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@supersammystar @NotThe_TomBrady @BillAckman They can also afford to pay tax on it if that’s what they want

@L_EclairClement @NotThe_TomBrady @BillAckman Who cares if it’s left vacant, the people who can afford it can leave it how they want. It’s not going to provide housing for those that can’t. How dumb

Non-residents who spend millions of dollars on NYC apartments help drive NYC’s economy. Most of the profit in condominium development is in the penthouses. The Ken Griffins of the world make NYC high end development viable, driving high-paying construction, brokerage, legal, marketing, and other jobs in NYC. We should be applauding Ken for spending $238 million in NYC, not attacking him for doing so. Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave their apartments vacant for much of the year are not a burden to NYC schools, services, or other resources while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important drivers of our economy. They also often support NYC non-profits with donations. Ken’s company is a major employer in NYC of very high paying jobs which drive a considerable amount of our tax base. We wouldn’t want him to move even more employees to Miami. These non-resident owners also already pay a lot of taxes including mansion taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes and more. While @NYCMayor Mamdani likes the tag line ‘Tax the rich.’ Unfortunately, his policies will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help. I can’t imagine the NYC construction unions are excited about his plan.

@Fleetwood7Bob @Jamie_Weinstein The whole point of what I said is that there’s nothing wrong to acting on your own interest simply that we the people the 99% deserve a government that acts on our interest and balances the scale. Not oppressive to the wealthy but maintaining harmony of the classes

Doesn't that describe most people? Outside of my immediate family members, don't most people make decisions solely in their own interests? Hell you could make the argument that even my family members are making decisions solely in their interests. Mother Teresa was made decisions that she believed were in her own interests did she not?

How does Ken Griffin owning a $238 million condo in NYC he only visits occasionally harm New Yorkers exactly? He pays an extraordinary high property tax to the city for services he barely uses. Why ridicule him for this? x.com/NYCMayor/statu…

The absolute meltdown happening over a “We should tax the multi-million dollar second residences the ultra wealthy own so they can stay in New York two weeks a year” proposal shows you how much you can trust any rich guy who tells you he just wants “common sense” tax reform.

@NotThe_TomBrady @BillAckman You may never live in a $238M penthouse, but that’s not the point. The issue is when prime NYC housing is left unoccupied and treated like wealth storage instead of a place for people to live.

@L_EclairClement @BillAckman How does forcing someone out of a $238 million penthouse lead to a bartender getting a house in manhattan

@Mr_Cohen12345 @BillAckman How do you know anything about my economic status ?

@L_EclairClement @BillAckman You were never going to afford that apartment. In fact it’ll make it more expensive since now others have to foot the bill it was getting. I can’t wait till you can’t afford rent

@VirtualElena Lol the victim playing is wild. Comparing a literal murder to a mayor because he stood outside an empty $238M penthouse and said “tax the rich”? Oh the absolute horror. I’m sure the robber barons of the Gilded Age felt like such victims too.

yeah not sure how i feel about a socialist mayor standing directly outside of a named private citizen’s home saying incendiary class-warfare type axioms. what makes it even more disgusting is that luigi shot the unh ceo A BLOCK away from where mamdani is standing.

@FrancisSuarez @Citadel Francis Suarez defending Ken Griffin is hilarious considering Griffin bought him $30k F1 tickets and gave $1M to his PAC. Maybe sit this one out while the FBI finishes investigating those $170,000 secret developer payments you took

We 100% are. NY/Chicago’s loss is our gain. Ken not only employs a lot of people in our ecosystem, he is a prolific philanthropist who has invested in everything from education to public spaces to helping the homeless. We value him and @Citadel

@r0ja_x @Jamie_Weinstein I know it’s typically used in reference to international relations but if it bothers you could just subsitute it for making decisions solely in regard to your self interests.

@L_EclairClement @Jamie_Weinstein This is not realpolitik lmao

@Fleetwood7Bob @Jamie_Weinstein This is reframing the argument into something more personal which is not what my intention was. My assertion was that the ruling elite have been making decisions solely in their interest without regard for fairness since history began, government actions provides a counter weight

@L_EclairClement @Jamie_Weinstein Other than paying a wildly disproportionate amount of the income taxes, what exactly have the the wealthy done to you?

Terminal 5 JFK 5pm Thursday Is completely fine! #tsalines

GPT-5 they promised vs GPT-5 they delivered.

It’s like you took my beloved chatgpt and given them a lobotomy. How is this the most advanced smartest, show stopping product that was promised ?

GPT - 5 is so bad it’s baffling, I don’t know what @OpenAI did but for my use case which is LSAT coach and intellectual sparring partner it’s responses are formulaic to the point where it just restates what I said. I’ve really had faith in Altman but his words are wind.

What we could have had with @BarackObama is a systems breaker on par with Napoleon, Julius Caesar or Lincoln. Instead he wanted to be liked by everyone and got to watch Trump burn down every bridge he ever built.

I think european cities in a poetic sense are quite futuristic theyre like people hives they feel natural and organic which is ironically very 21st century in tone The us in having the 20th century edge for automobiles might ironically miss the rhyme scheme for the next line in the story of humanity

@atrupar Opinions such as these can be summarized with one phrase: confirmation bias.

Mike Waltz on Zelenskyy: "Coming to the Oval Office with the body language, the shaking of head, the arms crossed -- we just found it incredibly disrespectful."

@LauraPowellEsq You are simplifying a complex argument to a degree that is so ignorant it borders on nefarious. Short-term appeasement encourages negative actors to start more wars globally whereas drawing a firm expectation demonstrates where the line is.

I can’t get over the fact that being anti-war is now coded as rightwing.