Post AxQc0aC9DLofBMdaE4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AxQXnsYbEXPSYApH60 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T11:57:56Z
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So our mayor is famous for this video where he talks about places your kid might be hiding drugs. Classic 80s paranoia. Perhaps we should have paid more attention to his "sneak craft" game: recently this same man was responsible for a cash money bribe given to a reporter ... in a greasy bag of potato chips. YES.I think for NYC our dislike of the mayor isn't just about his corruption, it's also about how BAD he is at being corrupt. https://youtu.be/sk2Wc4Y5CxE?t=187https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/eric-adams-adviser-suspended-after-giving-reporter-chip-bag-with-cash-inside-245503045743
(DIR) Post #AxQXukESaEQCl4gCqe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T11:59:10Z
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No only is he sneaking and stealing and passing around bribes they are not very large bribes and he's bad at it and always gets caught. It's so embarrassing for NYC.Yeah, he's running for mayor again. There are other options.
(DIR) Post #AxQXyPSTlJVzUHz6iO by Illuminatus@mstdn.social
2025-08-22T11:59:44Z
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@futurebird You have to be a very special kind, not just of sleazy, but of… cheapassed halfshit to turn in a bribe with grease.
(DIR) Post #AxQYZppOgQLnzCYAXA by darkling@mstdn.social
2025-08-22T12:06:33Z
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@futurebird I saw an article a while ago which looked at the sums that national-level politicians had been caught taking in, err..., "undeclared gifts". They were remarkably small -- like, few even topped £10k.Conclusion: Politicians are *cheap*.
(DIR) Post #AxQZ1pC4dQOe7xVHG4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T12:11:40Z
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@darkling I've kidded about crowd funding one. You know if they pay more attention to the concerns of one shady dude who give them 10k than 5000 constituents who give them 5 bucks each... maybe we should simply pretend to be a single shady dude.
(DIR) Post #AxQZIBOBseadbAyGvI by Mabande@blacktwitter.io
2025-08-22T12:14:34Z
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@futurebird @darkling "Wait a minute! That's not a tech oligarch—it's five thousand constituents in a trench coat!"
(DIR) Post #AxQaX9z3UJW7XOv5u4 by paco@infosec.exchange
2025-08-22T12:28:30Z
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@futurebird Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the people to purchase and keep politicians.@darkling
(DIR) Post #AxQaYCarGpmdvB6BiC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T12:28:44Z
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The lady from Adam's campaign who gave the chip bag bribe is trying to say "it's part of Chinese culture" ... there was also a red envelope in the chip bag. But why was it HIDDEN in a chip bag?And who is this reporter your unmarried niece???? No. Good lord.
(DIR) Post #AxQah05B9grnj2Tb8a by lappenjammer@openbiblio.social
2025-08-22T12:30:11Z
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@futurebird How do you get a chip bag in the first place?
(DIR) Post #AxQapNQkETUwSDYeJ6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T12:31:48Z
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@lappenjammer The Adams aid gave the reporter a bag of chips and she found the bribe when she opened it on the subway. Free snacks are somewhat normal for these things.
(DIR) Post #AxQaxxdvTk9B59ogiG by funkula@goblin.camp
2025-08-22T12:33:18Z
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@futurebird I've been thinking that the red envelope was a harebrained preemptive excuse if it got exposed. Or could have been an inside joke for her own amusement
(DIR) Post #AxQb3V2EksOk5spRj6 by lappenjammer@openbiblio.social
2025-08-22T12:34:20Z
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@futurebird Free Snacks at campaigning is somewhat unusual here. I can see the potential for putting messages on the outside or even inside. To bribe people is quite something.
(DIR) Post #AxQbJMA1W9hxCh22q0 by earthlingusa@mas.to
2025-08-22T12:37:10Z
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@futurebird The cringe factor of that video alone made it shocking that Adams won last time. Fortunately there won’t be a next time.
(DIR) Post #AxQbNTzEMZBYdLx2Ya by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2025-08-22T12:37:57Z
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I've always thought - it's not just the money they get caught with. It's the money they don't get caught with. It's having an in with wealthy and powerful people who will invite you to fancy parties and other donor friends. And fluff your ego and make you feel important. Etc. They don't need normie money.@futurebird @darkling
(DIR) Post #AxQbV3zUtkfGKHgtE0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T12:39:21Z
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@JessTheUnstill @darkling Well that's why we should make up a fake billionaire donor. The same contributions, but with that extra sheen that gets them so excited. I can think of some way to fake the parties too.
(DIR) Post #AxQbdcaMA145w50oG8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T12:40:48Z
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@gaditb @funkula oh well it makes sense then I suppose OMG
(DIR) Post #AxQc0aC9DLofBMdaE4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T12:45:03Z
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It'd be so easy to do a parody of this video "Combating Political Corruption"If Eric Adams is coming to your house after he is gone it is very important to Check the pillowcases, he might have put bribes in there. Check the chip bags! You could fit *several* bribes in this "share size" bag.In these trouble times also search the mayor's house for bribes he has received. Sometimes a politician's aid will try to disguise a bribe in a red envelope and call it "Chinese Culture" Don't fall for it!
(DIR) Post #AxQcynM9PStvNP1maW by toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-22T12:55:53Z
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@futurebird @darkling I suspect the accepting of petty bribes is just a way to signal that you are on a given side; why take the risk otherwise? The real payout comes after you leave politics / through another channel.
(DIR) Post #AxQdFz4z4oZGerC7pQ by mlohbihler@techhub.social
2025-08-22T12:59:01Z
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@futurebird @gaditb @funkula huh, I assumed the envelope was for the protection of the potato chips, not the cash
(DIR) Post #AxQeZlkmQoVR4fk5rs by paulc@mstdn.social
2025-08-22T13:10:48Z
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@darkling @futurebird Ben Goldacre talks about how doctors allow for freebies like pens from pharmaceutical companies companies influence them.
(DIR) Post #AxQevPXNi9BIXjnLIe by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
2025-08-22T13:17:39Z
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@futurebird I feel like the "could/could not make it in New York" is such a point of pride in terms of the city's identity—New York is supposed to be the extreme difficulty setting for success.I think that's low key why the NYT can never bring itself to lean into "DJT is a total fraud and a conman" angle because he was a NYC success story and you're not supposed to be able to fool New Yorkers like that.
(DIR) Post #AxQfJoSOiDC0mQ6E5Y by MrEdgarBass@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T13:22:06Z
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@futurebird Thanks for posting! How did this never cross my screen before? First time viewing. What a laugh.
(DIR) Post #AxQfhbXiNWrhg2vneq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T13:26:27Z
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@MrEdgarBass He is so damn corny.
(DIR) Post #AxQgK8p161CttWOqno by BenAveling@mastodon.ie
2025-08-22T13:33:22Z
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@futurebird he gets caught a lot. Does that mean he always gets caught? or are the times he gets caught are just the (metaphorical) tip of an even bigger slushburg
(DIR) Post #AxQgcxtdwNJpVoXWXA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T13:36:49Z
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@BenAveling You have a point. And we REALLY need to start searching all of the pillowcases and chips bags anywhere near that man. Because I now think he legit is like that other politician who had gold bars hidden all over his house. Gremlin behavior. Smaug the dragon behavior.
(DIR) Post #AxQh2b4vOrV0Gx2TE8 by Catfish_Man@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T13:41:25Z
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@futurebird @BenAveling I wonder if he would answer to “chiefest and greatest of calamities”
(DIR) Post #AxQhnyn73QxXQVIjMO by jandi@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T13:49:54Z
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@futurebird @gaditb @funkula lol didn't you know, greasy payments are legal and Totally Not Bribes!: https://www.hilderlaw.com/blog/2019/12/what-is-the-difference-between-a-grease-payment-and-a-bribe/
(DIR) Post #AxQwufXWWmdd3heoOO by RuStelz@norden.social
2025-08-22T16:39:15Z
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@futurebird @darkling roflol
(DIR) Post #AxQx0REQda56Q9TcKe by RuStelz@norden.social
2025-08-22T16:40:19Z
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@futurebird @JessTheUnstill @darkling your ideas enter sweet and dangerous ground//exciting!
(DIR) Post #AxR05RnIH2HNTWrfl2 by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-08-22T17:14:47Z
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@futurebird how is he still the mayor? why hasn't Mamdani been sworn in yet?
(DIR) Post #AxR0KjCXpuAVo4xi5o by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T17:17:35Z
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@burnitdown Mamdani just won a primary the election still has not happened. (And there is no reason to think it will be easy)
(DIR) Post #AxR2BsP8Rx6neSl4MK by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-08-22T17:38:24Z
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@futurebird ffs, what a shit system. idk how anyone puts up with that kind of drawn out bullshit. like, how is Eric Adams even still alive and not at least kidnapped and held for ransom till he agrees to stop being so terrible? is there a single person in New York who likes him?
(DIR) Post #AxR2v2vCC6StIjID4K by RnDanger@infosec.exchange
2025-08-22T17:46:33Z
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@futurebird The dude accepted plane rides to nowhere as bribes. Of course he's bad at it!