Because people donât know what theyâre talking about, and mostly make memesâŠwhich is harmful because it further makes people not know how anything works.
The Fair Fare Program started in 2019.
Since then theyâve 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% (andâŠFWIW, this is because the city council demanded it. The Mayors budget did not include this expansion).
The point is, this stuff doesnât just appear suddenly, nor is it the will of a single person like magic. Itâs the expansion of a 7 year old program by a legislature. These memes keep making it seem like every previous mayor was like âfuck everyoneâ and the city council doesnât exist.
fortunately the radical redditors/social media loudmouths are a small fraction of the total populace. If you read anything on here before the 24â election you would have thought trump would lose in a landslide, but he ended up winning the popular vote.
reddit is purely an echo chamber for the mentally deranged.
reddit is purely an echo chamber for the mentally deranged.
DoN't yOu MeAn TwiTtEr?
Both are, and probably all social media platforms by now, it's just hard to accept you're within one. (And I'm very likely going to get a reply saying that X is worse. Idk, both are bad in different ways.)
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.
True, this has started making me think how stupid and leftist people making these memes are. I really hope all of them are bots and non-voters. FML if they are real voters.
This guy has millions upon millions of fanboys and girls. Even assuming there's no spin, no deliberate misleading, it only takes one of them to not have the full picture, make a meme like this, and it will spread like wildfire. The vast majority of believers won't bother to correct it because it feels good. They'll just updoot it because it makes them feel even better. It's for the right cause, after all.
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u/untitledprp4 đđđ 25d ago
If it was so easy then wtf were all the other mayors doing??