Zohran Mamdani...

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

lol

Go check out the free school breakfast and lunches and report back what goes in the garbage versus down someone’s mouth.

I have a kid. I know he prefers junk food, almost all kids do. But he has to eat fruit and veggies when he's at my dinner table.

Again, it's so illuminating that you compare people in poor neighborhoods to school children. I stand by assertion: classist assh#le.

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The mainstream democratic party is dead and gone and buried. What's left are straight up communists. Sane business owners and "elites" will move.

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

lol

Go check out the free school breakfast and lunches and report back what goes in the garbage versus down someone’s mouth.

I have a kid. I know he prefers junk food, almost all kids do. But he has to eat fruit and veggies when he's at my dinner table.

Again, it's so illuminating that you compare people in poor neighborhoods to school children. I stand by assertion: classist assh#le.

DP. How can you not compare them to children if they can’t support themselves and need somebody else’s money to buy food?

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

If you knew that grocery stores had a profit margin of like 2% you wouldn't be saying this nonsense. But you don't even have a slight grasp of this situtation, other than virtue signaling.

The 2% profit margin is why food deserts exist. It’s a market failure - grocery stores won’t open up in areas where people are poor because the grocery margins are so low.

You literally made the textbook case for government stepping in to fill the void of the market failure. Thank you.

Thank you! It's like they don't even hear what they are saying. People in these areas can't afford traditional grocery stores, so profits are even less. Hence, trying something different.

Maybe different should be lifting themselves out of poverty instead of fantasizing about an abundance of free and cheap?

Or we could tax billionaires and near billionaires a little more so that people can eat and afford to live. You know, the people that made these clowns billionaires in the first place.

serious question - how old are you?

If you are over 12 or 13 you should be embarrassed. do you really think that taxing a tiny fraction of the country "a little more" would enable everyone in the country a steady and comfortable meal train and place to live?

Listen, I don’t know which county fair booth you got your education from, but go ask your meemaw for a few tickets to try again.

A progressive system of taxation is how societies are built, and corporations and billionaires both have been mooching off society for far too long. I know that you are desperate to turn the US into Somalia, but some of us would like to live and raise children in a 1st world country. It will be fun and ironic when we actually do make American great again by getting rid of corporate fetishists, like you.

NYC has more people than a whole bunch of red states, in aggregate, and they voted to move forward. Sorry for your loss.

I THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATYER.

lol.

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

lol

Go check out the free school breakfast and lunches and report back what goes in the garbage versus down someone’s mouth.

I have a kid. I know he prefers junk food, almost all kids do. But he has to eat fruit and veggies when he's at my dinner table.

Again, it's so illuminating that you compare people in poor neighborhoods to school children. I stand by assertion: classist assh#le.

I am confused. The current MAHA platform under Trump 2.0 includes cleaning up school lunches even though MAGAs complained that kids would not eat them when Michelle Obama attempted the same. What do the MAHAs want??? Is the PP a MAGA who has not yet converted to MAHA under Trump 2.0? Make up your minds already!

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Anonymous wrote:How are governments grocery stores supposed to work logistically?

He wants one in each borough in food deserts. It’s going to be a huge mess if half of their produce department needs to be thrown out weekly because nobody buys. The food desert residents like those in the projects are used to cheap fast food, deli sandwiches, Sodas,and snack foods along with the lotto tickets and cigarettes from the bodegas.

They aren’t going to get a cart of vegetables without a car mind you and walk to their walk up apartment in nyc

The food deserts don't exist in isolation. There's always the convenience stores, bodegas, that will sell you the "junk" food and soda. You aren't going to change consumer habits by making healthy options available. Even adding restrictions to food stamps doesn't work because it creates an underground market for fraud related to purchases.

Wow. You’re really threatened by this idea. If you’re not a New Yorker what do you care? And … what if it works!?! MAHA amirite?

I am not threatened at all. The idea has been tried before. It's not new. It never works. You can't force consumers to make healthier choices.

https://sph.umich.edu/news/2025posts/restrictions-incentives-snap-food-policies.html

The more you post, the more I think this grocery store will be the public school cafeteria with pizza classified as a vegetable.

100%

Just go volunteer at a food bank/food pantry in this area. Those collecting their rations do not want fresh veggies. Fresh veggies are the #1 thing that goes to waste for us. We have had the "you get what you get & you don't throw a fit" rule for about a year now, and people still ask for no fresh veggies. A lot of their reasons are valid, too, tbh. Reasons such as poor/no teeth (hard to bite/chew raw veg), no way to cook, and kids refuse them and fed is best when it comes to kids.

They want foods that are easy and fast to consume and filling. Foods that can be made in 1 pot and only require 1 burner because many people don't have a working stove but do have an electric burner.

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

If you knew that grocery stores had a profit margin of like 2% you wouldn't be saying this nonsense. But you don't even have a slight grasp of this situtation, other than virtue signaling.

The 2% profit margin is why food deserts exist. It’s a market failure - grocery stores won’t open up in areas where people are poor because the grocery margins are so low.

You literally made the textbook case for government stepping in to fill the void of the market failure. Thank you.

Thank you! It's like they don't even hear what they are saying. People in these areas can't afford traditional grocery stores, so profits are even less. Hence, trying something different.

Maybe different should be lifting themselves out of poverty instead of fantasizing about an abundance of free and cheap?

Or we could tax billionaires and near billionaires a little more so that people can eat and afford to live. You know, the people that made these clowns billionaires in the first place.

So, they need somebody else’s money to buy food because they have spent their own money irresponsibly?

Do billionaires need constant tax cuts and government hand outs because they've been irresponsible with their money? Why are they the only ones allowed to expect something from their government?

a tax cut is not a handout.

by the way, what do you think billionaires do with their money?

rent out Venice for their midlife crisis wedding to a Bratz blow up doll??

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

If you knew that grocery stores had a profit margin of like 2% you wouldn't be saying this nonsense. But you don't even have a slight grasp of this situtation, other than virtue signaling.

The 2% profit margin is why food deserts exist. It’s a market failure - grocery stores won’t open up in areas where people are poor because the grocery margins are so low.

You literally made the textbook case for government stepping in to fill the void of the market failure. Thank you.

Thank you! It's like they don't even hear what they are saying. People in these areas can't afford traditional grocery stores, so profits are even less. Hence, trying something different.

Maybe different should be lifting themselves out of poverty instead of fantasizing about an abundance of free and cheap?

Or we could tax billionaires and near billionaires a little more so that people can eat and afford to live. You know, the people that made these clowns billionaires in the first place.

serious question - how old are you?

If you are over 12 or 13 you should be embarrassed. do you really think that taxing a tiny fraction of the country "a little more" would enable everyone in the country a steady and comfortable meal train and place to live?

I think you fail to grasp just how much money a billion dollars is, let alone hundreds of billions.

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

If you knew that grocery stores had a profit margin of like 2% you wouldn't be saying this nonsense. But you don't even have a slight grasp of this situtation, other than virtue signaling.

The 2% profit margin is why food deserts exist. It’s a market failure - grocery stores won’t open up in areas where people are poor because the grocery margins are so low.

You literally made the textbook case for government stepping in to fill the void of the market failure. Thank you.

Thank you! It's like they don't even hear what they are saying. People in these areas can't afford traditional grocery stores, so profits are even less. Hence, trying something different.

Maybe different should be lifting themselves out of poverty instead of fantasizing about an abundance of free and cheap?

Or we could tax billionaires and near billionaires a little more so that people can eat and afford to live. You know, the people that made these clowns billionaires in the first place.

serious question - how old are you?

If you are over 12 or 13 you should be embarrassed. do you really think that taxing a tiny fraction of the country "a little more" would enable everyone in the country a steady and comfortable meal train and place to live?

it worked in the 1960s, didn't it? our tax rates are absurdly low- like the gilded age low not the post www2 glow up All powerful American century tax rates at ALL.

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Anonymous wrote:How are governments grocery stores supposed to work logistically?

He wants one in each borough in food deserts. It’s going to be a huge mess if half of their produce department needs to be thrown out weekly because nobody buys. The food desert residents like those in the projects are used to cheap fast food, deli sandwiches, Sodas,and snack foods along with the lotto tickets and cigarettes from the bodegas.

They aren’t going to get a cart of vegetables without a car mind you and walk to their walk up apartment in nyc

The food deserts don't exist in isolation. There's always the convenience stores, bodegas, that will sell you the "junk" food and soda. You aren't going to change consumer habits by making healthy options available. Even adding restrictions to food stamps doesn't work because it creates an underground market for fraud related to purchases.

Wow. You’re really threatened by this idea. If you’re not a New Yorker what do you care? And … what if it works!?! MAHA amirite?

I am not threatened at all. The idea has been tried before. It's not new. It never works. You can't force consumers to make healthier choices.

https://sph.umich.edu/news/2025posts/restrictions-incentives-snap-food-policies.html

The more you post, the more I think this grocery store will be the public school cafeteria with pizza classified as a vegetable.

100%

Just go volunteer at a food bank/food pantry in this area. Those collecting their rations do not want fresh veggies. Fresh veggies are the #1 thing that goes to waste for us. We have had the "you get what you get & you don't throw a fit" rule for about a year now, and people still ask for no fresh veggies. A lot of their reasons are valid, too, tbh. Reasons such as poor/no teeth (hard to bite/chew raw veg), no way to cook, and kids refuse them and fed is best when it comes to kids.

They want foods that are easy and fast to consume and filling. Foods that can be made in 1 pot and only require 1 burner because many people don't have a working stove but do have an electric burner.

Do you think more food pantries could be beneficial to people in those communities?

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Anonymous wrote:How are governments grocery stores supposed to work logistically?

He wants one in each borough in food deserts. It’s going to be a huge mess if half of their produce department needs to be thrown out weekly because nobody buys. The food desert residents like those in the projects are used to cheap fast food, deli sandwiches, Sodas,and snack foods along with the lotto tickets and cigarettes from the bodegas.

They aren’t going to get a cart of vegetables without a car mind you and walk to their walk up apartment in nyc

The food deserts don't exist in isolation. There's always the convenience stores, bodegas, that will sell you the "junk" food and soda. You aren't going to change consumer habits by making healthy options available. Even adding restrictions to food stamps doesn't work because it creates an underground market for fraud related to purchases.

Wow. You’re really threatened by this idea. If you’re not a New Yorker what do you care? And … what if it works!?! MAHA amirite?

I am not threatened at all. The idea has been tried before. It's not new. It never works. You can't force consumers to make healthier choices.

https://sph.umich.edu/news/2025posts/restrictions-incentives-snap-food-policies.html

The more you post, the more I think this grocery store will be the public school cafeteria with pizza classified as a vegetable.

100%

Just go volunteer at a food bank/food pantry in this area. Those collecting their rations do not want fresh veggies. Fresh veggies are the #1 thing that goes to waste for us. We have had the "you get what you get & you don't throw a fit" rule for about a year now, and people still ask for no fresh veggies. A lot of their reasons are valid, too, tbh. Reasons such as poor/no teeth (hard to bite/chew raw veg), no way to cook, and kids refuse them and fed is best when it comes to kids.

They want foods that are easy and fast to consume and filling. Foods that can be made in 1 pot and only require 1 burner because many people don't have a working stove but do have an electric burner.

This is one of the reasons why I think its shameful that SNAP can't be used for things like rotisserie chicken or hot bar items. This is also the reason why peanut butter is such a hot commodity at food pantries.

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

If you knew that grocery stores had a profit margin of like 2% you wouldn't be saying this nonsense. But you don't even have a slight grasp of this situtation, other than virtue signaling.

The 2% profit margin is why food deserts exist. It’s a market failure - grocery stores won’t open up in areas where people are poor because the grocery margins are so low.

You literally made the textbook case for government stepping in to fill the void of the market failure. Thank you.

Thank you! It's like they don't even hear what they are saying. People in these areas can't afford traditional grocery stores, so profits are even less. Hence, trying something different.

Again, you are proposing that more tax dollars should be spent to build a grocery store and stock it with food that people in the community don't want. How about you just donate your money instead and see how that goes?

The lack of stores isn't because people can't afford it. They don't want it.

If the margin was 20% there still would be food deserts. Econ 101.

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Anonymous wrote:This is basically AOC all over again. Young upstart defeats older moderate and becomes a darling of the Left. Like AOC, Mamdani will likely provide plenty of fodder for the GOP to fundraise off of.

Closed primaries are killing this country.

Let’s see how he governs. Maybe he’ll surprise you.

I think the concept of city owned grocery stores is actually pretty interesting especially in underserved areas.

It would be better to offer some incentives to get actual grocery chains into neighborhoods that need them, or add more police to the area.

Yeah, let's keep trying to same things that have never worked! More capitalism and over policing is surely the solution!

Have you tried communism? Study up on grocery stores in the Soviet Union.

Idk, does it work at all like capitalist food deserts or capitalist obesity crises, or capitalist childhood malnutrition?

Anyway, I don't think Mamdani campaigned on communism, so...

Food deserts exists because the people who live there don't want it. It's really not that hard.

"Capitalist obesity crises" LMAO.

You think food deserts exist because the people there don't want food? LMAO!

Attributing every failure of the Soviet Union to communism is as stupid as ignoring the real failures of our capitalist state.

Does capitalism cause obesity? Not in an of itself. It's a nuanced issue. And so are the failures of the Soviet Union and communism as an economic system.

Please spend some time in an actual "food desert" and think about how many people there want to buy a bunch of raw broccoli to cook. Oh, wait, you probably live in some gentrified Trader Joes neighborhood and would never set foot in Ward 8.

Get over yourself.

The fact that you think poor people can't eat or cook fresh vegetables just tells us how much of a classist assh#le you are. It's about giving people in food deserts OPTIONS and CHOICE. Some will buy the broccoli, some will buy the packaged food. Respect their humanity - humans crave choices.

If you knew that grocery stores had a profit margin of like 2% you wouldn't be saying this nonsense. But you don't even have a slight grasp of this situtation, other than virtue signaling.

The 2% profit margin is why food deserts exist. It’s a market failure - grocery stores won’t open up in areas where people are poor because the grocery margins are so low.

You literally made the textbook case for government stepping in to fill the void of the market failure. Thank you.

There is so much incorrect econ logic in this post that I can't even begin to write a response.

But seriously, just spend 3 seconds thinking a typical poor person working 2 jobs and where they want to spend their time. But you don't know any actual poor people, so you just imagine they are just waiting around hoping they have time to cook a ten course meal from some fictional Whole Foods.

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This thread confirms that the lefties have never been around actual poor people, lol. Yes, let's raise middle class taxes so we can operate grocery stores to sell unwanted vegetables to people who don't have the time or kitchen or family to do it.

Please, go talk to these people who supposedly care so much about before supporting these nonsense socialist ideas.

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Anonymous wrote:The mainstream democratic party is dead and gone and buried. What's left are straight up communists. Sane business owners and "elites" will move.

They want the rich gone so prices can go down