Political Memes

Punitive criminal systems are notoriously bad at reducing crime, actually.

Honestly, I had expected that it was a minor improvement (and it was - something like three fewer murders), and insofar as I would have seriously credited Mamdani at all, I would've attributed it to the general positive mood after Mamdani's victory - he certainly is very charismatic and active in the community, and such things do have an effect in the public mood and awareness.

However, someone else pointed out this was, apparently, the coldest January in the past decade, so that's the more likely culprit.

The link you're missing is that Sharia Law is a brown people thing and brown people are all aggressive and murderous and hate the US and hate freedom and I can't keep up this satire any longer, Jesus fucking Christ, what has this world come to

is there are policy responsible for this?

Probably just a result of the snow. No way any policies got implemented that fast.

Admiral Akbar told us it was a trap!!

"The Left needs to fall in love; The Right simply falls in line."

This is not about just one political opinion it something common in all political opinions.

lot of people don’t understand the actual job of politics and think they do from watching TV and movies. I worry deeply for our future.

what? there is many good movies and TV-shows that correctly reflect (sometimes even make feel) politics

This just reads like a bad faith interpretation of anyone on the left who might have ideological differences between themselves and Mamdani. That doesn’t mean they aren’t pragmatic. For example, if you believe that our current government cannot be reformed then compromise with the right wing is often the least pragmatic way to bring about change. Pretending that this means you’re making perfect the enemy of the good either means you’re being disingenuous or you just don’t understand the perspective you’re critiquing.

Anybody who expects a100% perfect politician is a fool

Already happening. He has a good working relationship with governor Hochul and endorses her above a DSA candidate.

But she put out her neck for him and made things possible. If he did not reciprocate nobody in Albany would cooperate with him any more.

because you have to make compromises in politics

the politically correct thing is very often not the morally correct thing and it sucks. it's the reason i am not in politics and also not in prison (i think i would probably set something on fire)

"safest January on record" implies that the stats are being compared to the same time period of different years, no? Was this January that much colder than average?

If no crime was ever committed then what would Spiderman be doing all day??

Do you want Spiderman to go unemployed????

Just for knowledge purposes for others (good joke) -

Hindu-Arabic numerals. Arabic numerals is the Eurocentric nomenclature.

Both Fibonacci and Al-Khwarizmi cited mathematicians and philosophers from the subcontinent in their works but somehow this got lost in Western historiography until more recently.

For those interested - Al Khwarizimi wrote Kitāb al-Hisāb al-Hind (The Book of Indian Calculation) around 825 CE. Fibonacci came across the method 400 years later while in North Africa and wrote Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) in 1202 referring to the number system as the Modus Indorum (method of the Indians).

How the original source got lost along the way is hard to say but some degree of colonial revisionist history likely had a role to play.