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FMG1978 t1_jcagv9h wrote

Question from student: Yes or no, will you build us a new school because ours is crumbling?

Answer from all 9 candidates: Yes!

Next line in the article: The mayor does not have the power to close schools or fix how state funding is distributed but does choose school board members and can advocate in Harrisburg.

And the machine churns on.

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ClintBarton616 t1_jcb55yf wrote

This is EXACTLY why I hated working on Rebuild "community outreach"

Politicians overpromising "you'll get a new library and a new rec center!" when the reality was "new carpet and less asbestos"

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SanjiSasuke t1_jcbgqe1 wrote

When it comes to positions like mayor or PotUS there's not really an option.

Who's gonna get the votes? Candidate A who says "I will do what I can to work with City Council, municipal agencies, and the State, but I can't promise anything, since the Mayor's office has limited powers to..." or Candidate B who says "Mexico will pay for the whole thing!"

Candidate A doesn't even get trotted out

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ClintBarton616 t1_jcbz6pz wrote

people preferring comforting lies is why democracy just can't work in this country

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Economy-Cantaloupe42 t1_jca7l7y wrote

It's so sad that 10 year olds need to be asking these questions.

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Vague_Disclosure t1_jcawp9b wrote

Idk I think it's sadder these kids are being used as political pawns. Any adult could ask these questions there's no need to politicize childhood and fill these kids heads with the toxicity that politics brings. No 10yo is naturally political, they're coached into by adults.

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FormerHoagie t1_jcb4y67 wrote

That was my immediate thought. I’m not even going to read the article. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?

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SanjiSasuke t1_jcabvv3 wrote

The fuckin minister, man. Walked up, made the kids say a corny rhyme, said Santa Claus wasn't real, and told everyone not to trust the political process, but in his diety instead.

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GooFoYouPal t1_jcadz8v wrote

”Vote for Bloom in the spring, let’s do the right thing. I’m from the hood, I’ll do you good.”

Amazing.

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courageous_liquid t1_jcbn0zx wrote

>Bloom, a block captain and minister who vowed as mayor to visit each of the city’s 900 schools (there are 216)

fucking lmao

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GooFoYouPal t1_jca9w7u wrote

Let these kids grill Kenney next. Let him try to explain himself.

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MonsterNog t1_jcaf080 wrote

He’s moving as soon as he’s not mayor

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courageous_liquid t1_jcbn7fc wrote

"my entire administration has been hard at work...

...completing my new house, it's shaped like a pint glass and it's in napa valley."

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mental_issues_ t1_jcbh4kq wrote

He will point to republicans in Harrisburg and explain how it wasn't his fault.

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GooFoYouPal t1_jcbjowl wrote

Trump losing re-election really shown even more light on Kenney’s complete incompetence. Took away like 90% of his talking points and left him bumbling and stumbling even during his sober hours.

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Scumandvillany t1_jcad2wd wrote

The cognition deficit needed to drool out "but muh safe injection sites tho" in response to the need to make an entire neighborhood of tens of thousands of people and children safe and clean is staggering. "It's inhumane to mandate treatment/shelter"--nah bro. What's inhumane is to allow children of working class people to have to deal with this trauma daily and being told the solution is to have a warehouse where half of street addicts can shoot up safely but most will still shoot up on the street, and even if all of them DID use SIS, you're still gonna have to deal with the trash, feces, tents, bent over kenzo yoga, your parks and rec centers will still be open air shelters and that's too bad because addicts deserve to be respected.

The sheer absurdity of this line of thinking is astounding.

Most normal, common sense people who work for a living see through this bullshit for what it is. Ivory tower logic applied to real world conditions.

MANDATORY TREATMENT AND SHELTER FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION

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ICanSeeRoundCorners t1_jcbvtfb wrote

Addicts already have no freedom; mandatory treatment is a chance for them to get it back.

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CockercombeTuff t1_jcbm1nw wrote

Imagine saying "the best way to help alcoholics is by giving them free, government paid for alcohol and a place to vomit until they make the personal decision to be sober." Staggering the lengths people will go to justify their hypotheses.

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libananahammock t1_jcbiz75 wrote

I highly suggest listening to this multi part podcast by Reveal News. They do amazing investigative journalism on many topics but their work on American Rehabs has lead to many, many lawsuits and federal investigations since it aired.

Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid, shadow workforce.

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Scumandvillany t1_jcblu7c wrote

I've already read that. Just because some psychopaths have some niche "treatment" does not mean we cannot develop an open and transparent approach to involuntary commitment. I'm not saying bring on nurse ratchet, but some sort of mental illness/addiction treatment approach combined with therapy and housing is obviously the way forward.

Simply put, we cannot allow people to live like they are living on the streets of Kensington. How we should go about rectifying that is up for some discussion.

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Colonel_Corona t1_jcacolf wrote

The article has a couple sentences from like 4 of the candidates. Excellent piece as expected from inquirer election coverage /s

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hbcadlac t1_jcb38w6 wrote

Please don’t lie to these children! Mayors are powerless!

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