I'm a gay guy looking into a destination wedding in Singapore...any suggestions for venue? Don't worry, we know all that stuff about chewing gum and weed is memey cope or whatever.

No, nor gay marriage or weed

Distrustful is a better term. And decidedly not aligned with conservatives on policies concerning police. Wanting more police presence isn't a mandate for stop and frisk and doesn't mean they don't support measures to increase police accountability.

It's like you missed my entire point about "tough on crime" being relative.

And you're literally using this sub's views of Eric Adams to rebut my point about why this sub is wrong about Eric Adams.

If those people wanted "tough on crime" candidates who promised to use scorched-earth police tactics to "clean up" the streets, they had plenty of Republican candidates they could have supported.

Adams might seem pro-police compared to the progressive Dem field, but on a national level he absolutely wasn't close. He wasn't even supported by the PBA, which regarded him as a police critic and thorn in their side.

In any GOP primary he would have instantly been branded "soft on crime." Reddit's perspective is so skewed on this topic.

I can...if the perp is black. Which brings us back to the main point.

The communities hate them for a good reason. Like the fact that those communities pay them six-figure pensions and they still won't do their job unless they have carte blanche to crack skulls with no repercussions.

Yes, and the commenter above wanted to make sure we knew his name was Jamal.

We're on a first-name basis with just this one perp.

Intentional use of first name

It's the narrative that the resident conservatrolls desperately want to be true.

Yeah, let's open up the topic of how LGBT NYers feel about policing and incarceration. I'm sure you'll get lots of Pat Lynch fans.

Good point, let's all agree to vote for the person most adamant about police accountability.

How convenient, the Post could use some third-grade lessons in journalism. Maybe their reporters could enroll.

This is a hilarious image

Another way of putting this is, "they don't ask as much from small businesses because they know they can't afford it." Like, no shit. It's a fine on a business. It takes economies of scale into account.

I wonder what you think of progressive taxation. Actually, no I don't.

He sounds like any conservative paper's(e.g the Post's) reporting. Put a large figure in the headline implying it's an elected/appointed public official's salary.

Adds fuel to the "out of control gubmint spending" narrative to make your proposed solutions (cut funding to public works, infrastructure, regulatory agencies and social services, while implementing tax cuts for businesses and the rich) seem favorable.

That was probably the intention. Part 2 was convincing you to vote against spending for public programs and in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy.

That would make sense if they were trying to roll out state-owned pot shops, but they aren't.

People in NYC like businesses to be regulated for good reason. That's not gonna change.

Hell yeah.

I've been in one accident with an Uber as well, in addition to the fuckery I mentioned. I've also had bad experiences with cabs, just not enough to justify 2x the cost, a non-zero amount of fuckery, and support for a business that fundamentally depends on eliminating competition by leveraging economies of scale, operating at a loss for years, then jacking up the price once their competitors leave the market.

Uber drivers routinely accept my rides and then spend 10-20 minutes driving in circles as the ETA keeps getting pushed later and later. Also, there's no reason an Uber driver cant just ignore requests from "certain people," is there?

Add in the absurd cost relative to yellow cabs, the history of misconduct by Uber drivers, and the generally shitty exploitative labor and Wal-Mart-esque business practices of Uber/Lyft, and yellow cabs are the clear winner.

It's the job of Starbucks management to ensure that it happens. There are solutions, including paying people enough to deal with it.

Boy, I am so outraged by how the Democrats reacted to... having thousands of asylum seekers stranded in their city by Texas Republicans.

Wow, that's so theatrical and performative, unlike the act of shuttling misinformed asylum seekers a thousand miles away and stranding them in NYC.

No no, I'm pretty sure it's my copium-fueled narrative about how conservatives successfully tricked convinced Asian NYers to voter for them.