Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: what percent of the police live in the city?
mayor: about 5% or so
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: 5%, so 95% don’t live in the city.
mayor: yes.
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: so when you say that the vast majority of the percentage goes towards salaries, et cetera, fringe benefits, that means that they take their money on 81, go to outside the city, pay taxes in those communities that have some of the best schools while we have an underfunded school district–
someone else: $60 million up.
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: so i just want to put into context what we’re talking about, because it’s really easy to say, mayor– and with all due respect, i like you. but that was a very politician answer.
mayor: sorry, what specifically?
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: the, “we will consider, and we will look.” what we’re saying is we’re not interested in considering and looking. what we’re saying is, actually, there’s $50 million. commit to $20 million cut, because we’re sending money– as the mayor of Syracuse, when you don’t have a tax base, you’re sending money out of Syracuse. and not just for 30 years– for the rest of their life because their pensions, their health insurance, their families. so we are funding for other people’s communities to have the promise of the American dream while we are denying it in our community. that’s the context that you, as the mayor, have to look at this under.
so when we talk about renegotiating union contract, what we’re saying is you can’t play around with, “maybe, um, we will–” no. y’all got to go, because you don’t provide a service that is beneficial to the community, that is meaningful to the community. the services that you provide criminalize our community, impoverish our community, reallocate resources to suburbs. we are actually funding the suburbs, both in our police departments and in our schools.
and to be clear, just to be clear, it’s not just the fact of, like, the percentage of people. we’re also funding what race of people are on the police force, the percentage of race of teachers, as well, superintendent, board president. so we want to put in context, because it’s not just a class issue. it’s a race issue. we’re telling black and brown people and poor people, you don’t matter. the devil’s in the data and in the details, mayor. respectfully, it is not acceptable for us to be here considering.]
You fuckers do this with everything. You just cut words into thirds and add a random vowel. Slang is supposed to make language more economical, not make you sound like a British toddler. Do you call plumbers “plummos” and dock workers “dockies” christ now I’m giving you ideas.
callin the plummo over in the arvo to come give my pipes a squidgery-didge
I dated a girl from Australia when I was like 17 and this shit really did my tits in. Going over her house and talking to her family was torturous
Bold talk coming from someone who just said did my tits in
Hey come work in this shithole country where the healthcare is subpar at best, the school budget comes from your own pay, and you’re expected to serve as the front line of defense should an assailant gun down the school because we have no gun legislation. What a sales pitch
I can’t wait to read Dr. Chuck Tingle’s new hit novel Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, which is the only novel about a wizard in England that anyone has ever written.
Y'all thought
I’m curious like in all good faith what’s his actual writing like? Are these actually readable?
The writing is fascinating. From a purely technical standpoint, I would call Tingle’s prose “competent”; he knows what he’s doing and it reads just fine, but it’s not spectacular.
However, he has such a vivid imagination and is trying to tell such imaginative and utterly buck wild and unique stories that it creates a “forcing too much water through too small a pipe” sort of effect, which makes the whole experience even more delightful by maximizing how surreal it is.
Chuck Tingle is an icon of what outsider art should be.
