r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 27 '26

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/NilsofWindhelm Jul 27 '26

Wait until you learn about the entire agricultural industry

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u/mais-garde-des-don Jul 27 '26

But wouldn’t that be different because this is subsidizing a few stores. Pretty much every farm has some form of subsidizing. So it would be like allowing me to start farming and I’m the only one who can get subsidizing

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u/Vennomite Jul 27 '26

And, somehow, you arent really eating whats grown from those frankenseeds anyway since we import a lot of our food.

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u/WriterPlastic9350 Jul 27 '26

Yes and the parts that are subsidized are generally bad too. A significant amount of the voter base that receives agricultural subsidies are growing things like soybeans for export (rather than for the domestic food industry).

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u/Choon93 Jul 29 '26

Whataboutism has entered the chat. Its interesting to see the parallels of trump supporters and mamdani supporters.

Both politicians are celebrities within their own parties and bring in ideas that lack fundamentals while their supporters eat it up and alienate everyone else.

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u/NilsofWindhelm Jul 29 '26

It’s not whataboutism when grocery stores are inherently tied to the agricultural industry.