The only thing that can stop a primary candidate with a platform like Mamdani, is depressed Dem primary turnout…
The DNC chair didn’t endorse him in the primary, because this chair will never even glance at the scales during any primary.
But literal days after Mamdani became the candidate, he gave a PBS interview talking about how if Dems want to win, we need to run candidates like Mamdani.
We’ll get a fair primary with nothing holding us back, and voting in the Dem primary comes with zero obligations in the general. There is absolutely zero reason to stop voting in Dem primaries now. It’s more important than it’s ever been, because it’ll be the first fair one in at least 30 years.
But all the stuff Mamdani is doing in NYC today, can be done nationwide in just a couple years if we don’t give up right before the finish line of a marathon
By the same token, now is the time to promote this message of hope and action wherever you see it, and proactively address expressions of doom and defeat, however harmless they may seem. We all share responsibility for this to the extent that, taken together, these attitudes constitute a climate of action or inaction.
Now is not the time to give up and stay home, yet there are many currently in a state of deep hopelessness they feel compelled to spread. These comrades are effectively deactivated right now, and would deactivate others if only as a comfort to themselves, to validate their fear and justify their inaction. They don’t realize, or simply aren’t considering, how contagious and harmful it can be.
Edit: If you ever wondered what JFK meant by “fear itself,” wonder no further. We’re all living in such times.
Its important to see that candidates are winning by offering something to the voters. They aren’t running in orange man bad. They can feel that way, but it’s not why they are running
There are like a bajillion studies relating voter psychology and political preferences. If you want conservatives to vote you run on anger, holding onto what you have, fear of the other. You want the other side to vote, you have to present a vision of what’s possible.
Which upcoming dem primary are you referring to when you say “it’ll be the first fair one in at least 30 years”?
The only one the DNC is supposed to be involved in…
And in case you don’t know what that is because since slick Willy was in office (30 years ago) the neoliberals have kept their finger on the scal s and in all the pies:
The presidential primary
Got it, thanks. What leads you to believe that the neoliberals will not have their finger on the scales in the next presidential primary?
That the current DNC chair was the state party chair of Minnesota for a decade with a proven track record of doing so…
That the way the neoliberals controlled politicians and entire state parties was withholding funding thru the victory fund and the current chair has immediately and without strings dumped that money back on the state parties…
That the current DNC chair said Mamdani is the type of candidate we need for president both in policy and charisma…
And a bunch of other reasons.
Thanks. I guess I hadn’t been keeping an eye on the DNC over the last couple of years. I hope that this will pan out!
It already is…
The reason why we keep winning special election is with the funding from the DNC, everywhere has been operating at campaign levels for a year and a half.
Normally that’s only for 2 maybe 3 months before the general.
Trump controls the RNC, and if they give anyone money it’ll only be the most extreme maga candidates who are likely to lose.
The cards are dealt, we just haven’t laid them down yet.
Interesting, thanks. Does that mean that progressive candidates actually have a chance of getting DNC money or at least fair treatment this time around?
The neoliberals lost control of the DNC after the 2024 election.
Thanks. I wasn’t really aware of the DNS goings on, so it’s good to know.
I can’t WAIT to VOTE him OUT so I can pay MORE for Groceries again!
-LITERALLY Republican Voters!
Excuse me for wanting to be poor!
Not a Republican, but there is a lot of nuance.
He can sell groceries at a loss because the money comes from other places…all of which is eventually paid for in taxes (in this case there is probably a small resitribution from rich to poor which I am happy with).
I don’t mind Democrats getting caught helping their constituents. But let’s not pretend he found some cheap grocery loophole; grocery store are already incredibly efficient, they only make ~3% profit. I am just speculating that the logistics needed to spin up govt groceries is much larger than the existing ~3% markup from the private sector.
Ag/food production is already subsidized, so it’s not like buying from for profit stores eliminates social aspects of the industry. On the other side, what NYC is doing is removing CEOs with multimullion dollar comp packages from the equation.
The problem is we are only talking about grocery stores where the revenue is only about 3%. Ton of problems with Big Ag which as you said is heavily subsidized. I don’t mind the redistribution. I think it is great optics. But I just think it is ineffective, because grocery stores (only talking stores) are in fact very efficient already.
grocery stores are efficient for their owners, but not for food. grocery stores waste a lot of food. source: i used to eat grocery store dumpster food
If they were efficient for their owners, there profit would be a shit ton more than 3% of revenue.
Food dumping is its own issue. I bet the government grocery stores will have to follow the exact same laws.
The Piggly Wigley or the Bodega are not raking it in.
It’s true, the people who own the stores make barely anything.
We all know capitalists just help people out of the goodness of their hearts. That’s why America has free health care and no gun worries.
I would suggest you look up exactly what they make. Plenty of grocery stores are publicly traded companies. Go ask a bodega owner.
and the tankies are soooooooo butthurt. calling him a libtard and stuff. at least he is doing SOMETHING USEFUL.
I don’t know of anybody who could be accurately described as “tankie” who would be against anything he’s done. They might say it doesn’t go far enough, but I wouldn’t describe that as “butthurt”. Where are you encountering comments like that?
I don’t know of anybody who could be accurately described as “tankie” who would be against anything he’s done. They might say it doesn’t go far enough, but I wouldn’t describe that as “butthurt”. Where are you encountering comments like that?
Because when you are terminally online, nothing irl will ever be good enough.
it was .ml or hexbear, cant remember which
Tankies just want to talk about Socialism in a perfect vacuum. Why would they want to talk about someone actually doing things. That requires effort.
Oh and they love spending lots of time and effort trying to make “blue maga” happen, LOL.
Tankies just want to talk about Socialism in a perfect vacuum. Why would they want to talk about someone actually doing things. That requires effort.
I feel like it’s the complete opposite. The people that I see online who end up being labelled as “tankies” are usually the ones asking the hard questions about how to actually achieve socialism in the real world, while liberals and social democrats are the ones dreaming in a vacuum, basically arguing that we’ll just have to ask the billionaires and imperialists nicely to give up their money and power, etc., ad infinitum.
mamdani is aes and the soviet union isn’t, deal with it nerds
They are? I feel like you’re butthurt about tankies advocating for marxism that any success the ideology has needs to be stripped away from it and announced as against it?
I’ve never seen a single tankie hating on mumdani if anything they just keep hating on everyone who’s hating on mumdani, because mumdani actually pushes socialist policies
I’m getting very confused what i’m supposed to be arguing against here, is your point that tankies aren’t socialist?
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Even the Egyptian kings knew if they kept the populace fed, sheltered, and somewhat entertained that the public would do what they were told. Now with so many homeless and so many joining the ranks quickly they’re voice is being shut out by the same people who are causing famine, disease, and chaos in order to profit from it.
Mr. Mamdani is a student of history and realizes this, not so much because he wants to control the populace but because he’s a good person. He has a moral compass that points to “good” - for the good of all.
It’s literally bread and circuses. Meanwhile capitalism has decided to take away bread and jack up the price of circuses and they are surprised the people are turning on it. Thoughts and prayers don’t fill stomachs: actions do.
This dude balanced the budget while increasing school funding and this? It’s almost like the DNC is full of thieves…
This guy has some style. Who would have thought serving the publics needs would play so well?
DNC, do you see any of this?
Yes but they can’t take bribes I mean free speech by serving constituents
you kidding? you can take a ton of bribes. you just can’t take them twice
Look at this guy. Finally, people who are able to bring together a broad front of the left, in order to actually fight. Who thunk it’d be an unapologetic “hardcore” socialist party that includes Marxist-Leninists, anarchists, social democrats, pro-electoral socialists, union socialists and even progressive liberals.
The fascists were able to effectively organize and seize power because they were able to bring together a front that included moderates, independents, white supremacists, randians, neo-Nazis and bible thumpers, all who disagreed on some level but found common ground on hatred, classism and selfish greed.
As someone that used to buy produce wholesale at the same warehouse that several local supermarkets did, you have no idea how much produce is marked up for retail. None at all.
I suppose there’s a big markup to account for what they’ll end up throwing out, and then the high price is part of why there’s so much unsold and needing to be disposed of.
A ton of produce looks unappetizing, goes bad and has to be thrown out.
a lot of that ugly produce is what goes into canning and pre-made products.
This is just supposition on my part based on personal experience, but it seems ever since the tariff bullshit started, the availability of quality produce has crashed for me in america, and not only are the “ugly” ones ending up on shelves now, but even damaged ones. . as if theres not enough produce coming in to to allow stores to be selective on what appears on shelves vs what goes into canning/etc.
I’ve noticed potatos are smaller, often heavily blemished, meaning I might get 2/3rds of a the weight of edible potato with 1/3rd going to scrap because of damage/etc.
Tomatos too, tend to be smaller, often bruised, and i’ve found rot inside more tomtatos since tariff bullshit started, than in all the decades before.
Carrots are thin, spindly, and barely have any crunch to them.
Lettuce is now giving everyone Trumparrhea
Onions, even worse than potatos, are blemished or mouldy, and I might be lucky to get half a pound of edible onion for every pound I buy.
and its same with everything else I’ve not mentioned in the produce section.
I imagine some of this may be regional as well, so that people on the opposite side of the country from me might not have the same experience.
I often go for the “ugly” produce, because i know others won’t. if it saves a bit of waste, then why not. Not like it tastes any differently.
Everything is marked up crazy compared to its wholesale producer pricing
Everything is marked up for retail. Anything you buy in a mall is at least 200%.
A lot of produce goes bad as well. They regularly throw out a lot of it (unfortunately much of it into bins, but I guess there’s a food safety issue with giving it to homeless people).
Grocery stores in my country are operating on a 2-5% profit margin. All companies’ annual reports are public and shareholders can’t take dividends unless there’s profit AND there’s no tax on profit, only on dividends, so there’s little incentive to hide profits. And no, grocery prices aren’t cheap here either, they’re up a lot in the last 6 years and change.
If Mamdani could cut costs 30%, either the stores aren’t turning a profit (which they don’t need to since they’re being run for the benefit of New Yorkers), or Americans have it much worse in terms of price gouging. I suspect it might be the latter if there aren’t as many competing chains in the US. Here we’ve got 3-4 even in many small towns, 6-7 in the cities, and of course small independent ones in some places. And one of them is a co-op. But I’d still expect NYC in particular to have healthy competition, it’s such a huge market and so dense, room for a lot of competing stores.
Where the markup is criminal IMO is nonperishable goods. Fucking regular pens with a 300% markup in office supply stores, etc. Stuff they don’t have to throw out after a few days.
I like this guy.
I wonder if he can crack down on covinflation. That’s a cancer that spreads and grows.
Large scale covid inflation was caused by FED printing too much money. This isn’t something Mamdani can fix he can only do band-aid solutions on top of the issue.
Large scale covid inflation was caused by FED printing too much money
Was it? Considering the inflation was global I figured it was more impacted by lack of supply and an increase in disposable income for those who were able to still work but not go anywhere.
Really? Actually I thought it was caused by retailers taking the opportunity to increase prices when everyone thought prices would increase due to covid.
Basically all central banks did the same thing. Lack of supply was an issue, but it was massively worsened by all additional spending. If you look at asset prices everything was going up, from stocks to bitcoin, not just consumption goods
While you are absolutely correct here I’m only commenting to say that nobody ever accepts that money supply is the main driver of inflation because there are a lot of factors that impact short term inflation and confuse the issue.
What makes it worse is the media loves to cite these short term fluctuations because they are convenient and click baity, but when central banks print money you get inflation, this is an absolute fact but everyone seems to love to ignore it or disregard it.
It’s so damn frustrating to see people do this over and over and over again.
Anyway sorry for the long winded comment basically just aggressively agreeing with you, I just needed to vent after I saw yet another person above try to disregard the truth yet again.
Dude is the America that I want. TIL that America has municipal grocery stores.
Nooo but how will the private grocery stores compete with this 😭😭😭
damn commies. Don’t they know that the big grocery stores need to make ANOTHER billion dollar profit? I mean, if the CEOs don’t buy those billion dollar yachts, who will? THINK OF THE YACHT COMPANIES!
Why do his backup singers look so grumpy?
This isn’t supposed to be snarky, by the way. I love what Mamdani’s doing, this is just about the photography and the editorial choice to use that photo instead of one three seconds later where they might be smiling
My god, what kind of hellhole is this Communist turning NYC into?
The funniest headlines from NYP and Fox are simultaneously promoting socialist democrats and criticizing the DNC centrist they are aiming to replace lol.
Boom
