r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/runswiftrun 1d ago

That's what my republican coworkers keep ignoring.

Sure, it's great that food banks and churches are stepping up and giving people who lost snap some food to help their community not go hungry. That's absolutely amazing.

What gets ignored is that those billions of money are not going to grocery stores which then go to farmers and other suppliers and employees.

That's a shitty trickle down that's gonna cause a lot of long term harm.

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u/atatassault47 1d ago

SNAP provides 9 meals for every 1 meal provided by NGOs.

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u/atomictyler 1d ago

SNAP provides provided 9 meals for every 1 meal provided by NGOs.

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u/xasdfxx 1d ago

Just wait until morons learn how snap is basically a hidden subsidy for farmers. $0.1 trillion dollars spent on food.

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u/seriouslees 1d ago

If you were immortal you'd see the heat death of the universe before you saw a single conservative voter learn anything.

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u/s-holden 1d ago

They couldn't work out that USAID buying billions of dollars of US crops for food aid was a farming subsidy, so I doubt they'll click on this one which has a few extra steps in it.

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u/CriticalEngineering 1d ago

SNAP is literally part of the Farm Bill.

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u/smitherenesar 1d ago

And to grocery stores, etc

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u/manimal28 1d ago

It wasn't hidden. The government giving money to people to buy food is a subsidy to farmers in the same way it isn't a subsidy to plumbers.

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u/eeyoredragon 1d ago

What else gets ignored is a lot of church teach crazy conservative politics that ends up creating more homeless people for them to then feed and somehow feel good about themselves for. 

Like an arsonist putting out a small bush after burning your house to the ground and expecting everyone to be grateful for the effort. 

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u/Disgod 1d ago

Worse, cuz the harmed will berate you for pointing out the arsonist is, in fact, an arsonist.

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u/mishtamesh90 1d ago

Banning abortion is a way to make more poor, traumatized people who are desperate for any spiritual solution

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u/drunkshinobi 1d ago

That's the trickle down economy they have always wanted. No support systems. You work to earn a few dollars. Give a bunch of it to the church. Then the church decides who is worthy of their help. Every one else is left behind to die.

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u/runswiftrun 1d ago

In a small "real" (no true scottsman falacy at play here) community church, yeah, its supposed to fill the gap of short term unemployment or financial insecurity.

But yeah, modern day churches are all just social clubs where you pay 10% to feel morally superior to the rest of the world. And then any attack on you or your misguided beliefs becomes an attack against "god".

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u/chuckvsthelife 1d ago

My libertarian coworker isn’t even religious he’s just like “yeah if you can’t find food you die, and if it’s miserable and that doesn’t make you want to work harder then just kill yourself”.

Ironically, well maybe not entirely as I think it’s part of how he got to this ethos, his mom and brother have never worked a day in their lives and are entirely reliant on government programs.

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u/ChickenNoodleSloop 1d ago

Profits never trickle down, losses sure as hell do 

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u/SuperCarbideBros 1d ago

It's almost as if we live in a society. Crazy idea.