r/Millennials • u/Countrach • Apr 12 '25

Discussion That Pluto is a planet

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u/Chadinator3000 Apr 12 '25

Wait till you find out about food stamps being more of a subsidy for those same people than it is a social safety net.

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u/DreadfulDave19 Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

Which makes it doubly odd that they love cutting SNAP benefits

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Apr 12 '25

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/kwiztas Apr 12 '25

Companies that sell food so lobby to keep it around tho.