Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[EuchreJack]

It's also self preservation. Best way to avoid being outed is to be openly bigoted.

[Duuvian]

New York Mayor Eric Adams charged in Turkey bribery, fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/criminal-charges-against-new-york-mayor-adams-expected-be-unsealed-2024-09-26/

[Magmacube_tr]

New York Mayor Eric Adams charged in Turkey bribery, fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/criminal-charges-against-new-york-mayor-adams-expected-be-unsealed-2024-09-26/

So, what I am getting from this is... Classic Turkish entitlement and mafia boss behavior. Nothing new.

What's the purpose, though? A single mayor. A single consulate building. Is it vanity? Because they can? I wouldn't put it past erdogan and his cronies. Is it some convoluted and very much braindead scheme to bolster foreign influence?

What?

[anewaname]

There must be more in the works, either partially investigated or too sensitive to release.

[Duuvian]

I dunno. Adams was part of a crop of leadership in the Democrat party at the local and state level that were running in ways that were unusual at the time, as the base had just completed large popular protests against some of the things they frequently became associated with. I presumed at the time it was a political reaction to the slight possibility Bernie Sanders type Democrats would do well. Much of this counter-reform policy is now to some degree a part of the centrist/moderate position on for example the border, crime, security corruption, gambling, marihuana sale gatewaying, green-slowing, whacky internet regulation, and maybe now crypto which by the way is somehow money for Russia since very recently, I'd have to dig up my link to remember the details. In fact Adams seemed like he was part of a wider faction of Democrats, which to an outsider like me, seemed like they may be taking advantage of the situation with Trump and the necessity of course of action.

I can't remember if that was one of the primaries with ~19 candidates or not which seemed like was the primary of the day. I never thought I'd miss that! NYC is also basically the unofficial capital of the Democratic party, along with housing the great big stock exchange and the UN building IIRC, and lots of excellent New Yorkers who are basically everywhere judging from those Yankees caps.

NYC folder

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/nyregion/cuomo-women-sister-madeline.html
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/05/nyc-officials-are-mad-because-journalists-pointed-out-the-citys-new-ai-chatbot-tells-people-to-break-the-law/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/governor-proposes-mask-ban-on-nyc-subway-to-combat-antisemitic-incidents/

adams (still enough for own subfolder) subfolder

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/nyregion/eric-adams-theft-masks-nyc.html
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/07/aclu-says-nycs-half-baked-wifi-kiosks-still-a-privacy-mess/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/adams-migrants-destroy-nyc.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/nyregion/nyc-budget-cuts-adams-migrants.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opinion/michael-bloomberg-nyc-immigration-crisis.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/nyregion/docgo-lander-audit-contract.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/nyregion/eric-adams-critics-enemies.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/tech/openai-shuts-down-ai-mayor/index.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-appear-court-corruption-charges-2024-09-27/

same faction? subfolder 2

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/politics/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-republican/index.html

Maybe campaign contributions but that's relatively normal across the board even if I disagree with it and think it's a root cause of dysfunction and stagnation in many places.

No, younger Duuvian! This was IL-legalized bribery.

I had nearly a metric butt-ton more for Adams but I lost them about two years ago when I forgot to backup my bookmarks. Always backup your bookmarks! I stopped reading the NYT because 1: their opinions section grew dismal and 2: they put up a dang paywall and I lost even more IQ points!

[Magmacube_tr]

Discord is banned now.

I am not going to say anything else...

[Sorg]

Discord is banned now.

One day after it was banned in russia. Coincidence?

[Magmacube_tr]

Discord is banned now.

One day after it was banned in russia. Coincidence?

no

Because recep is off-brand vladimir.

This is to change media focus from the murders and baby rapes.

[Great Order]

I can only assume he was on one of the more infamous servers and got banned for badgering people about some super niche fetish porn or something.

[Magmacube_tr]

I can only assume he was on one of the more infamous servers and got banned for badgering people about some super niche fetish porn or something.

lmao. Why is it so easy to imagine him as a sex pest? Him being a conservative political figure aside.