@QhaBhuti Even with improved police/community trust, random killings such as this are always a possibility.
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@QhaBhuti That's probably trueThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@DanFosterType what's the generalization? Why should a random violent act negate an overwhelming electoral mandate from barely a year ago?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@DanFosterType I basically oppose monarchical rule. Not convinced that democracy inevitably brings about ruin. But willing to consider.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@DanFosterType The NYC polity is inordinately fluid, I'll give you that. Hard to imagine Rudy sneering his way to power nowadays. -
@DanFosterType And talk of "mandates" is in fact usually vapid. But I'm appealing with that tweet to people who think "mandates" are real. - 1 more reply
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@DanFosterType In which case, let's just re-install Emperor Bloomberg and be done with it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze If there's any such thing as a "mandate" conferred by electoral victory, then he has a mandate. Otherwise let's abolish democracyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@DanFosterType Dropping that pretension would put a lot of pundits, journalists, consultants, and PR hacks out of jobs.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze Does the GOP have a mandate after winning the Senate, despite historically low voter turnout?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze My statistic wasn't "categorically false." It's categorically true that deBlasio won by 49 percentage points in the 2013 electionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze I asked you, in order to discern your argument more clearly.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze Correct. But that qualification could render literally any election result statistic "categorically false," by your logic.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze If we accept that mandates can be conferred by electoral victory, then, for example, Kasich in OH has a mandate (32 pt victory)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze@drawandstrike The will of the NYPD, as articulated by union leadership, doesn't necessarily trump the will of the median voter. -
@mtracey@redsteeze@drawandstrike wait, what? Are you saying "deal with it, you voted him in"?
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@redsteeze You could make the argument that it doesn't constitute a "mandate," but that wouldn't make the statistic "false"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@redsteeze@mtracey Even if you posit he had a mandate, that prevents people from pointing out he's royally fucked up the execution of it? -
@drawandstrike@redsteeze No, it would prevent people from positing that his mandate has been rescinded, or never existed. - 9 more replies
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@mtracey mandate? Hardly, lowest voter turnout on record. Less than a quarter of registered voters bothered. -
@BillFlanaganDCP Partly because a high-turnout Democratic primary, which he won handily, was seen as the only competitive election. - 2 more replies
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