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People going hungry? Who's to say? We don't ask anymore, even as food banks report record demand.

This post uses a gift link with a view count limit. If it runs out, an archived copy should eventually show up here but wasn't yet available when I posted.

Edit: there is now an NYT article about this as well

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 157 points 5 days ago (4 children)

theres only one party that thinks hunger is a political issue.

anti-science. anti-facts. anti-humanity

the regressive party strikes again

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 51 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yet they call themselves pro-life. They're pro-birth, but once you're born fuck you.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They love having more slaves

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 days ago

I think it was George Carlin that said they want live babies to grow up into dead soldiers.

[–] MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

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)

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Something something, "pro-life", something something. We've been here before, you all know how to fill in the blanks.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

With blank checks to the causes that advance your own agenda?

.........what? Is that not what they do?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Pro-life doesn't extend beyond the womb.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

^[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.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Which is exactly what I mean.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My misunderstanding, thought it was a drive-by "nuh-uh" at first.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

All good! And also I just saw my typo.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Just another hypocrisy from the far far far right.

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Democrats haven't been so keen on addressing hunger. They refuse to address livable wages and keep bandaid solutions like food banks and charity.

[–] thecaptaintrout@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Can't vote your way out of fascism

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That'll get rid of hunger the same way they stopped reporting COVID infections stopped COVID

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yep, shaving off of up to three IQ points each time. More likely in cases of unvacinated infections.

[–] ThatFuckingIdiot@sh.itjust.works 49 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They're cancelling it now because they expect food insecurity to get considerably worse in the next few years.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 24 points 4 days ago

They're cancelling it now because they ~~expect~~ plan to make food insecurity to get considerably worse in the next few years.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago

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

[–] jeffreydbrown@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"We're not asking because we don't care what the answer is."

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

We know it's gonna be bad and we want to hide that

Oh. They do care.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 5 days ago

Politicized by them

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

"I don't want to know about all the suffering I'm causing!"

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

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...

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Didn't you know? Reality has a liberal bias.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

If it makes conservatives/ Republicans / Taco and their terrible ideology and policies look bad, that's "political".

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

People are three days of meals away from revolution. Let's see how this strategy pans out, Cotton!

[–] Rustic_Fry@literature.cafe 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat. Otherwise we'd get along.

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

Reports are not just to confirm that good times are still good... They're for detecting and observing the bad times.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

More conservative and Republican cancel culture.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] lennee@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

politics? Not here in politics town, says politics man.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

It's like people who don't want chemicals in their food.

Everything is ~~chemicals~~ politics.

Politicized?

Politically inconvenient for the regime that cuts food aid, school meals, etc.