EX TEXASEX said:

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Edit: AGinHI, please reach out to me to schedule your emergency "struggle session." It won't be long; just set aside 8-plus hours for it. Thanks, comrade.

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Gaeilge said:

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2ndGen87 said:

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Kansas City

Do we not teach economics anymore? This is sooooo predictable. $17 million down the drain and that's not including the $1 million per year loss.

Every major city in America is turning into a crime infested socialist nightmare run by low IQ grifters.

New York is going to have a commie mayor.
San Fran, LA, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis already have.

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I enjoy a good bashing of liberal ideologies and positions as much as the next person.

But for the record; Houston DOES NOT have a commie mayor. Whitmire is far from that and is one of the few (D) I'd ever consider voting for. He is fixing the crap that Turner did.

Harris Co. Judge is a different story. Dora is a commie torta.

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I was referring to Turner.

you left out support Hamas-

and drive out the "Zionists" (96% of Jews)

Comrade Bernie says standing in line for food is patriotic.

UTExan said:

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2ndGen87 said:

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Kansas City

Do we not teach economics anymore? This is sooooo predictable. $17 million down the drain and that's not including the $1 million per year loss.

Every major city in America is turning into a crime infested socialist nightmare run by low IQ grifters.

New York is going to have a commie mayor.
San Fran, LA, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis already have.

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" Part of the problem is the city's lack of a jail, Young said. The left-leaning council closed the previous facility in 2009 as a cost-saving measure a move the Kansas City Star has called a "$250 million mistake" and so people arrested for minor crimes are quickly released instead of being held in rural counties miles away."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/18/city-owned-grocery-stores-crime-funding/

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How can any liberal defend this lunacy? They can't so they'll avoid these threads like the plague and just keep spiking the football on the Epstein thread instead. It's so sadly pathetic and predictable.

Tanya 93 said:

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Been puking
Trying to find healthy foods in stores is a pain in the ass

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Hot tip: Stick to the perimeter (whole foods) and don't go down the aisles (processed foods). But I think you know that

Jock 07 said:

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you people just don't know how good you have it.

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This. Anyone who wants government grocery stores needs to read about when Yeltsin visited a grocery store here in Houston.

Jack Squat 83 said:

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All they need to do is put more money into it. That fixes everything. (Right libs?)

The fix:

1. Lock up the thugs
2. Sell only raw staples
3. Get off your ass and cook your own meals
4. Go to work and then drive in the car you bought to a store to buy prepared meals with the money made from work.

Who knew 'capitalism' based on a profit motive would provide everyone with a better life?

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You really only need Step 1. If the location doesn't need to deal with frequent shoplifters or shooters, it's much easier to convince a private-sector grocery store to move in.

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The issues defy quick solutions. The police department's East Side patrol division is just four blocks away, though police Maj. Chris Young said that even an "overwhelming presence" of officers in recent months didn't significantly decrease incidents. Young, the patrol division's commander, links the rise in crime to fallout from the pandemic, rising inflation and a shortage of police officers following racial injustice protests in 2020.


Part of the problem is the city's lack of a jail, Young said. The left-leaning council closed the previous facility in 2009 as a cost-saving measure a move the Kansas City Star has called a "$250 million mistake" and so people arrested for minor crimes are quickly released instead of being held in rural counties miles away.

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Lunatics.
This is what happens when you put ultra liberal activists in charge of something.

We used to be a nation that largely took the best, brightest and most ambitious. The left clearly wants to dumb us down so they can more easily usher in their "utopia". Open borders, ruined inner cities, public schools are abysmal...all by design.

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Customers say they are increasingly afraid to shop there even with visible police patrols because of drug dealing, theft and vagrancy both inside and outside the store and the public library across the street.

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Sounds like a Gangsta's Paradise to me.

Maybe we need to clone Rudy G and plug and play in every city across our great land. Heaven knows generation X has turned into an emotional wreck of a generation, might be the worst since the days of Noah.

City run gun stores might make money

samurai_science said:

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City run gun stores might make money

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Only if they sell in the parking lot as a private sale with no background check!

Biz Ag said:

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Customers say they are increasingly afraid to shop there even with visible police patrols because of drug dealing, theft and vagrancy both inside and outside the store and the public library across the street.

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Sounds like a Gangsta's Paradise to me.

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"Officers! Officers! They're looting the public library!"

Said no one ever.

Didn't Katie (Karen Allen) say that at the end of Animal House?

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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Didn't Katie (Karen Allen) say that at the end of Animal House?

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Nah. It's an old saying I just made up.

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"Officers! Officers! They're looting the public library!"

Said no one ever.

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The new library in my neighborhood has recording studios for podcasts or music. I'm surprised it hasn't been looted yet, so I guess they must've planned for that with security measures.

Back before the Cold War ended, a delegation of Soviet Union high ranking Generals toured a few of our military installations and the two things that they were impressed with is how we trained both officers and enlisted and our commissaries.

In fact, they almost accused the delegation hosting them of setting up the commissaries as "propaganda" for them for they could not believe both the amount of food and the selection for purchase by the average Soldier.

Socialism/communism do not work. Never have, never will.

mjschiller said:

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Socialism/communism do not work. Never have, never will.

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That's correct. I just can't understand how there are still so many people in this country that want socialism/communism. What is so attractive about it? There is example after example of it failing, yet a ton of libs just scoff at history and claim it will work this time. This city run grocery store failure is a perfect example. Do these people not do any research before spending millions of dollars on these doomed to fail projects?

The dems really have destroyed every big city in America. There's not one major city that' safe or is anywhere I want to be.

Gaeilge said:

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2ndGen87 said:

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Kansas City

Do we not teach economics anymore? This is sooooo predictable. $17 million down the drain and that's not including the $1 million per year loss.

Every major city in America is turning into a crime infested socialist nightmare run by low IQ grifters.

New York is going to have a commie mayor.
San Fran, LA, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis already have.

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I enjoy a good bashing of liberal ideologies and positions as much as the next person.

But for the record; Houston DOES NOT have a commie mayor. Whitmire is far from that and is one of the few (D) I'd ever consider voting for. He is fixing the crap that Turner did.

Harris Co. Judge is a different story. Dora is a commie torta.

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I've been disappointed in Mayor Whitmire so far. I heard the talk before his election that he was an old school liberal Democrat that would make things happen and get results. I found this hard to believe as every liberal I know is lacking common sense.

Well I went downtown last weekend and the streets are still a disaster. The airport is still a colossal F up, trash service is a nightmare in some Houston neighborhoods. So just what has Whitmire fixed? Nothing that is apparent to me and I live in the city limits.

Sun Fresh isn't the only one, another government funded store in KC is shutting down.


How many times do we have to hear "Well they just didn't do socialism right" for people to realize you can't do it right, it doesn't work.

Anyone who would willingly affiliate their name/political career with the party of Ilhan Omar/AOC/Tim Walz/Newsom/Mamdani/Obama/Jasmine Crocket/Hochul/Jeffries/Schumer/Pelosi at this point should be considered a communist at heart and should never be worthy of considering voting for, imho.

Austin has been trying to open one for the last half decade or more and can't get it off the ground.

It's just a massive money suck

samurai_science said:

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City run gun stores might make money

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It would certainly solve the problem of handgun deserts.

Country with one of the most efficient, competitive grocery store networks in the world.
Democrats: 'let's put the DMV in charge, that will make it better/more fair.'

Generally speaking, food deserts exist because grocery stores have decided that their stores aren't safe or their "loss" is too great to be profitable. What those areas need is greater police presence, not some "government" store that's going to lose a ton of cash.

"It's because the companies that sell the products to the grocery store demand payment. They should just give them the stuff". All those subsidies just pay greedy wholesalers".

Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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mjschiller said:

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Socialism/communism do not work. Never have, never will.

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That's correct. I just can't understand how there are still so many people in this country that want socialism/communism. What is so attractive about it? There is example after example of it failing, yet a ton of libs just scoff at history and claim it will work this time. This city run grocery store failure is a perfect example. Do these people not do any research before spending millions of dollars on these doomed to fail projects?

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I blame public schools.

They just haven't gone far enough yet - that's the problem...

TXAG 05 said:

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Jock 07 said:

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you people just don't know how good you have it.

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This. Anyone who wants government grocery stores needs to read about when Yeltsin visited a grocery store here in Houston.

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A more recent version is the Cuban at a Home Depot.

BBRex said:

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Generally speaking, food deserts exist because grocery stores have decided that their stores aren't safe or their "loss" is too great to be profitable. What those areas need is greater police presence, not some "government" store that's going to lose a ton of cash.

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Don't bring logic and facts into arguments with socialists - they don't care about the why, only how they can possibly make themselves and friends money (and act like they feel better about being good humans)

Who?mikejones! said:

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Austin has been trying to open one for the last half decade or more and can't get it off the ground.

It's just a massive money suck

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Yet amazingly, with private capital, you'll see a Dollar General in every podunk town or wide spot in the road out in the middle of nowhere.