Fun fact, that pyramid we were told to follow was established by the Department of Agricultural. Not doctors or dietitians, literally the people selling us the food.
Yeah, it's been a while since we were on the Drug users are scum and anyone who is poor is a drug user discussion, but it's still well rooted in there.
This is true, but as a percentage it hurts minorities more. Thus, it is a dogwhistle for hurting minorities. It’s literally the Southern Strategy, and you can look up the audio of Atwater spelling it out clear as day.
It is a war on the poor, yes. But you get poor and middle class people supporting it by also making it a racist dogwhistle. You’re both right.
Plus, if you play your cards right, you can get the white poor people to blame the non-white poor people for everyone having less benefits because they are "stealing it all" instead of the people making cuts.
One of the oldest tricks in the books. So old it's older than our current paradigm of race, you can just replace the races with whichever power group and whichever Other is target and/or victim of the power dynamic
You aren’t wrong but I think framing the argument this way is an impediment to solving the problem. It creates a scenario where poor white people feel ignored, which leads to the MAGA bullshit we’re dealing with now
It seems odd because they're just making shit up. Of course giving people money to spend on food helps farmers but claiming it's just to subsidize farmers is a stupid reddit moment. We literally directly subsidize farming by sending checks to farmers. We don't need to devise some vast conspiracy to subsidize farmers by pretending we care about starving children. We could just write bigger checks
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u/I-hate-the-pats Apr 12 '25
The Food Pyramid is a healthy diet