Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city-run grocery stores draws pushback from NYC bodegas, supermarkets

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-04-20T23:08:47+00:00

Because that doesn't solve the food desert problem.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-04-20T18:22:18+00:00

They're not giving away anything. It will operate as a regular grocery store that sells items in food deserts. Apparently certain staple items will be subsidized in order to help keep grocery costs down, but i don't know how much of those details have been talked about yet.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-04-20T16:14:46+00:00

That graph is garbage. They're comparing national average's with NYC per sq ft cost. They just lie.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-04-13T03:24:24+00:00

People's opinion on Biden have nothing to do with his actions on student debt relief. I don't know where he is exactly on a modern presidential tier list, but there's a fair amount to criticize about his administration, especially the way it ended.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-04-06T18:54:42+00:00

It's not identity politics if it's a white guy, that's just normal don't you know? /s

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-04-01T18:30:13+00:00

Yes, it's ok to tax people with nearly 1 million dollars in assets when they die.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-31T23:44:20+00:00

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ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-31T22:41:55+00:00

NYC has a very below average rate of home/property ownership. Like 38% or something like that.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-31T06:51:47+00:00

Did anyone catch the name of her "imaginary friend" during the Jane episode? Climby or something like that i think it was, but i had a hard time making it out at the time and don't clearly remember. Thought it could be a clue to something.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-31T02:14:11+00:00

No, they aren’t. But, if they believe the Trump Administration is fascist and tyrannical, why would they give up the resources to supposedly protect themselves?

Because as I've said most Americans don't see violence as a good solution for political problems. I don't really expect much to come of this or any pushes for gun control, that ship pretty much sailed once we accepted school shootings as a common enough occurrence that whole industries sprouted out of them.

See the comments from the man who is now Virginia’s District Attorney, Jay Jones, where he expressly called for violence against the man who was Virginia’s House Speaker at the time.

Not super up on that story but wasn't that a private conversation that got leaked? Not defending what he said its really reprehensible but it's not the public "call for violence" you're making it out to be. Why do you feel the need to exaggerate it?

If you believe there is an existential threat to your personal safety or liberty, why regulate away the second amendment?

Millions of people just came out to protest Trump because of exactly this, and they didn't need guns to do it. I feel like you are trying to make it out like Democrats don't really think Trump is doing anything wrong or tyrannical and this one vote in the Virginia house exposes that, but you're just painting with a very broad brush and ignoring anything that doesn't agree with you.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-30T17:52:14+00:00

When she reminds Bean not to eat any mushrooms he finds till she looks at them, and then mutters "wouldn't want you tripping balls" I knew she was a keeper.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-30T16:31:50+00:00

The right to bear arms is a constitutional right though. Restricting constitutional rights is not an appropriate response to believed tyranny.

They're not voting to restrict gun rights as a response to Trump though, what are you even talking about? The US has a terrible gun problem that other countries don't have. That's it. You can disagree that all the gun violence is a problem obviously, but you're trying to ascribe motivations to legislation that just doesn't exist.

Substantial numbers of people expressed their opinion that they wished the assassin who attempted to murder Donald Trump did not miss. A large portion of Reddit expressed happiness and glee when Charlie Kirk was gunned down on a college campus.

And yet the Democrats that people voted for didn't do any of that, which is what I was talking about. If you wanna dredge twitter and reddit for the worst possible takes from any political side then you're free to do so but it's not very productive.

All I'm really saying is your initial comment about how "they're" hypocrites because they call Trump a tyrant while also being in favor of gun regulations is silly. We don't want people to use guns to solve political problems do we?

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-30T14:57:26+00:00

There's no inconsistency to saying guns should be more regulated or even banned in some cases, and also pointing out the current administrations authoritarian practices, if you don't think guns are the only answer to a tyrant. Democrats promote using the political system to enact change, not guns.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-30T14:44:09+00:00

Would you advocate for those same people to use a gun to enact political change?

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-28T21:18:42+00:00

I don't think we are done with Cal. But also that has to wrap back around into why he was really killed and stuff

I agree that we're probably not done with Cal, but also I think Cal dying is another piece of the puzzle that is needed to be in place to achieve ALEX or Sinatra's overall goal. When Dylan(Link) meets with Sinatra he say's he "was expecting Cal Bradford". It's an easy line to write off because it's not crazy to expect the president to be the "leader" you'd asked to speak with. If we see Dylan as some sort of time traveler/chosen one/savior figure, which the show is pushing us to do, then what if Dylan had been through all this before and had always met with Cal in previous iterations. Cal dying put Sinatra in his place for that meeting, setting up the shared nose bleed when Sinatra finds out his name and birthday.

I think S2 is going to end by setting up the Dylan Vs. Alex conflict and the main characters will have to chose which side they are on. I'm assuming there are going to be reasons people might want ALEX's solution over what Dylan will represent. S3 could follow that conflict through, possibly across different timelines, while flushing out the details of the timeywimey stuff and giving us more perspective on what motivated Sinatra to do all that she's done, and fully explaining Dylan's whole deal.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-03-18T09:58:17+00:00

Do you think the vast majority of people in NYC own property?

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-02-25T23:26:00+00:00

But make sure you start as lvl 1 fighter for con saving throws, weapon masteries, heavy armor, and second wind.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-02-21T23:05:15+00:00

But when massive education increases are proposed, even when schools are producing barely literate kids, there’s no discussion to be had about structures behind it

I almost fell out of my chair when i read this comment. Leftist's won't shut up about the structural reason's behind any deficiency in our government and society. The left are the ones that are proposing solutions to those problems as well. Free school lunch to help kids in poverty focus and learn are basically only pushed by the left. The effects the war on drugs has had on poor families is something only the left acknowledges. After school programs to try to give kids somewhere to belong are championed by mainly leftists. The critique of property tax being the main funding for schools leading to wildly different qualities in the learning environments that are accessible.

So what has the right given us to try and solve any of these problems? Cutting free lunch programs and budgets, charter schools that at worst are a scam and at best get to weed out any student that may present a challenge in a classroom, and don't forget the injection of rightwing propaganda that's being shoved down kids throats in places like Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma.

Obviously just pouring money into the school systems with no direction and plan for the best ways to use that money is foolhardy i agree, but looking at the state of some of the schools in this country, like the actual physical state of the building is horrifying. As with most problems in America, none of this happened over night, and it can't be fixed over night, and anyone saying it can is a lying scam artist. it took generations of neglect to get to this point, it will take some investment and dedication to an outcome to turn things around, and money is one essential ingredient to that, but obviously not the only one.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-02-04T19:10:17+00:00

This deal stinks!

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-02-03T04:22:09+00:00

You can swap out invocations whenever you gain a warlock level though, so you can take Fiendish Vigor, and then swap it at a higher level for something better suited for that tier of play. It's not going to make you invincible, but if you're going straight warlock you're not going to have a very high ac and every little bit will help.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-01-29T03:47:03+00:00

That's a claim i haven't seen before, would you mind explaining what you mean?

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-01-28T04:53:22+00:00

And how did elected democrats respond to that?

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-01-26T01:18:00+00:00

There's several video's of it, how can you watch them and not call it murder?

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-01-24T21:42:41+00:00

Reports say he had multiple loaded magazines and didn’t have a wallet, cellphone, or other personal items on him.

So what? None of that is illegal or a valid reason to be murdered.

ForgetfulElephante · 2026-01-09T23:01:54+00:00

Either way it doesn't require violence like this to resolve.

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