You have no idea what you are talking about. Food stamps is about 100B per year we have never moved that much physical food for anything but a massive massive overhead. There is every reason to believe we can’t scale it up without massive overhead because its a massive endeavor that existing supply chains are already handling. It would be comparatively trivial to give recipients a boost in money to buy fresh produce from existing grocery stores.

There is no universe where it’s easier to directly get to farmers or adjacent farmers markets then it is to get to the grocery store. There are tons of grocery stores located near people whereas farmers are generally far from most people the majority of which live in urban and suburban environments far from farmers

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/

86% live in urban or suburban environments whilst 14% live in rural areas.

One might suggest taxing highly processed food to subsidize less processed food and setting standards for different sized stores as far as how much floor space must be devoted to various categories of food.

Because every dollar spent one way is not spent another. The current food stamps program is highly effective because it just gives people a debit card that can only be spent on food. Giving people special credits that can only be spent where it will enrich certain assholes because you think enriching those assholes will be a valuable second order effect is fundamentally stupid.

If you think people don’t have enough money for food give it to them directly. If you think we should subsidize farmers even more than we already do then do so.

tremendously inefficient and expensive way to make small farms provide 18% instead of 17% of our food. If you consider the actual people in need you would be actually robbing the poorest people in the nation to serve up money to people in the upper segment of middle class. Also ultimately you would actually end up seeing the rules change and subsidizing actual rich people instead.

Food stamps are effective precisely because you can simply go anywhere you normally buy food and buy food. Anything that changes that is pants on head stupid.

How? Give details.

I love how my post gets downvotes for describing reality. They talk about the international community somehow dissolving a nuclear armed nation and relocating its population of 10M people. This has never happened in history and is impossible now and they are describing it as inevitable. It is as sane as thinking the earth is flat.

They cannot dissolve it as a state without murdering them all. They cannot murder them without also dying because Israel has nukes. Your fantasy needs work

Actually prohibition drastically increases price, perceived risk, and social acceptability all of which decrease usage. If you mean that prohibition doesn’t make everyone stop using that would be a duh. Society would greatly benefit from decreased usage alone due to decreased medical productivity and deaths…

The most famous “failed” prohibition on this side of the water in the US initially decreased alcohol usage to 30% of its former usage immediately prior to prohibition. Eventually it rose to ~60% but didn’t recover to anything like prior levels until prohibition was ended.

There is another notable factor though. This allows all current addicts to continue consuming their legal fix which can be sold at the corner store but incentivizes all these multitudes of legal avenues to shut out new customers or be shut themselves. These new customers those born from 2008-2017 will initially be a small market for any black market sales probably poorly served unlike the market created by prohibition. If less of these folks initially get hooked early there is statistical reason to believe far fewer of them ever will. By the time those born in 2018-2027 reach maturity between 2036-2045 many of the older folks will be dead and the generation above them will have a much lower prevalence of smoking.

Exactly there are no legal places out and about to smoke so people smoke at home then rather than feeling energetic and pugnacious they are mellow and sleepy so they have neither the need nor desire to drive.

As we speak imbeciles are trying to ruin this by developing testing designed to harass minorities on the side of the road and test whether the have smoked within several days instead of several hours. Soon you may face driving while brown charges for having smoked yesterday because testing cannot accurately measure impairment or recency of usage.

Weed + cars doesn’t seem to be a big problem in a state where legal weed is everywhere unlike alcohol.

A great deal of alcohol is consumed out late at night in places one is likely to drive to and from. Almost all accidents happen to people who are plastered not least of which because drunk people get increasingly confident and simultaneously incapable of judging their ability.

Worse drunk people even quite drunk people can reasonably pilot a car which is why most DUIs are given only after hundreds miles of drunk drinking.

People’s false confidence is rewarded right up until they go to jail or kill someone.

Weed rarely produces the degree of impairment and when it does you aren’t going anywhere. Also since there are no legal venues to smoke it you are most commonly at home

But I thought we should all move out of expensive states to live in cheap states if we can’t afford to live in the good areas!

I’m not a nationalist I’m a realist. This is why I voted for Harris and support armed forces to enforce a truce in Gaza and no further military aid to Israel.

You can feel however you like about the choices you have in front of you are still morally obliged to pick the least bad even if you aren’t happy with either but extremely simple principals.

We fight their ability to seize ballots they don’t think should be counted in the courts before one ballot gets misdirected and get orders forcing them not to do this. If they do it we fight to get those ballots back in play before the election is considered closed. If they succeed in fixing the election by seizing ballots we refuse to accept the results.

Many places use a combination of both drop boxes and the mail with the latter option being dominant outside cities where your mailbox is across the street and the drop box is much further.

Hurting people’s ability to mail their ballot would undoubtedly disenfranchise some voters.

Its our job to vote for whichever party will be better for America regardless of whether we agree on all areas

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Then, according to you, this order wouldn’t affect anything?

That was a lie

Well the availability suitability and usage of drop boxes varies by state but nowhere are they exclusively used and many voters don’t have limited to no access to drop boxes nor will be certain to be able to change this in purple states which will be dispositive.

We can’t route around this we have to fight it.

Harris isn’t responsible for how we vote that is our and only our responsibility.

They did the beat job providing a convincing platform they knew how obviously insufficient but she like us got one vote

Voting against Hitler isn’t garbage because those in opposition could have influenced Harris or used their intact democracy to work on the issue by primaring dems.

The destruction of usaid alone will cause millions of preventable deaths including many kids. The stadium full of dead kids doesn’t care about your feelings

There is no button he has unilaterally press and never has been its an order that must be given to others who actually launch