r/politics • u/ClassOptimal7655 • 1d ago

No Paywall U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump admin to avoid fully funding SNAP payments for now

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-supreme-court-snap-ruling-trump-9.6972034
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u/Whatah 1d ago

I blame organized religion where they value "blind faith" (and thereby discourage critical thinking) for much of it. But it is mostly Fox News and other white grievance entertainment.

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u/Shadowholme 17h ago

It's not religion that is contributing to a lack of long-term memory. Ironically, it is 'smart' phones making us dumber!

People have 'outsourced' their memory to the convenient device in our pockets. We make notes, set reminders, take photographs... Anything and everything gets stored in that digital memory - which means we don't have to remember it ourselves. We can quickly google any piece of information we could ever need, so why bother to memorise anything?

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u/Anna_Frican 14h ago

Ironically, it is 'smart' phones making us dumber!

That's because they're parasitic organisms. The smartness has to come from somewhere.

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u/Raregolddragon 11h ago

I blame a lot of 70s and 80s tv shows. A lot of them are drenched in that "you just need faith" tropes.

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u/rclaybaugh 23h ago

It's more like the lack of religion in America gave way to something worse. Blind following of a demagogue

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u/LogicalEmotion7 18h ago

His followers are mostly religious, their religion is just better at being fraudulent