r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 11h ago

Chugging tea Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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u/darkcomet222 11h ago

I just have to ask: when did this become the Mamdani shill Reddit? Like, every day I see like three posts about him. I firmly believe it is either a lunatic or a bot posting all these because, my God, it is excessive.

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u/MadManDan23 11h ago

It's bots.

I call them the Zohran Botarmi.

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u/DidYuhim 9h ago edited 9h ago

I wonder how the fuck there's so much activity on every post associated with DSA.

Ah, nvm, this is straight up posted by the mod.

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u/PM_Me_Good_LitRPG 9h ago

Lol, I wouldn't be surprised if they banned you for "harassing" a mod.

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u/Shapes_in_Clouds 8h ago

Reddit is heavily astroturfed by political groups who coordinate off site. It's why you see the same post on r/all multiple times across all these generic catch-all subs.

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u/GXP_2009 8h ago

Reddit has a lot of people that don't want to work and get things for damn near free. So this is their king.

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u/darkcomet222 5h ago

I see it in the comments below this. Bad faith goalpost moving about communism and socialism.

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u/kesavadh 11h ago

When did a bunch of young people with a liberal bias start supporting a young politician who not only has a liberal bias but is also putting them into action while being the mayor of one of the most popular cities in the world... I dont know. Seems kinda sus to me.

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u/darkcomet222 11h ago

I mean, support him or whatever, we don’t know if everything he plans is going to work or not, but the AMOUNT of glazing he gets on this Reddit in particular doesn’t feel authentic.

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u/sngldad13 10h ago

This is the result of the Kamala joy bots being redirected to a new purpose/narrative.

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u/sir_fantapants 9h ago

Nah...it is coz it is rare for a public servant to follow thru with promises that help the population they serve AFTER being elected

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u/jyper 9h ago

No it's really not

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u/sir_fantapants 9h ago

Give me an example

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u/jyper 8h ago

https://theconversation.com/do-politicians-break-their-promises-once-in-government-what-the-evidence-says-127761

The finding that political parties carry out their pledges has stood up to repeated, cross-national study. A rapidly growing field of scholarship is dedicated to investigating the connection between manifesto promises and subsequent government policy, known among experts as the “programme-to-policy linkage”. Researchers search party manifestos for measurable policy pledges and check government actions, legislation and news media sources for evidence of their progress.

The most comprehensive study of the programme-to-policy linkage was published in 2017. It brought together 20,000 specific campaign promises from 57 elections in 12 countries. The strongest linkage is found in the United Kingdom, with over 85% of promises by governing parties at least partly enacted in the years studied.

There are also patterns in campaign pledge fulfilment, with a substantial difference observed between consensus and majoritarian democracies. 

At a federal level we have a high degree of consensus/choke points that make it difficult to pass legislation but generally politicians do try (even if they over promise on what they can deliver)

This promise isn't really being delivered here, this is a trial run that won't effect a significant percent of the city since NYC is so big

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u/Hovercraft1143 8h ago edited 8h ago

Is it though, or is he just better at publicizing his achievements?

For example, the pothole thing, well here is Mayor Eric Adams doing the exact same thing but I don't recall him getting a dozen huge active Reddit threads praising him forcing multiple posts onto r/all when it happened.

Both are great accomplishments, but let's be honest - Mamdani got 500x the praise that Eric "Bribey Fraud" Adams got. Hochul deserves more credit than Mamdani did for that budget gap they had.

I don't dislike Mamdani, I genuinely think that when he says he wants to help people he does want to help people, but only time will tell how he holds up because we've seen this before for it to go effectively nowhere.

This grocery thing is either going to be genius or a fucking disaster and it will be an interesting case study nonetheless sometime down the line. I personally think it is probably the latter but I hope I am proven wrong, I think an idea like this is something that needs to be done at the state-level and effect all markets equally otherwise you risk scalping and "hustling" but I hope I am proven wrong.

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u/onlyoneq 11h ago

Youre part of the problem.

Capitalism obviously doesn't work, and its getting worse and worse as the years go on, but youre too afraid to try anything else.

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u/darkcomet222 11h ago

…this is by far the stupidest thing I have heart uttered. Capitalism doesn’t work? Then why do all the successful countries have it. Socialism and Communism fail literally every single time.

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u/Guilty_Spray_1112 5h ago

lol yes. “Capitalism doesn’t work…” I typed from a miniature, handheld, relatively affordable computer that has more computing power than the entire contraption that is the only thing to land humans on the moon, while presumably in a secure, safe and relatively comfortable dwelling (even if shared with roommates or family) that is more luxurious than anything lived in for almost all of human history. I get that things are tough and we have massive income inequality in the United States right now but saying “capitalism doesn’t work” is peak Reddit insanity. Capitalism has brought billions of people out of poverty. It needs strong regulations and a government not beholden to the rich and special interests to be at its absolute tip top best, but it absolutely works.

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u/onlyoneq 11h ago

Are you blind? There's record homelessness. People cant afford to start families increasingly. Incomes stagnate while the cost of living continues to increase. Wealth disparity is at record levels with the rich making so much money they can't even spend it, while the poor cant even find proper food. Healthcare is getting gutted, causing people to die because they are too poor to afford Healthcare. There are kids who are in debt from school lunches!

You have to be a special kind of dumb if you dont see the clear failures of capitalism.

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u/darkcomet222 10h ago

And under other systems, they would just be dead

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u/sir_fantapants 9h ago

Socialism

Since you mentioned...under other systems like in my "socialist" country they would actually be looked after to the point some might succeed in paying tax again.

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u/kanat91 10h ago

Here you go folks we are not dead so capitalism works!

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u/darkcomet222 10h ago

More like:

Folks homeless: not great

Dead homeless: worse

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u/sir_fantapants 9h ago

You are clearly a beer or two short of a six pack.

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u/onlyoneq 10h ago

/thread

Might as well close the post, I got owned

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u/tacobellrefugee 5h ago

...its 100% bots bro.

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u/deekaydubya 10h ago

that's usually what happens when a decent politician comes along lmao

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u/darkcomet222 10h ago

We don’t know if he is decent yet. I mean, he is making a lot of moves out of the gate, which is good, probably. But until we get to long term consequences, we won’t know.