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A society is always about 3 days of hunger away from a violent revolution. Start your clocks.

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[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago

Good, it is completely unnecessary. It's a bad solution to an old problem that already has much better solutions out there that are much more accessible too. They only made it so people will rely on them for everything and stop trusting others, but thankfully it failed. Canonical should be ashamed of themselves for ever trying this snap thing.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Risky joke, woosh is very likely.

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[-] madjo@feddit.nl 12 points 1 day ago

It's a joke on how "Snap" is also an application distribution system for Linux. Ubuntu (by the company Canonical) uses it.

Wrong. It's a system for killing half the people in the universe to decrease overpopulation

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[-] NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

God, and I can't say this with my entire chest, fucking dammit. You got me.

[-] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 day ago

This is just outrageous. I'll have you know there are many single-mothers who depend on snap day-to-day. You can't honestly expect them to just switch distros.

[-] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

Fuck... I was squinting so hard up until I read that last sentence.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Hah. I was ready to rage comment until I finished reading your whole comment.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 21 hours ago

Fuck. Add me to the list of people who were fooled until the last sentence, and even then I had to read it twice.

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

this is a disaster for the people affected (and also every society is 3 days without food before violent revolutions and all that) but also IMO these programs should ideally be paid for by the states anyways, not the federal government. i also think that taxes should go to the states instead of the federal government, and the states then forward whatever amount is appropriate to the federal government. that would make the states more resilient against these kinds of federal fraud.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 21 hours ago

On the one hand, maybe. On the other, many states (mostly red ones) are also cruel and incompetent.

Also, the federal government has vastly more funding power than the state government.

[-] frankiehollywood@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago
[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Yay people will starve and die! Yay!

Fucking filth.

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 12 points 1 day ago

This will destroy the US economy. I hope you like standing in bread lines...

[-] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

SNAP benefits are already the equivalent to bread lines. They took away their bread line...

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Sure do, they give it to you as rations on the front line :)

SNAP has traditionally been entirely federally funded, but is administered by states. That means the shutdown's impact on SNAP and when benefits will start to dry up will vary state by state.

So about those government contracts for immigration, you would think some of those states that raked in a lot of money, could perhaps use that ill-gotten money to at least benefit the residents of their states.

Funny that Florida got more than half a billion dollars from the government the day before the shutdown, but they just can't find it within their hearts or their budget to use any of that money to feed families relying on food stamps in their state. Wonder where it's going instead?

[-] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Wonder where it's going instead?

Alligators with freakin' laser beams attached to their heads for Alligator Alcatraz.

[-] Dagrothus@reddthat.com 2 points 21 hours ago

Stephen miller would approve

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 21 hours ago

I think calling it "Alligator Auschwitz" would be more effective, except one of my old coworkers sincerely asked me "What's Auschwitz?"

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

Fact: absolutely none of this would have happened if Kamala had won.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 20 points 1 day ago

Shame she decided to support wildly unpopular policy and messaging instead of winning.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Shame millions of leftists had advanced warning of Project 2025, chose to ignore it and boycott the only viable other candidate anyway, and now are living with the concenquences of that inaction.

But they're still only blaming Kamala and the Dem party, rather than taking a moment for self reflection as to how they willingly surrendered the country to fascism and damned marginalized groups to hell on Earth.

Kamala was a shitty candidate, but the left who boycotted the vote owns their own inaction. It's not Kamala's fault everyone had a year advance warning on Project 2025 and chose to do nothing anyway.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 20 hours ago

A friend of mine was sincerely advancing the idea that it's better that trump wins, because less-bad candidates like Harris just let people coast by without doing much as the world gets worse. He thinks something like Trump will be really bad, and people will demand more radical change. I think you can call that acellerationism. Pretty easy position to hold as a wealthy professional who owns property, I guess.

Personally, I'd rather people organize and try to make the world better without the worst people in the world having most of the power. Seems easier that way to me.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I find this to be the most common occurrence of accelerationists.

The most willing to send millions to their graves to achieve what they believe is socialism, while they themselves will never pick up a rifle and fight for it.

They're identical to every fat cat chicken-hawk piece of shit that sends young Americans to die in wars for the profit of political donors.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

Nothing we could have done would have made genocide, the MoSt lEtHaL miLiTary electable. The only thing we could have done was riot to get a candidate and policies capable of winning.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

You're missing the point entirely.

Everyone agrees Kamala was shit. That's not the point.

The point is millions of leftists, the people who are supposed to be advocates for marginalized peoples, absolutely refused to be advocates for said marginalized peoples when the easiest possible way to do it was to show up and vote for Kamala.

Was Kamala shit? Yes.

Would all these marginalized people be sent to concentration camps whole the government abandons the rule of law entirely and ends democracy under Kamala?

Obviously no.

Yet so many millions of leftists, especially those in swing states, decided to surrender these marginalized people to the fourth Reich instead.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

The only lesson here is not to get to the point where the only alternative to fascism are libs who would prefer fascism to socialism. We lost when we allowed the dems to run on unelectable policy.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

My dude, that decision was made almost 250 years ago.

We were getting to that point by primary neo-libs out of office and putting in more and more progressives. Progressives willing to end the Electoral College.

That is entirely up in flames now. US democracy is gone. Its not "at risk", its already fucking dead. Straight up gone and never to come back.

Boycotting Kamala didn't make us rise above the 2 party system, it placed us firmly in a permenant 1 party system under fascism.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago

Nothing we could have done would have changed the outcome then. You can't make sending the cops to kick the shit out of the activated college students who make up your ground game popular.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Ah yes, because we all know that pro-palestine protestors are doing so much better under Zionist fascism than the Zionist led democracy from last year.

Oh wait no, its moved from police cruelty to deportation and concentration camps. Its both insanely worse and was very predictable under Project 2025 that we knew about over a year in advance.

Also, wait till you hear about what ICE is doing (and we knew they would because of P2025)

[-] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

I hated that she sounded like a politician dodging questions with nonsense answers. She should have been direct and stopped worrying about being a different direction than Biden.

But yes with all those flaws she would have been better than Trump by miles.

[-] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe she shouldn't have committed genocide in Gaza if having a chance of getting elected was important to her

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Hey dipshit,

Trump supported the genocide in Gaza too.

The difference is Kamala wouldn't be committing a genocide against minorities in the US too, while sending the military and her own Gestapo to US cities to crush dissent.

Trump IS doing that, we knew over a year in advance to the election that he would do that, yet y'all refused to support the one thing that would've prevented that, which was Kamala, like her or not.

Hope your hollow virtue signal of sticking it to the Dems is worth the pro-genocide option of letting Trump win and commit even more genocide, including inside the US.

[-] Dagrothus@reddthat.com 3 points 20 hours ago

These people dont actually care about Gaza. They just hate America. Makes a lot more sense when you realize that.

With the left, it's never about being good enough or better than the right, it's always about being perfect enough.

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[-] daannii@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

It's mostly going to be the elderly who suffer. People just forget about old people. They can't get out and go stand in line at food pantries.

Sometimes they don't have anyone checking on them very often.

Most don't know how to get online and find services and such.

If you have an elderly neighbor or family member. Try to check with them and see if they need help.

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