Wouldn't the loophole be that they're NOT currently participating in SNAP on account of there isn't any money? People keep saying the cruelty is the point and it keeps being 🤬ing true.

and whisper in his ear that politics are Messy Business and Divisive.

Your affectionate uncle,

Screwtape

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The above is my original content, not C.S. Lewis's, though I suspect Screwtape, were he a real entity, would agree. (6/6)

Whenever he begins to feel concern for anyone we have entrapped in suffering, or is tempted to involve himself in the improvement of material conditions of others whom we have spent centuries building systems to make miserable, simply remind him of this quotation, (5/6)

In your letter you mentioned that you had shown the patient the fictitious quotation from me that our colleague Thistlefoot has succeeded in popularising, recommending that you keep the patient fixated on politics. This is very good. (4/6)

And do not concern yourself with whether the church will do them, either; we have spent centuries teaching the churches to be concerned with their own survival above all else and to do such things as would oppose the projects of Our Father Below only as they have time and money. (3/6)

Whisper in his ear that it is the role of the church to do such things, and not the state. (2/6)

Whisper in his ear that it is the role of the church to do such things, and not the state.

And do not concern yourself with whether the church will do them, either; we have spent centuries teaching the churches to be concerned with their own survival above all else (2/4)

I want to see Obamacare replaced with universal, single-payer, Medicare for all, and have it called Trumpcare. That would really show us.

Hear here!

No, I had not noticed, but I see it now... Do you have further insights about this trend?

I too would like to hear how you would frame it to avoid the paradox.

Hard same. I'm sick in bed today and this is the third time in as many months that my church has been out in the community without me and I'm sad because I want to be there but so excited they're there anyway ❤️

Medisafe. Highly, highly recommend it.

That's unfair to septic tanks.

Septic tanks do something useful.

Maybe it is. Maybe the West didn't need to survive. Especially if it needs the "value" of hatred to do it.

Was he saying horrible things?

Tldr somebody shot Charlie Kirk, a man who is at least partially responsible for heavily promoting an ideology that has so far killed over 300,000 people via cuts to usaid alone, not to mention the concentration camps, and people are Very Concerned About Gun Violence.

I don't really watch TOS, but I'm glad Strange New Worlds reverted to the show's original apolitical tone. Like the episode where a society exists in absolute bliss due to the awful suffering of a single child and they tell Pike they know about how earth used to be and he's in no place to judge.