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Re:Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingenc... by SilverElfin on Friday October 31, 2025 @07:57PM (#45778014)
It has become like this slowly over time but it is still pretty recent. Within the last 20 years. It became especially bad starting in 2016. I feel like that election caused a lot of institutions to start becoming partisan and also to start abusing every power or loophole or whatever.
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Re:Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingenc... by Stephen_0xFF on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:58PM (#45778356)
The last 20 years because of social media. The algorithmic echo chambers that people have created with their feeds has increased the divide.
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Re:Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingenc... by lazyasciiart on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:18PM (#45778987)
Nope, long before that. It just took a long time for the results to become clear. Mitch McConnell has basically spent his entire political career working towards exactly where we are now: every branch of the government controlled by republicans.
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