Mamdani

[Horace]

As Ezra and Matt investigated these sorts of things through their careers, they found that their previous talking points don't hold up to much scrutiny, and they migrated towards the policy center. Being smart and honest will do that. Too bad Ezra will never take any responsibility for his Sam Harris debate era self, who was a total SJW douche.

I remember one of Matt's talking points of many years ago on Vox, about how the stock market doesn't matter to anybody. He doesn't own any stocks, and nobody he knows owns any stocks. I bet he doesn't say that anymore.

[jon-nyc]

Gary Kasparov, no friend of socialism, had this to say:

An NYC mayor who doesn’t believe in capitalism is like a Secretary of Health who doesn’t believe in vaccines. Sorry, bad example!

[Mik]

Capitalists will be his downfall. I think he's about to learn a valuable lesson.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bill-ackman-s-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-nyc-mayoral-race-goes-to-eric-adams-ready-to-go-to-battle-guns-blazing-against-zohran-mamdani/ar-AA1HTX1f

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Mamdani:

I think he's about to learn a valuable lesson.

One may be given, but whether he'll learn anything is open to question.

[jon-nyc]

As if I needed another reason to hate this guy.

[Mik]

Ain’t gonna happen.

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

Classy!

[LuFins Dad]

That will help him with the strong Native American constituency in NYC. It might hurt him with the Italians, but that’s not a large group in New York…

Why is he wearing gloves?

[jon-nyc]

Giving out free prostate massages

[Mik]

Like I said earlier, he's about to learn a lesson about the power of capitalism.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nyc-real-estate-execs-throw-money-behind-adams-to-counter-rise-of-mamdani/ar-AA1Ib0Fn

[jon-nyc]

I was pissed when I read the first paragraph and pleased when I read the second.

Basically primary campaign for ABM.

[Mik]

As I have said, he's about to learn something about the levers of power.

[jon-nyc]

Does he think the folks at Key Foods go to Trader Joe’s every morning and buy eggs for the day?

[Mik]

Dumbass. Does he not think the grocery chains do most of that and far, far more efficiently than he will be able to? Even with turning a profit they still can't get past the shrinkage. He has no idea how thin profit margins are in groceries.

[Doctor Phibes]

How does hiring unionized staff drive prices down?

[Horace]

Seems regressive. Subsidized groceries for everybody, rather than targeted at the poor. Whatever this costs could have just been given as food stamps to the demonstrably needy. That end result of more food stamps is what you have to compare with, for anybody who thinks this is a good idea.

The upper middle class whites who voted for Mamdani would probably shop there on principle, thinking it's the virtuous choice. Even though they don't need the subsidized groceries.

[jon-nyc]

They probably would just once until they see DMV-level attitudes amongst the staff then they’d go back to Whole Foods.

[89th]

The 5 grocery stores would be put in the poorest and/or most dangerous areas of each borough. I'm sure crime won't be a factor at all.

[Horace]

@89th said in Mamdani:

The 5 grocery stores would be put in the poorest and/or most dangerous areas of each borough. I'm sure crime won't be a factor at all.

It would be so interesting to watch this happen. I hope he can do it.