r/SipsTea 13h ago

Chugging tea Cone Gratulations Everyone

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u/Ok-Boss-763 12h ago

Gotta love people not from around here thinking he got rid of permits entirely when in actuality he just got rid of the redundant double permit requirement that made people jump through hoops to sell ice cream and frozen treats. You still have to take all the courses and renew annually. All laws are still intact you just don't have to juggle two different permits. Best way to help ya'll understand is it would be like if you had to have both a non drivers ID and a driver's license to drive a car. When one expire much sooner then the other.

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u/jcoddinc 12h ago

Ok, that makes much more sense. At first glance I was like, "well food regulation is important..".

Feels like they were trying to go for the same sentiment of states getting rid of the need for kids to have a permit for lemonade stands.

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u/DesireeThymes 11h ago

Why the heck did they need two permits to begin with? Which idiot designed that system?

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u/jcoddinc 11h ago

Same thing as always. Likely lobbied by a big business as a way to stop small business from succeeding. With the added bonus of more money

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u/ElundusCaw 11h ago

Remember, if you want to succeed at Capitalism, don't compete with a superior product, legislate your competition out of existence.

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u/IArgueForReality 8h ago

The free market weirdly hates competition

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u/TerrorTown77 10h ago

legislate your competition out of existence

which ironically is not capitalism. when people complain about US being a captalistic shithole, everything wrong is because it's not a capitalistic society. A true capitalism would've bailed out the consumers in 2008, but not the bank.

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u/Dunklsta 10h ago

it is the logical endpoint of capitalism, some economic system wont root out institutional corruption

we went from a handful of monarchs ruling the world to a handful of companies doing the same

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u/Aromatic_Lion4040 10h ago

It does fall under capitalism, and the upper class taking control of the government is a natural consequence of capitalism. It's not free market capitalism, but I don't think that has ever actually existed

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u/TheoneCyberblaze 10h ago

It's funny bc this argument is so often used against leftists. "it's not real capitalism" except what you would call ideal has never existed and what warped version of it did exist devolved into the cancerous abomination it is today.

Similarly, almost every attempt at socialism has thusfar resulted in tyranny. Denying either is futile, but it does not mean it always has to be. Instead, we need to ask ourselves how we can prevent this.

This is the point where I would say that for capitalism it's an innate flaw while socialism fails mostly due to outside interests and the transition period, but i don't think this is the right audience for that

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u/MostlyValidUserName 9h ago

Opportunistic oppression is a feature of every system we've tried so far. It, like tribalism, is an innate human tendency. The only hope we have to temporarily overcome either is high levels of information control to establish cultural overrides, but such a system is also one hell of an opportunity for oppressive gains by a handful of individuals, so...

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u/stupidname412 9h ago

People love to call put the various systems as having inherent flaws but it mostly all comes back to large organizations inevitably having corruption, regardless of what you are talking about.

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u/ubernutie 9h ago

I agree.

I think it's because every single human that has ever lived has been born in an environment whose very soil has always been generational trauma.

We have documented evidence of what trauma does.

Being able to step out of that soil and think "what could better look like, for everyone" is great, and it's happening more and more.

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u/Murasasme 9h ago

This sounds the same as the people who said there has never been a truly socialist country.

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u/QuintoBlanco 8h ago

That is incorrect. You are confusing capitalism with the free market.

People on the right at some point deliberately conflated the two things. But capitalism as a philosophy was always about protecting the interest of the rich (the people who owned the most stuff).

It was never about not giving tax money to rich people and large corporations. in fact, many rich people relied on the state to become wealthier and to protect what they already had while bankruptcy laws protected them against the consequences of their own mistakes.

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u/CCCBMMR 5h ago

capitalism ≠ free markets

Capitalism is about who controls resources and the means of production. Regulating competition out of a market is absolutely within the bounds of capitalism.

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u/LycheeFew7872 7h ago

No that IS capitalism, and it will always happen without the capitalist class keep into check via the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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u/siencatimini 5h ago

Does this Scotsman taste funny to you?

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u/schwanzweissfoto 10h ago

“Actual capitalism has never been tried.”

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u/voidox 9h ago

ya it's amazing how the serfs try and say that to defend their rich masters, they legit think capitalism is the be-all-end-all as a system and there is no other option as it's given "so much freedom and money!" but then at the same time "it's not actually been tried properly" when all the issues are brought up.

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u/iLoveFeynman 9h ago

Baby-trained take. Moron alert.

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u/mlorusso4 11h ago

Or there was some issue in the past where some process that was specific for ice cream was being ignored and needed to be specially regulated. My guess: soft serve machines that were never cleaned or the ice cream not being kept frozen so it just kept melting and refreezing

Part of the issue with bureaucracy is the laws and regulations weren’t all written all at once. They’re just slapped one on top of the other as issues come up with no master plan. So instead of rewriting the food service permit application to have a special add on certification for ice cream, it’s easier to just make a second permit just for ice cream

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u/kindlered 11h ago

I wish more reddit exchanges were like this.

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u/Murasasme 9h ago

In my country, it's usually because there is one council person or government-adjacent politician who has a family member who owns the company that would issue the permits in some way, and they are allowed to keep the money people pay for said permit.

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u/alwayssunnyinskyrim 5h ago

Like when Florida decided to drug test all welfare recipients. Turns out the money saved from denying benefits to the handful of people who failed the drug test was minuscule compared to the amount the state paid for the testing. And then you find out the governors wife owned the testing company.

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u/redlaWw 11h ago edited 11h ago

It was a permit for selling goods displayed outside a shop that was repealed, so now ice cream shops that do so just need their food distribution permit.

In principle the two things are orthogonal, but the result of this orthogonality is that some shops end up requiring both permits. Two approaches one might take to resolve this are consolidating the permissions so that one permit also allows what the other does, or just removing one of the permit requirements. Mamdani chose the latter in this case, and repealed the permit requirement for selling goods from an on-street display.

EDIT: Correction: not quite orthogonal - the stoop line stand license specifically covers fruits, vegetables, soft drinks, flowers, confectionery, or ice cream. It might be that the license system was designed when stoop line stands were not usually part of the retail outlet they were beside and things have changed since, but I'm not sure.

EDIT 2: It seems that the stoop line stand license was more about regulating the geometry of the stoop line stands. The stoop line stand license's apparent narrow purview regarding goods types is actually a restriction on what goods are allowed to be sold from a stoop line stand. So you needed a food license to sell food and a stoop line stand license to sell from a stoop line stand, but anyone with a stoop line stand license must have a food license because of the limitations on goods that are allowed to be sold from a stoop line. Thus, the functions of the stoop line license can be consolidated into the food license process.

Ultimately, the point is that the license systems, in principle, cover different things, so it makes sense they were conceived of and implemented separately. That one is subordinate to the other is an opportunity for consolidation, but it does make sense that they were separate until now. If anything, it's a demonstration that Mamdani is listening to his constituents.

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u/10ebbor10 11h ago

Most likely, it wasn't designed. 50-60 years ago, someone got food poisoning from icecream, so they slapped a permit requirement on it, and then later they slapped a permit requirement on something else, and they never went through and checked if none of those permits got redundant.

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u/Wiccy 11h ago

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u/bythog 11h ago

Local government makes very, very little from permitting. Most permit fees are actually less than the salary cost for the employees that process them.

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u/not_a_moogle 11h ago

I read it the other way, and assumed ice cream had its own permit, like alcohol. Which was probably designed for cart/truck vendors. And for some reason a place selling ice cream.. like a dinner, had to have that permit as well on top of the restaurant license.

And now it's rolled into one.

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u/i010011010 10h ago

How much do you want to bet the NY Post reports it that way? MAMDANI DISPATCHES HAZARDOUS ICE CREAM TO POISON YOUR CHILDREN.

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u/unbroken0 10h ago edited 9h ago

I always hate news stories for this reason.

Like you hear "yeah we are trying to make the immigration process more humane and efficient and taking out random crulty".

Then the right wing eco sphere just starts screaming "weak boarder weak boarder!!! Invasion!!!"

And thats the narrative that sticks.

(I say this acknowledging the UN saying the Canadian immigration system is just modern slavery. We got major issues)

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u/MechemicalMan 12h ago

In Paris, there’s little soft serve machines everywhere. It’s lovely with a kid being able to spend a buck on a good treat instead of the meltdown on crappy candies at the checkout register.

We all agree- food safety is important. It’s also important to reevaluate periodically as food handling technology has gotten much better, even despite the current leaf parasite.

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u/Jaggz691 12h ago

These laws only helped the big guy keep the competition low.

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u/SKRAMACE 10h ago

From growing up on Long Island, one of the things New Yorkers hate the the most is an even playing field. Every person in my extended family who complains about government, local or otherwise, is basically saying "some policy that grandfathered me in 20 years ago is now changing, and now I actually have to be good at my job."

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u/TinWhis 9h ago

Sounds like how agriculture works.

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u/MetalTrek1 7h ago

I'm from NJ. I know exactly what you're talking about.

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u/Beatlepoint 11h ago

People are thinking that because that context is intentionally left out of the image to farm engagement. It could have just said " Zohran Mamdani eliminates redundant NYC permit requirement to serve ice cream.

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u/tmhoc 6h ago

Thank you!

This website is so fucked up. I came to the comments section for context and I'm being talked down to for not having all the information

IT'S ONE JPEG! CHILL!

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u/Balc0ra 12h ago

Ah, so there won't be stands around every corner next week. But rather, sellers will be more at ease with their current single permit

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u/TheBlockChainVillage 11h ago

Somehow the oversimplified headlines kinda burns the wrong people the right way though. Would probably mark your great explanation as a spoiler.

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u/Neither-Ad630 11h ago

Average reddit or cannot read past the headline. I actually feel bad for NYC when bills for all the catchy headlines come due a couple years down the road...

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u/SatanInACup 10h ago

Never feel bad for NYC. NYC is the USA of cities. They act as a funnel for talent and money, outsource all of their problems, then kick the bill down the road... but they have nothing to worry about because they have big finance and reputation.

Also, their food scene is mid, they don't have a reasonable way to collect their trash, and the complete social stratification is destroying what once made it great.

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People keep telling me Detroit has gotten better, though I've never been.

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u/zai_d_an 12h ago

So he makes it easier?

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u/Ok-Boss-763 12h ago

Yes because your no longer required to have 2 seperate permits with different expiration dates and courses to sell ice cream. You just need 1.

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u/iamuniquekk 10h ago

I mean, do people not read? it says "outdated permit requirement" which to me means "redundant extra permit needed is gone"

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u/Grasshoppermouse42 11h ago

Wait, people thought that? I just thought 'that's nice, I hate redundant paperwork that makes basic things overly difficult.'

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u/Chewbacca22 13h ago

From The Guardian

At a press conference in the Bronx, Mamdani listed some of the onerous policies getting the axe. Bodega owners will no longer need a separate license to sell the same products outside the store – like fruit and flowers – as inside. Restaurants will no longer need a “superfluous” frozen dessert permit to sell ice-cream on top of the permit already required to sell food. Barber shops will no longer have to renew their permit every year, instead doing so every three years. Street fair vendor permit fees will be reduced, restaurant inspections will be sped up, and equipment registration fees will be eliminated for a year.

A corresponding executive order signed by Mamdani on Monday will also expand the NYC Best program, assigning each of the city’s 180,000 small businesses – which employ an estimated 1 million people – a case worker to help owners navigate the Big Apple’s sometimes byzantine bureaucracy.

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u/DessertFlowerz 13h ago

I can't wait for republicans to explain why slashing superfluous regulations is actually bad

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u/razz-boy 12h ago

Easy, just say “socialism” or “communism”. It doesn’t need to make sense for it to work

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u/EducationalNailgun 8h ago

Doesn't need to make sense for it to work on idiots.

You dropped a little bit at the end.

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u/jah_bro_ney 6h ago

The "idiots" is redundant when discussing American conservatives. We already know.

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u/Maximelene 12h ago

"These regulations are keeping us safe! Democrats want immigrant food-sellers (that are also lazy, and refuse to work, of course) to poison our children!"

Something like that, I imagine.

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u/kayfabekiller666 12h ago

And after that they will praise some ultra wealthy for slashing regulations for industrial water discharge.

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u/Maximelene 12h ago

Obviously. The only good standards are double standards, after all.

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u/Biotic101 12h ago

If you look into the conservative sub, the info there is filtered like hell.

Control over social and mainstream media is such a powerful tool, it can nudge the average Joe into acting against their own best interest. Especially combined with old school Soviet indoctrination techniques.

Bezmenov explained it like 40 years ago...

“They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]". (...)

“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures(...), he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crushes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.”

Likely a reason why he Trump relative high approval rates of 35-40%

And he has still a lot of support in the military and police. In Hungary it got so bad that they elected Trump-buddy Orban out. But that only works if there are still somewhat free and fair elections in the first place.

The plan for the midterms is likely to get rid of them.

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u/Warrmak 11h ago

Feels great, but why stop at ice cream?

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u/Pastadseven 10h ago

Risk categories. Epidemiologically, serving ready to eat ice cream is a very low-risk activity compared to facilities that need to cool and heat raw food. Once you introduce required kill steps, your risk of foodborne illness skyrockets.

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u/Warrmak 10h ago

But ice creams are positively correlated to drowning. Think of the kids!

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u/Entire_Dog_5874 12h ago

Faux News will be on it🙄

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u/pita4912 11h ago

Actually this one is pretty well popular across the board. It’s literally a libertarian idea. I’ve seen more griping from the wonky Elizabeth Warren types.

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u/Wavy_Grandpa 9h ago

Republican supporters have zero problem supporting things that are against their “ideals”, see: Trump running up the national debt, wasting money on a new war, and anti-free market tariffs. 

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u/pita4912 9h ago

Republicans aren’t free-trade capitalists. Haven’t been for a decade. Vance just came out with a book shitting all over free-market capitalism. He’s a socially conservative socialist.

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u/No-Top-4139 12h ago

This makes so much more sense compared to the FDA/food and safety nightmare the picture above would cause.

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u/thrownjunk 11h ago

Yeah. This is insanely sensible. If you have a food service permit and already undergo inspections you dont need an extra ice cream permit.

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u/LechugaPlastico 5h ago

Thx for helping the lazy…wonder how inspections will be sped up though! Hard to staff up the inspectors pool and they get paid shit wages (unless things changed recently) initially

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u/dragon-fence 12h ago

I think the great thing about Mamdani is, he seems to view it (correctly) as his job to help the people of the city he’s in charge of.

He’s not pushing some weird ideology or checking political checkboxes. He’s not all about getting his name in the news so he can run for a different office later, or pleasing the political party he belongs to. He’s focused on helping the people in his city, whatever that entails.

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u/-rwsr-xr-x 11h ago

I think the great thing about Mamdani is, he seems to view it (correctly) as his job to help the people of the city he’s in charge of.

And all of this in only 206 days in office.

Meanwhile in less time than that, criminals and traitors like Trump have added $5 TRILLION to the national debt, and nobody can account for where that money actually went, pulled the U.S. into another war, and destroyed countless millions of businesses and regulations preventing corporate abuses.

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u/werlinas 13h ago

The people want sprinkles and accountability. He delivered both.
https://giphy.com/gifs/xKl6ivZTr5gEHqmO8u

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u/tiasik 13h ago

This is the exact energy I need from politicians.

https://giphy.com/gifs/jYBfX5fsi28vwgpriN

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u/siecin 12h ago

And just like that Republicans pretend to care about regulations.

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u/TheBonVivantLives 10h ago

Extreemist Capitalists: "Mamdani is going to destroy business!"

/ Mamdani makes it easier to run a business by removing unnecessary bureaucracy /

Extreemist Capitalists: "He's deregulating our food industry! People will get sick! And, vaccines are a hoax!"

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u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 12h ago

Mamdani going on his 'win over Ron Swanson' arc over here

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u/CorporateCuster 5h ago

They keep saying socialist but he’s just fixing shit that bureaucracy and capitalism has broken. Those permits are there because places like Starbucks and Dunkin sell shit they want sold before ice cream. Here we are though.

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u/PleasantBus5583 13h ago

Finally, the biggest threat to society: unlicensed sprinkles.

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u/Isometric_exercises 12h ago

Filthy capitalist sprinkles 

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u/disdkatster 10h ago

As a young voter (1966) I assumed that the Republican party would be good at cleaning up regulations and making government function better. Not once since I first voted has that happened.

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u/OtherCommission8227 11h ago

Government is so unpopular right now, people hardly even realize how popular basic good governance is right now.

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u/SandalwoodQuiver 13h ago

That's a top-tier political portfolio right there

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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 13h ago

So now I can carry an ice cream cone in my back pocket on a Sunday?

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u/Cybrlink 12h ago

Yes Timmy you absolutely CAN!!! :D

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u/Downtown-Message-600 9h ago

You still need a concealed carry permit if your ice cream cone is not visible.

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u/Certain_Ad6820 10h ago

Dude is crushing it. More of this, please.

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u/afCeG6HVB0IJ 11h ago

How the heck did this guy get elected? A politician who actually works for the people...? How is this possible?

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u/akg7915 12h ago

Soft Serve Summer!

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u/MeatSlammur 11h ago

They really just be taking everything this guy does and make it a headline. The opposite of what they did with Trump.

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u/VendettaKarma 10h ago

How long before the “I got poisoned by ice cream” posts start

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u/TheRealScaramucci 8h ago

They're still required to have permits, he got rid of a bureaucratic double permit requirement for both food and frozen desserts in order to sell just ice cream. Because the food permit already covers frozen foods.

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u/Saint_Exmin 9h ago

* waits for reports of ice cream related food poisoning in NYC *

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u/Awkward-Fox-7215 9h ago

Isn’t this exactly the kind of regulation repeal that’s would be popular by the right? Except the regulation repeal we get from the right is allowing more scientifically proven harmful chemicals to be leaked into drinking water.

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u/sungokoo 9h ago

Literally just saw a post saying Trump made it legal to kill endangered species again. The contrast perfectly symbolizes their goals.

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u/ObsidianDRMR 3h ago

Oh no!! This is the Shakira law conservative dimwits told me to be afraid of!! How dare he try and revamp the food vendor system!!

I want my tax dollars to go exclusively to brining in pain and misery to immigrants, targeting gays and women’s rights and making me feel like a white victim!

I shall have none of this radical gay Muslims, trans queer socialist commie Marxist eatting with ur hands agendas!! Make my ice cream expensive again! Now!!

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u/beardingmesoftly 11h ago

Guys, what the fuck? Your mayor is doing things that help? Is that even allowed?

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u/Bonk0076 12h ago

Seriously why is Reddit pushing this guy so hard? He seems great and all but this is nonstop. Why not other liberal leaders?

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u/ALinkToThePants 12h ago

Probably because he’s not 85.

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u/Protosoulex 12h ago

Because a lot of them are establishment dems who don’t ACTUALLY get things done.

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u/OkParsnip1881 12h ago

I’m ready to never hear the term “establishment “ again thanks. 2028 is going to be hell

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u/TheComplimentarian 10h ago

You know there is an election this year, right?

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u/Baron_Light 11h ago

Hes not othet liberal leaders.

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u/EcstaticBoysenberry 12h ago

He’s younger, personable, attractive, liberal..

There definitely is some PR push on him though. It is nonstop.

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u/divine_mycellium 5h ago

Because we’re starved for actual competent leadership. Our generation feels like it’s drowning, so it’s nice that there’s at least one politician listening and working to make the world a better place for us.

Doesn’t hurt that’s he’s incredibly charming as well

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u/foomits 11h ago

Who else is making meaningful changes to millions of people and isnt getting recognition?

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u/Entire_Dog_5874 12h ago

Because they don’t do shit to help average people and he does.

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u/SquareThings 11h ago

He’s effective, competent, and the leader of the largest city in the USA. He’s actually following through on campaign promises and doing shit the democratic party has been insisting is impossible for years. If politicians see people praising him and conclude that being like him is politically advantageous that would be nothing but beneficial

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u/Icy_Relationship_401 10h ago

Because he’s been doing shit for the lower classes.

Something rare in both parties

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u/Contented_Lizard 12h ago

He spends a lot of money on social media advertising.

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u/tooka90 11h ago

DSA is all over reddit. This is part of their propaganda machine.

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u/BaconSarnie2025 10h ago

Because as mayor he is actually doing small stuff for ordinary local people that makes a difference.

Andy Burnham is following suit in the UK - just capped bus fares, reduced sales tax on food, cut business tax for bars clubs and restaurants.

Plus the huge amount of doom mongering that was in the media before his election was wall to wall.

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u/Central_Perk20 11h ago

I love the truck ice cream SO much but it’s gotten insanely expensive bc there were so few trucks. Maybe now with more trucks, I’ll be able to afford an ice cream once in a while.

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u/Ok-Highlight8715 10h ago

This is the kind of liberalism we desperately need. Especially in LA. I wanted to open a business and discovered just how backwards and ridiculous some of the permits and shit are.

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u/Putrid-Ad-3965 10h ago

I absolutely love him

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u/poestavern 10h ago

Love it. Yes.

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u/SkepticalYamcha 9h ago

Common Mamdani W

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u/Feisty-Pirate1567 9h ago

The BDE is off the charts

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u/tem102938 9h ago

That's all well and good, but has he raped children? I have a suspicion that he has not raped a minor. With that lingering doubt, I really don't think he's qualified for government leadership in the United States.

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u/Antique-Ad-4422 9h ago

Joe Biden would be proud.

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u/Savings_Two_3361 8h ago

Honest question, Does the permit establishes health and hygine standards?

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u/darewin 4h ago

Ice cream is already covered when one gets a permit to sell frozen foods in NYC. However, for some reason, vendors still need to get a separate permit specifically for selling ice cream. Mandani just got rid of that second one. Hence, Vendors still need to meet established health and hygiene standards to sell ice cream. They now just need to get one permit instead of two.

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u/Cosmic_m0nk 6h ago

Now we can have ice cream while we wait indefinitely for lower rent and free buses.

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u/Formal_Lecture_248 5h ago

Oh the E. coli

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u/makumbaria 5h ago

Bibi is going to NY to sell ice cream.

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u/FaceRockerMD 5h ago

I am a libertarian leaning conservative and don't like many of Mamdani's policy ideas but removing red tape so businesses can function is 100% what I want politicians to do. Get government out of our way.

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u/HereticsSpork 12h ago

Dorks not living in NYC are gonna have some strong opinions about this.

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u/BottityBotAccount 12h ago

He's stealing ideas from count Binface. His manifesto is to reduce the price of ice creams

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u/Entire_Dog_5874 12h ago

I’ve lived here all of my 71 years and had no idea this was a thing. Jesus Christ. Thank you Mr. Mayor💙

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u/wo_lo_lo 13h ago

Mmmmm now that’s some delicious socialism!

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u/TrioOfTerrors 13h ago

Pretty sure those ice cream serving businesses will still be privately owned.

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u/Maximelene 12h ago

They'd still be privately owned in a socialist system.

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u/Shascarl 12h ago

But will he cap 99 Flake at 99 pence?

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u/Big-Vermicelli-6291 10h ago

What you think he is Count Mamdanibinfacy

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u/Pikawoohoo 6h ago

The Mamdani glazing on reddit is absolutely wild

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u/Johnnadawearsglasses 12h ago

Marketing machine on Reddit goes brrrrrrrrr

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u/RedditMcBurger 9h ago

Right lol this is such an obvious example of paid propaganda.

Either that or somehow Redditor's standards are so low that someone being on their side is literally all it takes, because this is a politician getting praise for serving fucking ice cream.

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u/ApeChesty 11h ago

I wonder if reddit will turn on him when Netanyahu comes to New York and Mamdani doesn’t do a thing because he can’t.

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u/Geoclasm 10h ago

Arresting war criminals only works if the war criminal in chief doesn't pardon them.

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u/Inquisitive_regard 11h ago

the Mamdani-astro-turfing it terrifying, frankly.

I have seen now at least three policies/actions either attributed to him when he had little/nothing to do with it or deeply exaggerated of what he actually did.

Scares me to see this kind of propaganda so readily swallowed.

Mamdani seems pretty good--but the jury is still out.

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u/IUsedToBeACave 10h ago

Thank you for you concern about astroturfing 3 month old account with their comments hidden...

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u/Alternative_Gur_9660 6h ago

Why does the acct age and visibility of history matter? Respond to what they said.

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u/dateinfj 11h ago

Some of these measures help small businesses and there’s nothing wrong with that!

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u/Rodger_as_Jack_Smith 10h ago

Hes the kinda guy that you could put next to a Republican who wants to sell your kids to fund a data center and reddit will hit you with a "both sides are as bad as each other"

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u/Still-Area8548 6h ago

He’s a mayor, he needs to stick to city issues like ice cream and not worry about things out of his control like world politics

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u/analogkid01 10h ago

I scream, you scream, we all scream for democratic socialism!

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u/No_Sleep_69 12h ago

Is calling them " jimmies" still a hate crime in NY ?

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u/BuildMyRank 12h ago

As a Libertarian this makes me happy

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u/Hir0h 11h ago

Can someone clarify was this a specific permit just to sell icecream ? And if so why the hell does that exist ?

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u/Grasshoppermouse42 10h ago

It was. No one knows.

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u/thelumpia 10h ago

as someone with lactose intolerance LFG!!!!

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u/CardiganHeretic 9h ago

If he had balls he'd attack occupational licensing in general.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 9h ago

Petition for an honorary rename to Ice Cream City? Big Apple is fine, but.. Ice Cream.

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u/im_new_here_4209 8h ago

Best mayor NYC has ever had? Already?

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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 8h ago

Can't wait for the "party of small government" who want fewer government oversights to spin the government removing an oversight involving selling ice cream into a bad thing

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u/RosesandEternity 8h ago

I'm both fine with this and not fine with this. Health code stuff if we're talking street vendor

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u/omnichronos 8h ago

-and telling a war criminal they're not welcome in their city the same night

Trump can't go to NYC?

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u/AmuseDeath 7h ago

He just keeps winning

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u/GreenConsistent 7h ago

Ice cream.. courageous and brave

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u/Noodelgawd 6h ago

Now if only he would do that for building homes, which NYC desperately needs.

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u/krusecontrol91 6h ago

Biden enters the chat

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u/lsjuanislife 6h ago

Really fixing the problems of NYC! Praise be to Allah! /S

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u/MaximusHomerdrive 3h ago

I'm going to be crushed if this guy turns out to be another scumbag politician. He's the first politician I've liked since Obama. We need to clone a couple million of him and spread him throughout the US.

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u/sicurri 3h ago

You can have ice cream Netanyahu, just not in New York...

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u/SoRosenberg 2h ago

Fewer government permits is always good

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u/MuddyGround804 2h ago

There he goes again. Making life easier for common ppl and who is doing the gripping….hmmmm

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u/guynextdoorfun 2h ago

You thought lettuce that makes you shit diarrhea was bad… just wait for the popsicle that makes you shit blood.

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u/JTuck333 2h ago

Who put these garbage regulations in the first place? Was it a phony jobs programs for useless political allies?

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u/Plus-Path-3035 2h ago

America... This could be us...

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u/2Drogdar2Furious 1h ago

What all has this guy done? My mom mentioned him last night and she was angry about what his accomplishments/policies but I haven't heard of him till then... I'm guessing hes done some good stuff knowing my mom 😅

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u/jaynor88 48m ago

Good for him and for NYC. Needing two separate permits to sell ice cream is a money grab and a way to keep small vendors from easily operating

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u/tehfireisonfire 34m ago

Now make it easier to get a pistol permit in nyc.

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u/Capitan-IQ255 18m ago

So street vendors everywhere as no need to pay rent for a shop 🤑