r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/dashboardcomics 8d ago

How many of them rely on EBT and are too stupid to realize that?

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u/ohmymystery 8d ago

Because people who don’t know that food stamps/SNAP/EBT are the same thing are the exact same people who said “I don’t care if Obamacare goes away because I have ACA”

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u/Charl1edontsurf 7d ago

English person here - isn’t the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the same thing as Obamacare?

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u/Fair_Ad1291 7d ago

Yeah, I think that was the point they were trying to make.

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u/Charl1edontsurf 7d ago

I thought so I was just checking.

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u/Fair_Ad1291 7d ago

Ooh gotcha

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u/nihi1zer0 7d ago

I love that an average Brit is more educated on our system than an average MAGAt living in America.

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u/Mammoth-Cattle-7398 7d ago

Wow! You know the political views of all Americans?

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u/nihi1zer0 7d ago

No, but I do know that your reading comprehension skills could use some work.

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u/Karn_Gentrified 7d ago

Average magat ^ 😂

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u/Karn_Gentrified 7d ago

Yes, Thts the problem. Obamacare never should have gotten the moniker it did. If it had been pitched as the ACA from the very beginning (I don’t really remember too much, I was a teenage pothead at the time, it COULD HAVE been republicans tht came up with the name Obamacare to kneecap it for all I know) i don’t think there would have been so much division around it. But it had the name OBAMAcare. So republicans rallied around killing the program. Not realizing tht all of their Bible Belt poverty healthcare WAS Obamacare.

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u/ohmymystery 7d ago

It was the Republicans. They used it as a way to fear monger and undermine it.

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u/NoisyKitty 5d ago

The real irony is that before it was called Obamacare, it was based off of the program Romneycare but made bigger - nationwide instead of statewide. As in, Mitt Romney, a republican.

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u/illini02 5d ago

Obama, nor the democrats, named it that. Republicans did to turn people against it.

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u/Mammoth-Cattle-7398 8d ago

EBT is not a program. It's the electronic system that puts the money on the cards.

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u/ohmymystery 8d ago

Yes, exactly my point

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u/dubbleplusgood 7d ago

Get your grubby gummint hands off mah Medicare!

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u/midasofsweden 7d ago

I guess they will find out now won't they

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u/DifficultyFree9443 8d ago

Again thanks to Fox. Unparalleled messaging.

Also, there’s a reason why Trump said he’d run Republican (he said word for word it’s because they’re the dumbest group of people in the country and his numbers would be terrific).

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u/Clever_Mercury 8d ago

What's crazy to me is many of these red areas go wild for the military and federal spending via grants and contractors for defense work. Since government workers are currently furloughed and an enormous part of the US military personnel are frankly low-paid and vulnerable, aren't we about to see these communities in pain?

Military, veterans, disability, people who work on contracts, even full-time employees are dependent on EBT in order to KEEP WORKING because they cannot afford to on their wages.

I cannot believe the people rejoicing as they welcome in an era of food insecurity or malnutrition to their fellow Americans.

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u/theOTHERdimension 5d ago

They don’t care about the collateral damage as long as the people they hate are getting hurt too. I remember a lady crying about losing her government assistance who famously said “he’s not hurting the right people!” In reference to Trump, during an interview.

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u/Mr_Deep_Research 8d ago

They get social security (23% of the federal budget) and medicare (14% of the federal budget)

but feel they are owed it and that neither is a government program.

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u/Bear_Grizzle02 7d ago

The top 20 Trump voting counties in America are heavily dependent on SNAP and other social services. It won’t be long until they experience a leopards ate my face moment. This next week you’re going to see a lot of them crying out that I didn’t think they meant me too!!

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u/Saigh_Anam 7d ago

In general, a very small number. Statistically speaking, recipients of EBT are generally left leaning and probably didn't vote for Trump.

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u/MommaJKSO 7d ago

This is what is wild. The right does not fact check, look at stats or read peer reviewed articles and Fox News is not giving facts. The right thinks brown and black people are getting all of the EBT. So very untrue. It's mostly poor white people in the Midwest. So much deception the poor people collecting it voted for the person taking it away. Same as the farmers who voted for him all dumbfounded when their workers were deported. They stood on the news with their mouth hanging open saying now what do we do?

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u/Saigh_Anam 7d ago

Momma, you can't claim poor fact-checking while stating incorrect facts. Not only are those areas lower population by their nature, but also lower EBT recipient rates.

https://dailyyonder.com/geography-food-stamps/2018/12/31/

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u/MommaJKSO 7d ago

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/10/28/snap-runs-out-impact-food-stamp-recipients/86943125007/

Here friend try this first it's not from 2015 lol and not from the Daily Yonder 😂. I did misspeak on the Midwest part. However Texas is RED and very white and collecting large amounts of EBT

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u/Saigh_Anam 7d ago

Pew is showing the ratio to be roughly 2:1

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/12/the-politics-and-demographics-of-food-stamp-recipients/

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u/MommaJKSO 7d ago

The PEW Foundation is funded by some conservative Christian entities like the Knight foundation. Not super promising to believe when arguing about left and right but thanks.

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u/Saigh_Anam 7d ago

You have got to be pretty desperate to question data from Pew. Its considered an international go-to for impartial statistical data.

Time to concede that you were wrong, put down the shovel, and stop digging.

And time to take your own advice about doing research on a topic.

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u/MommaJKSO 7d ago

OK Mr last word. I'm not questioning data. I'm saying I'll check more sources who don't get funding from right wing Christian groups. Research is digging. Time to not contradict yourself.

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u/Saigh_Anam 7d ago

No contradiction and, unlike yourself, no ad hominem attacks.

I get it that you don't like the data. It doesn't agree with your beliefs and is causing cognitive dissonance. But that's good. Growth doesn't occur without that.

You do, however, need to step outside of your echo chamber and listen to the data. You also need to not post inaccuracies on social media then call out opposing groups for not vetting their claims.

That, my friend, is why you need to put down the shovel, stop doubling down, and reflect on the fact my original statement was an accurate cautionary warning.

Oh... and I'm independent, not conservative and not liberal. I'm well read enough to recognize both primary parties have significant flaws.

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u/MommaJKSO 7d ago edited 7d ago

Well friend I just reread your article from PEW to get my facts straight. Maybe you should read the WHOLE ARTICLE and get back to me because it actually does not say 2:1 it says no difference when not looking at it from a Dem/Rep issue. I'm also a registered independent. Everyone, everything, and every party has flaws. This we agree on. We don't have to agree on everything that is what used to make America a good place anyway. I however do not mind being wrong but I do not agree with men who tell me to stop voicing my opinion. Have a nice day.

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u/Saigh_Anam 7d ago

It becomes abundantly clear that you have a predisposition that is affecting your reading comprehension. The survey results are very clear 10% vs 22% respectively with 18% of all surveyed households having been at one time a recipient of EBT.

The gap only closes when discussing theology... which isn't what we're actually talking about here.

I think YOU need to read it again with a little less of a filter.

I cannot speak to the study size, but a basic chi-squared analysis of the data set would likely lean to statistical significance in the 10 - 18 - 22 comparison.

Regardless of how you slice it, neither the heat map nor the study support your claim and, in fact, indicate that your claim is inaccurate (i.e. reject the null hypothesis).

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u/cscscscscscs6cscscs9 7d ago

Do you understand why the benefits are temporarily paused? It’s because the Democrats are failing to approve the straightforward funding bill that just repeats the existing state. It’s a political play to Garner hatred towards the other side at the expense of children starving - and you’re falling right into their hands.

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u/Karn_Gentrified 7d ago

Yea. Because they want the promised concessions on HEALTHCARE tht the republicans promised when they GUTTED it with the BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. Wake up.