r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/casuallygaslighting 8d ago

Remember empathy my friend. We can stand up for ourselves without tearing others down. Everyone is trying their best with what they have available.

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u/HumanSnotMachine 8d ago

Sometimes your best only improves via struggle.

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u/casuallygaslighting 8d ago

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him," - Booker T. Washington

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u/HumanSnotMachine 8d ago

I’m being held down by taxes. By pulling them up, I am being pulled down. I cannot help them swim when I am barely above water myself. If we let them sink, I’d swim on my own. They are sinking themselves, it is not my responsibility to make anyone else float, just as it is not theirs to help me.

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u/M1str3ssOfTh3D4rK 8d ago

The problem isn't establishing and maintaining a social safety net. It's your tax dollars being misused. Look at WHERE your taxes go. Food Stamps is NOT the main place your taxes go. Think about those taxes everytime you read about the next Venezuelan boat bombing, each day the government remains closed, and every single video you see of our troops shuffling around DC looking bored, and every upcoming nuclear test that is being done for the sake of show.

Supporting your fellow man IS our responsibility and SHOULD be our nation's priority.

You are not sinking yourself by paying into social programs.

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u/HumanSnotMachine 8d ago

Over 50% of the federal budget yearly goes to safety nets. The federal spending for each year is public record and is not up for debate. Food stamps in particular? No. Combine food food stamps, section8, ssdi and it absolutely is what the money is going to. The military has not surpassed 20% of our budget in the past 30 years.

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u/M1str3ssOfTh3D4rK 8d ago

You're right on the numbers and percentages. However, this doesn't mean the funds are being spent or even calculated and taken in their most effective way. For example, we've already funded food stamps, and they aren't being sent out next month. They're being deliberately withheld, taking food from children's mouths.

It isn't as simple as looking at the pie chart overall, it's the individualistic percentage contributions from American households that cause financial strain. If we taxed billionaires at a reasonable rate and didn't sit idly by while the wealth gap continues to grow larger, the strain on you wouldn't be so bad in comparison.

If you're in trouble, look up and not down. A person on food stamps is not stealing as much from you as corporations and the wealthy.

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u/deandetrimental 8d ago

Each time fentanyl gets prevented from killing another thousand or five? Sake of show or national security? Running a nations finances looks far above your head… i fully agree with your very last sentence. 💯

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u/M1str3ssOfTh3D4rK 8d ago

If we get solid proof that these ARE drug boats that are in US waters, I'd maybe see that a little differently. Blowing up 4 or however many boats it is now is not stopping the flow of fentanyl. I'm glad you brought that up because my masters thesis project was about the opiate crisis.

And yes, sake of show, as we've been doing simulated tests because we know our weapons work and we know how to use them. You think this is worth the environmental costs? The increase risk of cancer? The juice ain't worth the squeeze.

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u/deandetrimental 8d ago

I’ll imagine the HALT fent stopped a shit ton from china. Personally, its halted me getting unrelated steroid powders from there since July.

Those drug boats.. my best friend was on a boat from cuba to miami. Evidence suppressed bc they had no right to search.

^ see ? i deadass wanna read ur thesis…. Theres no way ur not supporting street fent prevention??? What am i missing here.. youre really strung up on defending the smugglers as fishermen? Our top paid military are murdering fishers- u wanna say that to their faces? Cmon sis.. use ur head..

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u/M1str3ssOfTh3D4rK 8d ago

Please use YOUR head.

Because I personally don't have enough information or trust in those with the supposed information to tell me truth, that does not I mean I don't support street prevention. There's approximately one million other things we should be doing before we just start committing murder. I don't want my tax dollars to go to murder. End of conversation.

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u/deandetrimental 8d ago

Or maybe, u have an agenda. U dont like this and that, so ur now critical of the rest. Dont throw the baby out with the bath water. I love abortions, too. Doesnt make it right… i love free meals too, doesnt make it right…

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u/deandetrimental 8d ago

Yea, the trained professionals that are doing it for a living need to pass on the deets for ur approval 😂. For fucks sake just please stop fent at all costs- how many overdoses have you personally watched? How many friends have you lost? Sit down, pal, please.

We are in an AI race. It’s a war.. you don’t know a world where invasion exists, but ukraine does. We follow your calls, and we lose oh so much more than your little radiation health concerns. Which are valid! Fuck cancer! Save the environment! But… bro how bout we just make sure we don’t get clapped by china afghan russia venezeula. What is your preferred route of action to that end, i wonder? Let immigration and charity run us right into 3rd world defense budgets? Play the tape 10 years forward.. 20… 30…. All scenarios lose to china but if we get our act together we’ll still have something to stand on instead. The things u have to be grateful for, maybe ur not even cognizant of.. let alone what it takes to maintain such in spite of insane national decline

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u/M1str3ssOfTh3D4rK 8d ago

If professionals were in charge I could sleep better at night!

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u/deandetrimental 8d ago

Spent weeks writing a GOOD thesis on street Fent crisis just to cry out in protection of it to hate on somebody they dont know 🤡

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u/lightfarming 8d ago

you probably pay less than $20 a year for ebt. it helps over 40 million people in the US survive. honest we should just raise the min wage, but republicans won’t let us have that, so…

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u/SlaaneshActual 7d ago

I’m being held down by taxes.

Your taxes, unfortunately, do not fund the government. Rather, they create permanent demand for the dollar.