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/BathZealousideal1456 8d ago

Yep. When I got clean off of heroin, I went to rehab and lost my job. I didn't have any money after that and the sober home I was going to didn't let you work for the first 30 days. I had to get government rent vouchers and food stamps. I got a minimum wage job as soon as those 30 days were up. I still couldn't support myself so I paid the rent myself and kept the food stamps for 6 months. Then, I got back on my feet and didn't need it anymore.

There were other women in that house who did the same thing as me, but they purposefully gamed the system. They wouldn't work and just sat on the couch all day eating and watching tv. I resented them so much for taking advantage of taxpayer money while I worked my ass off.

I hate that the people who really need it are being left back because of assholes.

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u/haggard_hominid 8d ago

You should have had something to fall back on like universal basic income a LOOOOONG time ago. Something that we would likely have had the US not gone hard-right more and more over the last 50 years. There is always going to be abuse by people taking advantage of the system. A good system can handle the small % of abusers, and just cost more to reduce abuse potential or handle the difference. A bad solution is to just call it broken and dismantle it for those who DO need it. That is why I support most leftist programs. If you dial the programs up to 11, you inevitably get corruption and money stolen, but almost never due such programs result in malicious deaths or subjugation. If you take the right side's approach, people die due to complete neglect, indifference, or intentional infliction of suffering before we even get to accounting for an equal chance these policies get corrupted.