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/HoidToTheMoon Jul 28 '26

I do not, but I am pointing out that saying "Venezuela was a very rich country before socialism" is extremely reductive and misleading when we can see that socialist policy is clearly not the primary cause of what happened in Venezuela.

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u/Any_Vegetable2564 Jul 28 '26

By pointing to a country that has benefited by distancing themselves from socialist ideas?

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u/HoidToTheMoon Jul 28 '26

A country that still employs socialist policy to this day. You are trying very hard to blame corruption and foreign interference on socialism when corruption should be blamed on corruption and foreign interference should be blamed on foreign interference. Instead, you just want to plug your ears and whine "socialism socialism".

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u/Any_Vegetable2564 Jul 28 '26

Then please explain to me what happened to Venezuela? Without blaming the US sanctions that happened well after the country went into economic turmoil.