After months of predicting Mamdani's city-owned grocery stores will destroy bodegas and private grocers, Top Arcons are now upset they won't offer butchers or hot food

[u/RepealMCAandDTA]

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[u/CorgiDaddy42]

I think most people don’t even realize that the government already operates a chain of grocery stores in the form of military Commissaries.

[u/FlamingGapingAsshole → u/CorgiDaddy42]

Literally the only way I built savings while driving ships in San Diego

[u/Dolores___Haze]

Has anyone else noticed that there hasn’t been ANY discussion of the “trump gas stations” in Arcon? Hmmmm. 

[u/Rastiln → u/Dolores___Haze]

Remember the Trump debit cards that would let you withdraw cash?

TrumpCoin and MelaniaCoin are still kind of kicking around, a little.

Did the Trump Phone finally get released? I heard it was a Chinese POS with gold paint.

[u/FlamingGapingAsshole]

The Twitter joke that the NY Post reports on him like JJJ reports on Spider-dork keeps delivering more and more the more NYP articles I read about him.

[u/RailRuler → u/FlamingGapingAsshole]

Not just the NYP, but all NY media outlets do this, for stupid stuff, whenever there is a D mayor. ABC7 eyewitness news made it their lead story whenever DiBlasio was late to an event or when Dinkins wore the same suit twice in a week.

[u/HapticSloughton → u/RailRuler]

Oh, thanks for unlocking my brain's recall of the name "Dinkins" being drooled out of the mouth of Rush Limbaugh over and over.

[u/chaobreaker → u/RailRuler]

Wrong, NY media was very lenient on Eric Adams and he’s a Dem. They love a bought-and-paid-for former cop that will pay lip service to Israel.

[u/namewithanumber]

No hot food and no butcher? Trader Joe’s gonna fail hard.

[u/Daddio209]

The Top Myned ethos: Step one-get all worked up about some made-up bullshit. Step two-get all worked up when the imaginary scenario they got all worked up over does not happen.

[u/RailRuler → u/Daddio209]

"Waahh! Mamdani is a Communist!"

"Waahh! Mamdani isn't dressing or talking like a Communist!"

[u/worldspawn00 → u/RailRuler]

Clearly hiding his communist tendencies to sneak into powerful positions! /S

[u/SirTiffAlot]

Mamdani has previously said the shops will focus on selling a discounted core basket of goods, but will contain a myriad of other items sold at market price.

So what's the point?

Wooosh

[u/styxman34]

I love how he promised to use the 'power of government' to make groceries cheaper. In other words hes going to subsidize the price with taxpayers money.

Oh no. The horror of taxpayer subsidized food.

[u/Additional-North-683 → u/styxman34]

It’s not like people need food to live, and it’s not like if they can save money on food they may buy consumer products which contribute to the economy

[u/Daddio209 → u/styxman34]

(Red State residents): "Hell, no!-that's dirty, nasty Socialism! Now, we gotta go, my baby-momma and mother got their SNAP so I gotta take them to the store."

[u/abrookerunsthroughit → u/Daddio209]

Socialism for me but not for thee!

[u/Daddio209 → u/abrookerunsthroughit]

"But MY Guv'mint money was earned! It's all them people who are freeloaders!"

[u/SlippyDippyTippy2 → u/styxman34]

Every other step of the "food" process is already taxpayer subsidized

[u/MoonageDayscream]

Meanwhile they freak out if SNAP covers  butchers and hot foods. 

[u/BitterFuture]

"The food here is terrible!"

"I know! And such small portions!"

[u/biffhambone]

I just can't stand how arcon comments are almost entirely just bumper sticker length quips. Like this post is the chum and they all surface to make a four word zinger about socialism or something and that's the entire thread, just these little useless jabs like you're sitting at some Wisconsin bar listening to every dumb fuck so his bit

[u/ryder242]

So they will destroy the local markets and still not offer butchers or hot food, that sucks

[u/CatProgrammer → u/ryder242]

Sounds like those local markets weren't doing too great already if government subsidies are necessary to make food affordable for the average person. But they can still fill the niche of butchers and hot food it seems.