Mamdani: Let NYC Eat (Socialist) Cake

[Polishprince]

I have no plans to visit NYC.

I'd love to see the new socialized grocery stores that Mamdani is putting in. I never got a chance to visit the USSR, and it would be interesting from an historical perspective.

 

[Hellbilly]

Am I the only one who doesn't give one fig if NYC loses its mind and elects Mamdani?

LET THEM. He wants to tax millionaires to pay for "free" childcare, buses and housing? GOOD. Let them figure what revenue is left after millionaires leave the city in droves. They want socialism? LET THEM HAVE IT. No one deserves it more than NYC.

I mean here is the mentality of his supporters: $250K student debt at 32 years old, and he's ready to "give it a shot". Great work, Dillon, you deserve all the socialism that's about to get shoved down your throat.

For Dillon Robertson, 32, money is a constant worry. He commutes to college in Connecticut and will graduate with close to $250,000 in student loans. He's supporting Mamdani and says many of his cost-saving proposals could make his life easier, but at the same time, he worries if it's all possible.

"A lot of the stuff he says sounds nice. But I both wonder, can he do it? Can he pull it off?" he said. "Or [is] it just kind of like a Band-Aid on a leaky ship?"

Still, he admits, if the options are to keep plodding along or try something new, he's ready to give it a shot.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/02/nx-s1-5531004/zohran-mamdani-new-york-young-voters

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

 

[hadit]

I'd love to see the new socialized grocery stores that Mamdani is putting in. I never got a chance to visit the USSR, and it would be interesting from an historical perspective.

Socialism is great on paper, but not in real life. You can't pretend selfish human nature goes away just because you want it to.

 

[Polishprince]

Socialism is great on paper, but not in real life. You can't pretend selfish human nature goes away just because you want it to.

Marxists like Mamdani believe in the idea that their ideology will create a "new man". of course, when put to the test, it never does.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The thing about a metro election - it doesn't matter if you are Dem, MAGA, Commie, or Space Alien from Mars. The trash needs to get picked up on time or its your ass.

 

[Polishprince]

The thing about a metro election - it doesn't matter if you are Dem, MAGA, Commie, or Space Alien from Mars. The trash needs to get picked up on time or its your ass.

You are alluding to what the problem is with Libs taking over municipal governments.

Instead of worrying about picking up trash, plowing slow, fixing potholes and deciding whether inmates at the local hoosegow should get double quilted TP or the regular stuff, they get involved with all kinds of free giveaways and social engineering, and forget their main mission.

 

[Zincwarrior]

You are alluding to what the problem is with Libs taking over municipal governments.

Instead of worrying about picking up trash, plowing slow, fixing potholes and deciding whether inmates at the local hoosegow should get double quilted TP or the regular stuff, they get involved with all kinds of free giveaways and social engineering, and forget their main mission.

And then they get replaced. Fix the potholes or you are out.

 

[Lisa558]

I'd love to see the new socialized grocery stores that Mamdani is putting in. I never got a chance to visit the USSR, and it would be interesting from an historical perspective.

You got wait on a long line to buy whatever was still avaialbe - turnips, stale bread, milk, cheap meat if you were lucky, and a bag of potatoes.

 

[Lisa558]

The thing about a metro election - it doesn't matter if you are Dem, MAGA, Commie, or Space Alien from Mars. The trash needs to get picked up on time or it’s your ass.

Will the unskilled, uneducated NYers be willing to take jobs filling in potholes and picking up trash if they are given all the freebies they need?

 

[ColonelAngus]

You lefties should all move to NYC.

IT IS ON THE BRINK OF UTOPIA.

THIS TIME COMMUNISM WILL WORK.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Will the unskilled, uneducated NYers be willing to take jobs filling in potholes and picking up trash if they are given all the freebies they need?

We will find out. If it doesn't they will get a new mayor. If not, its their problem.

 

[Lisa558]

We will find out. If it doesn't they will get a new mayor. If not, its their problem.

It will be too late by then. The productive, tax-paying base will have fled the city.

 

[Slade3200]

Am I the only one who doesn't give one fig if NYC loses its mind and elects Mamdani?

LET THEM. He wants to tax millionaires to pay for "free" childcare, buses and housing? GOOD. Let them figure what revenue is left after millionaires leave the city in droves. They want socialism? LET THEM HAVE IT. No one deserves it more than NYC.

I mean here is the mentality of his supporters: $250K student debt at 32 years old, and he's ready to "give it a shot". Great work, Dillon, you deserve all the socialism that's about to get shoved down your throat.

For Dillon Robertson, 32, money is a constant worry. He commutes to college in Connecticut and will graduate with close to $250,000 in student loans. He's supporting Mamdani and says many of his cost-saving proposals could make his life easier, but at the same time, he worries if it's all possible.

"A lot of the stuff he says sounds nice. But I both wonder, can he do it? Can he pull it off?" he said. "Or [is] it just kind of like a Band-Aid on a leaky ship?"

Still, he admits, if the options are to keep plodding along or try something new, he's ready to give it a shot.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/02/nx-s1-5531004/zohran-mamdani-new-york-young-voters

Do you know what socialism means? Like the actual definition?

 

[Zincwarrior]

It will be too late by then. The productive, tax-paying base will have fled the city.

Then its their problem.

 

[Lisa558]

Then its their problem.

It will reverberate through the country. What are we going to do with 5 million new ghetto rats? It will fall to productive, responsible, productive Americans in OTHER STATES to bail out NYC.

 

[22lcidw]

Then its their problem.

And then the Prog socialists in D.C. if in power will vote to give the city whatever money it needs. Just print it up. Printapalooza.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Socialism has never worked and never will

 

[Zincwarrior]

Socialism has never worked and never will

Neither does robber baron capitalism. Thats why Europe went with universal healthcare systems etc - to avoid revolution. FDR did the same in the Depression.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Neither does robber baron capitalism.

Done pretty well for about 250 years ya dumbass leftist

 

[SweetSue92]

Do you know what socialism means? Like the actual definition?

Yes...the govt owns the means of production. That will happen in NYC when all the businesses leave, as they well should.