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Mamdani refusal to act against Tisch and her private army should have laid to rest any "leftists" hope of him enacting any real policy that could challenge the status quo.
This is my stance on Mamdani. I don't really care about the latest thing he did or did not do, because he's already done enough to prove to me that he'll ultimately be ineffective. It sucks, but it's entryism.
I'm pretty much the opposite. Until he actually gets into office, we're just talking about takes.
He has committed to keeping Tisch as commissioner, that's not just a take.
As others have pointed out, if you're going to piss off the police, at least get in power first. His commitment isn't indefinite, either, and firing her after an inevitable police screw-up could better minimize reaction.
Why does it matter if you piss of the police day 1 or a couple months before?
he's not in office yet and he needs to not get murdered by them lmao
Then he should probably not leave the person who seems to want him and everyone like him dead in charge of them lol.
Yeah great point firing her should be a priority when he has the legal authority to do so.
Would you want your enemies to know you're coming for them? Or would you prefer them to be at ease?
I'm agnostic on the matter. It's to be determined as far as I'm concerned. Some people say it's to avoid a kind of first strike from the police, others say it's obvious lib shit. Could literally be either at this point so all we're doing is arguing about something we'll have definitive evidence for soon enough.
That's fair. It's just that all the arguments for why it doesn't matter that he's been walking back rhetoric tend to feel like "he's hiding his power level". It makes much more sense that he was never actually very radical, and some of the people who supported him were, so that radicalism was projected onto him (not just by his supporters). I suppose, as you say, we'll see.
He should have simply not chosen to rehire her. Every mayor chooses their own police commissioner, he just chose the continuity
I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure you don't get to hire and fire people before your statutory term in office. Eric Adams is still the Mayor until the end of the month.
He’s planted his flag in the sand, he announced his intention to hire her early for a reason
People are doubting your proposed reason. It's like you didn't even read my original comment. Reasserting your take on his motivations does not settle the matter.