LOL
A democratic socialist doing something the conservatives scream they are all about, deregulation specifically in support of small business.
Conservatives must be going apeshit in their confusion.
LOL
A democratic socialist doing something the conservatives scream they are all about, deregulation specifically in support of small business.
Conservatives must be going apeshit in their confusion.
On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani . . . posted a video on X of himself putting a sheet of paper with the phrase “RED TAPE” into a paper shredder. Other pieces of paper, with phrases like “cumbersome fees and fines” and “a permit you need just to serve ice-cream”, were shredded too. The video, set to Wu Tang Clan’s If Time Is Money
Damn. Okay.
Next goal: register Bodega cats as public servants
B-b-b-but "lEfTiStS ArE BaD FoR BuSiNeSs", they said!
I should ask the local pizza shop owner about this. He was pretty anti zohran. He said it's because he grew up in a post Soviet country, and believed socialism would turn into poverty for all.
Propaganda is powerful.
Especially on those who cannot think critically. At all.
Well, nobody is immune to propaganda. Not you, not me.
I always try to view a subject as if I were an uninvolved third party, look for objective facts, and because of it I'm always getting into fights with excited revolutionaries who don't care if post is true or not before using it as support to reinforce their worldview.
They always confuse socialism with harsh authoritarian dictatorships, no doubt reinforced by right wing rhetoric. It’s ironic that people flee these crushing governments only to come to the US and vote for right wing authoritarian fascism. Just proves they haven’t a clue about socialist policy and the ability to differentiate between that and horrible leaders.
Because a certain group of certain countries made the main comparison axis "capitalism - communism" instead of "totalitarianism - freedom". I wonder why.
I was going to add that it's also reinforced by modern day communist dictatorships but then I remembered those are also right wing.
But this hurts big business, Wall Street and shareholders!
I wish more things would hurt big business.
Big business needs to be dragged out into the street and beaten to death with 2x4s, to make room for little guys and little businesses to pop up and serve their local areas, that they live in, and are connected too, instead of some soulless corporate fuckshit that has all the decision making a thousand miles away in a festing cespit (delaware) that has nothing but other HQs and decision makers around them.
100% And it's almost always a corpo fuckwit that constantly needs financial help everytime they build, hire, tank the business, and political help with ad-hoc rules and laws. Losers, they probably couldn't compete with the little guy in a fair fight. Sorry for the rant
Won’t someone please think of the poor corporations and the shareholders! Wall Street is crying.
I never thought NYC would fall to communism like this smh
I thought we elected a communist? Why are the petite bourgeoisie cheering? 👺 /hj
What does /hj stand for? Handjob?
Half joking, in this case at least.
I think I prefer the hand job
I want one too! Is there a line?
If you gotta ask, you can't afford it
Grocery store owners and barber shops? Independent restaurants? Wtf are you talking about? These businesses barely stay afloat in NYC. Same class but they sign a few paychecks. Save the half disdain for their vendors and giant competitors squeezing them out and killing fair competition in the market.
I mean, small businesses are petite bourgeoisie. That's just the definition of the term. That doesn't mean they are an enemy of socialism and I don't think that's what the person you're replying to was saying. Of course it would be ideal for small businesses to adopt a cooperative structure but it would be foolish to suddenly try and push that on existing small business owners. In the meantime it's good to change policy to favor small business over corporations because it distributes wealth more evenly, enables greater social mobility, and fosters community.
In fact they are specifically called out in marxist theory as a "swing" class that can go either way as they share some attributes with workers and some with capitalists.
And I'm saying the 99% has been so compressed, those small business owners live like proletariat.
I have a favorite bodega in Brooklyn (shout out to Omega Deli and Cafe!) and there are so many more that deserve this win. I can't wait to see this sort of small business support flourish and hopefully expand to the rest of the state for years to come. It's pretty much the only hope we have to combat the rot due to undue sudden divestment from the federal level.
It scares me just how corrupt the federal government is becoming. When I was very young there were very few mentions of wrongdoing. Now it is multiple times per week. If there are no consequences, then this will continue to worsen. The people of the US must start fighting this and NOT wait until there is no other choice (i.e. when there is nearly nothing left).
It's how empires die. You can read about the same thing happening in Rome. Just like today, some of it is so ridiculous it sounds like satire
I take consolation in the fact that we're speed running the process... Our system has been broken a long time, it'll feel painfully slow but we're likely to see the day when we can begin to build something better
Hear hear! I see that desperately needed grassroots work being done in small pockets everywhere! It truly starts with us, and I still have the radical hope that it can be done in my lifetime - to spread sustainable practices and reap the benefits for the next generation. They're gonna need all the help they can get surviving on this planet. It's not worth scrapping; it's worth saving!
To be fair, a lot of that feeling is due to us having more information, delivered more quickly. I watched a history video recently on the rampant corruption during Ulysses S Grant's presidency. It led to a lot of reform to prevent it happening again.
The video used it as a silver lining to show the US can come back from the bullshit currently happening. Not sure I agree. I've lost my faith in not just the government, but at least half of my fellow citizens and am planning my exit. But you know, the point remains.
I would like to see basically any conservative attempt to spin this as bad, somehow.
Go on boys, tell us about 'socialism' inherently can't work, when it does the thing that, ostensibly, is the ultimate basis of your entire economic ideology -> cutting red tape.
Is this that ... uh... jizya tax you're all terrified of? From the sharia law mayor?
Or did you all maybe bonk your heads at some point?
... bedgrudgingly, credit to Reason for at least being ideologically consistent.
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