Communism doesn't work? Shocking state of $29m government-run supermarket in KC

[LevelUP]

Shocking state of $29m government-run supermarket in notorious Mad Max city
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...arket.html



Usually when communism fails, the answer is always, well it wasn't done right. It will work next time when done right.

Socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city-run grocery stores in NYC is ‘Soviet’ style disaster-in-waiting, business owners say
https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/us-news/so...nder-fire/

[NotJoeBiden]

I hear so much about how his policies will fail, yet little talk of the current policies that are failing the average New Yorker and led them to vote for him and his new policies.

It isnt as if the prosperity from late-stage capitalism has trickled down to them as previous politicians have promised.

[SteveFoerster]

I hear so much about how his policies will fail, yet little talk of the current policies that are failing the average New Yorker and led them to vote for him and his new policies.

As we've discussed before, Mamdani won the primary not because he was popular, but because the moderates were fragmented and uniquely unpopular.

It's like the old joke about the two hikers who run into an angry bear. When one of them starts sprinting away, the other says, "What's the point? You can't outrun a bear!" So the guy turns his head back and says, "I don't have to outrun the bear! I just have to outrun you!"

The point is, Mamdani isn't an Olympic class sprinter here. He just ended up with the good fortune to be in a heat against a couple guys with broken ankles.

As for government run supermarkets, it's a stupid idea because we already know it doesn't work.

It isnt as if the prosperity from late-stage capitalism has trickled down to them as previous politicians have promised.

It's interesting that so many on the far left think that using this term is clever, when by comparison we've actually seen various examples of late stage socialism and the result has always been tyranny, starvation, and death.

[bluebooger]

> It isnt as if the prosperity from late-stage capitalism has trickled down to them as previous politicians have promised.

actually those willing to work are doing just fine

its only
those who believe its better to stay at home and collect food stamps and welfare
those who took out $200k in students to get a degree in fashion design and now work at starbucks
those who don't even try to look for work because they believe the democrats lies about instutional racism
those who can't read or write because of failed polices of teachers unions and democrats (democrats literally wanted to get rid of tests for admittance to advanced high schools because there weren't enough minorities in those high schools LOL)

who are doing poorly

[Mint Berry Crunch]

I hear so much about how his policies will fail, yet little talk of the current policies that are failing the average New Yorker and led them to vote for him and his new policies.

As we've discussed before, Mamdani won the primary not because he was popular, but because the moderates were fragmented and uniquely unpopular.

It's like the old joke about the two hikers who run into an angry bear. When one of them starts sprinting away, the other says, "What's the point? You can't outrun a bear!" So the guy turns his head back and says, "I don't have to outrun the bear! I just have to outrun you!"

The point is, Mamdani isn't an Olympic class sprinter here. He just ended up with the good fortune to be in a heat against a couple guys with broken ankles.

As for government run supermarkets, it's a stupid idea because we already know it doesn't work.

It isnt as if the prosperity from late-stage capitalism has trickled down to them as previous politicians have promised.

It's interesting that so many on the far left think that using this term is clever, when by comparison we've actually seen various examples of late stage socialism and the result has always been tyranny, starvation, and death.

Lol, military BXs and Commissaries would be very angry to hear this.

[NotJoeBiden]

I mean people said why they voted for him. Affordability is the number issue for the average New Yorker. NYC is the hub for the US economy and represents American Capitalism, yet people are struggling to make ends meet.

[Jonathan Whatley]

In my hometown Toronto, a consistently great place to go for groceries is St. Lawrence Market. The municipal government has owned the marketplace since 1803, renting out stalls to small-business vendors. It now occupies two buildings open six days a week.

Meanwhile, grocery stores buy much of their produce at the Ontario Food Terminal, a giant wholesale-only marketplace owned by the provincial government since 1954.

[NotJoeBiden]

Lol, military BXs and Commissaries would be very angry to hear this.

But thats COMMUNISM!!!!!!

[Mint Berry Crunch]

Lol, military BXs and Commissaries would be very angry to hear this.

But thats COMMUNISM!!!!!!

I'm sorry... did you say... communism...? Surely the military community doesn't have a standardized system of equal pay regardless of different MOS/Ratings/AFSCs, housing, uniformity.... wait

[SteveFoerster]

Before you all strain your arms from patting yourselves on the back, commissaries work because we drop $2.4 billion into funding DeCA every year. They're not sustainable otherwise. You think a city government can afford the subsidy it would take to make that happen on a widespread civilian scale?