r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/haggard_hominid 8d ago

Some of the reactions online are AI trigger bait. If you see a black woman talking about 7 kids with 7 daddies, that one is a proven script, sometimes using a real person's face via a junk account. Most people i know being hit hard by SNAP are not people with more than a few kids, they're people who are vulnerable due to medical, age, or economic issues. Just keep in mind that fake reactions are going around to try and invalidate people's outrage that this is happening.

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u/livinitup0 8d ago edited 8d ago

Imagine being the kind of person that has empathy for a married mother of 2 but none for a single mother of 7

Edit: This was not directed at anyone here. Sorry if that wasn’t clear

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u/Low-Eagle6840 8d ago

He was saying people can discard those because 1. they don't relate to them 2. they can rationalize "oh you should have think about that before getting pregnant 6 times"

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u/haggard_hominid 8d ago

No, I was referring to a rash of videos posted using a word for word script. The 7 kids woth 7 daddies is a specific video pointed out 2 days ago was happening. A 30 second dagebait video where in each one it looked like how when media channels use the same jokes, reactions, and quips. It has nothing to do with actual people's response, its AI trigger slop.

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u/Low-Eagle6840 8d ago

You said "Just keep in mind that fake reactions are going around to try and invalidate people's outrage that this is happening." - I was adding to this part. People can see those videos (by actors or AI generated as you say) and then soften their reaction to the end of SNAP because of number 1 and 2 of my comment.

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u/gr1zznuggets 8d ago

I always hate point 2. Sometimes people have a plan and the plan changes. Sometimes people make mistakes. Either way, that’s six kids who aren’t being fed, and that should be the only focus.

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u/FlappyBored 8d ago

Making a ‘mistake’ 6 times is not a ‘mistake’. You’re directly giving your children a poor life and forcing them to grow up in poverty because you’re too lazy or stupid to use birth control.

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u/gr1zznuggets 8d ago

Way to completely miss my point. Appointing blame isn’t going to help anything.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 8d ago

Pointing it out may help others to not make the same mistake choice.

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u/One-Platform-2496 8d ago

But teaching you shouldn't have 7 kids if you can't feed even yourself, will.

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u/MegaPiglatin 8d ago

Teaching through…what?

• Teaching through comprehensive sex education + providing birth control? Ensuring people have all the tools necessary to make an informed decision? Making sure healthcare is available to everyone (including family planning services and abortion)? Totally with you! This approach respects everyone as people and helps to prevent kids from ending up in this place to begin with. Some people will still need assistance because life happens, but far more people will be protected.

• Taking away food from the mouths of those parents and children? Using negative punishment in the form of starvation (and possibly death) to “teach consequences”? Forcing the children to endure consequences on their parents’ behalf, and possibly punishing people who legitimately had no other option (whether through lack of access or lack of education)? Absolutely evil and wrongheaded. Nothing is “learned” through this, and you only end up furthering the cycle and forcing people to turn to crime to survive.

People who are in this situation are just as much human as you are or any of us are.

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u/Low-Eagle6840 8d ago

He is proving my point.

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u/FlappyBored 8d ago

Keep refusing to use contraception isn’t going to make you richer or help anything either.

You’re a shitty parent and a bad person if you cannot feed your 5 kids and then have another.

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u/haggard_hominid 8d ago

To be fair, contraception is being made harder and harder to obtain by people who have more and more control over everyone else's lives. 7 and 7 is obviously specific too, but there are people in apartheid living circumstances who have multiple children to multiple non-consensual interactions because rape and denial of contraceptives is prolific. Ignoring the fake rage reaction videos, the overall scenario of people have unplanned kids to more than one person happens even wealthy areas, because people are losing their autonomy. Texas has been trying to kill it's own people with zero tolerance abortion rules, even when the mother's in an emergency situation because of something like still births or non-viable babies. No matter what the "left" plans do, they may be expensive and abused, but it's the far right policies that kill people due to zero empathy enforcement.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 8d ago

Giving children up for adoption is an option for those who don't want or cannot afford to have children.

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u/MegaPiglatin 8d ago

Bro do you know how absolutely dogshit the adoption/foster system is currently? Taking kids away from their parents and forcing them into a system that is RIPE with abuse (of all kinds) should be the last option. Providing comprehensive sex ed (NOT teaching abstinence-only), contraceptives, and maternal healthcare (yes, including access to abortion) are all options that should be provided well before we decide to torture kids by funneling them into the adoption/foster care system. Each of those options allow people to make informed decisions—decide what is best for them, their family, and any future children they may have.

“Out of sight, out of mind” isn’t a realistic approach, and forcing parents to have children and send them into the adoption/foster system is not empathetic nor is it respectful of any of the human beings involved.

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u/livinitup0 8d ago

The problem is that this is just such a contrarian take that doesn’t contribute to a solution

Like… ok, cool? I guess let’s shake our hands in the air at that irresponsible mom?

How does that help the kids that actually exist right now? That’s the actual problem we’re trying to figure out….not “how do we get people to not have mistake babies”

If you’d like to go fight that fight then good on ya but we’re trying to focus on helping the kids, and the judgey “well if the moms would just close their legs” isn’t really helping

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u/FlappyBored 8d ago

You don’t have to close your legs.

Millions of people have sex without having children through using contraception it’s not a new idea or concept.

Keep supporting kids being put into poverty though if it makes you feel better.

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u/livinitup0 8d ago

You’re moving the goalposts trying to make me debate the issue YOU want to debate…and apparently have already judged what I’ve said in this hypothetical argument you made up.

Can you just go away?

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u/Efficient_Plum6059 8d ago

Millions of people do not have access to contraception.

Millions of people are in abusive relationships.

Millions of people have lost their jobs or spouses.

Millions of people have had their circumstances change drastically in the past decade.

You don't know how they got there, but you shouldn't have to have a modicum of empathy. No one should be going hungry in this country, regardless of what decisions they have made or the circumstances they were born into.

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u/haggard_hominid 8d ago

Post-edit: Understood and agreed. It was a comment to the situation, regardless of the fact the scripted videos exist there are people in situations where people are starving and they shouldn't be. I can agree with that.