Yes but what about his goal of implementing Shakira Law in NY???

What will you do if it’s illegal for hips to lie?

Wait, that's illegal? Mine lie... Whenever! Whereever!

Wasn't Mamdani the one condemning his wife for her open support for Palestine?

What makes you say that?

I saw a snippet in the same format as this post earlier saying that

Sounds like misinformation spread to fight the only politician in america actually doing shit for its constituency

Friend, WHAT

Praise be to her hips!

Having been a rapper works well for him. The dude has way with words and knows how to roast others.

They’d probably celebrate it as an anti trans win

What positive actions has he actually taken? Speech not included.

Well, quicker ones so far are the rent freezes and the 100k potholes fixed because he's offering proper compensation for work. Next up are the city owned supermarkets and the tax on >5 mil 2nd houses on NY.

Since this is the Pragmatic Leftist Theory, I will say this:

Mamdani is not really enough, sure, he's doing a lot, but I don't think he can carry the movement alone. But that's fine. What the Left desperately needs is to regain trust lost after the decades of being run by authoritarians that didn't give two shits about workers. The Left needs someone who can attract and unite different people. We need a surplus of left-Liberals that can be radicalized. And I don't think Mamdani is doing a bad job in that.

Reminds me of the Kat situation. Was getting flanked by Democrats, but also the most anti-Democrat Tankies because of not supporting Hamas (despite being Palestinian). I do think it's our imperative to realize that no matter whether the Tankie movement is CIA-bankrolled or not, we need to leave it behind, as it only hurts us all with no benefit to us (really, the only benefit is to their accounts social media numbers), and start doing a proper peristalsis towards the Left, not a policy of rejecting the politicians closest to us.

Sorry, Shakira was in 2010. Best we can do now is Jelly Roll.

Yeah, Mamdani isn't a savior, but he's an extremely positive figure for the left's PR in the USA, and a sign of hope for the younger generation's views, the same way that Bernie's surge of support in 2016 was after decades of 'socialism' being a poison word in US politics.

Kat situation? I speak as n outsider looking in

He is absurdly eloquent

Besides the other answer that has more substance. He shoveled snow after a snow storm. It was after he got elected so it wasn't only for PR. He was legit helping at the basic level. Showing people that is a good way to lead. The small things add up.

He is actually opening up a city run grocery store and putting all the pieces together right now. Takes a bit more time than fixing potholes to organize, but it is happening.

They dont lie!

Why does he want a city run grocery store?

Expensive basic goods and food deserts are a big problem in urban America.

So that working class people will have a place where they can afford to buy groceries at

So subsidized food?

Imagine how much 'profits' is absorbed by shareholders that could've went back to the public.

My dude...

You need to get better about what you repeat if that's your bar.

If that's what you want to call "ensuring working class people have access to food", then yeah, sure, subsidized food.

Don’t be dense. Food is already subsidized in multiple ways, but those subsidies go into corporate profit margins. This store offers the benefits of subsidy to the common person.

Authoritarian and control by wealth, whether it be corporate or billionaire.

The money propping up the authoritarians is the issue.

Groceries are a low margin business.

More reason to remove drain revenue.

Don’t be dense yourself. I‘m just asking a question.

I would like to know more about these groceries store plans. Apparently you don’t know anything specific.

If you're looking for specifics, you could have short circuited this whole thread by typing your original comment into a search engine, instead of posting it in a discussion forum

https://www.amny.com/news/how-mamdanis-city-run-grocery-plan-would-work/

If he's got paid assassins like you rolling around then he must be doing something right

Don’t change the subject. You didn’t ask for details. You said “so subsidized food?”, which is pointing out the obvious. Seems like you’re here to continue arguing instead of just googling the answer, so I’ll fetch the info for you and anyone else who might be curious:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a press conference on Tuesday that New York City’s planned city-run grocery stores would not be traditional municipally staffed supermarkets. Instead, the city would own the land, cover major overhead costs and bring in a private operator to sell staple foods at discounted prices, starting with a Manhattan site near La Marqueta in East Harlem.

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“The city will subsidize a core set of staples,” he said. “A private operator will run the store, but they answer to the standards that the city will set.” Those standards, he said, would mean lower prices on basics like bread and eggs.

Source: AMNY.com.

So a twitter post. You saw a twitter post.

Thanks for actually answering.

Oh no asking questions on a discussion forum, what have discussion forums come to?

You did not want a discussion. You wanted someone to spoon feed you information.

Tax evasion is a form of lying

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat_Abughazaleh

It's not subsidized if it runs at cost.

You are free to ignore my posts.

If you're thinking that means government run grocery stores are unrealistic keep in mind that they already exist for the military. They're called commissaries and they sell groceries for significantly cheaper prices than private grocery stores, but they are open only to service-members and their families. We are perfectly capable of providing robust social services, but the state wants to keep it exclusive so they have an incentive for people living in poverty to join the military.

If you really just wanted information, you wouldn't be so confrontational right now.

You really can't be bothered to spend 30 seconds googling something?

Non-profit food. Huge difference.

And if the city owns the land, there will also be significant cost savings long-term in rent and property tax.

Did her hips do tax evasion? BLASPHEMY!

No, it's run at cost, but what's so wrong about subsidizing food at the consumer level? We already do it for the owners of megafarms.

Do you live every day in terror of poor people being able to eat?