The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that SNAP benefits will not be issued for next month.

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

  • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know the official reason, if such a thing even exists. My heads screwed on just wrong enough to hazard a guess:

    The empathy of inconveniencing and materially harming their constituents (or the fear of their electoral retribution) would be such a driving force that the government would seek to end any shutdown before it came to that.

    Of course, any well-meaning intent withers in the face of monsters willing to kill, and let others die, for the facade of politics they don’t even truly subscribe to.

    • Sunflier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      any well-meaning intent withers in the face of monsters willing to kill, and let others die, for the facade of politics because their donors told them to

      FTFY