theres only one party that thinks hunger is a political issue.
anti-science. anti-facts. anti-humanity
the regressive party strikes again
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Yet they call themselves pro-life. They're pro-birth, but once you're born fuck you.
They love having more slaves
I think it was George Carlin that said they want live babies to grow up into dead soldiers.
Well, yeah - before you're born, they want you have a life; after, they tell you to get a life and quit whining. Sounds pretty "pro-life" to me!
(/s, because tone doesn't carry well in text)
Something something, "pro-life", something something. We've been here before, you all know how to fill in the blanks.
With blank checks to the causes that advance your own agenda?
.........what? Is that not what they do?
Pro-life doesn't extend beyond the womb.
^[Citation^ ^needed]^
Not if the faction that overwhelmingly calls itself "pro-life" is against feeding children once they're born. That's what it means when they decrease SNAP benefits and increase the administrative burden of accessing those (and related) resources.
Which is exactly what I mean.
My misunderstanding, thought it was a drive-by "nuh-uh" at first.
All good! And also I just saw my typo.
Just another hypocrisy from the far far far right.
Democrats haven't been so keen on addressing hunger. They refuse to address livable wages and keep bandaid solutions like food banks and charity.
True, but that kind of "both sides" is not helping. One side is hamstring by corporate donors and we need to primary the corpos out. The other side is actively taking food out of babies mouths, destroying public services, etc.
Both are issues, but one is truly heinous and cruel.
Can't vote your way out of fascism
They're cancelling it now because they expect food insecurity to get considerably worse in the next few years.
They're cancelling it now because they ~~expect~~ plan to make food insecurity to get considerably worse in the next few years.
It's almost like the largest employee in the country has had massive politically-motivated layoffs performed plus the entire economy upended with a slapdash constantly changing patchwork of import taxes on top of everything else currently at play to prevent economic growth
"We're not asking because we don't care what the answer is."
We know it's gonna be bad and we want to hide that
Oh. They do care.
Politicized by them
That'll get rid of hunger the same way they stopped reporting COVID infections stopped COVID
Didn't researchers find that people getting repeated cases of COVID were seeing long term compounding issues with cognitive decline?
A.K.A. Repeated COVID cases equals more GOP voters created.
Yep, shaving off of up to three IQ points each time. More likely in cases of unvacinated infections.
"I don't want to know about all the suffering I'm causing!"
Overly politicized? Whiskey tango foxtrot? How can FACTS about how many people aren't getting their basic needs be politicized? Wanting people to stay alive is political now? How are the clowns in the government this blatantly, cartoonishly evil? We're expected to respect "different opinions" when one side's "opinion" is some people don't deserve to live but they call themselves pro-life
If it makes conservatives/ Republicans / Taco and their terrible ideology and policies look bad, that's "political".
Didn't you know? Reality has a liberal bias.
Trickle down economics is just a golden shower on the poor. This final stage is from a gold plated child rapist that some worship as a sun god.
So... Are there any independent watchdogs keeping track of all the damage he's doing? So that we can reverse this asap should we somehow manage to get someone at least milquetoast back in?
Honestly, I think it would be easier to just start over. There is a lot of systemic cruft from countless generations of ingrained politics and politicians, that have been strangling the possibility of effective reform. Until massive sea changes like getting rid of First Past the Post, Electoral College, and so forth has been done, things will just keep getting crappier.
More conservative and Republican cancel culture.
well yeah. it should be politicized. if ur policy causes hunger ur a piece of shit, an enemy of the people and ur literally not doing ur job as a politician/party. Politicize that shit.
politics? Not here in politics town, says politics man.
I'd hate it if my government did anything political. Politics has no place in government, we'd best leave it for the politicians.
It's like people who don't want chemicals in their food.
Everything is ~~chemicals~~ politics.
I read "Annual Hunger..." and I thought it said Hunger Games for a moment and I WTFed at it.
But then again, we're not that far off from panem.
May the odds ever be in your favor...
People are three days of meals away from revolution. Let's see how this strategy pans out, Cotton!
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat. Otherwise we'd get along.
Reports are not just to confirm that good times are still good... They're for detecting and observing the bad times.
Politicized?
Politically inconvenient for the regime that cuts food aid, school meals, etc.