I don't think Mamdani's speech was fair to Jim Dolan.
The mayor forgot to mention that Dolan hired and kept Isaiah Thomas for years, overruled and pushed out Donnie Walsh, hired Phil Jackson and currently uses facial recognition technology to stalk his own fanbase.
Alternative headline: Knicks players and coaches love Mamdani, but crank billionaire owner who has been sued for racism and sexual misconduct still has his doubts.
Dolan's response to Mamdani's speech conveys a complete misunderstanding of what makes this Knicks championship so special and meaningful to the city and the fanbase. A love letter to Knicks fandom. On the day his team brings New York a championship, his insecurity wins out.
This is a great example of how shitty society has become. When this game came out it was widely celebrated and is still considered one of the best game DLCs of all time. If it came out today you’d have a bunch of wife beaters crying about it
Oh cool the insane ex nypd cop guy who hates everything about the ny left and even frankly center & always posts from Florida about how new york is a savage hell hole of degeneracy has endorsed Antonio Reynoso against Claire Valdez
Hasan clocks how interesting it is that conservatives are focusing so much on the insurgent campaigns of candidates like Darializa. Conservatives have realized that their pathway to victory hinges on running against a weak Democrat. DSA backed candidates are stronger opposition.
So let me get this straight.
A woman in her young twenties, new to Los Angeles, agrees to meet a guy after talking online under the impression he’s roughly her age. Instead, a significantly older man, looking around 35 shows up having already misrepresented himself.
She immediately notices abnormal behavior, he walks into the bar scanning the room instead of engaging with her, hyper aware of his surroundings, acting visibly strange enough that alarm bells start going off.
Then, within minutes, he pivots into telling her he manages influencers and OnlyFans girls, which in practical terms often means acting as a pimp and then he starts aggressively pressuring a young woman he barely knows to start doing sex work, move to Miami with his help, and let him grow her brand.
So from her perspective
Lied about who he was.
Showed up significantly older than expected.
Displayed bizarre hyper vigilant behavior.
Immediately introduced sexualized financial exploitation.
Began attempting to recruit an isolated young woman new to a major city.
And your conclusion is,
“HAHA WOMEN SAY THEY’RE STRONG BUT THEY CRY.”
No, dipshit.
What you just watched was a woman recognizing, in hindsight, that she had likely just encountered a predator.
Women don’t spend their lives learning situational awareness because the world is full of good hearted entrepreneurial alpha males.
They do it because men like this exist.
And after escaping a high adrenaline situation, the nervous system processes the threat afterward. It’s called a delayed stress response. Fairly basic neurobiology, though admittedly concepts above a 7th grade reading level tend to struggle in manosphere circles.
What’s genuinely fascinating is how men who spend every waking hour screaming about protecting women are almost always the first ones mocking women for correctly identifying dangerous men.
Which tells us the quiet part out loud.
You don’t actually hate women being emotional.
You hate women recognizing predatory male behavior before men like that can benefit from it.
But sure, Richard. Tell us more about female irrationality while publicly demonstrating why women have to develop situational awareness in the first place.
Outstanding work.