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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: 2025 Albums

« Last post by kosmo vinyl on Today at 03:16:19 pm »

New Lemonheads "New Chant" first new album in 19 years out 10/24

Osees "Abomination Revealed At Last" out 8/8

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Belly up, fired, and retired

« Last post by nkotb on Today at 03:07:10 pm »

Now, now...plenty of NKOTB-backed candidates have won, just like a lot of hutch-backed candidates did not (and probably in WAAAAAY more impactful ways).

I will say, while i paid attention to Mamdani's race, I wasn't super optimistic.  Despite how grotesque Cuomo is, always hard to beat name recognition.  And even as Mamdani started surging late in the race, I think it's easier to beat the party machine when it's flying under the radar like AOC or India Walton.

And Walton is why I think everyone backing Mamdani should still be cautious.  A primary win isn't a general election win.  And while hutch is 100% right about NYC's history of ghoulish mayors, I think his Mamdani's biggest risk comes from a Democratic "independent" candidate rather than a republican.

Also, NKOTB supporting him is like the kiss of death…

Yeah, it's this nutjob: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Sliwa

Iam not sure what’s happening on the Republican side? Do they have a candidate?

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Meanwhile, in Canada...

« Last post by hutch on Today at 02:52:37 pm »

It’s like the NCAA!!

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Belly up, fired, and retired

« Last post by hutch on Today at 02:50:35 pm »

It’s tough to predict. Obviously Cuomo running as an independent would impact on race.

Iam not sure what’s happening on the Republican side? Do they have a candidate?


On the face of it I think the odds of a socialist Muslim born in Uganda 33 year old becoming mayor of NYC aren’t great….

But am not following this race and America is changing.

This is becoming a global thing though…the left is being pushed left by its voters….both parties or factions are becoming more extreme in response to events and countries are rapidly becoming more diverse.

This is why I been saying the democrats need to tack left…it’s not enough to say you are not the right wing…. But that’s not to say this guy will win….

Also, NKOTB supporting him is like the kiss of death…

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Musicological banter

« Last post by kosmo vinyl on Today at 02:47:35 pm »

more banter than headline

Olivia Rodrigo review: US star delights fans at Marlay Park in Dublin with Fontaines DC cover

But at Marlay Park in Dublin on Tuesday night, she shows us just how dedicated she still is to making each show special. “I've been practicing this in my bedroom,” she tells the crowd, before diving into a cover of Fontaines DC’s I Love You from 2022 album Skinty Fia. For casual fans of the Dublin rockers, it’s a bit of a deep cut, and it doesn’t land at all with a crowd who mostly veer teen and under. But, those of us of a slightly older vintage appreciate the effort. And there’s something endearing about hearing the Californian singer sing about ‘the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil’. (An experience made that bit stranger by spotting Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe enjoying the gig mere steps away from us).

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41657726.html

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Belly up, fired, and retired

« Last post by vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on Today at 02:15:43 pm »

Bloomberg and Giuliani were republicans so this idea that NYC is like DC is absolutely false!

Ok, that's fair and didn't really take that into account
My thing was in NY state wide races, the GOP contingent is a bigger factor because of heavy red lean in a lot of the state outside NYC

I do think he will be the next mayor tho

he generally seems like an honest dude unlike Adams

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: The America Great Again Thread

« Last post by vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on Today at 02:14:15 pm »

Yeah the fine or prison thing if he didn't open his phone was nuts and seems like illegal
that is kinda crazy

He did admit to drug use (pot...which is legal in more than 1/2 the states here?) so that kinda screwed him to open the option to say 'he is a drug addict'

I didn't know about the blood sample...that also seems insane for a visa

I'm just wondering why this one seemingly harmless norwegian was chosen

I have to imagine everyone who is in the tourism industry is like WTF...you just screwed us over nothing

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Belly up, fired, and retired

« Last post by hutch on Today at 02:12:43 pm »

Bloomberg and Giuliani were republicans so this idea that NYC is like DC is absolutely false!

Where do you come up with this stuff!!!???

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: Belly up, fired, and retired

« Last post by vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on Today at 01:45:58 pm »

Dem Primary in DC is like the Dem Primary in NYC
that's the election
Unless something between now an Nov happens to Zohran, I think he'll be the next mayor

True that NY republicans are not the same as the rest, but the ones who live in NYC are different than the rest of the state (that have a Pennsyltucky lean)

Republicans make up only 10 % of the city’s 5.6 million voters

although this is typical for dems
Democrats dominate NYC’s rolls—roughly two-thirds of all registered voters—but only about one in four shows up for the general election.

I love this idea...not sure how well it would actually be implemented
Open a small, city-owned supermarket chain whose only mission is to sell staple foods at cost, not to turn a profit. Mamdani pitches it as a “public option for groceries,” the same way New York already runs libraries, the water supply, and (mostly) its buses and subways

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GENERAL DISCUSSION / Re: The America Great Again Thread

« Last post by sweetcell on Today at 01:42:12 pm »

I mean, that is a pretty killer pic of JD

 
streisand effect: way more people have now seen the offensive pic, thanks to endless reposting in the media, then if they had just let him go.

So I do think there is likely a little more to the story, but I don't know

definitely
- the threat of the $5,000 fine and/or 5 years: CPB cannot impose such punishments.  they can only temporarily detain while investigating and refuse entry.  the fine & prison threats were lies, but i guess they're allowed doing that now?
- they found a picture of a wooden pipe he build himself for a school project, which CPB claimed was drug paraphernalia
- they took a blood sample from him, which i personally think is really really problematic
- somewhere along the line this dude admitted to drug use, and that's ultimately what CPB claimed was the reason for detaining him and shipping him back home.  unless this dude was acting high/erratic at the time (which no one has reported), drug use is a very uncommon reason to deny entry.  IMO smacks of an excuse.

U.S. immigration held him for questioning on serious accusations—drug trafficking, terrorism, right‑wing extremism—even though he says it was baseless

but this is the part that really got me going tho...
Authorities required he unlock his phone under threat of a $5,000 fine or imprisonment

In somewhat good news they think 'right-wing extremism' is an issue for investigating someone

post-facto justification