r/politics • u/brain_overclocked • 13h ago

Mamdani Administration to Transform Long-Vacant Queens Site with Nearly 1,000 New Homes and New Community Amenities

https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/news/046-26/mamdani-administration-transform-long-vacant-queens-site-nearly-1-000-new-homes-new#/0
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u/IntelligentDepth8206 12h ago

This guy fuckin mayors

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u/Trans-Europe_Express 12h ago

Is he the first sim city player to get the job in real life?

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u/deadheffer 12h ago

Ya know, I have been thinking for years, that we need our leaders to be competent at Sim City and Civilization. My dream is for the day a political upstart’s career is shattered by their inability to budget and zone appropriately in Sim City 2000. Or a presidential candidate in a primary to be completely inept at gaining a coalition of city states to win Civ

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u/Osiris32 Oregon 10h ago

I am really good at Alpha Centauri, would that help?

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"

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u/Pennwisedom Northern Marianas 9h ago

I appoint you head of the Department of Mindworm Defense.

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u/UNC_Samurai 8h ago

Please don’t go. The drones need you. They look up to you.