Opinion of Michael Bloomberg

[Simfan34]

FF (normal)

Get back to me when you live here. Sure, he might have had his moments of nanny-state silliness but he certainly was not bad by any objective standard.

Also, this derangement is frighteningly widespread. I am sincerely alarmed by how it apparently transcends partisan affiliation here.

[Simfan34]

HP for being a wealthy neoliberal who doesn't give two sh*ts about the poor and for stop-and-frisk. That said, I fully approve of his policies regarding soda.

Let's break this down.

wealthy

This might have some currency if he had inherited his fortune. That is not the case.

neoliberal

What does this mean in the context of New York City politics?

doesn't give two sh*ts about the poor

Which is why he instituted the first conditional cash transfer in the country, supported mass transit, attempted to (and succeeded in) reduce violent gun crime, improved education performance, launched the largest affordable housing scheme in the country...

stop-and-frisk. That said, I fully approve of his policies regarding soda.

Stop-and-frisk rates closely matched violent crime rates. I suppose this makes the truth racist.

[Simfan34]

Why wouldn't it be?

[Simfan34]

Why wouldn't it be?

They get in the way of people who actually have things to do, work to go to, and restaurants to eat at. Without bike lanes, cyclists tend to pretend like they're actually part of traffic and get in the way of those who don't pretend that the world was made for their exercise fetishes. I don't see any merit in rewarding them, especially when a perfectly good sidewalk is only a few feet away.

That might be the case out where you are, but it's not the case here. And we have increased the number of bike lanes.

[Simfan34]

Yeah, you'd very quickly stop cycling like that here- either because you've learnt otherwise or been run over.

[Simfan34]

Al Sharpton is a race-baiting charlatan, not a "good man".