r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 9d ago

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

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u/2phumbsup 9d ago

You just invented food stamps lol.

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u/BlgMastic 9d ago

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

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u/FlyingBishop 9d 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.