James Dolan is a rich asshole but that makes him predictable.
He wouldn’t release this statement if he wasn’t afraid of being sued by impacted surrounding bars and restaurants who could show profit losses from games 1 and 2 where there was no NYPD zone, vs games 3 and 4.
To everyone screaming that America is not a fascist state in the process of hardening the machinery of police state and governmental violence
You’re not just wrong you’re helping the Nazis in power destroy any remaining vestiges of democratic society.
Democracy died in the open
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
The lesson city officials took from the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims wasn’t that mass surveillance was wrong. It was that targeting one community was politically unsustainable. The solution became expanding the surveillance apparatus until everyone was inside it.
Jessica Tisch’s career is deeply tied to building that infrastructure. Tisch helped build the NYPD’s post-9/11 surveillance infrastructure, including the Domain Awareness System.
It is not an exaggeration to recognize this as an expansion of the surveillance state. Today it’s a Knicks watch party. Tomorrow it’s another event, another security concern, another reason to register before gathering in public. Rights become privileges when access to public space depends on identification, registration, and approval.
what would we do without US media spinning up narratives to "explain" life? the way the media slants & distorts politics so that some politicians are "villains" & others "heroes."
"Gotham always needs a villain"---no, the media always "needs" to concoct a story with good guys & bad guys & them (media) in control doling out rewards.
i’m so mad at fifa for banning tailgates at the world cup. these euro tourists would’ve lovedddd getting free hotdogs and beers shoved into their hands by an overweight dad named bob