Amazon pulls out of NYC

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At $120,000 in tax breaks per job, it's a good thing this isn't going thru.

[Mister Mets]

Has any freshman member of Congress screwed up as badly in recent memory as AOC here?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Do you also support public taxpayers buying stadiums for Billionaire football owners?

Yes, as preserving major sports teams strengthens regional identity and solidarity.

giving money to billionaires = yay community building
giving money to poor people = eww socialism

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Has any freshman member of Congress screwed up as badly in recent memory as AOC here?

While I doubt her base thinks she screwed up - after all, socialism can only be instituted if capitalism is defeated - I think she's genuinely vulnerable to a deep-pockets primary challenge now. She pissed off a lot of people in both the public and private ector.

[Big Abraham]

Has any freshman member of Congress screwed up as badly in recent memory as AOC here?

While I doubt her base thinks she screwed up - after all, socialism can only be instituted if capitalism is defeated - I think she's genuinely vulnerable to a deep-pockets primary challenge now. She pissed off a lot of people in both the public and private ector.

You're right. However, neither Cortez nor her base are actually anti-capitalist

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Yes, I'm sure AOC's 77% Clinton, 82% non-white, $58k-in-NYC-money-median-income district will be very receptive to a Bloombergist-Bezosist primary challenger.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Yes, I'm sure AOC's 77% Clinton, 82% non-white, $58k-in-NYC-money-median-income district will be very receptive to a Bloombergist-Bezosist primary challenger.

A poll showed the Amazon HQ2 project was more popular among blacks and hispanics than among whites in NYC.  Though how strongly held that support was, I don't know.

[HillGoose]

it's a good thing they pulled out or they might have been stuck with NYC for 18 years!

[Insomnian]

VICTORY!

[7,052,770]

They should have always put it in a poor, forgotten state anyway.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

you know, if the plan didn't include 1.5 billion in tax breaks and 325 million in cash grants as IncENtiVESi'd be slightly less opposed to the plan, though the rent issues are also quite large.

[Insomnian]

They should have always put it in a poor, forgotten state anyway.

I'm reminded me of that internet poll asking where they wanted the next season of Jersey Shore and people en masse vote. Alaska came in second. Congo came in second.

As such, I'm a proponent of setting the next season of Bezos Shore in Kinshasa.

[lfromnj]

Yes, I'm sure AOC's 77% Clinton, 82% non-white, $58k-in-NYC-money-median-income district will be very receptive to a Bloombergist-Bezosist primary challenger.

A poll showed the Amazon HQ2 project was more popular among blacks and hispanics than among whites in NYC.  Though how strongly held that support was, I don't know.

Ironically the people let in by Amazon HQ2 would have been more supportive of AOC.

[James Monroe]

Shameful that con artists like Bernie pushed Amazon that would've brought jobs back to the region.

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1096548988252241925
https://twitter.com/jackjonesbabe/status/1096548151480279042
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1096558942774329345
https://twitter.com/bruntofitall/status/1096560610425237504

[GoTfan]

Shameful that con artists like Bernie pushed Amazon that would've brought jobs back to the region.

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1096548988252241925
https://twitter.com/jackjonesbabe/status/1096548151480279042
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1096558942774329345
https://twitter.com/bruntofitall/status/1096560610425237504

You will find any way you can to blame absolutely everything on Sanders, won't you. Hell, I'm marginally impressed you haven't blamed him for global warming.

Also, there seems to be some element of racism by saying that only white gentrifiers support Sanders  . . . when that's false.

[Beet]

Yes, I'm sure AOC's 77% Clinton, 82% non-white, $58k-in-NYC-money-median-income district will be very receptive to a Bloombergist-Bezosist primary challenger.

A poll showed the Amazon HQ2 project was more popular among blacks and hispanics than among whites in NYC.  Though how strongly held that support was, I don't know.

Ironically the people let in by Amazon HQ2 would have been more supportive of AOC.

Good thing if they won't be wasted on NYC then.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Corporations that demand tax subsidies need to be squeezed out of all possible options for locating a corporate headquarter until they agree to drop said demand.

[James Monroe]

Shameful that con artists like Bernie pushed Amazon that would've brought jobs back to the region.

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1096548988252241925
https://twitter.com/jackjonesbabe/status/1096548151480279042
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1096558942774329345
https://twitter.com/bruntofitall/status/1096560610425237504

You will find any way you can to blame absolutely everything on Sanders, won't you. Hell, I'm marginally impressed you haven't blamed him for global warming.

Also, there seems to be some element of racism by saying that only white gentrifiers support Sanders  . . . when that's false.

Not my fault, the far left crowd has been demonizing business for years. None of the brocialists care to learn the nuances about small business or the occasional big business that treats labor well, no they're all haters of the working person. The left has a sheep mentality with anything that could balance a fair deal between labor and business, many just might as well go ahead and call for abolishment of the banks. If these white leftists read about the positive economic developments these business to POC communities they would hopefully be converted to understanding economics.

In the primary Bernie was backed by the Hipsters who have ruined over formaily minority-dominated areas by transferring them into white upper class paradises. No room for the working black person.

[junior chįmp]

https://twitter.com/bruntofitall/status/1096560610425237504

Just lol

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Shameful that con artists like Bernie pushed Amazon that would've brought jobs back to the region.

https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1096558942774329345
https://twitter.com/bruntofitall/status/1096560610425237504

how many layers of irony is this?

"Those darn evil pro-corporate white gentrifiers and their evil anti-corporate, anti-white gentrification politics!"

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Shameful that con artists like Bernie pushed Amazon that would've brought jobs back to the region.

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1096548988252241925
https://twitter.com/jackjonesbabe/status/1096548151480279042
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1096558942774329345
https://twitter.com/bruntofitall/status/1096560610425237504

You will find any way you can to blame absolutely everything on Sanders, won't you. Hell, I'm marginally impressed you haven't blamed him for global warming.

Also, there seems to be some element of racism by saying that only white gentrifiers support Sanders  . . . when that's false.

Not my fault, the far left crowd has been demonizing business for years. None of the brocialists care to learn the nuances about small business or the occasional big business that treats labor well, no they're all haters of the working person. The left has a sheep mentality with anything that could balance a fair deal between labor and business, many just might as well go ahead and call for abolishment of the banks. If these white leftists read about the positive economic developments these business to POC communities they would hopefully be converted to understanding economics.

In the primary Bernie was backed by the Hipsters who have ruined over formaily minority-dominated areas by transferring them into white upper class paradises. No room for the working black person.

Oh yes, we must give billions of dollars in subsidies to a large corporation with huge profits that pays zero taxes or else we "demonize" businesses.

[James Monroe]

https://twitter.com/armandodkos/status/1096408825849147392

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

https://twitter.com/armandodkos/status/1096408825849147392

You know Amazon took their marbles and went home rather than have the slightest chance they'd have to give a hair.

[Beet]

The bottom line is NYC doesn't need Amazon. The area the supposed HQ2? 3? I lost track? was supposed to be is already rapidly gentrifying anyway and Amazon will still be hiring in NYC.

It's shameful how Amazon made a ton of smaller American cities like Rochester, NY grovel at their feet only to pick the nation's capital and largest city which could have been predicted from day 1 without all the circus. The whole search (which is not being reopened btw) was a sham and just an insult to like 90% of America.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

You will find any way you can to blame absolutely everything on Sanders, won't you. Hell, I'm marginally impressed you haven't blamed him for global warming.

Also, there seems to be some element of racism by saying that only white gentrifiers support Sanders  . . . when that's false.

Not my fault, the far left crowd has been demonizing business for years. None of the brocialists care to learn the nuances about small business or the occasional big business that treats labor well, no they're all haters of the working person. The left has a sheep mentality with anything that could balance a fair deal between labor and business, many just might as well go ahead and call for abolishment of the banks. If these white leftists read about the positive economic developments these business to POC communities they would hopefully be converted to understanding economics.

In the primary Bernie was backed by the Hipsters who have ruined over formaily minority-dominated areas by transferring them into white upper class paradises. No room for the working black person.

Are you trolling here?  Amazon is aggressively anti-union and treats its workers like dirt.

This deal would have been $3 billion for Amazon to do to New York what Foxconn did to Wisconsin.  Google managed to come into NYC last December without controversy.