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Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.

But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.

The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

Is it possible, being as how snow removal is the city's responsibility, they're actually complaining about that? If snow removal isn't done in a timely manner, slush does indeed form and just moves around, not melting much.

Quickly reading the article suggests that's the actual complaint.

I like the Guardian and Mamdani but come on here. Let's focus on whether or not that complaint is accurate, and whether he's had any chance to impact the city's snow removal plans, which are generally done well in advance by someone other than the mayor.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Wouldn't have anything at all to do with their cold shoulders huh

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Not The Onion.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

politicians and oligarchs raping children and eating babies while giving away state secrets and money to Israeli and Russian spies

Establishment politicians: …We should just move on.

The snow isn’t melting and it’s inconvenient

Also Establishment politicians: blame socialism with every billionaire backed news organization and launch several expensive sensationalist investigations

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 12 hours ago

How cute. It's almost like we're back in the Obama era when the most inconsequential of things make a Democratic leader weak in conservative media. It's really jarring when Mamdani's news is juxtaposed with Trump's ICE bullshit, involvement in the Epstein files, threatening other countries with annexation, ruining the economy, etc.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 75 points 14 hours ago

OMG, the right wingers were right. Once Mamdani was elected, the city got filled with snowflakes!

smh

[–] Micans@reddthat.com 6 points 9 hours ago

Clearly Trump is punishing another blue city by withholding the aid of his weather Sharpie

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 28 points 12 hours ago

Ah yes, socialism is to blame for... checks notes... snow in New York...

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 83 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Snow is woke

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 21 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It is made up of snowflakes so this checks out.

E: I see someone has already pointed this out further down the comments, my bad.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Snow can’t be woke. It’s white.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 9 points 13 hours ago

It will definitely keep your ass woke if you don’t moderate.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 96 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't take this chance to criticize global warming?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 35 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Trump did almost immediately...

But that's only because people who think they understand it but don't keep saying "global warming" instead of climate change

As long as naive idiots who think they understand keep saying "global warming" you can't expect the other idiots to understand the problem.

But good luck convincing any of them to stop using the phrase they learned 30 years ago, or to incorporate new information.

In 30 more years they'll all be acting like boomers because they never actually understood any of this, they're literally doing the same as boomers and insisting what they were told in he high will always be true

It's incredibly depressing knowing it's gonna keep happening.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 11 points 12 hours ago

These deep freezes are literally caused by global warming.

The higher layers of the atmosphere are unusually warm, causing instability in the arctic weather systems which lead to these jet streams escaping the vortex, blasting freezing air way farther south than it usually goes.

I've tried explaining this to my conservative family and they just stare at me blankly and nod like they think it's a cope that doesn't deserve their attention...

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The only benefit of "climate change" over "global warming" is that it does not suggest it will get warmer everywhere, though in turn it fails to communicate that the global annual temperature is steadily increasing.

And worse yet, the change in terminology suggests a retreat from a prior position, allowing denialists to suggest that scientists changed their mind and they are two distinct concepts.

It's a terminology change not worth arguing about. Global warming causes local climate change, and climate change is just the local effect of global warming.

We should absolutely use whichever term communicates best with the audience we are trying to reach, but mocking someone for the terminology they use is counterproductive and reinforces the fallacy that the ideas are meaningfully different.

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

The main benefit of rhetorically talking about "climate change" instead of "global warning" is that "climate change" sounds fairly innocuous to the layperson, and can be easily misconstrued as "natural".

How many conservatives have you heard say something like "of course the climate changes, it happens every day!"

There's a reason the bush administration pushed the "climate change" narrative so hard.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 37 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How DARE Zohran Mamdani NOT control the Weather!

-People who KNOW that Trump has NOTHING to do With this whole Epstein Debacle!

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago

And you absolutely know that if the snow did melt, conservatives would be blaming him for not making the snow stay.

LITERALLY in-group/out-group behavior

[–] cmoney@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How stupid can people be? Don't they know it's the Jews that control the weather?

[–] 007ace@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

With their space lasers!

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sucks the streets are slushy. Maybe take i dk the metro?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Are you trying to question my sacred right to drive anywhere in my ludicrously oversized emotional support vehicle?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Lol Im stealing this mate

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I didn't come up with that one either.

[–] exu@feditown.com 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Aren't they against cloud seeding?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They're against anything that it's currently convenient for them to pretend to be against for the sake of Dear Leader et al.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Or if it requires them to do even the least amount of change to their lifestyle. Or if they think that someone, somewhere, might think they are being a pussy for doing even the tiniest of things for the planet.

I had a roommate that would usually, pointedly, throw an aluminum can of soda or beer into the trash can. The recycle bin was right next to it, of course. When people would see him do this, and ask him, basically, "uh, what the fuck, man?" he'd mutter how he wasn't "politically correct".

In the 90s, "politically correct" was the phrase the conservatives used in the exact same way they use "woke" now. These days, I bet he does the exact same shit, but says he does it because he's not "woke".

🙄

[–] dvoraqs@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

If they are going to blame Mamdani, they should know that ultimately it will be Trump's fault. And also God's.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

"Piove, porco governo"