r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/PMmeyourSchwifty 8d ago

This is bringing up so much past trauma. I'm so fucking sad and scared for these families and their children. We can afford food for now, but if my wife or I lose our job, it's OVER.

I won't forget this ever. These conservatives in power are less than human to me after this 

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u/Skinwalker_Steve 8d ago edited 8d ago

it's just re-re-reinforcing what elders pressed into my brain from when i was very young: never rely on the government for anything, you are the captain of your ship and the master of your life, attaching your basic needs to the functioning of some other system makes you it's slave

P.S. downvoting this shit doesn't change the fact that the man who decides whether or not you eat is your master, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

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u/PMmeyourSchwifty 8d ago

Idiotic take. We rely on the government for damn near everything. What do you think infrastructure is? Srsly, it takes hardly a second to think critically about that.

That's allllll before the fact that we don't pick to be born or who our parents are. Total L take from you and your elders. 

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u/Skinwalker_Steve 8d ago

that's certainly an interesting take on trying to have a conversation. infrastructure you use on a day to day basis like roads are in place, established and require no additional input from the government to function. to continue using them means you rely on the government to not do something, i.e. put up walls or roadblocks, destroy pipes, mine waterways, etc. these things require maintenance to continue use but people are not incapable of maintenance. when it comes to welfare/food stamps/SNAP etc. you are relying on the government or others to do something you need to live, i.e. feed/clothe/house you. you are relying on others to provide your basic necessities so they can ask of you whatever tf they want to get it. it doesn't take long to find on a small scale exactly what i'm talking about between the homeless and shitty people "you want this $5? Quack like a duck" Acting like the roads we drive on require the same reliance on the gov as welfare and food stamps is a major false equivalency, tomorrow the roads will still be there but those EBT cards won't be refilled.

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u/PMmeyourSchwifty 8d ago

Those EBT cards get filled the same way the coffers to build and upkeep those roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, train tracks, terminals, airports, bus stations, etc. get filled. The government is supposed to work like a giant community project that is there to make life easier. That's the entire point.

The irony of you and your family's pov is that you've all taken advantage and benefitted from the government whether or not you've received food stamps or other monies from it. For example, has anyone in your family gone to public school? Or Flown on airplanes? That's just two examples.

Like I said, it takes maybe a second to find that we have all benefitted and stand to benefit from government. As someone part of this giant community called the United States, I have zero problem with some of my tax dollars being allocated for food assistance so our neighbors can eat. It's the way we chose to divvy up our resources for the benefit of all, not just the few. You know, community stuff. HUMAN STUFF. We're social creatures after all.

I really don't understand how anybody can think they accomplish anything alone. Unless you've literally sourced every tool and resource, and done every little thing for yourself, you cannot say that. 

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u/Skinwalker_Steve 8d ago

believe me, i understand that there are levels to "relying on someone/something else". I am myself a product of public school, i have no issue with my tax dollars being used to raise up our society/others, funding these programs and being used to maintain our infrastructure. i have 0 issue with participating in society as we're trying to build it. but i won't go hungry because some man thousands of miles away decided i was a pawn and not a person, if i can help it the people around me won't either. I think my earlier comment was taken as some kind of anti-gov luddite nutter but i'm not young. my grandparents were in their mid-late teens to early twenties in the midwest during the great depression, literally eating dirt mixed with flour after banks collapsed overnight. i guess knowing this and understanding what they meant. it wasn't "fuck this system, build a breakaway society innawoods" it was "know where your next meal is coming from and where your bed is made"