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[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Mamdani announces city-run groceries will set prices *30%* below retail.

Typical grocery margins are 2%.
Meaning:

First, the city will lose ungodly amounts of money -- at least 28 cents on the dollar.

Second, below-cost stores will steal enough market share that real groceries abandon the city.

Third, taxpayers will get tired of the money hole and slash subsidies.

At which point city groceries become money holes full of rotting food, so New Yorkers will have to take 2 trains and a bus to find a real grocery store.

Socialism will work this time 🙌

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@M3othra012 @NoContextHumans Can’t fix stupid

[Joseph Robbins @Jos61977Robbins]

@NoContextHumans

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@NotAvgLiberal @DNIGabbard It’s amazing how quick and consistent people like you are to show your vile nature. Seriously, bone cancer.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“Wait so you’re telling me…”

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Woke is a death cult that executes common sense and devours anyone who tells the truth

It spreads insanity like a plague and turns mental illness into the new standard

Worst of all, it has turned pure evil into a religion and demands we worship it

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"Why does an actor's race matter?!"

Ok… now imagine it was this:

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

The Arab Word is Watching a Different War:

Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:

The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran.
The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic.
When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.

https://t.co/32dwric9G6

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@tally_dad @PinoAmericano Map real; you dumb.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@Taikun_rg @BernieSanders The money would run out. That’s why you aren’t a billionaire

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@MrJulieGoldman @nickshirleyy There can be multiple frauds happening at the same time. This post was about a future candidate. Nick produced us with receipts. Where are yours?

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@engineers_feed 90

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Adam Carolla notices something strange about what happens when millions are “spent” on noble causes.

“Black Lives Matter. Anything changed in the Black community?”

“Homeless spending in Los Angeles. Anything change in the homeless community?”

“If someone said they just dumped a million dollars into their home renovating it, and you show up, and it looks exactly the same, or maybe a little bit worse, something is up.”

“How is it that you raise millions and millions and millions for this purpose, and nothing’s changing comes out the other end? ‘Hey, we had a big concert and all the money was gonna go to the victims of the Palisades fire’… How come nothing happened?”

“There’s not one pothole filled. There’s nothing put up. There’s no new community center that got built. Does anyone ever get tired of nothing coming out the other side?”

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@dailyglimps24 Yea that kid sucks

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@Jesii_ca_M Italian designer. Aesthetics. Dumb question

[Easily_discontented @EasyDiscontend]

@curiosityonx Biology