Random Politics Stuff Thread...

[Cujo]

Growing up, I always figured there was an ebb and flow to politics. This is something completely divergent and dangerous. This bothers me a lot.

No, no, and fuck no. Give me a mother fucking break.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Happened on this in my favorites

 

[Genghis Khan]

While the sane person would say she doesn’t stand a chance, there are a lot of insane people voting. Her sitting in the Oval Office scares the shit outta me.

She's never won a single primary and I can't imagine she'd win many state primaries in 28 all of a sudden.

Even if they do their typical installation move for the nomination, I can't imagine she'd beat Vance or Rubio.

As far as scaring the shit outta me, most Democrats do. But honestly, now that they're voting in literal communists, we could certainly see much worse from their side.

 

[Cujo]

She's never won a single primary and I can't imagine she'd win many state primaries in 28 all of a sudden.

Even if they do their typical installation move for the nomination, I can't imagine she'd beat Vance or Rubio.

As far as scaring the shit outta me, most Democrats do. But honestly, now that they're voting in literal communists, we could certainly see much worse from their side.

I think the continued push by the socialists is going to cause a lot of their voters to stay home.

 

[Cotton]

 

[Cujo]

From Grok:

Core economic problems​

Grocery retail runs on razor-thin margins (typically 1–3% on food). A mandated 30% discount is not “efficiency”—it is a large, permanent subsidy. The costs of sourcing, transporting, refrigerating, stocking, spoilage, labor, security, and waste do not vanish because the city owns the building. Taxpayers cover the gap indefinitely.

• Crowding out private stores: Nearby private grocers and bodegas cannot match a 30% loss-leader price on high-volume staples while covering their own rent, taxes, and full costs. Many will lose volume, cut hours/staff, or close. Once competition thins, the city stores face less pressure on quality, selection, or service. The reply thread under the End Wokeness post describes the classic sequence accurately: subsidized prices → private exits → monopoly-like position → shortages or rationing → quality decline → ever-larger subsidies.
• Demand spikes and shortages: Artificially low prices increase quantity demanded. Without market-clearing prices, expect empty shelves on popular items, purchase limits, lines, or informal rationing—exactly as seen in historical state grocery systems.
• Incentives and competence: Even with private operators under contract, political goals (union wages/benefits, “quality jobs,” equity targets, no high-margin items like prepared food/cigarettes to avoid competing with bodegas) clash with the brutal logistics of perishable goods. Governments and politically constrained operators are systematically worse at the high-frequency, thin-margin coordination that private chains do daily. No residual claim on profits means weaker cost control and slower adaptation.

 

[boozeman]

I saw this so you have to as well.