At a press conference in the Bronx, Mamdani listed some of the onerous policies getting the axe. Bodega owners will no longer need a separate license to sell the same products outside the store – like fruit and flowers – as inside. Restaurants will no longer need a “superfluous” frozen dessert permit to sell ice-cream on top of the permit already required to sell food. Barber shops will no longer have to renew their permit every year, instead doing so every three years. Street fair vendor permit fees will be reduced, restaurant inspections will be sped up, and equipment registration fees will be eliminated for a year.
A corresponding executive order signed by Mamdani on Monday will also expand the NYC Best program, assigning each of the city’s 180,000 small businesses – which employ an estimated 1 million people – a case worker to help owners navigate the Big Apple’s sometimes byzantine bureaucracy.
Holy fuck I’m moving (to nyc!!)
Dude is humiliating the Dems right now
Next goal: register Bodega cats as public servants
Fox news will talk about how he is implementing the turkish shariah if you do that.
It’s Istanbul, not Catstantinople
On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani . . . posted a video on X of himself putting a sheet of paper with the phrase “RED TAPE” into a paper shredder. Other pieces of paper, with phrases like “cumbersome fees and fines” and “a permit you need just to serve ice-cream”, were shredded too. The video, set to Wu Tang Clan’s If Time Is Money
Damn. Okay.
That’s bold and spiteful to do so on X-Twitter. I wish people stopped using it, but I gotta admit that a progressive democrat posting pro-small-business political statements on the Nazi Website is a bit of a one-finger-salute.
But this hurts big business, Wall Street and shareholders!
/S
I wish more things would hurt big business.
Big business needs to be dragged out into the street and beaten to death with 2x4s, to make room for little guys and little businesses to pop up and serve their local areas, that they live in, and are connected too, instead of some soulless corporate fuckshit that has all the decision making a thousand miles away in a festing cespit (delaware) that has nothing but other HQs and decision makers around them.
100% And it’s almost always a corpo fuckwit that constantly needs financial help everytime they build, hire, tank the business, and political help with ad-hoc rules and laws. Losers, they probably couldn’t compete with the little guy in a fair fight. Sorry for the rant
Won’t someone please think of the poor corporations and the shareholders! Wall Street is crying.
“The poor get all the breaks!”
B-b-b-but “lEfTiStS ArE BaD FoR BuSiNeSs”, they said!
rEpUbLiCaNs ArE gReAt FoR sMaLl BuSiNeSsEs!1!1
Says the same people
I should ask the local pizza shop owner about this. He was pretty anti zohran. He said it’s because he grew up in a post Soviet country, and believed socialism would turn into poverty for all.
Propaganda is powerful.
Especially on those who cannot think critically. At all.
Well, nobody is immune to propaganda. Not you, not me.
I always try to view a subject as if I were an uninvolved third party, look for objective facts, and because of it I’m always getting into fights with excited revolutionaries who don’t care if post is true or not before using it as support to reinforce their worldview.
They always confuse socialism with harsh authoritarian dictatorships, no doubt reinforced by right wing rhetoric. It’s ironic that people flee these crushing governments only to come to the US and vote for right wing authoritarian fascism. Just proves they haven’t a clue about socialist policy and the ability to differentiate between that and horrible leaders.
I was going to add that it’s also reinforced by modern day communist dictatorships but then I remembered those are also right wing.
We see something similar with Cuban immigrants to the US.
reminder for the billionth time that east germans vote afd
Because a certain group of certain countries made the main comparison axis “capitalism - communism” instead of “totalitarianism - freedom”. I wonder why.
So sad to see this communism. Ney York freedom basically dead.
When the communist dictatorship hits just right.
I thought we elected a communist? Why are the petite bourgeoisie cheering? 👺 /hj
Grocery store owners and barber shops? Independent restaurants? Wtf are you talking about? These businesses barely stay afloat in NYC. Same class but they sign a few paychecks. Save the half disdain for their vendors and giant competitors squeezing them out and killing fair competition in the market.
I mean, small businesses are petite bourgeoisie. That’s just the definition of the term. That doesn’t mean they are an enemy of socialism and I don’t think that’s what the person you’re replying to was saying. Of course it would be ideal for small businesses to adopt a cooperative structure but it would be foolish to suddenly try and push that on existing small business owners. In the meantime it’s good to change policy to favor small business over corporations because it distributes wealth more evenly, enables greater social mobility, and fosters community.
In fact they are specifically called out in marxist theory as a “swing” class that can go either way as they their some attributes with workers and some with capitalists.
whooosh.
What does /hj stand for? Handjob?
If you gotta ask, you can’t afford it
I can afford it, I just want to know what I’m getting.
Half joking, in this case at least.
I think I prefer the hand job
It is being given by a sad comedian.
Probably the only time this phrase will be uttered.
I want one too! Is there a line?
It’s more of a circle than a line
I’m willing to compromise and get a hand job from a serious clown.
I vote that that is what it stands for now too
LOL
A democratic socialist doing something the conservatives scream they are all about, deregulation specifically in support of small business.
Conservatives must be going apeshit in their confusion.
This is in the top 10 gif of the decade hands down.
You can see him realizing it real time in his facial expression, it’s great
Its so wonderfully appropriate in so many cases!
Conservatives are going to loudly talk shit and quietly vote for him.
I do believe you’re right. Conservatives constantly demonstrate their hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty as well as their self serving nature. There’s a real possibility for people publicly railing against mandami to signal in-group but vote for him in the secrecy of the booth to their benefit.
Lol, no they won’t. Some will claim to be unhappy with Trump, then will go to the polls and vote straight R.
Donald Trump wasn’t kidding when he said he could kill a man in the middle of 5th Avenue and not face any consequences.
He’s a well documented pedo, and may have even been involved in the murder of an infant he conceived on a child, and Republicans are still bending over backwards to make sure he’s free to trample on the US Constitution.
For a muslin? You can’t trust those diaphanous fuckers! Especially not in that climate!
More than anything, they are self-serving hypocrites. They rail and rant about communists, socialists, muslims, jews, etc. in public, but come election day, they will vote for their self-interests.
EDIT: Not all. Some are too far gone.
Nobody cares about hypocrisy.
They would if they could read
Unironically this.
I never thought NYC would fall to communism like this smh
Lmao
