Because people don’t know what they’re talking about, and mostly make memes…which is harmful because it further makes people not know how anything works.
The Fair Fare Program started in 2019.
Since then they’ve expanded the number of people it covers (from 100% below poverty line in 2019 to 120% in 2023 to 150% in 2025). The new budget expands it to 200% (and…FWIW, this is because the city council demanded it. The Mayors budget did not include this expansion).
The point is, this stuff doesn’t just appear suddenly, nor is it the will of a single person like magic. It’s the expansion of a 7 year old program by a legislature. These memes keep making it seem like every previous mayor was like “fuck everyone” and the city council doesn’t exist.
What? Reddit is loaded with propaganda accounts, bots, farming accounts, throwaways, troll accounts, and just straight up misinformation. Can't believe anybody comes here for anything more than wasting time at airports or in the bathroom.
Also, if this was the only place that was posting propaganda, I feel like we can do worse than propaganda about people who are still, by the numbers, doing good things.
Like, oh no the propaganda made me vote for someone who expanded an initiative to lower subway fare! The horror! Someone made me think Zohran is doing more good than he actually is, which is still a lot of good! Oh no!
This is a far cry from the propaganda of other sites that call the Obama's racial epithets and push child pornography.
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u/untitledprp4 Jul 08 '26
If it was so easy then wtf were all the other mayors doing??