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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • First, it’s important for people to understand that democratic governance is compromise. At least when elected officials play by the rules (cough, Trump/GOP).

    Second, I don’t think Mamdani was ever going to turn. NYC into a “socialist paradise,” like all the rich/right-wing/centrist Chicken Littles warned. The best he can hope to do is pull the state party back to the left. Maybe find some success with progressive policies and open the door for more progressive candidates.

    Democrats have been trying for so long to get the mythical “moderate Republican” vote that they’ve effectively become the centrist party, and it’s allowed the GOP to move further and further to the right to where Tea Partiers are now the moderates! It’s good to see a true progressive win a major election, even if it is NYC (the city did also elect Rudy & Bloomberg to the post).







  • While I genuinely love to see this, I fear it will come crashing down. At some point the one, or both, of two things will happen. Either:

    • A government’s private cloud will be hacked, and the argument will be that the security upkeep is too expensive and cause the lapse that allowed the breach.
    • Similarly the cost argument, on its own, will rear its ugly head during some future budget crunch and popular thought amongst government leaders will sway back to the ever popular “private industry == efficiency & low cost.”

    Hope it doesn’t happen, but history do often be a bitch like that.