• Aneb@lemmy.world
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    Legitimately every Republican I met is defending themselves, from taking money from the Government, while every leftest is fighting for everyone else to take money from gov programs. Why are retardpublicans so worried about poor people taking from the rich while also stealing the same benefits from working Americans who need it. “Riches for me but no one else” is literally their tagline

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    Average!?

    I thought the average was the Democrat party.

    … Ohhhh. Right. by USA standards. I see.

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    SNAP shouldn’t be necessary for anyone who works. The fact that in America someone can have a job and yet still needs SNAP to survive is absolutely disgusting and disrespectful. Pay people a living wage jfc.

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      Right. They are stealing your livelihood from both ends, not living up to their side of the bargain and blame you for this problem. America s should all collectively not show up to work for a week and see if the tune changes, cause I’ll bet it sure as shit would.

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      The argument my friend always says is this cant happen or all small businesses will be shut down because only corps will be able to pay that high wage.

      Counter point?

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        As it turns out, most small businesses pay a higher wage than the big corps. Average wages end up going down when a town gets Walmarted because Walmart pays less than the small businesses it drives out.

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          Im not sure thats right. Mc dick pays 15 dollars an hour here and a mom n pop shop downtown either wont hire you or pays 9 dollars.

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      Seems a safe bet it’s the latter.

      Feigns being reasonable and rational, when really he’s already decided what the truth is, stubbornly sticking to his naive realism. All just a ploy. Seems he thrives on it. Narcissistic troll indeed. By his actions.

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    Let’s make a deal. We cancel SNAP and implement a Negative Income Tax as conservative economist Milton Friedman recommended. That brings everyone up to the poverty line, and everyone on SNAP today won’t need it anymore.

    Benefits for you:

    • close a bunch of SNAP jobs
    • retail stores don’t need to remember what’s snap approved and what’s not

    Benefits for everyone else:

    • no more poverty
    • no application process for benefits, just file a fax return
    • cash instead of food-specific benefits, so people with food can use the cash for something else they need (clothes, utilities, etc)
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      Why? They’re a bunch of farmers out there, and it’s like a half hour from the freeway and another hour or two to an airport.

      Surely somewhere like Utah Valley University wouldn make more sense. 😜

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    Also this piece of shit doesnt have a mind worth changing. Just ignore him and use the calvin version of the meme, or better yet dont use that format anymore.

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    You can imagine how that went.

    They’re always so proud of upsetting other people, like it’s a major win in the struggle for political dominance.

    “I shat in the mall. You can imagine how that went.”

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    Shit like that doesn’t need to be debated.

    Even in Ancient Rome they had a grain dole that… paid for itself! With interest! Because the poor who would otherwise struggle to buy wheat or barley got it, and could buy other stuff, even luxury items. The result is that more and more trade flowed directly to Rome and people made a bundle doing it.

    And also less hungry people means less desperate people and it means more stability. Something that basically everyone wants.

    But yes, these same right-wing grifters even attacked the grain dole in Ancient Rome as if it lead to the fall of the Roman Empire.

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      But giving away grain to peasants is why the entire empire fell to ruin! Letting people starve is the most humane way of reducing hunger in the long run, it just takes strong leadership to do what most be done. Really, it’ll be faster, easier, and cheaper (which is by definition better for everyone) if we help accelerate things. Which will be the next bit of societal tough love that Crowder will be taking the high road on.

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    Universe: I need a benchmark for the absolute very worst of the species called human

    Conservatives: ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND HOLY SHIT WE’RE STANDING RIGHT FUCKING HERE

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    It’s hard for me to understand how someone can be such a piece of shit. Like yeah, let’s let children starve for no reason at all.

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      No reason at all?! Are you kidding? They’re doing it for profit. It’s all for the bottom line! If a few kids starve, who cares? Most of them are brown anyway.

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        I think it’s more than that, they are heavily invested in a rather nasty version of the “just world hypothesis”: if bad stuff happens to these people, like being poor and hungry, it’s because they are bad and deserve it.

        It’s the same logic at play for blaming victims or rape and sexual violence.

        Because the alternative, that the world isn’t fair and horrible stuff happens to good people and good things also happen to horrible people, is too unpleasant and exhausting to contemplate and requires complex thought.

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          Specifically, breaking the just world illusion is unpleasant and exhausting because it removes the only reassurance they have that they are good people.

          If they prosper in a just world then they are good. If you convince them the world is unjust then they have to grapple with being an awful person who has done and said awful things.

          It’s virtually impossible to convince someone of that

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        The funniest part is the stores and their suppliers are pushing for SNAP benefits in the interest of profits, so the profiteering is fighting itself.

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        I think they also genuinely enjoy it and believe somewhere in the future whoever is left will thank them for it

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      It’s hard for me to understand how someone can be such a piece of shit.

      Literally how he gets paid. He’s a man-child whose every act of petulance and grotesqueness fattens his wallet and raises his social media profile. The only reason he’s not filling the hole left by Charlie Kirk’s neck is because Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, and JD Vance all scrambled in first.

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        I think Chowder’s career is over after the video of him verbally abusing his pregnant wife came out.

        So glad I don’t have to see that guy anymore.

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          Trump raped his wife* and became president.

          *technically not rape because the law defined rape in a limited way at the time, kind of like how husbands were exempt in the past

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        Seems hate and rage bait channels are all the rage lately. Just cultivate more hate and bullshit. Good job america.

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      The sad thing about the pandemic and the shift in the political scene is that waaaaay too many people are shitty this way. Not just rich people either. Being a shit human being has gone viral.

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        I just don’t get the “fuck you I got mine” mentality. There’s no empathy from these people. They think everyone who is poor made dumb choices and poor people should suffer for making those dumb choices. After all, just getting a job will sort everything right out according to conservatives, and getting a job is easy to them. They have never been affected by conditions that lead to poverty and it shows.

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          A lot of it has to do with an inflated view of one’s self and persecusion complex. Studies have shown that the more conservative one is the better off one thinks they will be. When the whole inheritance tax was being talked about all these poor conservtives thought some day they will be so well off the tax would affect them when in reality their lifetime gross income wouldn’t be enough if they saved it all. The whole “work hard and you will get everything” idea is burned into their brains inspite of reality.

          When you then look at any achievement by these same people they make it out to be some crazy effort on their side. All hardships were the extreme and targeting them, in their warped view. They don’t realize their struggles were the same as everyone else and they were helped out in many ways that no one ever picks themselves up by their bootstraps.

          So they have this “my life was the worst” and “i pulled myself up with no help” view of their lives that everyone else is just shit. In reality they are so delusional that even common decency is forign to them. Pile on that many are Christians if poor and narcissist and sociopaths if rich the complex grow many fold.

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          They have never been affected by conditions that lead to poverty and it shows.

          But if you go somewhere like Idaho or Mississippi… They’re all fucking poor!! Everyone is poor! Everyone lives hand to mouth and depends on social safety nets like this. But if you’re proper homeless then fuck you, no you don’t deserve any help?

          Blows my mind how entire self contained societies can all equally experience this kind of hardship and then instead of “I don’t want anyone else to suffer like we had to”, they instead conclude “I had to suffer like this, therefore everyone must suffer like this”.

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          They have never been affected by conditions that lead to poverty and it shows.

          You mean being lazy? Of course not. They’ll be the first to brag about how they work overtime or have more than 1 job to pay the bills.

          /s, in case that want obvious.

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      My thot sand prayers go to his wife as she gets in line behind a couch and Charlie Kirk’s wife to get at JD Vance’s dick

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        Does he have another wife? Last I heard of him (not that I keep up to date with this loser) was when a video of him abusing his wife came out a couple of years ago, then he spent a while bitching about how women shouldn’t be allowed to file for divorce.

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      Years of anger, bad faith and force-fed weaponised identity politics have turned it into a point of pride for these people.