772

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

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 days 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 2 days 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

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

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

[-] 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.

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

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

load more comments (2 replies)

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 1 day ago

Wonder where it's going instead?

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

[-] Dagrothus@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Stephen miller would approve

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] 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 1 day ago

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

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] 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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 20 points 2 days ago

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

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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 1 day 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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day 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.

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days 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.

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

But she was going to kill Palestinians with her bare hands!

[-] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days 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 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[-] frankiehollywood@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago
[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Yay people will starve and die! Yay!

Fucking filth.

[-] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 49 points 2 days ago

This administration needs to be concerned about what happens when you have millions of people with nothing to lose anymore.

load more comments (8 replies)
[-] daannii@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days 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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] DarkAri 36 points 2 days ago

Good we should stop paying our taxes.

load more comments (9 replies)
[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 250 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But it's OK: Kristi Noem gets two $170,000,000 private jets, Trump gets a golden ballroom, a luxury airliner and billions of dollars in bribes, Argentina gets $40,000,000,000, and ICE get all the weaponry they desire plus big fat bonuses for hitting their kidnapping targets. So as you sit hungry through the holiday season, know that your tax dollars are at least giving someone a good time.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 163 points 3 days ago

Just a reminder that no one steals food in America. If you thought you saw someone shoplifting food, no you didn't! That never happened, you imagined it, turn around and walk away, nothing to report here.

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

The leopards! They hunger!

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 116 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Republicans don't give a fuck if they kill people by withholding healthcare, obviously they don't give a fuck if people starve.

At some point the Democrats have got to realize this and start acting accordingly, but Democrats are still bending the knee: 13 Senate Democrats just voted to install a conservative judge in Alabama.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 189 points 3 days ago

Did somebody say Bell riots? I thought I heard Bell riots.

load more comments (15 replies)
[-] SCmSTR 21 points 2 days ago

Both sides.

BOOoOoTh SiIiiiiIIiiiiiiDESssssssssSsS!!

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Biden is old, you see, and there was also a woman who wasn't exactly adamant about Israel, so you have to starve now. But don't worry, if you starve enough, something will surely happen. And if not, at least there will be a civil war, isn't that great? You get to die in a random shootout, isn't that wonderful? So glad we didn't vote so this lady didn't win.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
772 points (100.0% liked)

politics

26165 readers
3703 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS