The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
One decent egg is around 33¢. One round of 5.56x45 is around 30¢. One round of 7.62x39 is around 48¢ (sorry Warsaw comrades.) Food is going to keep getting more and more expensive. The US is a country that prioritizes the production of ammunition over the production of food. Bullets are not going to keep getting more expensive. ATC is not getting paid. The military is not getting paid. How long until quartermasters start “losing” barrels of ammunition to the market to keep their family fed? Draw conclusions from that as you will. I am not suggesting or condoning anything actionable, but the circumstances as they factually are do not bode well for the ruling class given historical precedent.
“Only [ x ] meals stand between the status quo and a revolution”
—{an amalgamation of over a hundred years of variations on this same quote1}, 2025; where x is the untested, but certainly low and absolutely finite number of meals that prevent revolution.
1 - Farthest traceable original variation is attributed to Alfred Henry Lewis in 1896:
“Those of us who are well fed, well garmented and well ordered, ought not to forget that necessity makes frequently the root of crime. It is well for us to recollect that even in our own law-abiding, not to say virtuous cases, the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen.”
1896 October 24, The Irish Standard, Murderous Hanna, Quote Page 8, Column 3, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I’m pretty sure Lemmy just uses the popular CommonMark flavor of markdown. Could be worth requesting support from the app since it’s sort of a standard
One decent egg is around 33¢. One round of 5.56x45 is around 30¢. One round of 7.62x39 is around 48¢ (sorry Warsaw comrades.) Food is going to keep getting more and more expensive. The US is a country that prioritizes the production of ammunition over the production of food. Bullets are not going to keep getting more expensive. ATC is not getting paid. The military is not getting paid. How long until quartermasters start “losing” barrels of ammunition to the market to keep their family fed? Draw conclusions from that as you will. I am not suggesting or condoning anything actionable, but the circumstances as they factually are do not bode well for the ruling class given historical precedent.
“Only [ x ] meals stand between the status quo and a revolution”
—{an amalgamation of over a hundred years of variations on this same quote1}, 2025; where x is the untested, but certainly low and absolutely finite number of meals that prevent revolution.
1 - Farthest traceable original variation is attributed to Alfred Henry Lewis in 1896:
“Those of us who are well fed, well garmented and well ordered, ought not to forget that necessity makes frequently the root of crime. It is well for us to recollect that even in our own law-abiding, not to say virtuous cases, the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen.”
1896 October 24, The Irish Standard, Murderous Hanna, Quote Page 8, Column 3, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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That is super cool. Though it doesn’t work on the mobile app I use. Works great on the website though
I’m pretty sure Lemmy just uses the popular CommonMark flavor of markdown. Could be worth requesting support from the app since it’s sort of a standard
Damn… even my Hexbears are hassling my about citations. That markdown you suggested doesn’t work at all for me. Just shows the literal text.
Sorry I didn’t realize the comment source might not be readily visible to other users
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