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.

  • jj4211@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    the highest turnout of registered voters and young voters in American history.

    This is one of the problems with how we’ve pushed the messages like “rock the vote”, that you should vote, no matter what, or you’re being a bad citizen.

    If you can’t be bothered to actually try to be informed, then you shouldn’t feel pressure to vote. Sure, you should be allowed to vote no matter what, but no one should be pressuring you to vote even with lack of interest.

    We should be emphasizing you should get to know the candidates up and down the ballot, not just getting your mark on a ballot.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      21 hours ago

      We should be emphasizing you should get to know the candidates up and down the ballot

      *we should have been

      this was probably the last election in a long time

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      The erosion of our education system and attention spans is a feature of the system, not a bug. They wanted this all along, and have been working on it for decades. There’s a reason the right has hated PBS since it came out, and it’s not just because Bert and Ernie are a same-sex couple.