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[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

While yes, those groups certainly exist, the majority of people just truly need help from someone who actually cares to help them, and not someone who says they do, but abandons the idea when it turns out to be difficult to supply that help because it never meant that much to them in the first place, if it was ever anything more than talk to begin with.

Pointing out the tiny problematic groups without even mentioning the much larger legitimate group reminds me of people who complain about welfare because of the tiny group of people that exploit it, completely ignoring the huge amount of people that just need help.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 hours ago

Every time the welfare thing comes up I respond, so what? Who fucking cares if some tiny minority of people abuse the system if it means the people who really need it have easier access, or access at all? No one abusing welfare is so rich you would argue they don't need help anyway, unless there's some sort of corruption going on. Big companies take way more in handouts from the government than people on welfare. Why can't the big powerful successful corporations pull themselves up by their bootstraps?