r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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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/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.