It is the "boots on the neck" comment that changes everything. The NYPD did work with the IDF to learn counterterrorism tactics. NOT putting boots on the neck.
During the great depression when my dad graduated HS he could not stand farm life. He headed to a city and walked door to door at each business he walked by asking for work. He did that until he finally walked into a plumbing shop who needed help.
If my dad could do that during the great depression, then you can do that in Tennessee or anywhere else. It just takes determination, not money, not a place to stay. You got this. You just have to be determined and persistent.
I don't have a bachelors degree but I pushed myself to to go look for software development jobs anyway. I had taken several programming courses at a community college. I finally got a job and I now have about 35 years of software development behind me. However, I was fortunate to start my career while living with my parents. And moving to a new town you may not have that luxury. BUT and this is a huge BUT. You have the internet. You can start looking for a job in another town and start sending out resumes. Depending on what you do for a living, you may even find an employer who will move you to their location. I've never had that happen to me but I know people who were moved by their new employer.
Even if an employer isn't going to offer you moving expenses you still can show up. Maybe you can find a job in a neighboring state or close by where rents aren't so expensive. That way getting there won't cost as much as some place like travelling to Tennessee.
That's the theory anyway. New York City does produce a whole lot of wealth. California produces a lot of wealth. It used to be the 6th largest economy in the world.
But here's the thing. Democrats have figured out a way to outspend all of the wealth that NYC and the State of California can produce. So they all go running to the federal government.
That's why Trump threatened NYC voters by withholding federal funds. He couldn't have done that if it wasn't already happening.
He also wrote a book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments. When taken together with The Wealth of Nations it paints a more complete picture. The Wealth of Nations came out in 1776 and all of the founding fathers read it. It is what they based this country on.
Smith also inspired Nobel prize in economics winners, Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman. And many others like Ludwig von Mises, Frederic Bastiat and even people like Thomas Sowell.
I first heard of Adam Smith when I decided to rather listen to pundits on TV tell me what is and is not good for the economy. I decided I wanted to find out for myself. I never studied it in college because I just thought that had to be one of the most boring subjects ever taught. This was years later that I decided to do my own research. I found a book that discussed Smith, Marx and Keynes. Then I read The Road to Serfdom by Freidrich Hayak.
Marx didn't understand economics. His economic theories are based on how inherent hatred of humanity. He was Jewish and hated Jews, just like Hitler (who was heavily inspired by Marx). He hated blacks and only referred to them as N words. His whole ideology was based on the idea that if people were treated like worker ants we could have all we needed.
He had no clue or care about human behavior. He didn't understand individual liberty because he thought everyone should be treated identically (like ants). That is the equality that Marxists see as a virtue. We are born equal and we are equal under the law but in a free country we will not remain equal. No one wants to be an ant but that is how Marx intended mankind to be.
You misunderstand self interest. If a business owner wants his/her business to be successful then the only way that can happen is if they produce the best product and the lowest cost. A quality product at a reasonable price benefits mankind.
An evil man/woman only wants to get rich and will make all sorts of cuts in quality or even product a product that is absolute crap. In a free market they don't last.
In a corporatist economy, evil men/women get the government to keep the business afloat so they can continue to make absolute crap for as long as they keep their deal with corrupt politicians who are fleecing the taxpayer to keep that crappy business in business.
And that is everything the left is blaming on the free market and it is just not factual.
I know you spoke more but I had to take care of stuff around the house so I didn't get to finish my comment.
So the full comment is:
“We have to make them hyper-local. We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF. We have to make — not specifically that example all the time — just to say that for working class people who have very little time, who have so many stresses, who are under so many pressures, there isn’t much time for symbolism. We have to make it materially connected to their life.”
And then Mamdani tried to excuse it all by talking how the NYPD and IDF trained together. But NONE of that excuses the "the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, laced with the IDF. It is specifically the "boot on your neck" reference. That has nothing to do with training between the NYPD and IDF. That is a reference to authoritarian power over people.
The next article talked about "a secret program monitoring Muslim communities". Well, yeah. If the NYPD was learning counterterrorism tactics from the IDF then it would have to include keeping an eye on Muslims. In the Quran Allah commands Muslims to kill the unbeliever. In one passage it says to kill them even if you don't want to kill them. The Quran is specific about the "people of the book", Jews and Christians. Muslims are given the option to either kill the Jew or Christian or tax the crap out of them. Then in other places and in some of the hadiths they are commanded to exterminate every Jew on the planet.
Not all Muslims believe or even know about that. More than half don't believe that. But about 25% of all of Islam wants to fulfil that commandment from Allah and another 25% agree that the unbeliever must be killed. So half want us dead and the other half does not. So if you do not keep an eye on Muslims then your just an idiot. We don't know which ones want us dead and which ones would make great neighbors.
