The original poster is a troll.

The original poster is a troll.

Anonymous wrote:Of course they’re saying in wasn’t a political attack — because the politician who was attacked is a REPUBLICAN.

No, Democrats never target their opponents.

What makes you think that Shotsie is a political opponent of Vogler? Do you know Shotsie's political affiliation?

It seems more likely that Shotsie's wife left him for Vogler given that this appears to be a crime of passion.

Anonymous wrote:Most of these leases are cheap because the manufacturers are setting very high residual values for the leases — if you're interested in getting the $7,500 off via lease, you're probably better off just turning the car in when the lease ends.

This. You can take advantage of the lease loophole. However, if you are going to get a lease anyway, just keep the car for the lease period and decide later whether or not you want to buy it. As this poster says, the residuals are frequently very high. Also, EV technology is changing so quickly that you might want something better in two or three years.

It looks like there are roughly 25 different posters but the discussion is dominated by two, one of which has posted about 25 times and the other about 20 times.

Please join the existing thread.

According to reports and posts in this thread, the school in question is now Blake instead of Einstein. However, while this thread starts with an official email from MCPS, the alleged subsequent email has not been posted. Therefore, I don't know what to believe. As a result, I am going to lock this thread. If there is a new email, please start a new thread with that one.

This thread has gotten so long that reading it puts a huge load on the server. Therefore, I am going to lock it. Feel free to start a "Part 2" of the thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani’s economic populism isn’t radical - it’s reactive.

After decades of corporate greed, stagnant wages, and soaring costs of housing, food, and everything else, his socialism is a direct response to a broken system that's failed the majority of Americans.

This is true. However, his reactionary policies won't address the causes of these bad economic outcomes but will instead make them worse.

Works just fine in many other countries. NYC is practically its own small country, so it’s a great place to pilot it in the US.

In which country does it work just fine?

Any democratic socialist country works to make things better for its population, and they run many public-private partnerships, as would be the case here.

This is not a radical idea, but it seems that some people have really been conditioned to hate the idea of people getting benefits from their tax money. Pretty weird if you ask me.

https://theweek.com/politics/mamdani-government-run-grocery-stores

https://www.modernretail.co/operations/unpacked-the-history-of-city-owned-grocery-stores-and-how-public-private-partnerships-have-worked-in-other-markets/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/06/25/zohran-mamdanis-most-surprising-proposals-from-city-owned-grocery-stores-to-arresting-netanyahu/

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mamdani-city-run-groceries

LOL

Again, why is there no food in this taxpayer funded grocery store??

There appears to be multiple problems with that project. First and foremost, despite much of the narrative around the store, it was not actually built to fill a food desert. Rather, the city bought the entire shopping center and was trying to revitalize it. The grocery store was only one component. The area was not actually a food desert. The Washington Post has an article that repeats the claim that the area is a food desert while simultaneously including multiple pictures of a nearby for-profit grocery store:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/18/city-owned-grocery-stores-crime-funding/

The store was first run by a private grocer and things were fine. Then, management was turned over to a non-profit and things turned bad. The non-profit is blaming the pandemic. Regardless of who is to blame for the grocery store specifically, it seems that entire development is doing poorly.

It is not unusual for cities to attempt to revitalize neighborhoods through support for shopping centers. DC has done that in the case of Skyland Town Center, for instance. The District initially hoped that project would be anchored by Walmart, but Walmart backed out after using the project as an incentive to defeat a minimum wage increase. The District later used significant economic incentives to attract Lidl to the location. But that was a true food desert.

The lesson of Kansas City is that redevelopment of an entire shopping center needs more than a grocery store to succeed and that a grocery store might not succeed in the midst of a failed shopping center. Certainly good lessons for other publicly-owned grocery stores, but hardly a verdict on the entire idea.

Anonymous wrote:Resale prices were terrible because of the 7500 tax credit— why buy used when you got 7500 for buying new. Then there was a used credit and now there’s no credit.

The credits are still available until the end of September.

Can you please link to those posts or use the "report" link?

The original poster posted the first post and the second post which simply embedded the tweet that was a link in the first post. So, nothing nefarious there. One other poster posted twice in the thread. I don't see any sock puppeting.

Please feel free to discuss this topic in the Political Discussion forum.

The only errors I see logged with that IP address have nothing to do with an image but rather because of F-bombs included in the post. We block that word.