Approximately 42 million Americans—about one in eight people—who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program stand to go hungry after November 1, when benefits are scheduled to expire.

“Bottom line, the well has run dry,” reads a message explicitly blaming Democrats on the Department of Agriculture’s website.

A coalition of 23 attorneys general and three governors are fighting for the latter. They argue that the USDA not only has the funds to continue feeding Americans via SNAP through the month of November, it also has “both the authority and legal duty” to do so.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
    829·
    3 days ago

    Oh fuck this take. They were kids sold a lie by the powerful elite who had these goals. They get groomed and recruited out of ignorant conservative families then further brainwashed into a lifetime of authoritarian servitude. The GOP takes their entire lives away and lets them die early.

    • arrow74@lemmy.zip
      151·
      3 days ago

      Some of the most liberal people I’ve ever met are former combat vets.

      Some of the most conservative people I’ve met are vets that never saw a day of combat.

      It’s a fascinating trend

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      81·
      3 days ago

      Also broke kids. Historically, the military has been one of the only reliable ways to escape the cycle of generational poverty and/or gangs. The government has a vested interest in keeping poor people poor, because impoverished areas are prime recruiting grounds.

    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
      1613·
      3 days ago

      As crude and shitty as OP’s comment is, they’re right. Being gullible doesn’t mean you get more than others. All people deserve life, liberty and happiness, period.

      You don’t get more life, liberty, and happiness just because you were conned into fighting a rich mans war.

      We live in the information age, if you’re 18+, let’s be real, 13+, and you don’t stop to go on the Internet to find out whether or not you should be shooting people, you are fucking up.

      There is one exclusion, if you’re a Nazi, we’ll bury whatever parts of you we can find after we fuck you up and you get nothing.

      • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        i just think it’s right that an organization takes care of someone that fought for it. ask other externalities excluded. i believe that is a responsibility that anyone that asks others to doubt for them ought to owe.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
        61·
        3 days ago

        This ignores the intentional use of cyclical poverty to make the military the only viable option for many.

        This gives them a “volunteer” army that they can do what they please with. Because people will always write them off because they “volunteered”.

        You start providing basic Healthcare, food, and housing to the whole population and pretty soon the military won’t make their recruiting numbers.

        It’s the age old story. Want to eat? Sell your body to the powerful

        • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
          42·
          3 days ago

          Also, this is your last 16 hours on Lemmy. Judging people from the comfort of not having to voice your own opinion so it can’t be judged.

            • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
              42·
              3 days ago

              You know what dude. I already apologized for being short, and you’re going to come back after approaching and commenting on my shit attacking my character, and then accusing me of doing the exact thing you’re doing, EVEN AFTER I SCREENSHOTTED YOU DOING THE SHIT and then continue to fucking do it?

              You’re out of your mind. Figure it the fuck out.

              MY POINT IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. EVERYONE EQUAL ASIDE FROM NAZIS.

              Reread what has been said, and if you have anything else to say after that, fucking read it again.

                  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                    12·
                    3 days ago

                    What am I doing exactly? Am I telling strangers they are wrong for thinking veterans live sad lives and then telling anyone opposed to that to “fuck off”? I actually won’t be responding further to you, because this platform is fucking shit. For every good interaction I have, I see horrifically bad takes and sometimes I make the mistake of responding to them. I probably need to delete my account.

        • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          3 days ago

          If you wanna chime in, I’d start with saying what you’re thinking.

          I’m not saying theyre bad people or even that being conned into killing people is murder. I’m saying you shouldn’t be given separate rights. Everyone, and I truly mean everyone has the right to those things. There is nothing you can do that will make you more human or less human aside from being a Nazi.

          Are you saying this opinion is wrong? If so, please elaborate.

    • whiwake@sh.itjust.works
      1224·
      3 days ago

      I mean, I was a kid sold a lie by the predatory education system and I got in a whole lot more debt than they got paid to be in the military. Where is my Lifetime of low Interest rates? Where is my lifetime of somewhat pathetic medical care… Compared to zero medical care.

      I don’t really care about the people who got brainwashed into being absolute fucking killer cunts. The United States should’ve learned this from Vietnam, when all those soldiers came back and no one wanted anything to do with them because… Guess what… They were the wrong ones.

      Baby killers

      Murderers

      Just following orders

      I don’t give a shit. Those kids wanted to kill people, and they were willing to kill people for practically nothing.

      If you are a veteran, I hope that if you believe in heaven that you realize that you’re going to hell… Because breaking the Commandments includes not murdering for any reason whatsoever including for your country.

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
        103·
        3 days ago

        If you are a veteran, I hope that if you believe in heaven that you realize that you’re going to hell… Because breaking the Commandments includes not murdering for any reason whatsoever including for your country.

        The Bible is pretty explicit that killing in warfare doesn’t count. The prohibition is specifically of murder. I’d ask if you were a Jehovah’s Witness, who do interpret the verse this way, but 99% of Christians and Jews would understand that commandment as only discussing killing out of warfare. You comment later that you are “playing to the Christian Reader” - this is something that absolutely would not work. (And why? Lemmy is like 90% atheist?)

        Also - you get that the vast majority of people who join the military never kill anyone right? Not every soldier goes to the front lines, hell, the majority don’t.

        Many people who join are young people who believe that they are actually protecting their country. Because, that’s what the military would ideally do. Yeah, in reality the US is a hegemon that does a lot of fucked up shit, but stupid 18 year olds don’t usually understand that. Someone whose body got fucked up because they believed that they were “protecting their country” because the media and their entire social world told them that should probably not be left in the cold.

        And yeah, student loans are fucked too. Making this a “people who went to college” versus “people who went to the military” thing is the absolute dead opposite of class consciousness, and counterproductive as shit. I’m surprised you aren’t an .ml troll.

        Edit:

        Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what should we do?” He said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages. — Luke 3:14

        • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one
          3·
          3 days ago

          but 99% of Christians and Jews would understand that commandment as only discussing killing out of warfare

          They would have to have this opinion though given the crusades, genocides, violence etc that this religion has perpetrated. Like this is basic cognitive dissonance stuff here.