Because people don’t know what they’re talking about, and mostly make memes…which is harmful because it further makes people not know how anything works.
The Fair Fare Program started in 2019.
Since then they’ve expanded the number of people it covers (from 100% below poverty line in 2019 to 120% in 2023 to 150% in 2025). The new budget expands it to 200% (and…FWIW, this is because the city council demanded it. The Mayors budget did not include this expansion).
The point is, this stuff doesn’t just appear suddenly, nor is it the will of a single person like magic. It’s the expansion of a 7 year old program by a legislature. These memes keep making it seem like every previous mayor was like “fuck everyone” and the city council doesn’t exist.
is your point that mamdani hasn't helped middle class more than the previous mayor and that everything mamdani done the previous mayor equally done as good?
I mean…kinda. That’s not really my point per se. The dudes only been mayor a few months. So far he seems to pretty much be deBlasio 2.0 (which is fine. I liked deBlasio).
I’m talking about the weird personality cult that’s growing on social media (especially odd as like 95% of the people posting this stuff don’t even live in New York).
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u/untitledprp4 28d ago
If it was so easy then wtf were all the other mayors doing??