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Where Are They Now: Salvadore - Jaws In a comment in the deviantart post linked below in 250 words or less, in your own words and without the assistance of AI or similar machine learning tools, write a short fan fiction detailing the continuing story of Salvadore from Jaws and his fishing or non fishing exploits after that fateful July 4th season in Amity Island. Help Jaws aficionado's solve the mystery of this resident! Here’s the rules and rewards for this @CRLiterature activity: All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions, and the group rules for CRLiterature; off topic or inappropriate entries will be removed. Share your entry as a comment to this journal for reward considerations.    Only submit one (1) comment for this engagement that is your very best work; all entries must be original concepts and human-written, no AI-assisted entries are allowed and will be removed.      Comment with your entry by the end of the day on Thursday July 31, 2025 for rewards consideration for this activity. Winners selected at the sole discretion of CRLiterature group admin; all decisions are final and non-negotiable. We will select four (4) winners by Friday August 8, 2025, to receive the following rewards:: Each winner will get 500 points and a quartz badge One of the four will get a hype badge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Where-Are-They-Now-Salvadore-Jaws-1210527648 the standalone story https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Where-is-Salvadore-Now-1216988248 Audio https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/791594297330892800/where-are-they-now-salvadore-jaws-by-hddeviant https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/791594297330892800/where-are-they-now-salvadore-jaws-by-hddeviant

Here is a summary, full video reading, link to the complete text as a pdf, text block FULL VIDEO READING FULL PDF TEXT 940 pages, get a cup of coffee https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_one_big_beautiful_bill_act.pdf if the government deletes you can find it on my public storage https://1drv.ms/b/c/ea9004809c2729bb/EbZDmeqlfntGiGn1E02IYZEBOO1r6iFbHDCHZ9IBK91SuA?e=EfDQLO Full Text as a video, you can stop and start or scroll back and forth SUMMARY- biased from the Associated Press What's in Trump's big bill that passed Congress and will soon become law Story by KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans muscled President Donald Trump's tax and spending cut bill through the House on Thursday, the final step necessary to get the bill to his desk by the GOP's self-imposed deadline of July 4th. At nearly 900 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations. Democrats united against the legislation, but were powerless to stop it as long as Republicans stayed united. The Senate passed the bill, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote. The House passed an earlier iteration of the bill in May with just one vote to spare. It passed the final version 218-214. Here's the latest on what's in the bill and when some of its provisions go into effect. Republicans say the bill is crucial because there would be a massive tax increase after December when tax breaks from Trump's first term expire. The legislation contains about $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. The existing tax rates and brackets would become permanent under the bill, solidifying the tax cuts approved in Trump's first term. It temporarily would add new tax deductions on tip, overtime and auto loans. There's also a $6,000 deduction for older adults who earn no more than $75,000 a year, a nod to his pledge to end taxes on Social Security benefits. It would boost the $2,000 child tax credit to $2,200. Millions of families at lower income levels would not get the full credit. A cap on state and local deductions, called SALT, would quadruple to $40,000 for five years. It's a provision important to New York and other high tax states, though the House wanted it to last for 10 years. There are scores of business-related tax cuts, including allowing businesses to immediately write off 100% of the cost of equipment and research. Proponents say this will boost economic growth. The wealthiest households would see a $12,000 increase from the legislation, and the bill would cost the poorest people $1,600 a year, mainly due to reductions in Medicaid and food aid, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis of the House's version. The bill would provide some $350 billion for Trump's border and national security agenda, including for the U.S.-Mexico border wall and for 100,000 migrant detention facility beds, as he aims to fulfill his promise of the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history. Money would go for hiring 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, with $10,000 signing bonuses and a surge of Border Patrol officers, as well. The goal is to deport some 1 million people per year. To help pay for it, immigrants would face various new fees, including when seeking asylum protections. For the Pentagon, the bill would provide billions for ship building, munitions systems, and quality of life measures for servicemen and women, as well as $25 billion for the development of the Golden Dome missile defense system. The Defense Department would have $1 billion for border security. To help partly offset the lost tax revenue and new spending, Republicans aim to cut back on Medicaid and food assistance for people below the poverty line. Republicans argue they are trying to rightsize the safety net programs for the population they were initially designed to serve, mainly pregnant women, the disabled and children, and root out what they describe as waste, fraud and abuse. The package includes new 80-hour-a-month work requirements for many adults receiving Medicaid and food stamps, including older people up to age 65. Parents of children 14 and older would have to meet the program’s work requirements. There's also a proposed new $35 co-payment that can be charged to patients using Medicaid services. More than 71 million people rely on Medicaid, which expanded under Obama's Affordable Care Act, and 40 million use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Most already work, according to analysts. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill became law and 3 million more would not qualify for food stamps, also known as SNAP benefits. Republicans are looking to have states pick up some of the cost for SNAP benefits. Currently, the federal government funds all benefit costs. Under the bill, states beginning in 2028 will be required to contribute a set percentage of those costs if their payment error rate exceeds 6%. Payment errors include both underpayments and overpayments. But the Senate bill temporarily delays the start date of that cost-sharing for states with the highest SNAP error rates. Alaska has the highest error rate in the nation at nearly 25%, according to Department of Agriculture data. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had fought for the exception. She was a decisive vote in getting the bill through the Senate. Republicans are proposing to dramatically roll back tax breaks designed to boost clean energy projects fueled by renewable sources such as energy and wind. The tax breaks were a central component of President Joe Biden's 2022 landmark bill focused on addressing climate change and lowering health care costs. Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden went so far as to call the GOP provisions a “death sentence for America’s wind and solar industries and an inevitable hike in utility bills.” A tax break for people who buy new or used electric vehicles would expire on Sept. 30 of this year, instead of at the end of 2032 under current law. Meanwhile, a tax credit for the production of critical materials will be expanded to include metallurgical coal used in steelmaking. A number of extra provisions reflect other GOP priorities. The bill creates a new children's savings program, called Trump Accounts, with a potential $1,000 deposit from the Treasury. The Senate provided $40 million to establish Trump’s long-sought “National Garden of American Heroes.” There's a new excise tax on university endowments and a new tax on remittances, or transfers of money that people in the U.S. send abroad. The tax is equal to 1% of the transfer. A $200 tax on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns was eliminated. One provision bars for one year Medicaid payments to family planning providers that provide abortions, namely Planned Parenthood. Another section expands the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, a hard-fought provision from GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, for those impacted by nuclear development and testing. Billions would go for the Artemis moon mission and for the exploration of Mars, while $88 million is earmarked for a pandemic response accountability committee. Additionally, a provision would increase the nation's debt limit, by $5 trillion, to allow continued borrowing to pay already accrued bills. The Senate overwhelmingly revolted against a proposal meant to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence. Republican governors across the country asked for the moratorium to be removed and the Senate voted to do so with a resounding 99-1 vote. A provision was thrown in at the final hours that will provide $10 billion annually to rural hospitals for five years, or $50 billion in total. The Senate bill had originally provided $25 billion for the program, but that number was upped to win over holdout GOP senators and a coalition of House Republicans warning that reduced Medicaid provider taxes would hurt rural hospitals. The amended bill also stripped out a new tax on wind and solar projects that use a certain percentage of components from China. Altogether, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the bill would increase federal deficits over the next 10 years by nearly $3.3 trillion from 2025 to 2034. Or not, depending on how one does the math. Senate Republicans are proposing a unique strategy of not counting the existing tax breaks as a new cost because those breaks are already “current policy.” Republican senators say the Senate Budget Committee chairman has the authority to set the baseline for the preferred approach. Under the alternative Senate GOP view, the bill would reduce deficits by almost half a trillion dollars over the coming decade, the CBO said. Democrats say this is “magic math” that obscures the true costs of the tax breaks. Some nonpartisan groups worried about the country's fiscal trajectory are siding with Democrats in that regard. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says Senate Republicans were employing an “accounting gimmick that would make Enron executives blush.” URL https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/whats-in-trumps-big-bill-that-passed-congress-and-will-soon-become-law/ar-AA1HVdHv?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Sudowoodo at the library for charity Reading a relaxing book on Rock Types on his custom BentWood Rocking Chair, designed by Hddeviant inspired by Thonet, while a bonsom sleep on his lap and two other Bonsam happily listen on the floor. Two Bonsam are reading their own book, about fire and ice type interactions. On the shelves, is a golden book on pokemon, a complete history of Team Rocket, Oracion jazz variations, a vase with meowth's koban coin and a energy from a time flower, a book on the ALola Islands, and a princess key encyclopedia with Couriway princess key on the spine. The coloring page and fully colored https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sudowoodo-at-the-Library-submit-to-charity-1214090375 My Pokemon for charity https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=sudowoodo EMBED CODE

First I am not a fan of P Diddy, before during or after his trial. And I thought he was going to jail. I know one thing. I can't attack a woman on camera and not get assault. It is that simple for me. When you have money you can get lawyers and the delicacies of the law go into play. I only truly know one song of his. All ABout THe Bejamins. And although I like it , it is never in my top music songs. But, I have to admit, with the way media went on and on about him [living nin NYC diddy is constanlty in media, constantly ] I figured he would have a song ready if he got acquitted. Since he got acquitted. What about All ABout The Prosecutes In the video he is wearing a black and white prison getup. All ABout The Prosecutes Here is the intro:) I challenge anyone to continue the lyrics, and if you are opposed to Diddy and want the lyrics to go that way, be my guest. I am not a fan of diddy. I am no rapper: ) Now, what y'all gonna do Wanna be judgers, shot callers, tweeters, who be adding lies like spoilers All About The Benjamins REMIX LYRICS [Produced by D-Dot (The Mad Rapper)] [Intro: Diddy & Missy Elliott] Uh, uh-huh, yeah Uh, uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh, uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Goodfellas (Uh) [Verse 1: Diddy] Now, what y'all wanna do? Wanna be ballers, shot callers, brawlers? Who be dippin' in the Benz with the spoilers? On the low from the jake in the Taurus Tryin' to get my hands on some Grants like Horace Yeah, livin' the raw deal Three course meals, spaghetti, fettuccine, and veal But still, everything's real in the field (Uh, yeah) And what you can't have now, leave in your will But don't knock me for tryin' to bury Seven zeros over in Rio de Janeiry Ain't nobody's hero, but I want to be heard On your HOT97 every day, that's my word Swimmin' in women with they own condominiums (Uh-huh, yeah) Five plus fives who drive Millenniums It's all about the Benjamins, what? I get a fifty pound bag of Euk for the mutts Five carats on my hands with the cuts In somethin' European chromed out with the clutch, what [Verse 2: Jadakiss & Diddy] I wanna hold figures, fuck bein' a broke nigga Drinkin' malt liquor, drivin' a broke Vigor I'm with Mo' sippers, watched by gold diggers (Uh) Rocking Girbaud denims with gold zippers (Come on) Lost your touch, we kept ours Poppin' Cristals, freakin' the three-quarter reptiles (Hahaha) Enormous cream, forest green Benz jeep For my team, so while you sleep, I'ma scheme (That's right) You see through, that's why nobody never gon' believe you You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews Don't let the melody intrigue you (Uh-uh), 'cause I leave you I'm only here for that green paper with the eagle [Verse 3: Sheek Louch & Diddy] I'm strictly trying to cop those colossal-sized Picassos And have papi flip coke outside Delgado's (Woo) Tienda, with cash flowing like Sosa And a Latin chick transporting in the chocha Stampeding over, pop Mos, never sober Flexin' Range Rovers, dealing weight by Minnesota (Uh) Avoiding NARCs with camcorders and Chevy Novas (Uh-huh) Stash in the building with this chick named Wilona (Uh-huh) From Daytona, when I was young I wanted to bone her (Uh-huh) But now I only hit chicks who win beauty pageants (Hahaha) Tricking and taking me skin at the Aspens, uh (Come on) Gangsta mental, stay poppin' Cristal Pack a black pistol in the Ac' coupe that's dark brown (Woo) Pinky-ringin', gondolas with the man singin' Italian music down the river with your chick clingin' To my bizzalls, player, you mad false Acting hard when you as pussy as RuPaul's [Chorus: Diddy & Missy Elliot] Come on, Come on, uh-huh (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) [Post-Chorus: Diddy, Lil' Kim & Missy Elliott] Now, what y'all wanna do? (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Wanna be ballers, shot-callers, brawlers (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Who be dippin' in the Benz with the spoilers (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) On the low from the jake in the Taurus (Uh, uh, what the bloodclaat?) [Verse 4: Lil' Kim, Diddy & The Notorious B.I.G.] Wanna bumble with the bee, huh? Bzz, throw a hex on the whole family (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Dressed in all black like The Omen (Say what?) Have your friends singin', "This is for my homie" (That's right) And you know me from making niggas so sick Floss in my six with the Lex' on the wrist If it's murder, you know she wrote it (Uh-huh) German Ruger for yo' ass, bitch, deep throat it (Come on) Know you wanna feel the womb 'cause it's platinum-coated Take your pick, got a firearm you should have toted, suck a dick All that bullshit you kick, player hatin' from the sidelines Get your own shit, why you ridin' mine? (Uh-huh) I'm a Goodfella kinda lady Stash .380s in Mercedes, Puffy, hold me down, baby Only female in my crew and I kick shit like a nigga do Pull the trigger too, fuck you (Uh, uh, uh) [Verse 5: The Notorious B.I.G. & Diddy] I been had skills, Cristal spills Hide bills in Brazil, about a mill', the ice grill (That's right) Make it hard to figure me, liquor be kickin' me In my asshole (Uh), undercover, Donnie Brasco Left my east coast girl the Bentley to twirl (Uh-huh) My west coast shorty push the chrome 740 Rockin' Redman and Naughty, oh, where my kitty cat? Half a brick of yay in the bra where her titties at And I'm livin' that, whole life we push weight (Uh-huh) Fuck the state pen, fuck hoes in Penn State (C'mon) Listen close, it's Francis, the praying mantis Attack with the MAC my left hand spit Right hand grip on the whip for the smooth getaway Playa haters, get away or my lead will spray (Get away) Squeeze off 'til I'm empty, don't tempt me Only to hell I send thee, all about the Benjis, what? [Outro: Diddy & Missy Elliott] It's all about the Benjamins, baby Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Uh-huh, yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Yeah (It's all about the Benjamins, baby) Yeah, yeah, yeah ORIGINAL LYRICS [Intro: Puff Daddy] Uh Uh-huh, yeah Uh Uh-huh, yeah Uh Uh-huh, yeah Goodfellas, uh [Verse 1: Puff Daddy] Now What y'all wanna do? Wanna be ballers? Shot-callers? Brawlers Who be dippin in the Benz wit the spoilers On the low from the Jake in the Taurus Tryin' to get my hands on some Grants like Horace Yeah livin' the raw deal, three-course meals Spaghetti, fettucini, and veal But still, everything's real in the field And what you can't have now, leave in your will But don't knock me for tryin to bury Seven zeros, over in Rio de Janeir-y Ain't nobody's hero, but I wanna be heard On your Hot 9-7 every day, that's my word Swimmin' in women wit they own condominiums Five plus fives, who drive millenniums It's all about the Benjamins, what? I get a fifty-pound bag of ooh for the mutts Five carats on my hands wit the cuts In something European chromed out with a clutch, what [Verse 2: Jadakiss] I wanna hold figures, fuck being a broke nigga Drinkin malt liquor, drivin a Bro' Vega I'm wit Mo' sippers, watched by gold diggers (uhh) Rockin Bejor denims, wit gold zippers (c'mon) Lost your touch we kept ours, poppin Cristals Freakin the three-quarter reptiles (ahahah) Enormous cream, forest green, Benz jeep For my team so while you sleep I'mma scheme (that's right) We see through, that's why nobody never gon' believe you You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) 'Cause I leave you, I'm only here For that green paper with the eagle [Verse 3: Sheek Louch] I'm strictly tryin to cop those, colossal-sized Picassos And have papi flip coke outside Delgado's (whoo!) Mienda, with cash flowing like Sosa And a Latin chick transporting in her chocha Stampedin over, pop Mo's, never sober Lex and Range Rovers dealin weight by Minnesota (uhh) Avoidin NARC's wit camcorders and Chevy Novas (uh-huh) Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona (uh-huh) From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone her (uh-huh) But now I only hit chicks that win beauty pageants (ahahaha) Trickin, they takin me skiing, at the Aspens (c'mon) Uhh, gangsta mental, stay poppin Cristal Pack a black pist-al in the Ac' Coupe that's dark brown (whoo!) Pinky-ringin, gondolas wit the man singin Italian music down the river wit your chick clingin To my bizzalls, player you mad false Actin hard when you as pussy as RuPaul [Outro: Puff Daddy] C'mon Come on, come on, uh-huh Uh-huh, yeah Uh-huh, yeah Uh-huh, yeah Uh-huh, yeah Ah-heh Goodfellas 9-7 Told 'em so That's right COMMENTARY FROM ME ON THE SUBJECT Ann-Michelle Thurmond good point, if those women had been white , it would have been treated stronger, this is the sad tragedy of me too. as you and brian know, started by a black women cause she was tired of black women getting treatment less potent/stringent/purposed in media or the law than white women. In the case of diddy it is happening again. Brian J Howard I think Ann's point is that if these women had been white the legal system , media would had approached diddy stronger in all earnest, and I concur. When I think of that video, I can't imagine a black man hitting a white woman like diddy hit the woman in the video and the legal system not going really hard on him Ann-Michelle Thurmond I wonder your ideas about the lawyers for the government, did they overreach? Racketeering + sex trafficking are pretty strong allegations, if they would had focused on assault, wouldn't this case be over long ago. Ann-Michelle Thurmond right, but i argue overreach is a serious injustice to the woman. a video exist of this man beating her. that is assault. jail time case closed. at least in my simple eyes. but, the lawyers aren't thinking about simple straight forward justice, the lawyers want to put their great grand kids through college, and have an inheritance for them. For that you make huge allegations knowing fully well they will not stick but both sets of lawyers will get paid by diddy . It is the same with weinstein. cosby, depp, et cetera. I think women should speak against the lawyers for the various women. These men have abused women but I doubt they are the heads of a branch of camorra. Wouldn't women wants these men in jail for what they did to women than not in jail but on hard times financially from all the legal fees and excommunicado in their industries? Maybe women want it all, jail + the debt+the excommunicado, but I argue jail teaches the best lesson over debt + excommunicado. What say you ann?

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someone asked Sinners - Evil Cannot happen without your consent...true or false the following is my reply Well... as a writer... when I look at Coogler + Peele, the two most commercially successful black writer-directors in the last twenty years [commercial success defined as profit earned from films, not creative assessment] both make one and done films, no sequels. Both don't go into deep public analysis of their films, let audiences make assessment videos. Both tell stories dealing with the black experience having global implications but from a personal space. They remind me of August wilson's plays where the outer world is present, potent but the plays setting is a small black space. Get Out- Black man taking white woman to see her clan. US-Black family on a vacation to country house Nope- Black siblings on a ranch Sinners- Black blues joint in the south Booth Peele + Coogler's movies have aspects of spirituality[ The sunken place, the doppelganger, the horse whisperer, Hoodoo] . Religion by name is a spirituality tied to a book. Spirituality is anything involving the spirit of a person , regardless of whether that involvement is technological [ psychological tools, cloning], a skill[communicating to nonhumans, horses or aliens] , a specific tradition passed down[ hoodoo] When I think of Within our gates from oscar micheaux [ written and directed] blood of jesus from spencer williams [ written and directed] Ceddo + Emitai from Ousmane Sembene [ written and directed] Daughters of the Dust from julie dash [ written and directed] The reality is most Black writer-directors tend to make historical fictions or historical dramas [Malcolm/Boyz in the hood/Black girl/Superfly/dead presidents/down in the delta(I can't believe maya angelou didn't edit or manipulate it) or similar]. But the works of Peele + Coogler follow the least traveled road of said list of artist using worlds with fantasy elements.[ may it be science fiction or spiritual heritage] And that harkens back to the classic Black descended of enslaved storytelling or heritages from before the war between the states, championed by Zora Neale Hurston. Now to answer the question you asked "Evil Cannot happen without your consent" in the context of the film sinners. Well, one thing , we don't know how the white vampires were made? The film doesn't go into in great detail nor does it need to. All we know is the lead white vampire is old, their are rules. But as the black twins prove, the goodness of ones actions is not bounded to humanity. Vampires can be good as his twin proves at the end, if you define goodness by non verbal actions and not race[whether race is defined as a categorization or ranking or order based on religion/language/gender/blood lineage/phenotype or appearance/age/philosophical adherence/ or other determinant]. To restate Vampires are not inherently evil in the film, thus their entry into a place can not be deemed welcoming evil, if you take the whole story into account. In parallel, in the film humans are not inherently good. And the KKK are not coming with the consent of the juke joint. So from my point of view, in the film itself, your question is not answered. And what is the contrapositive to your question. Good can happen with your consent? Well define good. Are humans good while vampires evil? is goodness defined by non verbal action. but can't one action be deemed good or evil based on its specifics. OR about the opposite. Good cannot happen without your consent? again define good and in my view Coogler isn't offering viewpoints but not being ironclad in opinions. Steinfeld some say is yella, some say is white, by one drop is black, but their is a long heritage of blacks in the usa who are visibly white ala Charles W. Chesnutt. Away from writing.... Your posiiton as a black christian, i find thought provoking. I am not christian, but my views on black christianity are various. If I have one wish for black christians, it is for black christians to accept the many branches of black christianity, which I don't think black christians tend to do. But to your question, Evil Cannot happen without your consent, I think based on your definitions, the answer is yes. For me, away from writing, the first question for me is always elements in the question. What is good? what is evil? what is consent? I comprehend positivity or negativity. I know what can be mostly positive or mostly negative, but nothing in my mind is all negative or all positive. and for me what people refer to as good is a supposed all positive, or evil is a supposed all negative. And I prefer to use the word grant over consent. What is granted is complicated. Sometimes one is granting things absent their knowledge or awareness, the raising of children proves this. Philosophically or spiritually, I can only answer your question, Evil Cannot happen without your consent, once it is restructured with more definition to what is evil or what is consent. If you ask me, Vampires cannot interact to non vampires absent non vampirical grant? I will say no because Vampires I define as any creature that absorbs leechlike from another. Do the gnomes who suck souls require grants? Do the succubi require grants? I don't think so to either. Some types of Vampires do but not all. If you ask me, those with negative intent cannot happen absent anothers grant? I will say not usually. Negative intent can be from many and rarely requires the targets permission. If you ask me, can human blood craving Vampires enter the home of others absent a grant? I say both. historically from ancient times, some of said vampires have been blockaded from entering the homes of others , not all but some, arguably many. URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11705-sinners-evil-cannot-happen-without-your-consenttrue-or-false/#findComment-74893

The Fulgurantess fighting DJ Komax Prior Fulgurantess https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Fulgurantess-mixedmedia-1172385423 Prior DJ Komax https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/DJ-KOmax-Color-me-club-kaiju-1210712704 for the The Draw It Again Improvement Contest https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Draw-Me-Again-Duo-color-1213279251 EMBED CODE

The Fulgurantess traveling back to ancient Kemet see DJ Komax causing trouble in the distance. Multi image work 1. Fulgurantes viewing Completed work 2. Fulgurantes viewing color version 3. Fulgurantes viewing Black and white version 4. What Fulgurantess view whole 5. DJ Komax color 6. DJ Komax black and white https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1213276520 EMBED CODE

Troy [ https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/9056-troy/ ] asked the following @richardmurray What do you think about the proliferation of AI generated art and content? MY ANSWER @Troy Well... I will break up your question first, because the ever growing use of synthography , from corporate or personal use, influence ranges. So , I restructure your question, what do I think about the ever growing use of synthography in the following environments or scenarios: leisure artistic activity , tool to assist human labors, fiscal artistic activity, human artistic output overall,human communication overall? In terms of leisure artistic activity, I think synthography has been a blessing for many. Now without needing to pay an artist or without needing to learn a skill of illustration, one can get emulations that satisfy what they want to see. many of my fellow artist have suffered a financial blow because of this and hate synthography but I don't see it that way. And I will be blunt, synthography today is what the photograph was. Not every black person could paint or could afford to hire a painter but when the photograph became more commonplace , for many black people who saw daily illustrations of black people that were some form of negativity, the photograph was a blessing. Black people still learned how to paint or paid for paintings/sculpture but the photograph meant you didn't need the illustrator to see yourself while also having an affordable tool to do it and that is what synthography is today. I see how many black people especially black women get to create positive/flattering depictions of black women free from the white owned media or black owned commercial media's creations. Have i created less since synthography's recent growth in use? no. I am still creating[illustrations/literature] quite a bit. Are some artist disheartened? yes. But the key is how you approach being an artist. I don't need people to buy my work or for my work to be considered some quality level for me to like it and embrace it. The most popular comic book is sponge bob which most artist have the skills to draw right now. The artist who cognize the illustrations non artist can make with these computer programs in synthography have to realize their self worth better and embrace people, in a humanity where media is owned by a few people or groups, get to see made what they want. As a tool to assist labors, it has been a blessing for many. Synthography tools are helping elders who are alone in this world have aids to remember. It is helping children who will never be the fastest of mind or foot have tools to aid them in learning or movement. It is helping the impoverished/poor/upper poor to have tools to aid them that they don't have the money to afford. For filing tedious or complicated paperwork, to making graphics for their websites, to making essays it is helping aid people. No one is forced to use. I only use deviantart dreamup. I have never used chatgpt, or google synthographic system. I used the microsoft system to manipulate the most recent book reviews I made because it was necessary to fit your demand. It had nothing to do with me. If I owned a magazine I would use my own grammatical + syntactical interpretation for whatever I wrote. I have never used various synthographic tools and i only use deviantart dreamup because as a senior member I get a monthly usage for free so I want to use it up as I hate waste and they don't collate the uses. Sadly while honestly, I rarely have used up a months uses and iti s going on over two years old, but, I am no synthographer. So people are free to use what tools they want. I am content with my mind, my abilities, my comprehension. if I need to I will use synthography to adjust my work tobe accepted by those that demand. I don't see it as a problem. I am not changed. I think some people are easily peer pressured into doing things. I am not. For fiscal artistic activity, people still buy vinyl records and more and more are getting made or sold. Some artists have already realized what I said years ago and create whole works in the public view . So, making money making art is going strong in many sectors. The real revenue stream being hurt by synthographic tools are literary or illustrative commission work for unknown artist. Big time artist arguably have risen in value. I know an artist who makes beautiful work in the continent.. africa, and she makes a living, but she is known she has clients. they know she will make something by hand and that is enough , she does. and the challenge is for artist to find different venues,and they exist. Use your imagination. For human artistic output overall, synthography hasn't damaged anything and added the synthographer to the list of artist. The reason people play fewer instruments today is before recorded music, the only way to hear music was if someone played so their was a financial labor involved and so many played instruments, but when recorded music came in and even in the earliest time where it was scratchy or expensive, the ability to play at any time was huge and as the quality improved, people chose the recording over the live for most. Again popular folk were fine and making even more money with recording of them. But, nothing demanded horn players throw their horns away, nothing. Human beings poor rearing tells them to throw away that which isn't making money, as if they lost value cause no one was paying, and this is the same challenge today. Find ways to make money not using your art + keep creating art. That was the challenge of musicians in the late 1800s with musical recordings and the various artist today with returns from computer programs. For human communication overall, the flaw is human beings. During the sars cov 2 lockdown, France gave each french child three hundred euros which is like four hundred and fifty dollars then to pay for artistic content, the money couldn't be used to buy jewelry or clothes but books/music and what did most french kids buy? manga. What is my point? the usa heritage , what it carries, or culture, what is grows from the declaration of independence to two thousand and twenty five has always been negative in majority. yes, the usa has a positive individual heritage that gives freedom for an individual to act freely of a collective. Yes, the usa isn't inherently tied to one heritage or culture which is what many , maybe most whites in modernity, are fighting to prove not true. But overall the usa has a negative heritage or culture and in terms of human communication, the usa tops the negative list. The usa has many parents, and mostly not black ones, who inundate children into electronic technology. I will be blunt, when I went to college no one cheated more than asian students, regardless of their phenottpye [white far east asian, mulatto south east asian, black south west asian], and asian children are usually tech addicts beyond black non asian[africa/caribbean/D.O.S.] children. i have seen asian children in the usa. the media treats them differently than they are on average. But the tech addiction parents, of all races [phenotype/religion/language/ or other] I have seen in NYC put on children is parents fault. You teach children not to think and then get angry when they rely on the crutch you told them to use, you pushed them to use. As for the internet, again, whose fault is it that people react to everything they see or hear. Stop reacting, calm down, check sources. I bet the people who are being born today will use the internet so differently. I have three main sites: aalbc/deviantart/tumblr and I use email for communication where I have many filters, which many people foolishly never did with their emails. deviantart is all arts: illustration/writing/photography/synthography/sculpture/fractals/ and more whether not safe for work or where the whole clan can view without unsettling. aalbc I have my groups each with an agenda, programming/calendrial existence/old literature , I sometimes chime in on the forum to discourse. tumblr, have some small communities of black artist and I have a soccer blog. the only thing I do that relates to the larger media is soccer. and I rarely share media posts that are unconfirmed. so I am content online. I have been from the beginning but it goes back to rearing and habits. I don't follow others, nor do I feel I have to do what everyone else does, but that comes from my rearing by my two black happily married parents. I like myself. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11658-what-my-google-dashboard-just-taught-me-from-aliccia-mccalla/#findComment-74839

CENTO Series episode 110 what do you see? by the brilliance of our own stars here with all our tears https://www.deviantart.com/ink-singer/art/all-that-glitters-isn-t-gold-1038502453 The groove of yours of knots and tugs and shame, right now will save today https://www.deviantart.com/midn1ghtink/art/Cat-s-Cradle-NaPo24-4-1038586302 IN AMENDMENT Cento List - enjoy the poetry https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?q=cento&quick=1&type=calendar_event&nodes=5&updated_after=any&sortby=newest Enjoy the 2023 Centos https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/richard-murray-centos-2023 Epub link https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poetry-or-more-1 Epub series https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection Audiobook link https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/the-last-flail Audiobook series https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/richard-murray-tip-jar-audios If you really want to follow what I am doing please subscribe to my calendars. I wish I would had used the calendar tool with all my work from the beginning. Like alot of the internet I didn't really think on it when I started, like with many I just started using. Why do we create linearly when a lot of times, what I have to say is repeats from yesteryear. Richard Murray's Work Calendar webcal://aalbc.com/tc/events/5-rmworkcalendar/download/?member=6477&key=9b0dbd4939faea9d5408174d9601d576 Richard Murray's Community Calendar webcal://aalbc.com/tc/events/7-rmcommunitycalendar/download/?member=6477&key=9b0dbd4939faea9d5408174d9601d576

Japan executes man dubbed the "Twitter killer," convicted serial killer who murdered and dismembered 9 people Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them on the social media platform now called X. He had targeted users who posted about taking their own life, telling them he could help them in their plans, or even die alongside them. According to the BBC, his Twitter profile contained the words: "I want to help people who are really in pain. Please DM [direct message] me anytime." He killed the three teenage girls and five women after raping them. He also killed the boyfriend of one of the women to silence him, The Associated Press reported. Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Shiraishi's crimes, carried out in 2017, included "robbery, rape, murder ... destruction of a corpse and abandonment of a corpse." "Nine victims were beaten and strangled, killed, robbed, and then mutilated with parts of their bodies concealed in boxes, and parts discarded in a garbage dump," Suzuki told reporters in Tokyo. Nine dismembered bodies were found in coolers and tool boxes when officers visited his flat, which was dubbed by media outlets as a "house of horrors," the BBC reported. Shiraishi acted to satisfy "his own sexual and financial desires" and the murders "caused great shock and anxiety to society," Suzuki said. "After much careful consideration, I ordered the execution." Japan and the United States are the only two G7 countries to still use capital punishment, and there is strong support for the practice among the Japanese public, surveys show. There was one execution in 2022, three in 2021, three in 2019 and 15 in 2018, the justice ministry told AFP. Shiraishi was sentenced to death in 2020 for the murders of his nine victims, aged between 15 and 26. After luring them to his small home near the capital, he stashed parts of their bodies around the apartment in coolers and toolboxes sprinkled with cat litter in a bid to hide the evidence. His lawyers had argued Shiraishi should receive a prison sentence rather than be executed because his victims had expressed suicidal thoughts and so had consented to die. But a judge dismissed that argument, calling Shiraishi's crimes "cunning and cruel," reports said at the time. "The dignity of the victims was trampled upon," the judge had said, adding that Shiraishi had preyed upon people who were "mentally fragile." The grisly murders were discovered in autumn 2017 by police investigating the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman who had reportedly tweeted about wanting to kill herself. Her brother gained access to her Twitter account and eventually led police to Shiraishi's residence, where investigators found dismembered body parts. Executions are always done by hanging in Japan, where around 100 death row prisoners are waiting for their sentences to be carried out. Nearly half are seeking a retrial, Suzuki said Friday. Executions are carried out in secrecy, where prisoners are not even informed of their fate until the morning of their hanging, according to the AP. Japanese law stipulates that executions must be carried out within six months of a verdict after appeals are exhausted. In reality, however, most inmates are left on tenterhooks in solitary confinement for years, and sometimes decades. There is widespread criticism of the system and the government's lack of transparency over the practice. Shiraishi's execution was the first under Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's administration, the Japan Times reported. In 2022, Tomohiro Kato was hanged for an attack that killed seven people in 2008, when he rammed a rented two-ton truck into a crowd in Tokyo and went on a stabbing spree. The high-profile executions of the guru Shoko Asahara and 12 former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult took place in 2018. Aum Shinrikyo orchestrated the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo's subway system, killing 14 people and sickening thousands more. If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or suicidal crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). For more information about mental health care resources and support, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. ET, at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or email info@nami.org. Takahiro Shiraishi covers his face inside a police car in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 2017 and released by Kyodo December 15, 2020. KYODO / REUTERS URL https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-executes-twitter-killer-takahiro-shiraishi-serial-killer/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17

This is the legislation Zohran Mamdani implemented in the state assembly https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Zohran-K-Mamdani/sponsor/ Each link is to the full documentation of each law. When I look at the laws he led on the following issues, listed below with enumeration of instance. The MTA and roads he will not have influence over as mayor of NYC. But none of his laws taxed the rich to give to the poor. He only led on two laws concerning taxes straightly: two laws to repeal of property tax exemptions of private higher education institutions that receive tax exempt of one hundred million dollars or more [ colombia, nyu top the list but all the private universities own a lot of land on real estate value worth alot of money. The idea of them being exempt is they are schools and this saved money can go for other things now the public higher education institutions colleges or universities: city college and the other city university of ny cuny schools, the state university or suny schools, own a lot of property to worth alot but they are state funded, the problem is ] , His only law concerning israel was blocking not for profits based in nyc from engaging in israeli /zionist settlement activity in gaza So his tenure in albany was not filled with adjusting tax law to support poor folk, it was mostly mta laws/road laws asking for money which he will have to do every year as mayor of nyc,but I don't see a history of what he proclaims to do. and the mayor of NYC doesn't have the powers that an assembly person does to manipulate the financial environment of the state, which is where many financial concerns fall under. hmmmmm LED ISSUES MTA 1/2/3/4 Roads 1/2/3 Property Tax 1/ Tuition 1/ employee Website 1/ banking 1/2 wage statewide 1/ law enforcement prohibitiion 1/ private university tax 1/ rate hike 1/ israel 1/ utilities 1/2 government voting 1/2 A00801Expedites MTA capital project construction by establishing a process for utility relocation necessary for such construction A00803Establishes in the city of New York a bicycle lane safety program to enforce certain restrictions on the use of bicycle lanes and/or protected bicycle lanes by means of bicycle lane photo devices A00898Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemptions for private institutions of higher education A00940Requires the establishment of an appeals process for students who are denied the state resident tuition rate at any public university or college A00941Relates to registration fees for certain motor vehicles; repealer A00946Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant A00987Directs the department of labor to post on its internet website and annually update the names of employers who employ 50 or more employees who receive public assistance A01005Requires the MTA and the New York city transit authority to implement certain standards pertaining to applying and removing coatings from bridges, trestles, elevated subway and railway tracks and stations A01022Relates to establishing the banking bill of rights A01032Updates value capture mechanisms for NYC and the MTA A01058Requires that the average annual wage and average weekly wage of the state of New York be adjusted for inflation each year A01083Prohibits the creation of fake electronic communication service accounts and prohibits the collection and use of account information by law enforcement and other governmental entities A02130Repeals the tax exempt status of private universities that receive real property tax exemptions of one hundred million dollars or more A05442Enacts the "rate hike notice act" A06044Enacts the Make Transit Affordable Act; provides fare-free bus pilot program in New York City A06101Establishes the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act" to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity A06541Prohibits payment card networks from assessing penalties against small businesses or financial intermediaries who fail to comply with the credit card surcharge notice requirement A06542Enacts the utility shutoff protection act A06951Relates to periods suspending the operation of certain rate, charge or other changes by utilities, and provisions permitting utilities to retroactively recover revenues they would have earned during such periods A08126Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms A08808Extends provisions relating to public hearings on proposed rules FORUM POST https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/ 06/26/2025 Mamdani said he wants universal healthcare/free bus service/and a rent freeze He will got to albany and ask to tax the rich and the governor or the state legislature will give the yes or no. Something tells me like Obama, Like Ocasio Cortez, Mamdani will win and it will be a dud. The Donkeys can get elected but once elected the poor plans fall apart into a cronyism. MY COMMENT https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#findComment-74774 Posted just now @ProfD did you read my calendrial post? where i fully cite his legislative history? 18 hours ago, ProfD said: I don't believe POTUS OJ pulled any strings to get Cuomo out. Mamdani had a better message. Mamdani didn't win because of his message, if you look at turnout , it is still low and if you look at voting blocks he has serious cutoffs. Mamdani defeated cuomo because cuomo has baggage. It is that simple. In the same way Mamdani has advantages against Eric Adams cause he has baggage. It is the Obama+AOC mold. Person talks alot of stuff. Gets elected, and then the rules and regulations of the bureaucracy force them to act against their stated high goals getting electing. Everything Obama said he wanted to do didn't happen. AOC's green new deal died. Mamdani if he wins will have to do like all mayors and go to albany and beg the governor for taxing powers. the governor will say no because if the governor does for nyc then the governor will have to do for all the cities in new york state and once done for all once , it will be demanded every year. so mamdani will not get the ability to tax the rich of nyc. And he knows this which is why he has already adjusted to healthcare /freeze rent/universal childcare. Hochul will be willing to help the healthcare/universal childcare which is part of her platform and most other cities in nyc like. The rent freeze is actually under the mayor's complete control and but deblaiso rent freezed as well but had many problems with the real estate industry or nypd, which mamdani will also have. . As my calendrial post showed, if you want to have tax law you need to be where mamdani is leaving and be in the ny assembly, where he helped lead tax law. Mamdani can not also protect immigrants, immigration is a federal level act, the mayor can do little to protect immigrants and nor can ny state and defying the federal government is unwise. @Pioneer1 18 hours ago, Pioneer1 said: Although I'm not a New Yorker, I trust Adams being in that seat more than I trust this Mamdani dude I know next to nothing about. try reading my calendrial post, it is fully cited to all his laws Mamdani's problem for me is during his tenure he did very little tax law, and focused on laws that demanded nys or nyc become more in debt by financing things. Then he runs as a candidate in the primary on a promise to protect immigrants from the federal government if elected which the mayor can not do, tax the rich and give money out to the poor which is powers of new york state which the mayor can not do. At the end of the day, his campaign is all about identity. he is muslim/ he is born outside the usa/he is "young" and a set of voters see those things and think they come with good strategies or plans and they usually don't. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#findComment-74780 @ProfD 26 minutes ago, ProfD said: As mayor, Mamdani would be putting pressure on the Democratic governor. The party would not be in favor of it. well not much pressure, remember if you are mayor of albany/birlington/yonkers/buffalo you don't want to tax the rich , if anything you want to lessen the taxes to invite the rich in with their enterprises, so hochul will have many mayors against mamdani's call so it will be easy for her to say no as new york state rarely makes city specific laws. 26 minutes ago, ProfD said: The Democratic party definitely needs more people with personality, energy and an agenda resuscitate it. well i liked adrienne adams but the problem outside of her being a woman is that she isn't selling anything. adirenne adams says, she will do little things and hat doesn't get the commonly called far left exitec, they want to hear things that legally don't work. but adrienne adams isn't also trying to court the old bureaucracy, so she isn't going to say , she is in love with nypd. candidates like her exist but neither side of the party of andrew jacksn like her.... https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#findComment-74786 @ProfD The problem NYC has is it has outgrown the status of a city. NYC isn't equivalent to Buffalo but they each have the same status. Now NYC could try to become a state [it is legal] BUT the remainder of NY state will never vote to allow NYC to be free from it. At least I don't see that happeneing easily. The federal dollars NY state gets because of NY city are too precious to give up and the remainder of New York State likes the influence it has on NYC which i may add is usually against NYC's betterment to be blunt. Black people talk about the projects but the original plan from the federal government was to put the projects in upstate new york and never in nyc. But the 99% white towns and villages upstate new york complained to high heaven. They did not want the non white/non christian/fiscally poor populace of NYC living next to them. It is that simple and so , no upstate new york, but the money was coming to new york and so... put them all in NYC. and the rest of the states rural/small town white populaces followed. People today talk about green but part of why the projects were meant to be outside nyc was for health, but again the white people of upstate new york in their 99% towns and villages said no. And this is similarly true for Los Angeles or Chicago or other. And to make it worse when the urban congestion led to infrastructure breakdowns in cities, the same towns that wouldn't accept projects next to them were overjoyed to accept jails for people in the city to go to, which help the tax base of upstate new york city. The black church was happy to support jails away from the black urban populaces but as often the black church didn't realize it was hruting the black populace in big cities. I don't know how much money the black populace of NYC and other non white populaces have spent on the white towns to see their loved ones in the jails upstate. .... NYC can try to have a special status made for itself in NY State law but again, the remainder of NY state would be against that. So NYC has an elemental problem. It has outgrown the status of city cause it really isn't. NYC is a state that has the status of a city. I argue easily, if NYC was a state all the mayors from Lindsey to Adams would had done differently, but absent the freedom of a state , and bound to the laws of a city...their are limits. The mayor of NYC is very limited even though it seems such a powerful post. The governor of NYState really is more powerful than the mayor of any city in New york State. The problem with people like AOC or Mamdani is for all of their supposed radicalness, their plans really aren't good. AOC's green new deal was again, great philosophical reading for the people cheering mamdani on now, but functionally, no way. One thing people forget is it isn't uncommon for people to be elected in the usa and then have a negative wake up call to the mechanics. Remember the tea party, that sect in the party of abraham lincoln POAL. People remember them but don't remember their most important lesson which many so called socialist or far left liberals learn once elected. That the plans you have you didn't fully think through. Great to get elected. people cheer. Talk about the change is coming and then you get in and realize the mechanics of government require more than your one sentence desires. This isn't easy, and that is why so many legislatures seem deadlocked. The tea party realized many other POAL members wouldn't vote to reduce the government size. Sometimes things are needed. The usa has a populace over three hundred millions. that is a lot of mouths. welfare programs can't be just cut away and while media makes black people the great benefactors the truth is white people are. Yeah, lower the military size but again the usa is in the global policing business which matters when you want to control the price of oil. yeah tax the rich but as newsom tried in california already, when you do that the rich left to texas. You can't stop them from leaving the state. and when they leave what do you tell the workers in the state who relied on this firm? And when the rich are gone are you going to tax the poor? And when the rich are gone, and the city is going deeper into a debt hole what then? Who do you blame? what do you do? where do you go? Bootstraps, to what job? and then when people commit illegal acts, law enforcement? it is a spiral downward. I really think when it comes to government too many people focus on what they want and not how to get what they want. IN AMENDMENT, I don't know if you follow NYC but the battle over the casinos is huge. The reality is, everyone in government wants those casinos but the non black communities that the potential casino owners want to locate to dont' want them. The years of dumping everything in black regions of the city has left the black regions with no space. The only spaces left is with non black regions who know a casino near where they live will change everything for them financially for the worse. rents will skyrocket, and the regions energy will change. casinos are rife with alot of negativity for all the money they make. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#findComment-74879 @ProfD Here is the problem with the usa today, in terms of government, the people voting against you offer more help by their existence than your legislative quality. As my original post stated [ https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/363-zohran-mamdani-legislation/ ] Mamdani' legislative record speaks more to his reality than his speeches. But for most in the usa, speeches have more value and personal identity have more value. Biden became president because of Schrumpt, so many voted against or not for schrumpt. Ocasico Cortez won because the white guy in that bronx district was totally disconnected from latino voters who usually don't vote. and have dropped in voting after AOC's entry. MAmdani won because Cuomo has many who dislike him and so do Adams, which gives Mamdan an advantage. And this goes both ways. Hillary Clinton was perfect for Schrumpft. And Mamdani is a godsend for every republican who is on an anti immigrant/ anti north east / pro isolationism stance. MAmdani is the embodiment of that which ttheir voting blocks fears. Nothing Mamdani can prove otherwise cause he will only be at best mayor of NYC , a position of limited power. again, if he was truly serious about doing good he would stay in the assembly but he sees a chance to be the first muslim/asian/socialist mayor of NYC and that can be very fruitful for him personally. Remember, england had their first asian prime minister and like MAmdani he talked a talk and then in the bureaucracy faltered. @Pioneer1 adams isn't guaranteed to keep the spot. yes the real estate industry, yes law enforcement, yes the private fiscal institutions will be able to support adams as an independent, which is underrated by some. By being an independent adams allows a combination of elephants + donkeys. But Mamdani has a strong crowd in the donkeys. The problem mamdani has is, he will need to explain how he is going to do a number of his promises and he hasn't. It is a race. I don't know why people don't think it isn't a race. The debates will be huge. The one thing in mandani's camp is what I call a little obama effect. Asians may vote in droves for mamdani and that may pull him through if he can split all the other votes. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11698-if-you-want-to-know-more-about-mamdani/#findComment-74946 @Pioneer1 13 hours ago, Pioneer1 said: How are you going to be the of a city that contains Wall Street and the Diamond District and Park Avenue...but openly say that you don't think billionaires should be allowed? Because it is possible. You seem to think Mamdani doesn't fit New York city or NY State or the USA but the USA has a long history of socialism in parts. And more importantly, MAmdani has an engaged voting group. No not the whole city. I didn't say Mamdani will win, but MAmdani can win. We will see how the numbers play out. 13 hours ago, Pioneer1 said: Because he can't. well I argue, he can explain a plan that can provide more money into new york city, it can't be taxing the rich cause he doesn't control that, the governor or state legislature of new york state does and the legislature will never agree to his tax desires nor will the governor be able to because so many cities in new york state will be against, but the mayor does have powers and i think if he focuses on what mayors can do and proposes a radical agenda, he can convince and win it. But he has to be daring in that way and based on his legislation in the new york state assembly he isn't as daring or radical as some suggest. @ProfD 8 hours ago, ProfD said: Maybe Mamdani believes he can tap into whatever got former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio elected. That was three terms of bloomberg.Bloomberg let the NYPD be unpunished for their inefficiency, and he was a huge advocate for the real estate industry of the city. Those two things gave bloomberg huge voting supports. NY city has a high end real estate market but people forget how many mid to low end realtors are in the city full of black folk/women/asians/muslims and bloomberg aided all of them in their agenda against rentors. The NYPD loved that he simply didn't demand better of the NYPD whenever they operated poorly. And they voted for bloomberg as a block. The fact that bloomberg also employed many in the private media industry in the city helped. BUT, the rentors of the city hated bloomberg, the people the NYPD abused and got away with abusing hated bloomberg. The public media sector , independent, also had issue with bloomberg. So with his third term up, a huge energy for someone who would freeze the rents/tell the NYPD to clean up their act/support the public sector bureaucracies of the city existed and de blasio, former agent for mayor dinkins was the most aligned candidate to that set. But, de blasio automatically became enemy to the nypd who hate any mayor calls the nypd wrong. the real estate industry , high + low end, hated the rent freeze. and the private sector didn't like the lack of energy for private sector activity so...adams came in. Pro NYPD to the core. supports the real estate industry, and in that, supports what I call the black financial aristocrats of the city who are more in the number than ever before. He did his city of yes thing which is a huge rezoning plan that is massive. that gave the real estate industry the ability to slot buildings in every space in the city, will allow for more mixed used buildings to save the skyscrapers from being money pits. But, really isn't addressing the lack of jobs or industry in the city. Which is where mamdani has strength. Mamdani 's base are the just turned adults who are in a city devoid of jobs, devoid of opportunity, and with ever increasing cost of living. The reality is, even if Mamdani losses, his movement will win in four years with the way the city is being managed. It isn't the fault of anyone past 1980 but many of the big cities in the usa are mismanaged but they have been mismanaged since the 1950s. NYC used to have every single industry, used to be a hub for all things, then came the mid 1900s and the white suburban movement and the business flight. Those two things were mismanaged by nyc and the other big cities in the usa. So much so that by the 1970s the usa economy couldn't survive being based on gold and had to use its own debt as a currency based on its militaristic power to finance itself, and it worked but it is not 2025. I restate, MAmdani's campaign isn't about the issues that propelled de blasio. Mamdani's campaign is about a legacy of poor fiscal capitalistic management that has come to bite not only nyc but the greater usa, it is just that nyc is ahead of the curve. the usa wouldn't allow black workers into unions or wouldn't allow unions and allowed firms to flee the country than deal with unions, then allowed regions of the country, suburbs, to live like leeches on cities , who were allowed to be the dumping ground for all the non white folk as well as all the former towns folk as the countries industrial labor base was moved over seas for cheap labor. And now the robot worker era is coming and people already don't have a job but the global financial system means that markets are based on global standings so the rent in the cities can keep rising even if the populace in citiies is more and more unemployed. Even Hochul, the governor, tried to make a paycheck go out to all new yorkers and yet so many disliked the idea on all sides. why? the labor outlook isn't good. The only reason can be the fear some have that the usa will have to now give monthly paychecks to keep the system of fiscal capitalism afloat. But did and does not the usa hinder the native american community from owning businesses on reservations? did and does not the usa hinder black towns/ or regions in cities from owning a business? did and does not the usa hinder many women from equal wages when they are doing the same job? The USA through its military scenario before commonly called world war 2 or strength after said war, has always been able to maintain an internally inequal fiscal capitalistic system, but now in 2025 with the most powerful military, its internal system needs adjustment and the flexibility to change as needed doesn't have a simple legal pathway through. The constitution wasn't built with modern usa in mind. It was built assuming only white men would be able to have a full life in the usa and all others had part lives as the behest of white men. It was built assuming the usa would never be in the business of supporting economies of foreign countries as a side strategy to keep intersoveriegn agreements/arrangements. It was built assuming the usa would never have an immigration policy that allows an open door for the world's fiscal poor. so, Mamdani can win, but most of what he says he wants to do,he has no way. He has to adjust his goals, cause if he doesn't adjust his goals and he wins, he will join AOC + Obama and I find both of them make voters less interested.When you look at obama's exit, the people who voted eight years ago were not enthused. I argue the bronx has become worse voting wise since AOC. so...