Completely disagree, and so do a majority of New Yorkers. Glad you miraculously avoided it, but the rest of us haven't.

> Gerrymandered maps in Florida and Texas had no effect.

New York heavily underperformed expectations, and those expectations were set with the understanding that the gerrymandered Dem maps would not be used. This excuse doesn't hold water.

> It was Progressives in NYC that ignored crime in a city with lower crime rates than Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Houston, and Dallas during a mid term election that on average has more seats go to the party out of power.

New Yorker voters don't give a flying fuck about Florida or Texas and don't give a shit about your cherry-picked stats. What they will pay attention to is the steady drumbeat of crimes committed by people with several dozen prior arrests that should have stayed in jail, and the progressives and Democrats that constantly try to ignore that.

> during a mid term election that on average has more seats go to the party out of power.

Non-New York Dems will note a specific under-performance in New York this cycle and throw NYC progressives under the bus for these losing policies.

>their lies

Which lies would those be? They cover individual crimes that are happening in the city that you and your friends would apparently like to downplay or ignore. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the city is concerned about crime. Meanwhile, crime statistics seem to back this perception up. Per-capita crime statistics on the subway are significantly up versus pre-pandemic, as are assaults and many other major serious violent crimes. If you want to defuse their talking points, instead of trying to gaslight the majority of the population, why not... address the crime and the policies that allow serial offenders and dangerous people to walk around with dozens of priors and continue hurting innocent people?

New York Democrats and progressives are being blamed for the Democrats loss of the House at a national scale: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/opinion/house-democrats-new-york.html. It says very clearly that trying to ignore crime cost the party several House seats, and by extension, control of the House.

I don't know at what point progressives in the city wake up to how deeply unpopular it is to try to ignore crime. You aren't just catching flak from conservatives and moderates these days, you're catching it from other Dems.

I appreciate you.

Accurate about sneaking scooters and batteries into buildings though. There are comments in the link above talking about bribing doormen.

Holy shit how pathetic your life must be to pull this shit 8 days later. Holy fucking shit.

And to pounce on a tragedy and try to compare it to crime in the city. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Close. Just the DAs.

It's not just that they need money, they need effectively an infinite amount. So many times where their policies begin to fail and they claim that it just needs to be scaled up even more.

Good intentions are absolutely worthless when it comes to policymaking.

This is the typical cop-out answer from New Yorkers. "It's bad everywhere!" No, it's not. Some cities across the world do a way better job. Stop making excuses.

I'm pretty confident that my life is vastly better than yours. I have the money and resources to insulate myself from the problems that are caused by people like yourself that are ignorant of the world and of good public policy.

You're much more likely to be a victim of crime now than I am, despite the fact that you try to minimize it. Maybe it would teach you some empathy.

> I'm not scared of darker skin people

Such a lazy troll. Sincerity is harder, and I am sincerely dedicated to making the lives of anti-social people such as yourself miserable in this city until you either figure out how to cooperate or you leave.

It wouldn't even be an altercation in places like Seoul. You're simply ignorant of how a huge chunk of the world works and just how safe large cities can be. You don't even fully understand what cities can be at their best.

> right down to lying about your political leanings as if your post history doesn't exist for all to see.

Like the comment that got me banned from conservative months ago?: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/vmvunz/-/ie3n5wc/

My post history shows pretty reasonable opinions. I'll continue to push them here and elsewhere and argue against inexperienced children such as yourself. I will work with other like-minded New Yorkers to put people like you in your place and keep your idiotic opinions from making life worse here for everyone.

It's sad that you're so ignorant of the world and can't process nuance better. I'm not a conservative, I'm not talking about Canada, and you are really out of your depth in this conversation.

I've traveled internationally pretty extensively and never run into the widespread menacing that you find in New York. It's not fearmongering, it's experience. I don't really give a shit that your political views demand that you ignore crime happening around you or ignore other people's experiences.

> Yeah, random and unprovoked aren't unique to this city in any way.

It's so much worse in American cities right now. It's insane. I honestly think that the majority of people who think otherwise simply haven't traveled internationally at all.

Throwing everyone in a classroom doesn't really help if you have a ton of disruptive students.

There was a pretty steady stream of Asian people being attacked, assaulted, and murdered during the pandemic, but for some reason a large percentage of the sub was uncomfortable talking about that.