re: Supreme Court rules full Snap food benefits can be temporarily halted

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Wouldn’t blame them.

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based on what justification?

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This country doesn't give a shite about poor people. We're run by oligarchs. Good luck, poor folks.

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I get where you’re coming from, honestly. Corporate welfare eats way more of the budget than anything like SNAP ever will.

But my issue with SNAP isn’t even really about saving money. It’s that the way it works now actually feeds into the looming obesity and health crisis. If we’re going to help people eat, let's actually help them eat. It should be like WIC, vouchers for actual essential foods, not junk. Throw in mandatory weekly nutrition and cooking classes (or let people test out if they already know the basics).

It’d still cost way less than the current program, it’d get people cooking again instead of living off processed crap, and long-term it’d cut down on both the health costs and the number of folks who end up staying on assistance for years.

Most of what keeps people stuck isn’t some secret cabal who have it out for poor people. It’s decades of bad policy and cultural habits that we keep reinforcing because no one wants to sound “mean.” Fixing that takes better structure and higher expectations, not just money or someone to blame.

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It is interesting how politicians left and right are weaponizing economic populism in our world of low wages and increasing costs

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The obsession over race is an American concept though.

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This country doesn't give a shite about poor people.

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our country thrives on poor people and their ignorance.

Our country is run by millionaires and billionaires- they keep the poors poor so they will keep getting elected.

This country doesn’t give a shite about the regular, hard working person. And it’s evident with media.

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And they have us fighting one another instead of coming together and fighting them. That would be a cause worth taking up.

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It would be, but it never happen. The playbook’s too effective: tell people it’s not their fault, hand them a villain to blame, feed them someone to hate, and loot their pockets while they tear each other apart. The cruel irony is that the ones most easily played by it usually see themselves as “free thinkers” and call everyone else sheep.

Some folks here won’t like it, but if you’re still buying into team politics or treating your neighbors like the enemy, you’re not a patriot. You’re a fool and a useful idiot running interference for the people who are actually robbing you blind..

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our country thrives on poor people and their ignorance.

Our country is run by millionaires and billionaires- they keep the poors poor so they will keep getting elected.

This country doesn’t give a shite about the regular, hard working person. And it’s evident with media.

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All of this true, 100%

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You're contradicting yourself here.

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Not gonna lie. My elderly aunt was on the government cheese. She would give us some. shite made the best Grilled cheese ever.