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  You know when I lost a lot of faith in the future of this country?
  When I had a conversation with someone who said in response to me saying... 
  "Whatever happened to Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?  It's literally in the script of the Statue of Liberty"
  His response
  "It says no vacancy now"
context: Eric Adams makes Mitt Romney look like Bernie Sanders. >
  
  Eric Adams makes Crotch Capers 3 look like Naughty Nurses 2! >
  
  Wtf is going on… I just saw this same reference in my local city subreddit. >
  
  It’s a South Park Reference >
  
  But was the episode recent because…
  If not, what a coincidence to read these two comment threads within the same minute. >
  
  Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
  -Albert Einstein >
  
  I prefer his later stuff after he changed his name to Rammstein. >
  
  I saw Rammstein in Chicago last September, unbelievable show. >
  
  I’m not even a fan of them, and I can easily see how their shows could be some of the most entertaining and fun time.
  (Fun fact: I hate bro-country. Luke Bryan was hands down the most fun I’ve ever had at a concert. And I hate his music.) >
  
  I was immersed in the stadium country thing in high school, it was all my friends were into (for context I was into like, High On Fire, Nine Inch Nails, The Residents, Primus, Ween, etc). I got dragged to a few of those shows, and while the stadium country thing isn't my bag (I'm more into cosmic country, Gram Parsons and whatnot), I can see the appeal. It's just not for me. Rammstein, on the other hand....everyone should experience that once in their life. >
  
  This guy gets worse every time he opens his mouth >
  
  It’s NYC… if you don’t know the history of NYC how did you become mayor? >
  
  It's NYC. It's not some progressive paradise lol. Half the time they have a fucking Republican mayor like they do now. >
  
  People like to think NYC is some coastal progressive paradise but in reality it’s about 45% conservative by population and it’s the home of Wall Street. NYC is one of the most corrupt cities in the country. >
  
  Giuliani and Trump are NYC icons too. >
  
  LMFAO Trump is not an icon here. Most sane people hated him before everyone else 😂 >
  
  We didn’t hate him so much as thought he was a womanizer and a joke. If he wanted to cheat on all his wives and brag about literally anything he’s ever done, you do you man. It’s not my thing but it wasn’t hurting anyone
  When he became president that’s when it all changed. The evil, narcissistic and incompetence became clearer and started affecting all of us >
  
  Yes, but also it says something that <10% of Manhattaners voted for Trump. He was probably hated before. >
  
  "Give me your tired, your poor,
  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" >
  
  “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
  Leviticus 19:34 >
  
  Jesus died so that we wouldn’t have to do that shit anymore. 
  -Christians (every time I ask why they don’t do the stuff commanded by God in Leviticus) >
  
  That is not even close to what that means... There are entire theses written on how Jesus fulfills many of the complex prophecies and rules in the OT in surprising ways, when once fully understood and grasped paints a beautiful (I think) narrative of a God who works perfection from imperfection. BUT... I've met the people you are describing and they've never even read the book. They couldn't even be bothered to listen to the audio book and watching a movie is stretching it. Whatever you say they're just looking to use the bible to justify doing whatever they wanted to do in the first place like a big fortune cookie. >
  
  Can I get a link? >
  
  Thanks. >
  
  No problem >
  
  New York was made up of immigrants lol >
  
  So therefore it must let immigrants in forever? >
  
  I think there should be a balance. To say there’s no room for immigrants seems very biased. I presume if the immigrant was rich there would suddenly be room. What they’re really implying is, if you’re poor and an immigrant gtfo. But maybe I’m just misinterpreting reading between the lines. >
  
  Here's the thing- Ronald Reagan granted a blanket amnesty in the 80's to give the House time to figure shit out... they've fucked around and found out that you can't offload this forever. We don't have housing (because no one will legislate protection for renters, illegal or no), healthcare, or injury protection for these workers, but we're more than willing to take advantage of their labor.
  Any give on this for "illegals" will make room for protection for "legal" workers. Because corporations and investors won't "share" their profits by paying their workers what they're worth, nothing will change. >
  
  
  Ronald Reagan granted a blanket amnesty in the 80's to give the House time to figure shit out...
  
  And in 2006 the house passed a bipartisan border security act, with a deal being made to strengthen the border in return for long term undocumented migrants to have a path to legal residency. 
  The Democrats kept up their side of that and massively increased border security. >
  
  If the US doesn't have a birthrate high enough to supply corporations with cheap labor, then they will have to rely on immigration. Not sure why republicans are against it. >
  
  Immigration will save us ultimately. >
  
  Unless birth rates begin falling across the entire world. Then what? >
  
  People will still want to come regardless. Quality of life is still better than a lot of places. >
  
  Which is quite scary, cos a lot of the US is rough. >
  
  Whole true, I'd still rather be homeless in a place that isn't being shelled >
  
  Agreed, much better to be in the nation doing the shelling >
  
  There's "no room" only for anyone who's poor, really. That's really the issue. These cities today are for rich people only thanks to housing prices, and they're the only ones who leaders care about. If the migrants had wealth no one would tell this to them. It's only poors who are not welcomed or are told there's "no room." >
  
  That doesn't really address the issue at hand. Where should they live and who will pay for their housing? Hotels and landlords have their own bills to pay. We can't expect them to give people free housing. Even if housing prices were cut in half, that money would still have to come from somewhere. Would you be willing to pay rent for an immigrant family? They'll probably be able to find a job eventually, but it will be at least a few months of you paying their rent before they're financially stable. >
  
  You can say the same for the rising homeless population in NYC and elsewhere. At the end of the day the issue is lack of affordable housing and the poor being pushed out of the city. My point is this wouldn't be an issue now if leadership had cared about making the city affordable. What is the mayor doing to make it so people can afford to live in the city without straining it?
  When immigrants flowed into NYC by the millions over a century ago, they found countless cheap, often shoddy and decrepit but cheap, apartments to live in. The fact NYC can't handle an influx of even a few thousand such poor people today is a sign of it both becoming a city for the rich only now. A city which can't handle even this modest number of migrants is a shame honestly. >
  
  1,000s of apartments be removed from availability to become airbnbs doesn’t help >
  
  Do you think France will notice if we re-gift? >
  
  New overton window, whodis? >
  
  Someone recently told me how far left the Overton window had moved.
  ... >
  
  I mean, if he meant since the beginning of recorded history he's generally correct. It's all a matter of timescale. >
  
  Ummm does anybody want to tell him? >
  
  Which is a lie, because they need low paid workers for shitty jobs >
  
  It's a weird spot - they want low-wage employees, but they don't want to give them a place to live. They want people, but they don't want to treat them like people. >
  
  Conservatives: "sounds about right" >
  
  "Why should they get to live it up in a place like New York doing such lowly jobs on wages so much higher than around here in bumfuck nowhere?"
  (you try to explain it to them) 
  "SHUT UP with your ivory tower bullshit!" >
  
  Yeah Right?  No Italians or Irish. Ya feel me? >
  
  capisce >
  
  Trash title. Read the article.
  Yes, he says this. And it's being taken out of context to make him seem anti-immigrant, but what he's referring to is the bus loads of immigrants being illegally sent to NYC on busses.
  They're going to be out $2 billion because of what they're already doing, and can't afford to keep maintaining this political ploy by these lunatics.
  If you just read the quote as it is, it sounds bad, but in reality he's another victim of the Republican insanity and click bait news. >
  
  He’s also a shitty mayor. Dude has been ass since he’s taken office >
  
  He's a slumlord who lets his buildings fester with rats and roaches while he does nothing about it.
  He's also dumber than a box of ball hair. >
  
  Someone downvoted this.
  Eric... that you, buddy? >
  
  If you’ve been to New York City, you’d understand he isn’t exaggerating about the housing crisis >
  
  NYC would have plenty of room for migrants if it would just build more housing and not let nimbys sandbag the process >
  
  Have you ever been to NYC? It’s packed with high rises. There is no room to build horizontally, only vertically. We are not talking about the state here man. And why is it the mayors job to raise taxes on the city residents to care for all the immigrants that Texas and Florida GQP governors are shipping to blue  cities. You are being played when you should be pissed at the federal gov for doing nothing to help along with Texas and Florida exacerbating the problem. >
  
  A fuckload of the NYC metro (and city proper) is completely inundated with suburban-style sprawl, massive stroads, and single-family-only zoning. Robert Moses really fucked the city up and doomed it to an unsustainable and short-of-housing future. 
  Let’s rip out some highways, upzone, and get some more housing built. It’s possible, but nobody has the political will to upset the NIMBYs. >
  
  Who gonna pay for it? You? You ready to pay more city taxes? >
  
  Sprawl and single-family-only zoning actually ends up costing a municipality more to maintain than denser zoning. 
  It doesn’t cost anything to upzone. It’s literally changing the rules for developers to follow to let them build more dense units and mixed-use spaces. It doesn’t cost a municipality literally anything to upzone besides the cost of the legislators’ time. >
  
  Nothing stopping you from petitioning your own property to be rezoned for this use, but something tells me you want to expropriate other people's property. >
  
  There isn’t even “room” in large parts of NYC for middle class people anymore, let alone migrants. >
  
  Agreed. People making six figures are struggling in some cases. Our problem with homelessness is out of control. >
  
  Just another fucking cop. >
  
  And in that way, the New York Mayor serves (and reveals) his function and allegiance to capital and private property above all else. >
  
  Huh?  As a NYC taxpayer this is a problem. What do you think the city should do differently? >
  
  Agreed. I think some of these people don’t understand nyc. They think migrants cost no money and we have infinite places to live. To acknowledge simple math and homeless people is not something they want to consider, they’d rather view all opposition to migrants as exclusively grounded in racism >
  
  So if you didn’t actually ready the article, here is the part where you should get mad at Texas and Florida. The mayor of NYC is angry that the feds are not controlling where migrants are going. The mayor estimates that the influx of immigrants will cost NYC residents 2 billion dollars a year, which they do not have. So is it really fair for everyone in America to throw stones at this guy while letting the GQP conduct economic warfare  against blue states? The answer is no. The mayors job is to govern those that live in the city, not take on the burden of housing immigrants from Florida and Texas. That is a federal responsibility to facilitate. Stop making this a race issue. The GQP are playing us liberals like a fiddle right now. >
  
  Then why doesn’t he go against the fact that Florida and Texas are the ones fucking him over? Why doesn’t he mention that what Florida & Texas have done is unethical & immoral? The mayor of NYC knows exactly what he’s saying & how he’s wording it. 
  Tired of people like you giving assholes like adams a free pass just because. >
  
  The thing is, NYC touts itself as a sanctuary city, a city of second chances, and a city that will take in the poor and hungry. When the mayor (Eric Adams) makes a statement like that it detracts from the city's reputation and loses its own virtues. >
  
  How much can he do though? There is a limit to the number of people they can keep. It should be the Federal government who organizes between the states. The mayor is just saying no one is acting with a clear plan. >
  
  Idk man I just wish the migration thing got idk overhauled via legislation cause fuck am I tired of this “political” issue. We have the space / resources and room for migrants and immigration can be an economic multiplier - just our system is old and needs fixing. >
  
  Well he’s not wrong. There’s not even enough space for New Yorkers. Oh no wait, there’s plenty of room in Trump Tower. >
  
  How did cities in Texas survive for so long? Amazing >
  
  To be fair, it’s the right-wing politicians who are behind sending these people to NYC. It’d make much more sense, if the idea is to spread the migrants around, to send some to Little Rock, some to Fargo, Grand Forks; Wichita, Des Moines, Tulsa, Lincoln, Omaha etc. Sending them to the most expensive city in America is a recipe for failure & these republicans obviously know this. 
  Clearly the republicans think this is funny & don’t care how many migrants are harmed throughout this process. >
  
  As shitty as this is, I get it. NYC is under a massive housing shortage. Ya know where there's plenty of room for migrants? The gigantic state of Texas where they're all coming from! >
  
  There is no housing shortage. 17 million homes sit vacant in this country. A ton are in NYC. >
  
  NYC has plenty of empty homes that are pied e terre and owned by the rich who come into the city once a year. There are thousands of vacant apartments that are unlivable in their current state that landlords refuse to bring up to code because then they'd lose their tax breaks for having a vacant apartment. The entire housing system in NYC needs to be reformed and much more reasonable housing needs to be built. >
  
  40,000 migrants have been sent to NYC so far with thousands more arriving per week on some weeks. Seizing rich people's apartments and finding and reparing these vacant apartments you think exist probably isn't enough capacity. Besides that, housing is only one need of these people. You can stick them in a penthouse overlooking Central Park, but they still need food, clothes, job opportunities, etc. There needs to be a federal or at least a multi-state plan for how to give these people some reasonable chance of success without sinking the places they're arriving at. >
  
  What I hear is, "New York is not given sufficient federal assistance to handle the immigrants that are being bussed in from the states that are using immigrants as political chess pieces, which seems like a really shit way of handling an admittedly complicated and fraught issue that, yes, the Federal government overall is struggling to handle." >
  
  Do you often write imaginary press releases in your head? >
  
  I mean, that's just my critical thinking internal monologue, so... sure, I guess? >
  
  Makes sense. It is the most densely populated city in the United States. I don't know who looks at NYC and says, "Yeah, this place could use more people." >
  
  Apparently the leaders believed this when they designated the city as a sanctuary city. 
  Things not going well at home? Come suffer in the most crowded city in the US! >
  
  How long is this asshole's term? >
  
  Hurry up and retire to Tel Aviv, you disgusting pig. >
  
  All I heard was oink oink oink >
  
  I hate this mayor >
  
  what they should do is send them to old military bases for processing and then send in small groups to any counties that will take them in exchange for compensation.
  this is what american used to do with asylum seekers. spread them all over. put them in schools to learn english and our history/culture. basic grammer/high school and then teach them trade and put them to work...
  sadly most of the jobs have been sent to overseas and the rest done by immigrants legally brought in to do them andor increasing done by machines/ai >
  
  Texas Governor is going to have a field day with that statement >
  
  New York Mayor is GOP >
  
  Wrong.  He’s Dem.  Flip flopped, Dem to 1997 then REP to 2001, back to current DEM >
  
  If Reddit thinks he’s stupid, the man must be a genius. 
  But seriously, if you live in a big city, you realize there’s a population crunch right now. There needs to be infrastructure that simply isn’t there. >
  
  Why did New York vote for this guy anyway? >
  
  From the city that brought you America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani? >
  
  NY Democrats are a disaster. >
  
  So we should make room...  send an inmate from the NY correctional facilities to the mansions of Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis for every migrant they traffick to NYC, DC and other cities...
  Republicans call these migrants illegals, rapists, criminals, bad hombres etc so by their logic we'd only be trading criminals for criminals. >
  
  Make it Dannemora. >
  
  Not a bad idea but I'd start off light and escalate and when I mean light I mean a place like ummm Attica... >
  
  There’s no room in NYC that the middle class workers can afford to stay. Same with most big cities. >
  
  HIS city? Fuck him! >
  
  Why does he call it ‘his city’. He’s a public servant. He doesn’t own New York. >
  
  The same mayor who took his salary in Bitcoin? >
  
  In New York? He said that without realizing the irony clearly. >
  
  What does NYC have room for?   This guy may be a jerk, but isn’t this the city with thousands of working homeless???   Can we get a room and bed for every American citizen before we plan on throwing the next wave onto the street? >
  
  New York has an uncanny ability to elect the bottom-of-the-barrel worst Democrats every single time >
  
  Lots of people not actually reading the article, as usual >
  
  Yet New Yorkers will vote this clown into office again. Just like Chicago keeps voting for Beetlejuice.
  Maybe go for a lesser known candidate instead of jumping on the bandwagon and voting en masse because the party demands it. >
  
  That will probably get Abbot and DeSantis to send him their next load >
  
  What a fucking moron. And Ellis Island is an amusement park! >
  
  Ummm… Ellis Island? 
  The Statue of Liberty is literally a monument to welcoming migrants to NY. Immigrants are literally the reason NY is (was?) the most vibrant city in the US, maybe the world. >
  
  Still can’t believe we had a few fantastic mayoral candidates on the primary ballot and my fellow dems went for this elephant is donkey’s clothing. >
  
  Sounds like what a cop would say. Can't believe y'all elected this dumbass. >
  
  Bro what?! >
  
  Okay but you’re gonna have to change the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, maybe add a neon “no vacancy” sign, because false advertising is against the law. >
  
  I guess hes going to take down the statue of liberty next. >
  
  I'm still confused as to how a black Democratic mayor had sounded nothing but like a Republican since taking office.
  I have a feeling that the reason he got elected was because people saw "black" and "Democrat" and voted down the ballot 🤷 >
  
  But he proclaimed NYC a sanctuary city and said any and all are welcome. I guess he didn't expect to be called on it >
  
  Unpopular opinion: you can get from anywhere in the third world to America with about $500. If you have open borders, it’s viable for 2 billion people from poorer countries to travel to America and become illegal immigrants. This would immediately reduce America to third world status. America needs to prevent illegal immigration and it is childish for Blue cities that live away from the influx to pretend they are more free , liberal or fair by being sanctuary cities. We need to scrap this sanctuary city nonsenses, and we need to reform all immigration law including Political asylum. It’s outdated and increasingly irrelevant. Virtually no one should be granted politicos asylum anymore. (Billions of people are eligible under the current laws if they can afford $500 to reach the US). The way to improve the world is not to have everyone move to the rich west. Let’s grow up. We need a democratic (big and small D) movement for much firmer borders. >
  
  Why is this guy a Democrat? >
  
  He's not. I always knew he was a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. >
  
  Are you running a sanctuary city or not? >
  
  Meanwhile in reality there are countless empty apartments being hoarded by rich people and airbnb pests. Im not surprised that a pretend new yorker like adams is ignoring the housing crisis. Hes a real shame for the city. >
  
  Yep. But mentioning the empty housing and the fact we could house every homeless man, woman and child in this country is apparently “communist”/“socialist.” >
  
  he's a cop, what do people expect from him? >
  
  Eric Adams: I can never not be a fucking idiot. >
  
  Nope. He’s got to go >
  
  I'm pretty sure the entire City of New York is nothing but Immigrants. If there were no room, you would have to move about 7 Million People out of the City. >
  
  My Gawd, I hate this man and I don't even live in NYC anymore. >
  
  Who tf does he think built New York >
  
  Is he removing the Statue of Liberty ? >
  
  He’s giving it to Jersey. >
  
  It is already sort of "in" Jersey >
  
  How about we put ‘em up in all of those unoccupied mega-luxury apartments (money laundering shelters) >
  
  But then how will the AirBnB landed gentry make money?? Think of the poor rich people! >
  
  A black Giuliani. >
  
  Sure.. the millions of square feet of unused office space in the glass towers littering the skyline aren't for humans.. they're monuments to greed and profit. >
  
  Also the investment properties that sit unused when ultra rich CEOs, hedge fund managers, and foreign tycoons/monarchs purchase them chiefly to park their ill-gotten gains. >
  
  Send the Statue of Liberty to the West Coast then >
  
  It would look really good in Astoria. >
  
  Fuck it, put it in Vegas.  We're a joke of a country anyway >
  
  But El Paso does?
  Fuck the Dems. They only pretend to care. At least the Republicans are honest about fucking you over. >
  
  "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free."
  Right... >
  
  NY... The melting pot... Ellis Island... No room for migrants... Dumbass. No room for ignorant bigots like him. >
  
  Dang all NYC really had going for it was being the center of international finance. Once that's gone what will be left? The m & m store? >
  
  This guy really doesn't want to get re-elected, huh? >
  
  Did anyone notice there are more homeless on the street since Dec? (Around Penn) >
  
  138 billionaires taking up too much space? NYC ain't yours! >
  
  Then dont check the kitchens of all the testing in your city. Smh. NY is literally the most famous city in the world BECAUSE of all it’s immigrants. Get a clue. >
  
  Oh look the former pig is a heartless asshole. Fuck him. He should change side and just declare he is a republican and be done with it. >
  
  Dems are really bad at messaging >
  
  I wonder when he wants to tear down the Statue of Liberty ? >
  
  The ending of Title 42 is coming, so you had best make room. >
  
  From Texas.  Need a better, closer taqueria.  Stop shipping them out of state, wtf Sr. Abbot?
  Also, yeah, GL NY restaurant scene.  
  WTF is it with people not understanding economics? >
  
  What an asswipe >
  
  fuck this corrupt, do-nothing pig >
  
  Democrat mayors and democrats should start putting more pressure on the president to act. >
  
  New York is full. America is cancelled. >
  
  WTF is going on in NY politics??? >
  
  How can such a cool and interesting city elect such crappy mayors? >
  
  Wow you mean the cop is doing a terrible job who could’ve seen this coming >
  
  This guy us an idiot from the way he speaks, to what he says, the neediness of him to be a “celebrity” mayor. He’s a Republican without a clue. >
  
  Salinas? Fresno? Los Angeles? What, OH? NEW YORK CITY……
  I think the mayor of NYC needs to visit Ellis Island, IMHO >
  
  I can't wait to vote this asshole out. (For the record, he was never in my rankings on the mayoral ballot). As much as I agree ranked choice voting can solve a lot of problems, sometimes it leaves enough room for a turd to sneak through and win, as above. >
  
  That’s all intentional. Republicans have been switching their party affiliation to fck up our primaries.
  Ranked choice voting was implemented to help republicans win. 
  They’re working now on having us have open primaries with a group called Final Five. Which is almost the entirely same people who tried the same thing previously with Unite NY. The main people involved in both campaigns -Sal Albanese and Yiatin Chu- say they’re democrats but that’s part of another rightwing campaign here. >
  
  That’s just begging for bus loads of emigrants from Texas. >
  
  Why do New Yorkers always vote for such excrement? >
  
  Who wants to tell him >
  
  What about all those empty office buildings downtown? I hear they’re vacant… >
  
  Guess he forgot what was written on the statue of liberty. >
  
  Apparently, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free..." no longer applies. POS. >
  
  New Yorkers voted for this idiot. So they get what they get. There tons of better liberal candidates than him. >
  
  So much for liberal nyc >
  
  There’s a giant lass in the harbour who feels differently. >
  
  Unless your native ,your all migrants >
  
  In the city that has been literally built by migrants? >
  
  Remind me who built the city ? "Immigrants". And so where his family.
  It's literally our former port of entry & main port of trade. Free circulation in a free city is why NYC became the large center and economic engine it still is today.
  Guy's a dumbass. Litterally trying to deny the same opportunities he had to others. But hypocrisy, stupid racism and greed are certainly us conservative values.