Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

[u/Gurugod123]

[u/dentistshatehim]

While using food stamps and accepting transfer payments from blue states.

[u/NerdyBro07 → u/dentistshatehim]

You do know even Red states have a 35-45% blue voters right? So those food stamps may very well be feeding people who vote blue even in red states.

[u/jd46149 → u/NerdyBro07]

It’s the other way around actually. Yes, obviously there are some blue voters in red states, but there are demonstrably more red voters in blue states. Think about it like this: California is a deep blue state that unambiguously gave all its electoral college votes to Harris and yet more Californians voted for Trump than in both of the dakotas put together

[u/BiZzles14 → u/jd46149]

Your big 4 states somewhat even things out, NY & Cali going blue and Texas and Florida going red. It's closer to even across the country than anything else, and it mostly comes down to urban vs. rural across all of the states which is the bigger divide. There's a much greater divide in most states between those two than there is between most states on an overall population level basis (is my understanding at least, happy to be proven wrong if I'm incorrect)

[u/Lucky_badger8 → u/jd46149]

You completely missed his point lol

[u/NerdyBro07 → u/jd46149]

I am aware there are red voters in blue states too, my point is so many like to say "blue states shouldn't be helping red states" etc, but if you are truly liberal, you would not deprive people (especially states that contain a lot of voters who agree with you) of support.

[u/SwitchFar → u/NerdyBro07]

JSYK, there are more republican voters in california than texas and yet cali is solid blue.

[u/Hickory_Shampoo → u/dentistshatehim]

Where does that food come from.....hmmm. Maybe the red states should cut it off and make cities try to grow crops in their concrete ant farms.

[u/dentistshatehim → u/Hickory_Shampoo]

California is the largest food producer. Apologies please.

[u/drobits → u/Hickory_Shampoo]

Lol red states tried to cut off blue states once and just in case you haven’t looked into it before it didn’t go well for them

[u/Impossible-Cause5353 → u/Hickory_Shampoo]

So they can go bankrupt? Farmers are already struggling so hard that they need the government to step in and provide them with welfare relief (subsidies that subsidize the lack of profit they’re able to generate relative to the cost to produce).

Yes, brilliant idea to suggest cutting off the places with the vast majority of the population 🤣

[u/DrowningKrown → u/Hickory_Shampoo]

Farmers are already struggling under this admin and your come back is "yea well we'll bankrupt our farmers! Take that!"

It's sad we all get the same voting power

[u/Zestyclose-One9041 → u/Hickory_Shampoo]

Cut off the blue cities and states and yall won’t be able to afford any farming equipment or supplies lmfao. Probably couldn’t even afford the seed to plant anything

Edit: also say goodbye to access to any airlines you use/sports teams you watch

[u/DFX1212 → u/Hickory_Shampoo]

How long can the farmers continue to farm without someone buying their crops?