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.”
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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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?
How does he manage to get all this amazing shit done?
Just do it. That’s all it takes. The fact that most don’t should tell us a lot.
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?
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.
ie, corruption. every single politician like that should rot in a jail cell. it's so normalised that we have basically one major exception
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.
Why does this literally make me horny
And then he said “consumer rights” and sploosh
The first who's actually wanted to do so. So he does it.
Biden tried to get this passed but it got blocked by a federal court
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
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 🤷♀️
With common sense.
If only it truly were common.
Compared to Canada it seems kind of absurd to me how much power mayors in the US seem to have
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.
38???
(Am American)
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).
Most states don't actually have that many people. Most of the 300M+ Americans live in the same handful of cities.
Idk, as an American Doug Ford seemed to have a lot of power when he was mayor. And now as ~~governor~~ premier he's overriding the Constitution (notwithstanding) or maybe I'm misunderstanding
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.
Doug Ford was not the mayor of Toronto. It was Rob Ford, his brother that was the mayor.
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
I totally thought it was the same dude. Not very good marketing there to differentiate from his crackhead brother.
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/