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During a municipal assembly in New Jersey
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I don’t know what his agenda is but he has my support.
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What do you mean you dont know? He broke it down for you in this video.
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Highjacking this comment to show the source of the video and this dude doing a backspin after asking people how their weekend was/if they are afraid of flying. https://youtu.be/iKwQaT2rNM4?t=1275 It’s such a fantastic bit.
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The ending when he slowly moonwalks away and the mayor is staring at him is gold.
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At least he liked the interpretive dance
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The whole thing is 🤌
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Omg. This man is a legend. You can see the one lady council member on the right at the end trying SOOO hard not to laugh.
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Tough crowd
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I honestly though it was Robert Duvall for a second.
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I feel not enough people are appreciating this comment
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Zing!
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Property taxes were raised higher than the town initially reported they would be under the guise of school funding. He expressed his dismay and inquired about the extra increase and if they had proof that it was used for school funding. The dancing was just an added bonus I guess.
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Random guess: it was so that his bit goes viral and more eyes get put on his city town govt
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I think that and performance anxiety. Dude even had notes on the podium, so while he may not have been all put together, he was not a crackpot.
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He’s definitely a crackpot.
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In all seriousness though… This is just one reason why our elected leaders don’t give a shit about their constituents. They have someone like him who wastes their time for performative reasons… Then they have people who actually give them money. Pretty obvious who they’ll work for between those two options. Dude has some nice moves though.
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We do have to be informed and active citizens in order to deserve good representation though.
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Should we, though? Dream state: the people we elect are trustworthy enough that we don’t have to stand over their shoulder ensure they are making the right decisions for the people they represent. You don’t want a nanny state. Why does the state require a nanny citizenship?
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I agree that would be nice, but our country was sort of founded on the idea that that would never be the case, and thus gave us the power to watch over and interject when necessary. I think they overestimated the public’s ability to do so, and didn’t account for us to sit idly by when we legalized bribery through campaign contributions and other means.
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>our country was sort of founded on the idea that that would never be the case It kinda was though, since they originally didn’t give voting rights to people without property. Or women. Or non-whites. They essentially built a government meant to make decisions *for* the common folks rather than the other way around. Yes, we’ve changed that a bit since then, but it was absolutely created to be a nanny state for those the founders deemed the “uninformed”.
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Yeah feels bad, man. That’s why the “dream state”. With zero research done I feel like humanity evolved with a need to compete to survive. We are now at a point where being so competitive is a detriment to the future of humanity.
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>Dream state: the people we elect are trustworthy This is why we must be informed citizens and do our due diligence. To elect trustworthy people and not pedophiles on sale to every foreign leader willing to bribe.
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Because as George Carlin said; “imagine how stupid the average person is, now realize that half the population is dumber than them.” But in all seriousness, people will always try to corrupt or abuse the system for their own gain. We have to stay vigilant to make sure those people are not elected, case in point our current administration.
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Yes, because it’s not about if we inherently deserve to be treated well. Everyone does. It’s about if we deserve to have good candidates win positions because the people that get bad candidates to win are doing things that persuade. The common person does shit all and expects people to just rise up and protect them. That’s called being entitled. Get informed and do shit
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Maintaining Democracy takes work. And I don’t mean the work that gives you sweet dance moves. We, as voters, won’t be taken seriously by the system if we don’t take the system seriously.
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Hey friend, I’m posing counter points. I’m definitely not trying to throw shade in your direction. I appreciate your opinion and am only looking for a brief political interchange with another person. I agree money is THE major factor in a lot of politics. (Not just in democracies) I just feel that if more people took their government more seriously (especially those who live in a country with relatively free press), the marketing would not be as effective. And there would be quite a few people, who are currently politicians, that would never get voted in. No matter how much money was behind them.
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Bad citizens get exactly the society and government they deserve
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The shit parts of a job are not good enough reason to stop caring about doing a good job. You know that in any batch of apples large enough, there will be a couple rotten ones. But you’re a representative. You represent everybody. Even those assholes. Was that guy disrespectful and waste everybody’s time? Yes. Now sit down and take it. As an aside, they should have some process to weed out the unserious participants like that.
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Maybe his performative bullshit is reflective of some other performative bullshit that the board previously enjoyed themselves. We don’t have context, but the chairman certainly knew his name which tells me there’s a history.
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[context](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/new-jersey-breakdancing-tax-town-hall)
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As someone who regularly attends these meetings I don’t really agree. This isn’t really a waste of time, as communication is happening. The fact that no one but that guy understands doesn’t really cut against that. And you really do need active communication and fun in these meetings. They’re so dry otherwise. In my town we have a kid that does little history presentations every week. They’re neat and they help break up the meeting well. The problem with elected leaders trading political favors for cash should be obvious, it leads to bad decisions and a fair bit of your power being suborned by bad actors. The Nobel-winning Economist Acemoglu recently published an article that showed that the single strongest correlation with economic power and wealth was the relative absence of such self-dealing. After all, at that point you’re not selecting for businesses that make the best product or the cheapest product but those that have the best connections to the political class, which results in much effort being wasted and good ideas never getting the opportunity to become the goods and services of tomorrow. The conditions required for a properly functioning market don’t exist naturally, and they can’t exist when the government puts a metaphorical sword on the scales of business. The market needs to have clear rules that are predictably enforced to be the sort where competition produces the *creative* bit of creative destruction. It’s easy for that stuff to degenerate into an unhealthy cronyism where small businesses are punished for not being wealthy and well connected enough that kills off innovation and hallows out opportunity to become the next big thing. We need to be vigilant against the normalization of that soft and quiet corruption. It’s the sort of thing that can kill prosperity if left unchecked. The worst bit is that it even sucks for the winners, though some would prefer to rule the ruins than have to prove themselves fairly.
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Shame on them then. They’re elected to give a shit. They CHOSE to give a shit. If they don’t want to deal with clowns, get out of the circus.
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He isn’t a clown. Dude was just trying to get a point across. It just isn’t shown in the video. He is even running for town council. >Thilly explained his dance, saying: “The dance was basically improv, decided almost on the spot. The main goal is to have our local government lighten up and look at the residence as friends and equals. The division and lack of community decision-making is what seems to be our biggest problem. Not to mention people are overly stressed and taking stuff too seriously and are not feeling free to speak and express themselves as they might wish.”
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It’s an expression not to be taken literally. As in if you don’t want to be dealing with X, don’t be where X typically is.
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Someone like this? You clearly haven’t been to town hall or real estate planning meetings open to public comment. It’s 80% shit slinging for attention, 10% clueless old people, 10% involved people praising new ideas.
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> In all seriousness though… This is just one reason why our elected leaders don’t give a shit about their constituents. They have someone like him who wastes their time for performative reasons… No. The issue is that your average person doesnt show up. These are the people who go to meetings and who show up to talk to them. If you want representation then you have to actually go do stuff, else you’re content enough not to do shit which means you dont need representation in their minds.
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“They have someone like him who wastes their time for performative reasons” Can’t we say the same thing about any politician.
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They do a great job wasting their own time.
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Freaking parks and recreation type skit
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Dude is also a dead-ringer for an energy vampire from What We Do In The Shadows.
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God I miss that show. Colin Robinson rocking a hard on, while draining a room full of people, is easily the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a TV.
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Fucking guy
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Mark Pork
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CLEAN THE BIRD DIRT
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6572mQQU5e0 Greetings mortals. Show was so. Damn. Good.
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Pawnee ass paintings
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I used to go my city council meetings for a few years off and on, and it’s one of the 15 largest in the US and nearly every meeting was a fucking Parks & Rec skit. I figured that was only a small town thing. It was unreal.
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It gave me solid Upright Citizens Brigade vibes
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