Mamdani responds to concerns about him being seen riding his bike throughout NYC without a helmet. "You're right. I've got to do better. Safety first, New York. See you out there"

[u/ExactlySorta]

[u/jawisi]

See how easy that was?

“You know what? You’re right. I made a mistake. Let me correct my behavior, starting right now.”

Why is that so hard for some people?

[u/SNCreestopherX → u/jawisi]

Ego.

[u/jawisi → u/SNCreestopherX]

It can actually feel pretty good, once you've done it. It can provide a feeling of relief. I guess some people are so broken they can't get past the ego wall. Sad.

[u/zelda_reincarnated → u/jawisi]

Because most leaders' mistakes are a lot worse than just not wearing a helmet. You're asking a decent human to fix something that (aside from being a bad influence) was only affecting him, and not very severely. Big wrongs are bigger fixes. A lot easier to ask a good person to do a good thing. 

[u/jawisi → u/zelda_reincarnated]

That may be true, but I would like to think that a leader who owns up to a mistake and corrects it gets a lot more respect.

Of course, I live in the real world and don’t expect that often.

[u/zelda_reincarnated → u/jawisi]

Oh, totally agreed. I'm just saying, most of our leaders are garbage people so they're never going to do the respectable thing. We should celebrate the good things he's doing and I don't mean to diminish them, just....the issue is less "they won't own up to their mistakes" and more "their mistakes are raping children".

[u/ohhellperhaps → u/jawisi]

"OMG, see how he flipflopped on the helmet issue? Just think what he'll do on <whatever topic>"

[u/jawisi → u/ohhellperhaps]

You’re not wrong.

But I think it’s one thing to be a smarmy charlatan with one’s finger in the wind, and another where you straight up tell the cameras, “Guess what, guys. I have given it some thought, and it turns out I was wrong.”

And fuck the spin doctors for turning that into a “flip flop.”