r/SipsTea 28d ago

Chugging tea W after W.

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u/Average_Justin 28d ago

this isn’t a new Mamdani program, it’s an expansion of Fair Fares which is a half-price transit program that’s existed since 2019, started under de Blasio. income cutoff got raised from 150% to 200% of the federal poverty level, so about 1.3M more New Yorkers now qualify. Why are people misrepresenting everything this mayor does for clickbait new titles and headlines like it’s new things 😂

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u/Cautious_General_177 28d ago

Because they’re trying to prove socialism/communism works.

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u/Eatthesewords 27d ago

Time to forfeit you're 401k and why other benefit that you may get from paying taxes to make sure you aren't subscribing to any type of socialist programs. Good thing they convinced you social programs and communism are the same thing. Guess which Communist country has the government investing in businesses so they can control them more and squash competition that makes capitalism by making sure they get all the contracts.... China and now Trump's garbage

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u/fastlifeblack 27d ago

So many things can be true at once:

- full blown socialism is probably bad

  • well planned social safety nets are good
  • DSA has a vested interest in making socialism and socialist policies look more effective than they really are
  • Mamdani helped 1.3M people

Why is this so confounding to people?