Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.

But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.

The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.

  • exuAEnglish
    71·
    2 days ago

    Aren’t they against cloud seeding?

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Or if it requires them to do even the least amount of change to their lifestyle. Or if they think that someone, somewhere, might think they are being a pussy for doing even the tiniest of things for the planet.

        I had a roommate that would usually, pointedly, throw an aluminum can of soda or beer into the trash can. The recycle bin was right next to it, of course. When people would see him do this, and ask him, basically, “uh, what the fuck, man?” he’d mutter how he wasn’t “politically correct”.

        In the 90s, “politically correct” was the phrase the conservatives used in the exact same way they use “woke” now. These days, I bet he does the exact same shit, but says he does it because he’s not “woke”.

        🙄