Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
What is the irony? That he thinks the original plan was to give away food for free then they realized they have to charge something? I’m pretty sure charging something was always the plan just not with the intent of a for profit model.
I’ve been trying to figure out,… my conclusion is that he doesn’t know what irony means
Maybe Alannis Moreset can teach him.
XD
Elon Musk literally bragged that if anyone could prove $6B could end world hunger, he’d spend it. UN was, like, yeah. He, of course, dropped the conversation right then and there.
Yeah but can you imagine the humiliation if it didn’t work and he accidentally just saved millions of lives without getting rid of 100.0% of the problem?
6b to him is fucking like me sending a mate $100 for their birthday. Absolute piece of shit.
where irony?
They set up a loyalty program like you would have for any grocery store, which helps with inventory control, and these people think it’s an ID verification system.
Hope they also use that to limit the quantity of food you can buy each month. Like max 5 liters of oil or so, to avoid people that bought to resell.
I don’t think that it’s going to matter if they do. The very fact that they are offering groceries at a lower price will put pressure on grocery businesses to shave their margins, which are already quite large due to “inflation”. (These places posted insane profits in the years since tte pandemic started, and even more after it was declared over).
It’s in Musk’s use of that word when he clearly doesn’t know what it means.
They’ve been complaining about voter ID and being dunked on for making the argument that you need ID to buy groceries and now the Mamdani grocery stores require a membership ID
So like a cooperative with open and voluntary membership?
Yes, plus voting is a right and buying groceries from a specific store is not
Its so adorable that you think that you’re being clever.
Where am I being clever? It’s the honest explanation
I don’t see the problem. I’d rather people be able to afford to eat and feed their families.
Anyone who has a problem with affordable groceries, in a period of time where the cost of living outweighs being able to afford groceries; can go fuck themselves with a rusty Trident.
Who the fuck downvoted THIS???
Patrick
idiot right wingers who think they have some gotcha with some stupid “LEFTISTS MELT DOWN OVER VOTER IDEA, BUT HAVE NO PROBLEM FOR ID FOR FOOD?! COMMUNISM!” probably?
Are we legally allowed to pray to St. Luigi in regards to Musk? I hope similar actions can happen.
Religion has often been banned throughout history when it challenges an authoritys place of power.
Praying St Luigi
Well I’m upset that Musk is still breathing.
If their kids get plump they can be used as human shields
Musk, probably
Not probably. Do you remember Musk around his family?
Sure you do. There’s a bunch where he’s with his little boy. . When? Oh, right after Luigi happened.
Oh the jealousy
He’s upset cuz he wanted to be loved by the masses the way Mamdani is.
Yeah, poor will not starve, but at what cost? Stakeholders will not see much profit and the US won’t become white ethnostate.
“How dare they undercut billionaires! And at such a vital time too! They were making more profits than ever”
The irony is that this administration is actually implementing centrally managed economy (government purchasing shares of private companies, telling directly what they can and cannot do) like in communism, with the difference that communism at least pretended to be there for the people. Now the government is just there for the Epstein class.
B…but muh free market economy
Pretty disingenuous post to be honest. Regardless of what one thinks of the wind bag. His entire take is: NYC ID for voting? Bad, horrible, not gonna happen. NYC ID for buying discounted groceries? That’s logical, common sense, we must take measures to ensure only valid residents can partake.
Even the most staunch Musk hater has to be able to see what a precarious position things are in. Logically, it is impossible to honestly defend one stance while rejecting another. I hate that this seems like I’m defending him, but it is more like I’m imploring people to be intellectually honest and consistent with themselves so others don’t use them as tools in a bigger game.
People are already saying intellectually dishonest things like “voting is a right, the grocery store isn’t.” Then will have a post history that talks about food being a right, thereby confirming it is just more zero sum logic at play. Lots of words, but it all means nothing.
Plenty to strongly dislike about him. This ain’t even on the menu.
God you’re dumb, especially for calling your word vomit “intellectual honesty”
ID for voting is stupid. It is PROVEN that voter fraud is a non-issue, so voter ID laws pivot exist to disenfranchise voters.
On the other hand, as the mayor of a city, you can’t run subsidized or non-profit grocery stores for the whole state plus new jersey. It’s just not sustainable, especially not during the delicate early phases where any hiccup will be blown out of proportions by the media.
One is a provable non-issue, the other is a significant practical risk.
Are there people who are going to drive into New York City just to save 30% on bread? Sure, some, but enough to be a problem?
Oh yes… I forgot that no one from New Jersey or the area surrounding New York ever comes to New York 5-6 days a week for 8-12 hours… All those bridges are just for the architecture of it.
I know you don’t want to hear this, but I feel it should be pointed out for others. There is a distinct difference between “this thing SHOULD be a right” and “this thing IS a right.”
I believe access to food should be a right and will continue to support policies that lead to that goal. However, I also recognize that we are not there yet. Voting does have that level of protection, and I will fight like hell to defend it because voting supports the pathway for more rights like access to food.
You’re wrong, because you’re either lying or have been lied to about the voter ID measures.
The question has always been: if I don’t have an ID, can I still vote? IDs make it much easier to prove eligibility to vote, but is there a backup plan, a safety valve, for people who don’t have an ID on election day?
If you want to buy alcohol, there are legal ways to acquire alcohol without an ID, if you are actually of legal drinking age.
If you want to fly on an airplane, there are ways to get past TSA and get on an airplane without an ID. TSA only recently started charging a fee for this, but there’s always been a safety valve for people who want to fly but don’t have an ID on them. Otherwise, what would someone have to do if they were on vacation, lost their wallet, and wanted to come home?
Oh, and the actual proposal for the shopper card at the NYC grocery store won’t actually require proof of identity or proof of residency. So if the proposed voter ID laws were going to be equally loose, I don’t think there would be any opposition to a system by which a person who doesn’t have an ID could get one that day, at the polling site, in order to vote that day.
ID for voting is pushed in order to discourage certain demographics from voting.
ID for grocery discounts is NOT pushed in order to discourage certain demographics from feeding themselves.
Do you think getting a library card and getting a passport are essentially the and process??
