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This is the best summary I could come up with:


But she has said that she is motivated to act by “a group donning masks that took over a subway car, scaring riders and chanting things about [Nazi dictator Adolf] Hitler and wiping out Jews”.

Hochul may have been referring to a recent episode involving a pro-Palestinian rally in which a man led a small group on a New York City subway car in chanting: “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist – this is your chance to get out.”

The potential move comes close to four years after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic during which New Yorkers initially struggled to obtain enough masks to slow the spread of the virus.

Masks then became a defining feature of the era, but recommendations to wear them have been dropped as protective vaccines have become available and the rate of spread has slowed.

New York has historically had a push-and-pull relationship with face coverings dating to 1845, when they were banned in response to attacks by tenant farmers on landlords.

Hochul, who last week put on hold a plan to charge drivers for entering lower Manhattan over concerns it could interfere with the city’s ongoing economic recovery, said the mask issue was “complex”.


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Next: pants will be banned in the subway to curb public urination for easier id

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Fucking hate morons who are using the suffering in Palestine as an excuse to commit hate crimes here.

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Is that really happening?

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Yes, it is. Nazis co-opting legitimate protests to spread hate is absolutely happening. That doesn’t mean we should stop protesting Israel.

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This is especially devastating when WFH is being rescinded and more and more people need to commute.

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Agreed, if that happened it would be a tragedy. Instead Zionists use their out-sized influence within the federal, state and local governments to ban protesting of the genocidal state of Israel calling it antisemitism.

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That’s some fair weather governing IMHO

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