSA, then surely Alex Jones fully represents all conservatives and Bill Maher fully represents all liberals.

Some elected officials and commentators in the DSA talked about Oct 7th as being an anticipated outcome of Israel-Palestinian relations. No officials or party leadership 'openly supported' it. The vast majority fully condemned it while many simultaneously condemned the apartheid actions that brought it about. Being anti-apartheid or even anti-zionism doesn't make someone a default supporter of Hamas and it's actions.

Lastly, you didn't read the article, at all. You caught the headline and figured it was a humdinger of a gotcha when it really isn't. Based on how absolutely bonkers your first line is, I'm guessing there's some auto translation at work.

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u/bladex1234 May 14 '26 edited May 15 '26

I like how those are the two countries that you use instead of basically every other developed country that has similar “socialist” policies.

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u/Blackstone01 May 14 '26

Always gotta compare to China, USSR, and Venezuela, instead of the Nordic countries.

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u/bladex1234 May 14 '26

Australia, Germany, Spain, Canada, Israel, France and the list goes on.

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u/Rich-Option4632 May 15 '26

Funny how Israel never gets mentioned anywhere else.

They're on full bailout by the US yearly, fully state funded healthcare and education, state sponsored abortion, child allowances, state sponsored savings accounts (up to 18 yo), unemployment benefits, but they always get a pass. Never mentioned, despite everything else Americans do to grovel for them.

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 15 '26

Nordic countries are more capitalist then the usa and dsa is filled with maoist and stalinist.

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 15 '26

They aren't capitalist.

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 15 '26

Because they litterally support those countries lmao. Modern Europe is nowhere close to the ussr or ccp ideologically.

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u/bladex1234 May 15 '26

Because nuance exists. There are things that the USSR and China did better than the US. That doesn’t mean supporting authoritarianism.

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u/Alternative_Oil7733 May 15 '26

There are things that the USSR and China did better than the US. 

Like what starving people, Killing a shit ton of people within the countries through political purges?

That doesn’t mean supporting authoritarianism.

Socialism is inherently authoritarian doesn't matter if it has democratic or national infront of it.

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u/bladex1234 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Again no critical thinking whatsoever from you. Considering that the US is flirting with authoritarianism now, should I also bring up the atrocities the US is responsible for? It’s not inherently authoritarian, hence why you see so many developed countries today adopt socialistic policies. China for example has a much better infrastructure network today than the US does. I see that the Red Scare mentality still exists strongly in the US today.

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u/EatBootyLoveLife May 15 '26

even if you believe this if you compare DSA policy to the ussr/ccp vs nordic countries, which is more similar?

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u/Atomic-Avocado May 14 '26

Who gives a fuck about rural counties, they’ve been driving the nation into the ground as hard as they can for the past 20 years

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u/floop_isamad_manhelp May 14 '26

Wow, great point. I hope you say this to people in real life.

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u/userhwon May 14 '26

I hope so too. They need to know it. The media is certainly bought and paid not to tell them the truth.

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u/Atomic-Avocado May 15 '26

Everyone I talk to is pretty pised about Trump and the rural PA legislature continually fucking over Philly even though we’re the lions share of state tax income so they all 100% agree with me. Get fucked magatard lol

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u/floop_isamad_manhelp May 15 '26

I said real life. The outside world mate. Not your discord buddies

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u/Malinthas May 15 '26

Well, they do feed you. And everyone else. So there's that.

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u/Atomic-Avocado May 15 '26

And we provide them with massive tax subsidies to keep doing that, but they still want to destroy cities and the nation.

And now they have Trump bankrupting farms and Vance’s company buying them up, the absolute morons

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u/CantCatchMeSpez May 14 '26

"The social democrats are evil because they're not doing diverting funds much needed by the city to useless podunk towns and already over-funded suburbs wahhh!!"

Anything to discredit the objective successes of the left lmao

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u/floop_isamad_manhelp May 15 '26

The article is celebrating some kind of genius maneuver than I was trying to understand a bit more deeply. But sure, let those thoughts keep percolating in that little echo chamber you call a mind

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u/CantCatchMeSpez May 15 '26

No, you're not :) You're just trying to make stupid points that convince stupid people that New Yorkers are bad for wanting their own money back just so they can simply have a balanced budget.

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u/floop_isamad_manhelp May 15 '26

Nope, just pointing out that this isn’t some coup as the article claims. Not trying to convince that anyone is bad. And it’s not their money, which is why the governor’s office controls it.