You know what's mad. My brother in law on benefits blames other people on different benefits
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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Disabled veteran relative who gets mad about other disabled people parking in handicap parking....
My step dad, on disability for his knees, yelling about single mothers getting food stamps.
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Like a tortoise without a shell on.
nothing makes a rich man feel better about himself than watching peasants fight over scraps
Hell yeah, when the food is bad in prison you don't blame the other inmates.
HOBO FIGHT!!!!
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Same as the immigrants aren't stealing your job, the greedy capitalist are giving those jobs to immigrants to cut down their bottom line, and they love nothing more when you blame the immigrants.
Immigrants spend less on frivolous bullshit and send money to other countries. Businesses lose out on that end, especially tech companies and wealthy industries.
Manufacturing and manual labor jobs love immigrants because they can pay them minimum wage for horrible working conditions compared to your typical minimum wage 3rd+ generation white worker.
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At this point, the people smart enough to understand this- already get it. Those that refuse to accept it- are lost causes.
The problem will always be the people not smart enough to understand it
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I don't think so. I know otherwise intelligent people who think 40% of beneficiaries are "scroungers" who are "cheating the system" somehow.
The more we can circulate this message the better: there is still plenty of people who could be brought around.
"Benefits" is a grotesque use of the word. Whoever came up with the idea of calling social security "Benefits" is an evil genius.
there's nothing inherently wrong with the word "benefits" anyway. It's a positive word. people have come to villianize the word, associating it with those who mooch off the government. But no. benefits are not a bad thing, and people who receive them are not bad people. I agree with the John krasinski meme up there. Rich people are the enemy. poor people are the victims and deserve all the "benefits" they can possibly get.
edit: changed the word "demonize" to "villainize" which was on the tip of my tongue but it took me two days for the right word to come to me. I'm quite pleased with my brain for finally getting it. That's why I'm including this loquacious edit.
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And the irony is that "I pulled myself up by my bootstraps" literally used to be an idiom about blatantly lying that you did something impossible before the boomers appropriated it.
Can we see a version that reads “the rich refusing the pay their fair share…”?
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That and they're working on every way to drain you tax money too
Infuriating video about mounjaro weight loss shots potentially bankrupting medicaid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjAhDQKpS0&pp=ygUieW91dHViZSBtb3VuamFybyBiYW5rcnVwdCBtZWRpY2FpZA%3D%3D
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I mean this is not a new thing. This has been how people approach problems for all of recorded history.
I pulled myself up by my bootstraps. Of course, I was privileged enough to actually have boots with straps. It seems fewer and fewer people have these anymore and that's a damn shame.
fuck yeah. This is the dumbest shit. Allowing entrenched media structures, virtually always owned by corporate interests, to shape who the boogeyman is. Tip: it's never the corporate interests who control the entrenched media structures.
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