Used to work at a convenience store and definitely saw plenty of people come in, spend all their cash on 4-5 packs of cigarettes and a 12-pack of beer, then put food on the counter and pay for that with food stamps. It always felt a little wrong to me, but as I got older I realized these people are living lives of despair and it’s really just not the biggest problem in society when you have the rich engaging openly in corruption and violating laws while going unpunished. The rich get subsidies for fossil fuels, one of the most profitable businesses and no one audits that. Airlines and banks get bailed out all the time, and no one audits that. Trump takes bribes in the Oval Office and no one cares. Who gives a shit if someone making $7.25/hr uses food stamps to buy a pack of M&Ms when their employer doesn’t pay them enough to make ends meet, necessitating that they be on food stamps in the first place. We should be prosecuting businesses that underpay their employees and subsidize their bottom lines by making their employees rely on state benefits.
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A Twitter post by Fuckin' Princess @8WithaTiara that reads “Everybody talking about how poor people shouldn't be able to buy junk food on food stamps.. Well, I don't think billionaires oughta be able to buy 14-year-olds on private islands.. But here we are.”
I agree it's weirder that people don't recognize poor people as humans with human needs.
It's ok to stop and get a $7 coffee sometimes and still be poor. You are allowed to spend $100 at a bar and be poor. Not everyone is mismanaging their money that got them to be poor, some of them grew up in it and stay that way.
Some poor people know there is no miracles going to pull them out of a shitty situation, doesn't mean they need to live a life of fucking toil and despair. Everyone needs to get off their fucking backs for enjoying a moment of what most well off folks get to enjoy without a thought.
Calvinism did a number on this country. "Good things happen to good people" -> "Bad things happen to bad people" -> "If you are poor you probably deserve it, so we shouldn't help you" -> "It's okay to give money to billionaires, they wouldn't be billionaires if they weren't good people".
Corollary: "Even though poor people are bad and I'm broke, that doesn't mean I'm a bad person. I'm just a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire, thus a good person, so it's okay to help me specifically. But not the poor, they're bad."
For reals. Privileged people only think equality encroaches on their freedom when actually it looking out for your neighbor. But I hear God is into hating your neighbors now a days
mental health is one of the most important things to people picking themselves up, dusting themselves off, and getting back on their feet
entertainment - as much as “we” deride people spending “our tax money” on fun - is, imo, a human right in the category of “life, liberty and happiness”
As someone who does make a good living, and sees the amount of taxes I pay, which is around what the median income is in the USA, I want that taxes to go to the people, I want it to be taking care of friends who can't afford health insurance, and those who are barely scraping by. I'm pissed seeing my tax dollars go to people who make me look poor. It's bullshit. I don't want to fund some rich fucks bailout or failed gambling banks or business, I don't want to fund our military to blow up fishing boats and murder civilians overseas or used to deport and lock up my fellow Americans. It's such a gross injustice to see my money get wasted on people who don't need it while there is a massive amount of people in this country that do need it.
i have a family member that was in tech, now unemployed going through some kind of mid-30s crisis always complained how he pays so much taxes, move to texas or florida then. i know hes just votes D because hes in a blue area, but his behaviour seems closer to the other bro in my family who is more into trump, you would be republican voter otherwise, gymbros , into mma, tech. oh wait but your a POC, that likely wouldnt be welcome down there.
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the propaganda by the right/oligarchs to "look down on poor people" is to give something to hate about, instead of the oligarchs themselves, class wars, culture war.
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Chuds will say "well both are wrong" but only piss their pants screaming about one of those things
Chuds will say whatever dumb shit they can think of to continue supporting Nazi pedophiles.
It has nothing to do with junk food. It has everything to do with punishing poor people for being poor.
It’s a double punishment: first, make everything that is not junk food out of their budget. Then shame them for buying unhealthy foods. Extra points for fat shaming.
One time, I went to the store with a friend on SNAP.
Friend: “I gotta pick up some steaks to pay my neighbor for patching the roof”
Time to check out. I pay for my stuff first. Second transaction for the steaks.
Person behind us was already annoyed that we had to do two transactions.
Friend: “EBT for this one”
Person behind us: “Are you serious?!”
Me: 😳
Friend and cashier are unphased, don’t even look
Me after we leave: “Does that happen a lot?”
Friend: “All the time. Doesn’t matter what you buy though. Too expensive, too cheap, too many calories, not enough calories, too much sugar, too vegan. They find something to be mad about.”
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Can we just discuss junk food because I feel we are getting away from a problem that need to be addressed. Junk food is made to stay shelf stable and puts a lot of chemicals that can be harmful to the metabolism cycle and doesn't even make you feel full, unless you want to filled with guilt. Give me a banana and lettuce pls. But those "quality" ingredients are only sold to people who can afford them. Poor people are oppressed into making the decision between affordable or healthy. And then grocery stores throw out the fresh produce because no one bought it, please make it make sense. Why is capitalism like this? Rhetorical question: Capitalism is socialism for the rich and brutality for the poor
Give me a banana and lettuce pls. But those “quality” ingredients are only sold to people who can afford them.
Double SNAP on produce has been in effect in many places for many years. Food insecurity has a lot to do with the availability of fresh food, the cost of storing it, the time it takes to prepare it, variability, waste, and calories-per-dollar nowadays.
The thought of wrapping a banana with lettuce as a snack is quite funny to me.
Hmm, that's probably pretty good actually. Crunchy and mushy. Or else my constant low grade anxiety causing stomach issues has me off kilter, idk.
doesnt sound like it taste good. a watery mushy banana.
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The fact you can't use foodstamps at a restaurant or to purchase hot, prepared food in most of the country is also stupid. The odds of being on foodstamps and being homeless are pretty high. How the fuck is a homeless person supposed to cook?
With their meth lab obviously, if you're experiencing homeless you choose not being able to get paid a livable wage. You choose to take out 80k in student loans. You choose to camp next to the polluted river in the middle of the city, if you're lucky. Let's keep funneling our money to the top .0001% of people because they choose to be rich.
Sometimes people will be like, "Poor people should work for their money!" But none of those people seem to be upset that a lowly 10-millionaire can comfortably live on an extremely safe investment portfolio. Like, bringing in mid six figures on bonds and index funds without doing a damn thing.
I work in tech and I was tired of Musk one day and said: "I don't care where you're politics lie, but I'm sick of hearing about him".
Then my coworker said, "aren't you sick of paying taxes?"
I'm said, "I'm a progressive, you're talking to the wrong guy"
He then said, "there are people who don't work at all that get more money from the government than what we earn, why should they get money?"
Urgh, then we had a bit of back and forth. I doubt any of these poor people are getting money that's equivalent to our tech salaries but if anybody's getting that amount of money from the government it'd be the rich. I also went into the fact that I don't have kids and he did. So a lot of my money is funding his kids too, but yeah ...
He then said, “there are people who don’t work at all that get more money from the government than what we earn, why should they get money?”
What kind of insane welfare programs does he imagine exists?
Unemployment in new york, for example, caps out at $440/week for six months. That's $22,880/yr, ignoring that you only get half a year. That's under minimum wage here.
For comparison, entry level software jobs at startup here are easily $100k.
Meanwhile, the wealthy can take loans out against their stock or other collateral to access their wealth without paying taxes.
They have to listen to crazy stuff that goes unchallenged. I've also lived in the UK and if you read the Daily Mail you'll see stories about people driving Ferraris and on welfare.
These bubbles can be really wild.
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;He then said, "there are people who don't work at all that get more money from the government than what we earn, why should they get money?"
I already told you, I'm sick of hearing about Musk and people like him.
i have a bro like that, he complains about earning alot, and having to pay 50-100k in taxes, hes also in tech(unemployed now due to laid off) was earning 300k+. you should fire back at him, and said people like musk are literal welfare queens that dont work, but hes getting billions in govt assistance, which goes back in bribing the same govt as well.
I don't understand how some people who are moderately wealthy are so bad at money.
If I was making 300k for ten years I'd probably be able to retire.
Fucking rich people complaining about poor people spending $2 on candy when they're blowing all their money
he was in the first round o lay offs in '23. im guessing tech people sitll believe remote work exists, but i heard they almost gone now. from time to time i do hear his snide little comments people that earn less than they do. people like that also has the gall to call other people priveleged when they had things handed to them for free like a car, and then call out people that are poor or not working entitlted.
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You’re always closer to depend on food stamps than being a billionaire.
But does it really matter what they are eating as long as they can afford it. Like junk food is not as healthy as other foods but like if you are in situation where you can only afford junk food it is better to eat that than nothing. Like I am for all kinds of help to people who needs them and government SHOULD work for the better of common folk (poor people also classify to that).
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i was reading on the sub that was talking about how 42mil people are on snaps. and one person was chiming in how it is abused, by buying lottery tickets booze, and then started saying buy expensive things like crab legs, lobsters, or when thier card declines to the food has to be thrown out. i dont think this person know what abused means, lol.
think roger smith from american dad, he was using "dolls" as foster children to get more government welfare, that is abusing. like you hear stories of people that keep fostering children to get more govt assistance, that is abusing. also a moderately waged person cant even use snap or medicaid, since it has a very low income requirement.
Yeah and, who are these people that have 1 million kids to abuse welfare? I want to see one of them. That shit would suck!!!
And then when they complain about "junk food" they list nonsense that is maybe not good for you but is super cheap for the serving given so maybe there is a reason its commonly bought not that it would matter if it wasn't.
tell them not everyone is spending hundreds on Whole foods, on organic steaks, avacados, expensive non-regular branded chips or foods. all the well off and upper middle class people in a downtown wf near me are order those in some form or another. ranges for 50+ several hundred dollars if its a large order in groceries.
14? Is there some reason to think the victims were that old?
Exactly.
When it all comes out, and I feel it will due to the orange paedo being so widely disliked, if it is proved that some of the poor kids were 6 or so then I'd not be surprised at all.
Disgusted, angry, desperate for revenge...yeah, but not surprised.
Edit: I left and went to another post then got fucking angry that I wrote what I just did. So annoyed that I can't do fuck all about these cunty paedos. I hate rich people and politicians so fucking much!!!
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Yet here we are.
Apples and Orange!
Drug test billionaires.
There's that, and there's electing one of those as your president.
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