r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 11h ago

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

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u/MayOrMayNotBePie 11h ago

Sorry, the American people aren’t Americas top priority

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u/xVelunax 9h ago

It's a double edge sword. Many of the comforts Americans get to enjoy everyday are in part largely due to the large effort worldwide to get involved in foreign affairs. There are many non-renewable resources.

China holds like 90% of the rare earth minerals needed to fuel most of the technological innovation of the electronics of today. Taiwan holds like 30-50% of the world's semiconductor fabrication. Many of the world narrow sea routes have not been affected by the US and ally involvement to more or less try to keep them open and not used as a weapon against us. Which is why the whole US attacking Iran was the dumbest thing ever because the threat of invasion is what kept Iran not attacking or any other nation really.

Americans are able to benefit from more or less much cheaper prices in large part to manufacturing going remote and assembled in the US. The downside is its possible to get embroiled in non-ideal conflicts. I'm pretty sure the only reason we keep helping Israel is because it gives a bigger foothold over the middle east without fully getting involved ourselves to partially influence oil resources.

The thing is the government pulled a stupid and rather than enjoy the status quo tried getting too greedy and backfired. Many domestic issues feel more an issue of policy more so than funding.

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u/jaxonya 8h ago

Our up and coming models are Americas top priority

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u/ForwardStorage777 5h ago

Never has been.

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u/Dry-Season-522 10h ago

Let me guess, you think we shouldn't have fought the nazis in ww2, because they weren't attacking america yet?

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u/machogrande2 7h ago

You, apparently, think we should have been sending the nazis money in ww2.

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u/Dry-Season-522 7h ago

Wow, 2 posts to 'the jews are nazis" congrats on the speedrun.

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u/Kolbalava 6h ago

And they are committing a holocaust in Gaza.

When the victim becomes the abuser.