A place to talk about New York on Farcaster

are we cooked?

it's interesting how so many people in tech care about the nyc mayoral race and so many don't even live here

did people always care this much about the mayoral election because i never really tracked it

At a party tonight with politically active San Franciscans and we were just thinking... wow, NYC is cooked.

Garry Tan

are we cooked?

it's interesting how so many people in tech care about the nyc mayoral race and so many don't even live here

did people always care this much about the mayoral election because i never really tracked it

https://x.com/garrytan/status/1937381039929983129?s=46&t=btIkh173tAV3h-PQAK4osg

no ceilings @operator | running aixcryp.to

It's their savior complex at conflicts with the performance of it. They want to be able to say "they were right" or "they helped fix NYC". But notice how most of them are at the same time not endorsing/supporting a specific candidate, because they also CAN'T be wrong otherwise it hurts their persona.

yea i've seen this general trend as tech gets more powerful, the inevitable intertwining of tech and politics

but this is def weird because now it is not even at a federal level, or even relevant to SF/california

feels like nerdsnipe/ragebait/monitoring the situation vibes

It’s kind of weird and off putting ngl. Wealthy tech elites all spouting about the end of NYC while patting each other on the back, feels very “we are so much smarter than these plebs in NYC”. 

In no ways can they understand what normal people are dealing with and so they rather than try, they just cry on X that “NYC is cooked”

Last nyc election I donated to Andrew Yang’s campaign even though I don’t live there. So I do think it’s the one “local” election that a lot of people pay attention to.