Per Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Israel is why things are so tough here at home, right down to the poor conditions in NYCHA buildings — and even th
Per Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York’s problem with Israel goes way beyond the “genocide” in Gaza.
The Jewish state, he explains, is also why things are so tough here at home, right down to the poor conditions in New York City Housing Authority buildings — and even the fact that babies need diapers.
No joke: In a recent sit-down with The New York Times, Hizzoner described an experience he had walking around Washington Heights with Democratic congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier.
“We were discussing the amount of money that our federal government sends, billions of dollars, to the Israeli military,” the mayor related, and “a man came out of a bodega with his hands full with two packages of Huggies. And you see what the priorities are of people living in the district.”
It’s hard to know which part of that anecdote makes the least sense.
The two socialists were talking about the “billions of dollars” the US gives the Israeli military (of course they were), and then — wait for it! — they saw a man buying diapers.
Huh? What does a random diaper purchase prove?
Does the mayor think only poor people buy diapers, and/or that Israel makes babies soil themselves?
Is he implying that, if only we didn’t give Israel so much money, diapers would be free, and parents wouldn’t have to buy them?
He makes similar points frequently.
Last April, Mamdani told Politico “it is hard” to explain to his constituents in NYCHA’s Queensbridge Houses “why they have to live in substandard conditions . . . while we continue to find billions of dollars to drop bombs that kill tens of thousands of Palestinians.”
To be clear, the United States gives Israel about $3.3 billion in arms credits every year (the cash stays in America). By contrast, NYCHA has a capital repair backlog of $80 billion.
So even if the US cut Israel off completely and Congress dedicated all that funding to NYCHA, it’s unlikely residents at the Queensbridge Houses would notice much difference.
Yet Mamdani’s point is a common theme on the anti-Zionist left.
The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (the US umbrella group for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that, per Tablet, also indirectly facilitates tax-exempt donations to Palestinian terror groups) claims New York’s share of military aid to Israel “could instead fund” 929,393 households with one month’s free rent; 3,119,164 families with one month’s free groceries; 515,790 children with free healthcare; and so on.
The USCPR provides similar breakouts for every state.
Wow, you might think: Israel really is the cause of all human misery and need in America today.
Look at everything we could have . . . if it wasn’t for greedy Israel.
Yet creating long lists of everything that $3.3 billion could buy is deceptive.
Behavioral economists call this the “multiple-use fallacy,” which is when a resource is promised simultaneously to satisfy more needs than remotely possible.
Think of a child imagining how he will spend his pocket money: “I can go to the movies, get a new video game, a skateboard, a catcher’s mitt . . . and put the rest in my college fund!”
Mamdani is playing a similar game by repeatedly referencing military funding to Israel in connection with a wide variety of domestic needs, implying all those needs could be answered simply by breaking with Israel.
In reality, $3.3 billion is just 0.04% — four one-hundredths of 1% — of America’s $7 trillion annual budget. (And again, that money is spent in America.)
For perspective, consider that roughly $6.9 billion is lost to Medicaid fraud every year . . . just in New York.
True, some people don’t want to give even one penny to other countries, or to Israel, in particular.
That point of view, applied consistently, might have a legitimate basis.
But playing a shell game as Mamdani and other anti-Israel activists do, pretending that aid to Israel is the reason why New Yorkers have to spend their own money to buy diapers, is a vicious — and ridiculous — lie.
The right has spent the last few years pissing their pants about hate speach, yelling fafo when ever someone gets murdered by the state and screeching that they can do what they want unlike those snowflake libs
But the second you get the same energy back you fold like a bitch and cry about slurs.
Go fuck yourself faggot, you're a pathetic spineless pussy.
So, because people don't want opinions to be illegal, that makes your violation of your own morality ok? And simply pointing out your hypocrisy means I'm now weeping in pain over the psychic damage your words have supposedly done to me? Damn, you're pretty good at making up fantasies where you're actually doing something beyond using the slurs you say make everyone who uses them evil.
The right has spent the last few years pissing their pants about hate speach, yelling fafo when ever someone gets murdered by the state and screeching that they can do what they want unlike those snowflake libs
But the second you get the same energy back you fold like a bitch and cry about slurs.
Go fuck yourself faggot, you're a pathetic spineless pussy.
(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are all sooo poorrrr and stupid. They are stupid because they are poorrrr, racism would never exist in my suburban area
Popular leftist voice: these right wingers must have brain damage. They must be bigots because they are literally reta suffering from blsck mold, or brain damage.
Popular leftist voice: Every single right-wing person is literally so ugly and chopped, let me point out their exact features and how they're ugly. Having bad thoughts literally ages you. Good People are always hot and sexy and have kind countenances.
Popular leftist voice: These right-wingers are always so fat. This is because they are greedy, which as we know is a moral failing. Some of my Good People friends are fat but that is okay because of Body Positivity. But as soon as they become Bad People then they are Bad Fat and I will make fun of them for this.
popular leftist voice: these two male politicians are deeefinitely fucking. isn't it so gross when two men have sex? I bet one of them takes it in the ass because he's so submissive. this has nothing to do with real gay people btw; it's okay to make gayness into a joke if you're not talking about out gay people
Anarchists once again showing they are no better than the regressive left and have fallen for terrorist propaganda.
We are against the bombing of innocent children but just calling something bombing innocent children when that’s not what is happening is on you, not us.
You are willfully misrepresenting the situation so you can pretend you have moral superiority but you don’t because you’re lying.
Israel is not targeting and killing children. Hamas is. They kill their own people and none of you Hamas sycophants ever have anything to say about that. No, it’s still Israel’s fault somehow that Hamas uses their own people as human shields.
You’re so far up Hamas’s ass it’s pathetic.
You support terrorism so you have no credibility in this debate.
Typical anarchist cop out. The only way they can manage to respond to any sort of challenge against them is to throw out a meaningless, childless insult and think that means they win.
This is what happens when you are terminally online.
OP thinks murder is an accepable solution to not liking someone.
There's plenty of people I dont like. People who have a heavy hand in serious inequalities. But I dont have a desire to murder them. And I dont make like of such things. Because i'm not insane.
Literally Biden. Voted against desegregation. Put kids in cages and let his political opponent take the fall. Called a victim of armed criminals during a riot a "white supremacist" on a national commercial.
The heads of CNN. Spreading misinformation on a massive level.
Or Award Winning Feminist Advisor to the FBI, Mary P Koss using her power to spread that female on male isn't rape for decades across multiple countries.
The feminists in charge of creating the female on male DV-denying Deluth Model.
I know plenty of people who have done terrible things in the US, and created/perpetuated serious issues. And I still don't have any plans to use violence against them. I have no fantasies about murdering them.
I’m not gonna justify murder. I just want to point out that Elon Musk is a pedophile who literally begged to go to Epstein Island, when Epstein was still alive.
Sorry, I thought you were speaking on a post about Charlie Kirk.
That being said, your are still jumping to conclusions and using clearly biased sources. A clear indication of this is that you assume that wanting to be on the island means he wants to sleep with minors (they were teenagers btw. That isnt pedophilia. It's a different term called Ephebophilia.
The island is very large and tons of rich people visited the island without ever engaging in those parties. It's more of a status symbol to be invited to rich/famous people's private islands and fancy homes. Especially when tons of other people have done it. Kind of like how celebrities and politicans brag about having gone to Obama's mansion (or state they want to go). If it turns out Obama secretly tortured black children in the basement of his mansion, that doesnt mean everyone who wanted to go likes torturing children. Rich people/celebrities are like popular kids at a high school. They wanna see each other's stuff. They want to be invited to things to look good in their circles.
Also "I dont wanna justify murder, but [person I dont like] does [bad thing]." sounds like you are trying to justify murder. And basing a yearn for murder that on mere rumors and speculation is...not a good look.
So youre...mad that i'm not blindly believing anything said about him and instead judging him on facts?
Is that how you bully people into siding with you?
There are plenty of famous and rich people I personally dislike, but I dont go around calling them pedophiles and spreading accusations about them without proof. And I certainly dont mock people who call out my factless assumptions to get them to agree.
Yes, bully. You mock and shame try and get people to think your way. It'a low tier manipulation.
I also called out your misinformation. I received the same kind of attitude from people juat like yoh because I didnt automatocally believe accusations against Johnny Depp. And then actual evidence came forth that showed a different story.
I get that those childish methods work for you, but they wont work on me.
You want the magic/religion of the culture whose entire religion was centered around human sacrifice to be real? That's normally the literal last religion people would want to be real, but you're from Florida so maybe that's just an average Tuesday over there.
TIL that pointing out that the Aztec religion was one of the most uniquely homicidal in existence means that I'm supporting literally anything in the present day. Not that I'd expect you to understand the concept that pointing out someone's ignorance of medieval history isn't the same thing as supporting whatever it is you think I'm supporting. I'm sure it's something awful you've imagined me as supporting, and equally sure that nothing I say can convince you that my description of Aztec human sacrifices wasn't a hidden message saying I support it.
Not a single person here actually thinks or supports the Aztec YOU made that up and got mad about it cause the thought of someone wanting to inconvenience (not even that really) ICE agents hurt you wittle feewings 🥺
Sorry people dont worship government agents like you do. But sure get triggered by whistle
the thought of someone wanting to inconvenience (not even that really) ICE agents hurt you wittle feewings 🥺
Ah, there's the thing you're imagining me doing. It'd be a shame if nothing I said reflected that and you were just superimposing this over snark about Aztec blood sacrifice. But that's your entire thing, given that your name is about a functionally dead ideology that's held no meaningful power since Franco realized it sucked ass in the early 50s.
I'm glad I can help you play pretend. It must be fun to live in the fictional world where that screenshot is a secret coded message about how I love ICE and unconditionally support them instead of snark about how invoking the religion based around human sacrifice isn't the own they thought it was.