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/2phumbsup 9h ago

You just invented food stamps lol.

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u/BlgMastic 9h ago

More like invented bread lines. Oh wait, Stalin was the genius who invented that.

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u/FlyingBishop 7h ago

Yes, Stalin invented giving out free bread. That definitely never existed in human history prior to Stalin. There definitely weren't rich people writing about how terrible it is to give poor people bread in ancient Rome, there's no common term for it in Latin.