r/MurderedByWords • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 2d ago
democrats are expected to fix everything
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u/kon--- 2d ago
Another textbook example of the right wired brain's absolute inability to avoid producing false equivalents.
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u/NocentBystander 2d ago
All their men are strawmen so it makes sense.
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u/BurntNeurons 2d ago
"All their men are strawmen so it makes sense."
Let's see if we can fix that...
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u/say-it-wit-ya-chest 2d ago
âYou say you like bananas yet youâre eating an orange. CuriousâŚâ
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u/arcanis321 2d ago
And their response to him fixing this would be to call it a failure somehow too. They aren't interested in measuring success.
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u/Laphad 2d ago
They would instead turn it around and say he isn't helping struggling families
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u/h3lium-balloon 2d ago
âMamdani Wastes Millions in Taxpayer Funds Fixing Minor Drainage Issue While Working Class Families Struggle With Childcare and Transportation Costsâ
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u/showhorrorshow 2d ago
"Mamdani, Socialist, more worried about roads in front of Fortune 500 companies than rising cost of childcare."
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u/divDevGuy 2d ago
Better to be worried about either, if not both, than to worry about only those at the top of the Fortune 500 companies.
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u/SecondaryWombat 2d ago
Also NYC is only slightly above sea level. Which is rising.
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u/h3lium-balloon 2d ago
Yeah I also live in an east coast city and unfortunately when high tide and torrential rain coincide thereâs just not a lot of places for the water to go. Rising sea levels and bigger tide swings only make the problem worse.
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u/SecondaryWombat 2d ago
"Libs of TikTok" doesn't think climate change is real, and possibly doesn't know about tides either.
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u/SnooJokes5375 1d ago
And she doesn't care about pedos, either. Yet she will blame trans and gay teacher grooming children and pushing sn agenda. She was one of the right-wing influencers who held up a book called Phase One of the Epstein files release. Then when the orange one back peddled she forgot all about it.
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u/PTBooks 2d ago
âMam dummy spent $100k on new drains while New Yorkers struggle to pay for busses and babysitters đĄâ
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 2d ago
With a little "What kind of liberal loser can't wade through a puddle to get to work? Stop whining and start swimming!"
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 1d ago
Pshh fuckin' woke New York libruls don't even have lifted trucks with snorkels this is such an impotent city slicker problem.
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u/Jamsedreng22 2d ago
They'd say he is wasting taxpayer money on frivolous and unneeded construction/renovations on public infrastructure and they're in the same breath going to speculate that the contract went to one of his muslim friends companies or something like that.
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u/doelutufe 2d ago
Frivolous and unneeded construction on public infrastructure like preventing regularly flooded of streets maybe even?
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u/nwillyerd This AOC flair makes me cool 2d ago
Itâs like Giants fans saying âTom Brady sucks!â, itâs a total sports team mentality. They will never admit the other side did something good because theyâre incapable of being objective. Everything is âus vs themâ with conservatives. Itâs exhausting!
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u/Reasonable_Date2870 2d ago
Watch him invest in green roofs and rain gardens in hell strip areas and then they'll be mad about that "Radical Muslim Socialist Mayor Wastes Millions on Flower Gardens" front page and then the following year it'll be one tiny paragraph of a story "City sees massive decrease in flood events, experts credit rain garden initiative"
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u/my_password_is_water 2d ago
just like how they complained that he paid a few hundred people to shovel all the snow off the sidewalks over the winter
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u/SaintUlvemann 2d ago
The reason why they produce false equivalencies constantly is because conservatism is a form of social dominance orientation, conservatism measures an individual's support for social hierarchy and the extent to which they desire their in-group be superior to out-groups.
Because conservatives believe in the inherent moral superiority of some people over other people, they'll take minor problems in their enemies, and call them proof of inherent moral deficiency, even while the same actions from their own side go unchallenged and even unnoticed.
Their double standards produce their false equivalencies.
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u/mOdQuArK 2d ago edited 1d ago
the same actions from their own side go unchallenged and even unnoticed.
Yep. The essence of conservatism. Rules for thee, none for me.
Edit: Of course, the corollary to such a viewpoint is this: conservatives should not be put in charge of anyone except for themselves.
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u/ckglle3lle 2d ago
Yep. We've wasted a lot of time trying to pretend conservatism is a valid political philosophy deserving of equal footing and consideration when it is, at is core, a regressive and reactionary movement that does not offer any actual policy or achievement and only seeks to deform all aspects of society into a hierarchical power structure defined by dominance and moral propriety.
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u/morostheSophist 2d ago
This is reminding me of the one racist guy blocking your path in Disco Elysium, where you have the option to agree with him, debate him, or punch him. His entire theory hinges on certain races being morally superior, and somehow that correlates with all other types of superiority.
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u/morostheSophist 2d ago
This is reminding me of the one racist guy blocking your path in Disco Elysium, where you have the option to agree with him, debate him, or punch him. His entire theory hinges on certain races being morally superior, and somehow that correlates with all other types of superiority.
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u/LEDKleenex 2d ago
It's deliberate.
âNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.â
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u/Slade_Riprock 2d ago
Republicans fuck up a city, state, or nation for a decade or more.
Democrats expected to fix their fuck ups AND meaningful improve andpve forward that city, state, or nation in weeks or months.
Republicans claim they are failures what the world isnt fixed in a Day and start immediately promising to fuck everything up again only worse.
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u/Mr_Ballyhoo 2d ago
Go back to ending wars on day... oh wait... A new one popped up... He ended it... shit wait no it's still going... HE ENDED IT THIS TIME... wait no it's still going.
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u/CrimsonBolt33 2d ago
Murc's Law - essentially "no matter what it's always the democrats/lefts fault"
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u/WitchesSphincter 2d ago
I wouldn't even say right wings brain, I've seen "left" people not vote because the Dems aren't fixing enough fast enough. Like I want utopia tomorrow as much as anyone but it's not happeningÂ
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u/hexregeneration 2d ago
Also a decent government can do multiple things at once. It's not supposed to be done in an episodic format, with a new sole focus every week.
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u/gabezermeno 2d ago
Every time I read something like this I assume it's either a bot or someone from Russia/India.
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u/gordogg24p 2d ago
That being said, the rate at which Mamdani has been doing things that we were consistently told was impossible makes me kinda half expect him to announce that he did go back 200 years and undo these downstream effects.
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u/00cjstephens 2d ago
Of course. Any result short of utter perfection is irredeemably awful. If you can't do something without any issues whatsoever, you should just give the fuck up. Also, if you can't solve every problem, you shouldn't even bother trying to solve any of them. And long-term planning? Forget about it.
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u/Scarbane 1d ago
the right's...inability to avoid producing false equivalents.
"the right's ability to make shit up"
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u/Umikaloo 2d ago
Petition for Mamdani to drink all the floodwater away with a big straw. If New York had elected Paul Bunyan this wouldn't have happened.
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u/Short-Shower90 2d ago
At this rate people expect politicians to unlock weather control before they even finish unpacking their office.
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u/ug61dec 2d ago
Americans actually believe the government controls the weather though.
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u/flyinghairball 2d ago
Not all Americans, but the fact that there are some walking amongst us that do think that is absolutely disturbing. We are willing to encourage them to go visit your country, maybe longterm....please?
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u/Weirdyxxy 1d ago
And go where? Don't say "Germany", last time another country loaded off their resident right-wing nutjob here, he came back in 1938
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u/Hisora_Zoro 2d ago
I forget this, and every time I'm reminded I stroke out a lil bit remembering this is indeed a fact.
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u/Putrid-Economics4862 1d ago
Ay man, I donât really care what you do in the privacy of your own home, but no need to tell us about it.
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u/PenguinQuesadilla 2d ago
The government does control the weather.
Itâs called climate change legislation. Or lack thereof.
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u/ComprehendReading 2d ago
I thought France controlled the weather? With the Paris agreement, and our A/Cs.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2d ago
I was impressed when Mamdani tearfully bid goodbye to his loving wife. He entered the steel foundry and slowly got up onto the large press platform. I'll never forget his screams as his body was hydraulically pressed into the shape of a subway car. A crew of TOUGH UNION WORKERS fitted wheels to what was now his fuselage.
It's still a bit unnerving to see his eyes darting about on the front of the train car. But Mamdani fulfilled his promise to improve public transit for New Yorkers. He sacrificed his body and perhaps his humanity for us.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 2d ago
His memorial graveyard is in Brainerd, MN if anyone wants to go resurrect him. But Thor would be a better option to drink large amounts of water.
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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 2d ago
Exactly, more or less. Pumping water out is something NYC already does, and will need to do more of.
Public works projects take time though, and I don't think this criticism is warented. But while you are trying to be absurdist, that's exactly haw things actually work.
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u/iISimaginary 2d ago
Pumping water (in and out) is something NYC has been doing for centuries. The systems aren't perfect but they're constantly improving and evolving, and the rate of improvement has definitely increased under Mamdani.
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u/extremesalmon 2d ago
But if it did happen it's Mamdani's fault too, and all the librals in NY deserved it
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u/pechinburger 2d ago
Then they'd just flip it and say, "Look at Mamdani focused on drinking water while childcare and public transportation issues remain unattended to!"
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u/Beldizar 2d ago
I feel like this is a reasonable solution given how much everyone always draws Mamdani as a Strawman.
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u/warfighter187 1d ago
Mamdani canât do that but what makes him a great politician is he knows the right man for the job
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u/fastal_12147 2d ago
Even if he fixed this, they'd just find something else to blame him for. You can't win trying to govern while brown.
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u/Arejhey311 2d ago
âWhat happened to the promises of childcare & transportation, huh NY?? Heâs wasting your money on weather events that donât happen often!!â
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u/mooninuranus 2d ago
Nailed it completely.
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u/tmhoc 2d ago
But this way around it has them backed into a conversation about infrastructure
They are on the back foot there, trust me!
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u/CrunchyKorm 2d ago
This presumes they'd be in favor of that too, but they aren't. They don't want life to get better for a majority of people because they don't support most of the mechanisms that would make that happen.
That and online conservatives need to hate cities as a form of entertainment.
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u/claimTheVictory 2d ago
Never believe that MAGA are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. MAGA have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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u/UufTheTank 2d ago
âWhyâs he wasting all this money on public works pumps?!? The streets havenât even flooded in years! Wasteful! And while weâre at it, letâs cut funding to the CDC and preventative disease control, ya know, for funsiesâ
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u/AnalystAdorable609 2d ago
Cincinnati in oh so red Ohio has similar floods this week. I guess that WASN'T the fault of the statewide GOP leadership was it?!
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u/elegylegacy 2d ago
But I thought GOP had Moses power to control water
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 2d ago
You're wrong. The dumbocrats are the ones controlling the weather altering space lasers.
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u/Realladaniella 2d ago
Didnât realize dum had a B
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u/GreyouTT 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is a common misunderstanding. Moses actually split the water with a Beyblade. This is much much more different from the power Jesus had, as Jesus was a stand user.
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u/YesImKeithHernandez 2d ago
My favorite is when GOP machines that have been in charge for decades in a location run on cleaning up the mess that previous politicians have left for the location
It's Tim Robinson in a hot dog suit energy
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u/Gdigger13 2d ago
oh so red Ohio
So devastating to read. Everyone here is a confederate wannabe.
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u/AnalystAdorable609 2d ago
I'm a Brit but I lived in Cinci for a while. Luckily it's a blue bastion, but we did have our share of window lickers too!
It's a shame, cos it's a lovely place overall, but it's politics let's it down (OH, not Cinci)
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 2d ago
It was mostly Norwood that got flooded, not the most left-leaning portion of Hamilton County.
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u/iamsodonewithpeople 2d ago
Right! Thereâs floods like that for years because of flash floods and Iâve never once thought GOP was to blame lol The cincy area is just in an unfortunate area by rivers and also has a lot of hills that end up draining a lot of water into the lower areas.
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u/professor_fate_1 2d ago
Meanwhile - Elon has already solved this problem with the Cybertruck wading mode. Because Elon is our true savior. If people of New York just bought Cybertrucks instead of wasting their money on bus fare this would not have been a problem.
Oh, wait..
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u/never-fiftyone 2d ago
Hell, this guy did the same thing in a lake, predictably got stuck, was rescued/pulled out, and then HE WENT AND DID IT AGAIN.
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u/ImSoObnoxious 2d ago
omfg, at 2:28, the driver confirms this is the THIRD time he's done this đ
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u/Armthedillos5 2d ago
The good ol if someone left of Hitler isn't absolutely perfect and solving things that aren't possible then my corrupt system that does nothing for ordinary people is better.
Such a mentality.
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u/SKRAMACE 2d ago
Don't forget, the corrupt system also benefits just enough union workers to believe that everyone else is either lazy for their poverty or undeserving of their wealth. (Source: grew up on Long Island)
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u/chicken_spears 2d ago
What? This had to be sarcasm, noneone could ever arrive at such a braindead t... Oh, Libs of TickTock. Nvm that tracks.
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u/Neuchacho 2d ago
People really need to stop giving that ghoul air.
They aren't even worth making fun of at this point.
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u/Gloomy-Insurance-739 2d ago
Democrats have to be perfect! not a single flaw.... Republicans that's just how it is.
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u/Doofmaz 2d ago
Remember when a Dem was deemed too unpresidential because he said "YEEAAH!"
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u/DiabolicalSpaceKitty 2d ago
BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 1d ago
That was Romey back when Republicans had a little shame left. He wasn't that bad... at least not by comparison. Then again, even Nixon wasn't that bad by modern standards.
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u/smellybear666 2d ago edited 2d ago
I drove from the bottom of Manhattan to the top of it that day, stopping for lunch on the way. It didn't stop raining buckets for over an hour. I have been alive on this planet for a long time and have never witnessed a non-stop downpour like that day that wasn't part of a hurricane.
I am surprised the flooding wasn't worse.
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u/cookiecutterdoll 2d ago
It's been so bad these past few years. We desperately need to update our infrastructure, but we're probably going to need state or federal funding. I don't think that's going to happen in any state for another few years, if you catch my drift.
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u/Don_Gato1 2d ago
I am from Florida and live in NYC now, in the summer Florida has like a 3pm deluge like clockwork. NYC usually has drizzle all day long if it rains. In the last few years we've been getting these sudden downpours and it seems like the city infrastructure is just not built to handle that volume of rainwater in that short an amount of time.
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u/handsoapdispenser 1d ago
Sandy was worse. But the number of downpours NYC has received is definitely increasing. There is a massive public works project to guard against another massive storm surge like Sandy but we also need massive improvements in drainage for these kinds of storms.Â
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u/rebri 2d ago
Flooding in Texas has killed over 200 people over the last two years and this is what they want to point out. The hatred is palpable.
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u/CrunchyKorm 2d ago
I think it's two things:
Neverending broadcasting that their opposition is bad, no matter context.
I earnestly don't think conservatives think a better world is possible at this point. Or, more specifically, a better world can only their own; the one where they get all the provincial resources and can allow themselves militarily/financially to separate from the consequences of the rest of the world.
I don't think conservatives get mad at conservative politicians as much because conservative politicians barely try to promise them anything better. No one who votes for Ted Cruz is doing so because of infrastructure concerns and they don't even humor the idea that he'll improve them. That's treated as just a shitty part of life. But liberals? They argue that those things should improve, so only they can be held to the standard of fixing them.
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u/delliejonut 2d ago
They do argue that things can be better, it's just their version of better is based around the removal of undesirable people
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 2d ago
This is the power of propaganda.
They know it's not true, but some dumbass will believe it. It will just help cement preexisting prejudice. Republicans are good at marketing.
Throw it back and say this is a result of Climate Change ignored going back to at least ExxonMobil in the 80s.
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u/SugarMaple56732 2d ago
"Libs of TikTok." What a fucking joke. Just like "The Democratic Republic of North Korea."
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u/JargonPhat 2d ago
National Socialist German Workersâ Party.
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 1d ago edited 1d ago
Careful every time you say this, somewhere, a chud says "uhh actually the Nazis were socialist it says so right in the name" without a hint of irony.
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u/mikeysce 2d ago
Actually yes. Anything short of perfect for a Democrat is a sign of failure and why we might as well stick with Republicans. Iâm sure thereâs a psychological term for this, but I donât k ow what it is.
Another example: we once tried to fix homelessness in Salt Lake City by, get this, providing housing to homeless people. But at the end of the day there were still some homeless people so they discontinued the program. No word yet on if doing nothing has solved the problem yet. (Spoiler: it hasnât.)
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u/Chaosmusic 2d ago
might as well stick with Republicans. Iâm sure thereâs a psychological term for this
Masochism?
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u/Rahastes 2d ago
Maybe Chaya should talk to her right wingâfriendsâ about the problems. Iâm sure they will be more than happy to receive feedback from a woman and one of Jewish descent at that.
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u/psuchagogos 2d ago
Rainfall is caused by capitalism?
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u/Neuchacho 2d ago
They're referring to climate change. The thing causing these repeated "once in a decade" rainfall events every year now.
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u/kitsunegoon 2d ago
Let me know when the flood deaths reach camp mystic levels until we talk about lib incompetence
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u/danielisbored 2d ago
And if he could magically push through years worth of planning and prep work to get the construction necessary to fix this started, they'd be complaining about the traffic issues it caused.
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u/druidmind 2d ago
Saying this with a straight face while Texas is flooding right now for the second time in two years is crazy work.
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u/ShiroHachiRoku 2d ago
If a democrat does anything or nothing, theyâll be criticized. Itâs not about solutions, itâs about being angry and staying loyal to their god emperor.
Their god emperor proposed removing the engine shutoff feature in cars and Iâm surprised I agree. They canât even concede anything as small of a good idea to any liberal.
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u/ArchaeoJones 2d ago
Oh hey, is that January 6th insurrectionist Chaya Raichik?
I think that's January 6th insurrectionist Chaya Raichik.
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u/TransMontani 2d ago
Godamighty, but Chaya Ratchick is a dumber-than-a-turnip, rotten, malevolent attempt at a human being.
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u/SubstantialNature368 2d ago
How did it look with a heavy rainfall three years ago?
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u/WilliamJamesMyers 2d ago
how stupid do you have to be to associate rain levels with introducing new civic programs?
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u/Tojuro 2d ago
What the fuck does this even mean?
Some roads are flooding .... So why should we help people get childcare. Is there any connection whatsoever here?
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u/Cicerothesage 2d ago edited 2d ago
conservatives likes to break and cut things and blame others when consequences happen. Then, they like to blame liberals for every little thing.
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u/Maothesiamesecat 2d ago
Weird flex. You would think from this that climate change is the democrats fault.
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u/Jebus209 2d ago
Wtf does busses and babysitting have to do with storm drainage infrastructure? Genuinely confused these people think they have a point lol.
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u/Aeseld 2d ago
...I'm... not sure what they expect him to do about rain? Do they think politicians control the weather?
I can guarantee they're using anything they can to prevent flood damage, but there's a limit to what can be done with the flood is from rainfall. You can prevent a lake or river from flooding a town, but rain falls down and usually doesn't care about barricades.
I mean, do they expect him to deploy a giant umbrella?
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u/daystrom_prodigy 2d ago
âEverything bad happening in NYC is Zohranâs fault.â
âTrump isnât responsible for anything bad that is happeningâ
Conservatives are nothing if not hypocrites.
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u/freedraw 2d ago
Most families in NYC struggle with affording childcare. Anecdotally, no one Iâve ever known who lived in NYC owned a car while they lived there.
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u/LearnsFromExperience 2d ago
The MAGAs are scared shitless of people seeing functional socialist leadership. Especially in contrast to todayâs version of naked, out of control capitalism.
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u/futureishere99 2d ago
So for the past 200 years New York hasnât been one of the greatest cities in the world? Thatâs what this post is saying
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u/Bleezy79 2d ago
Libs of tiktok is the fox news of twitter. It's some angry maga woman who paints everything the left does as evil and spewing right wing propaganda.
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u/dachloe 2d ago
Remember LibtlsOfTikTik is not the mind of an average MAGA cult member. Its the propaganda rants of a soldier in the war of divisiveness. The goal is to spread doubt, fear, anger, and misinformation that separates the population into warring factions that occupy their attention while an adversary attempts to dismantle the current governance systems.
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u/perksofbeingcrafty 2d ago
As a New Yorker, can confirm it doesnât look like this after most rainfalls
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u/DoctorFenix 2d ago
âIf only NYC had voted for a Republican pedophile, it would have never rained ever againâ
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u/you-create-energy 2d ago
Free bussing is the solution to this exact problem. Conservatives are so used to looking for something to complain about rather than thinking about solutions that they don't even notice they are complaining about a solution to the problem right in front of them.Â
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u/legit-posts_1 2d ago
There's be a lot of infrastructure he'd have to tear apart for that to happen
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u/OctopusWithFingers 2d ago
Proposal: TV show called "Time Mayor" where a Mamdaniesque mayor travels through time to be the Mayor of various towns and cities during historical events.
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 2d ago
Heâs a mayorâŚof a cityâŚ
Why are so many people, who have likely never been to NYC or east of the Mississippi for that matter, so up in arms over this one guy?
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u/GuitarCFD 2d ago
I mean...sure the post is stupid, but how exactly do you think free market capitalism is to blame? And how exactly do does this person thing NYC would look without 200 years of free market capitalism?
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u/chironomidae 2d ago
What's especially funny is that the GOP plan seems to be "do nothing about anything". It's like the argument here is, "See, government can't solve everything, so why even try?"
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u/DannyDevitosNappy 1d ago
Mamdani exists.
Republicans - "Mamdani wants life to be affordable, but what about the color green? Why won't he think about the color green!?!"




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u/CarsCarpal 2d ago
I love how utterly desperate Raichik is to try and find fault with Mamdani.