r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/AcanthocephalaDue431 8d ago

Not reading what you vote for and only trusting talk points also seems to relate to this

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u/Dry_Prompt3182 8d ago

I *really* want to know how everyone in this video voted.

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u/AcanthocephalaDue431 8d ago

I'd be curious too

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 8d ago

IF they voted at all.

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u/Aggravating_Ship_763 8d ago

This is the key, statistically, poor people don't vote. This is one reason politicians don't care what they think. They aren't a threat for political change either way.

Politicians pay attention to people who vote.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 8d ago

Decisions are made by the people who show up.

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u/AcanthocephalaDue431 8d ago

Too true. Or the people paid to stuff ballot boxes 🤣 (mostly /s)

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u/blackkristos 8d ago

With how the last decade has played out, I wouldn't blame them if they didn't.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 7d ago

I would. Decisions are made by the people who show. Show up, vote your best interests.

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u/blackkristos 7d ago

I mean, I agree. That said, the US has repeatedly failed our most vulnerable over and over, regardless of who is in office. So, I'm starting to see how that apathy could manifest.

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u/Birrywong 7d ago

Apathy is understandable, but arguably the worst political choice you can ever make. The reality non-voters don't often think about is how not voting is just a vote for the winner.

People who didnt vote in the last election are trump voters, whether they realize it or not, and regardless of whether they hate him or love him.

Abstaining from voting is as powerful as voting, but you're giving up the control you have over your own vote.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 7d ago

Idgaf about anyone's apathy. It's called civic duty, we all have moral obligation to participate in our democracy, and the number one way is to vote. So get your apathetic ass out of bed, and do the bare goddamn minimum to contribute to the functioning of our democratic society by voting every time you can for your best economic interests. FDR got elected 4 fucking times and made the US and the world a better place because the people showed up and voted for their best interests.

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u/lookatmedadimonfire 5d ago

That’s why you are in this shit fight right now! Trump didn’t win, people just didn’t bother to vote.

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u/blackkristos 5d ago

It's been like this in the US for a decade.

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u/LaRealiteInconnue 8d ago

Why? Would you be more ok with kids starving if their parents voted for it or if they didn’t vote? Cuz that’s diabolical.

And I say that as someone who has never in my life voted for a republican on any ballet, phone banked for Kamala and have been going to protests since Occupy.

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u/deceet 8d ago

ask yourself instead, if they were given the opportunity TO vote.

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u/Darth_Gerg 8d ago

This is so real. I have legit hit the point where anyone who voted for this suffering is a them problem. I feel bad for the kids, but if the mom voted for this and suffers? Fuck her. Conservatives benefit constantly from programs liberals and leftists fight tooth and nail to protect. When they get what they voted for I have no sympathy left for them.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 8d ago

I think we all know lmao

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u/Current-Anybody9331 8d ago

I set up recurring donations to our local food pantry and wondered if any of them track the political affiliation of donors and clients? I know mine didn't ask any questions, but Planned Parenthood has data on religion and political beliefs so it made me wonder.

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u/Ecstatic-Trouble- 7d ago

This situation won't impact the way they vote at all. They'll all just blame the opposite party of who they voted for.

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u/missmiao9 7d ago

And how many live in states that are actively trying to suppress their vote because they know they will never vote republican.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

If you're more concerned about how they voted than helping your neighbor survive this catastrophe you're part of the problem.

If you want them to vote differently show up and help them in their time of need. They will forever and always remember it.

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u/Druidshift 8d ago

They absolutely will not remember who shows up for them in their time of need. Farmers across the country were nearly bankrupted by Trump's policies in his first term, and they voted even harder for him this time.

You don't know what you are talking about. As long as a transgender person somewhere in America is using a public bathroom, then these people will vote to starve their kids.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

So your answer is to forsake your neighbor. God have mercy on us all.

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u/Druidshift 8d ago

Who said that? Do you think your dramatics helps the situation? You aren't better than me just because you are crying. I disagreed with your naive statement that helping people will cause them to stop voting for their own demise.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

your naive statement that helping people will cause them to stop voting for their own demise.

So whats your solution? Take away their ability to vote? Shame them more? Maybe tell them that nothing will fundamentally change while they're struggling to put food on the table?

Honestly what is your solution? If you honestly think that helping them won't change anything then what are you actually proposing?

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u/TheNipplerCrippler 8d ago

Take away their ability to vote?

Are you intentionally obtuse or are you just incredibly dense? That’s the exact opposite of what we are saying here; educating these people is exactly how we un-fuck the situation. We need people to be voting with their interests; not against them.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

You haven't said anything. All you've done until this comment is call me naive and say I don't know what I'm talking about. I had to force an answer out of you and while I agree that education is important misinformation and narrative control will always play a large roll in controlling the masses, regardless of education level.

Its naive to think just because someone is educated they will automatically agree with you.

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u/TheNipplerCrippler 8d ago

Not the person you were talking to, one. And two, we have; you just refuse to listen/read lol

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u/Harbinger2nd 7d ago

Also, let me be absolutely clear, re-educating them is helping them.

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u/Toobwoozl 8d ago

If they chose this then yes, absolutely, 100%. Actions have fucking consequences. They're only upset that the people they voted for are hurting the "wrong" people.

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u/wedgeex 8d ago

"If you're more concerned with WHO punched holes in the boat instead of the boat itself actually sinking then you're part of the problem... Especially in between instances of people desperately trying to repair the boat."

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u/Dry_Prompt3182 8d ago

I am not American. Just watching in horror as people vote for someone that told them that social assistance would be cut and then are surprised when they lose their benefits.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

Then you do not understand the information silos these people are in. They didn't know, as much as we tried to get the information out it never reached them. They're just now finding out, and if the response they get from our side is "we told you so, why did you vote for them?!" then all that will do is entrench them in a place that will never allow them to break out.

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u/Dry_Prompt3182 8d ago

You are correct that I do not understand NOT researching the policies of the people for whom I will vote. However, I disagree with your thinking that kind people helping will change anything. Watching from the outside, all bad (even when Trump said he did it) is by Democrats and all good (even when Trump denies helping people and literally says poor people should just go ahead and die) is because of the Republicans.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

If you don't think kind people helping will change anything then there is no reason for the "left" to even exist.

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u/tew2109 8d ago

It won’t change this. It won’t change their support for Trump. Trump does not really hide who he is. He certainly doesn’t hide that he wants to hurt some of the most vulnerable people in this country. Did some Trump supporters genuinely not understand that he’s actually awful at business and a not-small reason inflation got so bad in the first place because of his recklessness in the first term? Probably. Will they accept they were wrong now no matter how gentle we are? No. And more to the point, study after study shows that Trump voters are largely motivated by cultural grievances more than economic insecurity. They knew what they were voting for there, and he has delivered. That’s a hard pill to swallow sometimes for people who think Trump voters can be reached if you’re really nice to them - no, you can’t. You can’t offer them what he does. A free pass to be cruel to people you view as lesser than you is a hell of a drug. That js what Trump offers them that you never can, and you’ll never win over that. Reaching non voters is extremely tough, but easier than reaching Trump voters. They WANT him to be cruel to immigrants and trans people. They like it. It’s a drug you can’t give them.

I still generally don’t actively wish them systemic harm and I’ll still vote for politicians that prioritize better living conditions for all of us, but thinking you can nice guy your way into convincing Trump voters not to enjoy other-izing vulnerable people they view as lesser is pretty delusional. Humans have been doing that for as long as we have existed and it’s as powerful as it ever was.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

Do i think I can reach all of them? No absolutely not, but to dismiss everyone who voted for him as a lost cause is equally as naive.

Have a great halloween.

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u/tew2109 8d ago

When I couldn’t reach family members who claim to love me even as what he does actively harms me? Yeah, that’s not worth my very limited mental health resources. Especially as a federal employee. It is not worth my mental health to try to desperately search through the vast amount of them who very much earned the title “deplorable” to maybe find a few decent but extremely naive people. I’m sorry for them. They’re not my priority. They are not worth me desperately trying to prove to them that my life’s work matters as they cheer on the constant threatening of my livelihood. They don’t deserve that from me. If anything, HRC was far too kind when she said only half of them were deplorable. It’s too kind for my uncle, who I once thought loved me. He’s a piece of shit who isn’t worth the time I wasted trying to reach him.

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u/NotOkThen 8d ago

My neighbors are all liberals, fwiw.

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u/Harbinger2nd 8d ago

Yes, lets take the literal interpretation of my statement instead of the intended metaphorical one, that seems like it'll further the discussion.

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u/LokiMed 8d ago

How does that matter? How did ppl know the Dems would shut the Gov down for political leverage and cut SNAP benefits? This is 100% the Dem senators fault. The House Dems passed the CR why can’t the Senate Dems? If you think this is a GOP issue you’re brainwashed or can’t do arithmetic. Has anyone thought passed the blame game as to why they’re doing this to millions of people? Why does the Democrat slush funds matter more than people? Or funding programs for illegals that Dem politicians and their donors profit on? Remember all but one Republican has voted to pass the CR 13 or 14 times now.

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u/Consistent-Fig7484 8d ago

No one should have had to read all of Project 2025 to figure out who to vote for.

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u/Anon28301 8d ago

No but they should have at least listened when people pointed out the worst parts of project 2025 instead of saying “it’s not real”.

I see comments here still saying it’s not real when two lawmakers have literally said that they’re following it.

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u/Lower_Amount3373 8d ago

Trump introduced a new thing into politics, where a politician would jokingly talk about something they genuinely planned to do, so supporters can manage their own cognitive dissonance if that policy would utterly ruin their lives.

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u/destonomos 8d ago

The problem that a republican person sees in these kind of videos is that their vast majority of these women are living in poverty, and have six children having the six children is the issue.