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re: How soon after SNAP cutoffs will the riots start?
Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:41 am to OldmanBeasley
Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:41 am to OldmanBeasley
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Have you ever had an original thought?
Statistically it’s unlikely any human has had an original thought in several thousand years. Given the high value placed on “common sense” by most people, especially those who lean toward conservative ideology, it’s interesting that one would ask someone about their having had an original thought. It’s especially interesting that you would ask that in response to a message board post in a thread of what, 100 posts, 95 of which are nearly identical thoughts. The question should be has anyone in this thread or on these boards ever had an original thought? Statistically it’s unlikely.
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 8:27 am to Lokistale
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Spoiler: no one cares and no one is reading them
Somebody cared enough to respond with a post including a map so…..
I am not saying anything I am relaying a fact which is easily verifiable - the population of the US represented by Democrats in Washington is almost double that which is represented by Republicans. That doesn’t mean that they were elected by a 2-1 margin, most of those races are highly competitive….but when elected the winner represents everyone no matter who they voted for or if they voted at all. The districts represented by Democrats have almost 2 people for every1 in districts represented by Republicans at the national level.
The map you included is as meaningful as time of possession in a football game. Imagine a game where the team receiving the opening kickoff returns that kick for a TD and makes the PAT. That team doesn’t run the ball at all, goes 3 and out throwing the ball on every possession. Say they get 8 possessions in a game that average about 2 minutes of game time each. They’d have 16 minutes of TOP in the game plus the few seconds after the clock started after the opening kickoff returns off so may 16.5 minutes total. Now imagine the other team never passes and runs the ball on every play and picks up 3.34 yards on every play but stalls out on the opponents 25 yard line and their placekicker ain’t great….makes 2 of 6 FG attempts in the game. They had a TOP of 44.5 minutes compared to 16.5 minutes for the other team but lost the game by a score of 7-6. That massive swath of red on that map is akin to all of those 3.3 yard rushing plays….that red area is significantly less densely populated than those small blue areas. Nevada is as large as 61% of the NE US. The Population of the NE is 58 million people. That means 35.38 million people live in an area the size of Nevada whose population is 3.3 million people. Of that about 2.5 million live in the Las Vegas metro area making the rest of the state almost deserted. Most of the states between the Mississippi and the coastal states are similarly situated.
Posted on 10/29/25 at 8:30 am to UptownJoeBrown
Posted on 10/29/25 at 9:58 am to AwgustaDawg
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but when elected the winner represents everyone no matter who they voted for or if they voted at all.
Exactly and the two most recent nationwide elections were for President and the House which were won by Republicans including each having the most total popular votes. The President in particular represents the entire country.
We know the only reason Schumer is going against what seems like centuries in office is because he is fearful of getting primaried by AOC. The left is in control of the Dem party and the old liberal guard are just trying to survive long enough to die in office like all lifers in the establishment want to do regardless of Party.
You keep spouting off crap that means nothing unless you are wanting to ditch the constitution.
Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:12 am to AwgustaDawg
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Those Dems are doing exactly what their constituents sent them to congress to do
At least you admit this shutdown is the fault of these Dems and their supporters.
The Dems don’t even have to support the bill funding the govt at exact same levels as right before shutdown. They just need to allow a vote on the bill by having enough votes for cloture to end debate and allow a vote. Republicans have a majority not the required 60 for cloture in the Senate. It’s on the Dems to allow a vote up or down on ending the shutdown with same level of spending.
The Dems are basically filibustering against the welfare of a large group of their own voters hoping they have kept them ignorant enough on the Dem plantation to not know how the Senate works.
Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:24 am to UptownJoeBrown
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How soon after SNAP cutoffs will the riots start?
Depends on if the ladies can raise enough money by giving cootchie away at $40 per pop or not.
Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:29 am to sqerty
Gotta love the lack of empathy of the people here. I don't qualify for SNAP but have no problem pitching in to help people get food. I don't care what they're buying, either. Lots of people feed their families with it. Yeah some people make dumb choices with it, but let's not throw the baby out with bathwater.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 12:25 pm to dallastigers
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We know the only reason Schumer is going against what seems like centuries in office is because he is fearful of getting primaried by AOC.
Schumer won his last election by nearly 14% points. He is doing exactly what he was sent to Washington to do and that is represent his constituents and at the moment that means acting in opposition to the party in power, not rubber stamping the legislation and agenda of the party in power. The people of New York voted in even greater numbers against Donald Trump in 2024. Schumer is one of their 2 Senators. He is merely doing the job the majority of people who took the time to vote in 2022 and 2024 sent him to Washington to do. Part of that job is to protect the ACA and that means maintaining the ACA subsidies....not doing so would be a dereliction of the task he was assigned when elected.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 12:47 pm to WaltTeevens
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Gotta love the lack of empathy of the people here. I don't qualify for SNAP but have no problem pitching in to help people get food. I don't care what they're buying, either. Lots of people feed their families with it. Yeah some people make dumb choices with it, but let's not throw the baby out with bathwater.
Then restrict SNAP/EBT acceptable purchases to a limited offering of foods. Gas stations shouldn’t be able to accept it, boiled seafood places shouldn’t accept it, steak should be excluded as should certain forms of seafood like crab legs, lobsters, or anything imported, soft drinks/sodas, koolaid like drinks, or frankly any restaurants.
SNAP/EBT shouldn’t be a permanent solution for an individual.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 1:02 pm to WaltTeevens
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Gotta love the lack of empathy of the people here.
Toxic empathy is how we got to 41M on SNAP
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I don't qualify for SNAP but have no problem pitching in to help people get food
No issues with a social safety net for people who need help
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I don't care what they're buying, either. Lots of people feed their families with it.
"Lots of people" should raise some eyebrows
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Yeah some people make dumb choices with it, but let's not throw the baby out with bathwater.
This scene (from 1996, same year as Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act) is meant as a parody but cuts way too close to reality
Posted on 10/30/25 at 1:05 pm to WaltTeevens
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I don't qualify for SNAP but have no problem pitching in to help people get food.
Then that is your choice. My choice would be for my tax money to not go to feeding low life freeloaders (I'm talking about those physically capable of working but who choose not to). Are Democrats no longer pro choice?
Posted on 10/30/25 at 1:13 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Then restrict SNAP/EBT acceptable purchases to a limited offering of foods. Gas stations shouldn’t be able to accept it, boiled seafood places shouldn’t accept it, steak should be excluded as should certain forms of seafood like crab legs, lobsters, or anything imported, soft drinks/sodas, koolaid like drinks, or frankly any restaurants.
don’t forget Amazon!
here’s a Get Well Basket of snacks that you can send to yourself via the taxpayers! LINK
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:02 pm to UptownJoeBrown
The wife won’t be going to the grocery store alone or unarmed
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:50 pm to WaltTeevens
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Gotta love the lack of empathy of the people here. I don't qualify for SNAP but have no problem pitching in to help people get food. I don't care what they're buying, either. Lots of people feed their families with it. Yeah some people make dumb choices with it, but let's not throw the baby out with bathwater.
I will bet anyone here a coca cola, bought with cash and not SNAP benefits, that 99.9% of the people in this thread who claim to have no empathy nor sympathy for those who are truly less fortunate, even when it is due to disastrous lifestyle choices and decisions, would not reach in their wallet and buy a hungry person a meal. It is a defense mechanism used to fend off the frailty of humanity almost every human being on earth is saddled with...we may act as if we are cold and calculating and do not give a damn what happens to someone we do not know but when face to face with it almost every human on the planet will lend that person a hand.
I don't think many of them actually despise footing the bill for such things as SNAP. I think almost anyone alive despises the idea of people taking advantage of such programs, scamming and stealing from those programs, but the general basis is not something that thankfully only a small number of people have a lot of issue with. If this weren't true you wouldn't see so many people panhandling. Like telemarketing if as many people who cuss it didn't do business with the telemarketers there wouldn't be a telemarketing business. The same is true of panhandling...most of us like to think we would never hand someone a few bucks with their hand out but most of us have at some time or another and most of us do it from time to time...if we didn't it wouldn't exist and it has existed as long as man has existed. Its actually the olderst profession in the world. Prostitution is the second oldest....and it is a spin off of begging without any question....some poor bastard was begging for some and the first prostitute said "I wont give it away but you can buy it" and here we are....
People like to see themselves as hard asses who would gladly gun down a hungry woman in the street instead of feeding her. Thankfully its mostly a facade. People are, by nature, caring and nurturing...we are also cruel when others are watching but when we are one on one its mostly caring and nurturing. There is no telling how many soldiers in opposing armies have met face to face with their enemy, a person they'd have ended in different circumstances just mere minutes ago and may in a few minutes yet, who allowed one another to live those few more minutes. As a species we ain't near as mean as we like to see ourselves....
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:57 pm to AwgustaDawg
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The people of New York voted in even greater numbers against Donald Trump in 2024.
Donald Trump lost New York close to 10%….
It was actually a record performance
This post was edited on 10/30/25 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:57 pm to WaltTeevens
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Gotta love the lack of empathy of the people here.
There is no lack of empathy for people who are laid off from a job or have financial issues due to a long-term illness or a child's surgery, etc.
The problem is people in their 20s, 30s and 40s who use SNAP as their food bankroll source for many months and years -- with no plan for improving their education level, work credentials, etc.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 3:11 pm to AwgustaDawg
People who find money for nails, hair, hair etc.. But, not for food don't deserve empathy.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 3:21 pm to UptownJoeBrown
This is the perfect opportunity to take up gardening and grow your own food. Can have some cherry tomatoes in 2 weeks. No fertilizer? No problem. Just have the fam $hit in the garden and it will help veggies grow.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 5:22 am to Doctor B
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There is no lack of empathy for people who are laid off from a job or have financial issues due to a long-term illness or a child's surgery, etc.
The problem is people in their 20s, 30s and 40s who use SNAP as their food bankroll source for many months and years -- with no plan for improving their education level, work credentials, etc
So, the solution is to just end it? I'm sure this program has kept many people from being hungry.
We have outrageous home and rent prices, not to mention food prices. It's getting hard to survive for a lot of people out here. And the government is making it harder? Why? To save some money none of us will ever see anyway?
Look at Scandanvian countries. They actually take care of their citizens. We supposedly live in the greatest country in the world. I think that is bullshite and it getting bullshittier every day.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 5:38 am to WaltTeevens
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So, the solution is to just end it?
frick yea it is. For the millions and millions of able bodied people who are on it just to game the system. Rip the bandaid off, get them off the tit and at least try to change the culture of dependence and entitlement. It's time
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