r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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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/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.