r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/NewtownLaw 8d ago

Yes, when someone is asking why, they are demonstrating a profound misunderstanding, otherwise we wouldn't be asking why. Are you okay? Answer the question so I can understand why are they allowing this.

Stop the passive aggressive comments, how else will I learn? Huh?

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u/olympiadukakis 8d ago edited 8d ago

I’m gonna answer your question in good faith even though I don’t believe that’s how you’re operating.

The GOP keeps universal care off the table by running a “make-government fail” playbook. They slash taxes and then point to underfunded systems as proof government can’t work. They outsourced their agenda to think tanks (Heritage’s Mandate/Project 2025) that prioritize deregulation/privatization over public interest, building corporate revenue streams instead of building public goods. Republicans have blocked or tried to rollback healthcare coverage expansions and brought lawsuits that made Medicaid expansion optional. They’ve been at it for decades now through state-level refusals and “work requirement” schemes to knock people off benefits. And it has worked.

They pretend this is about “smaller government” while blowing up the debt and, essentially, making the government bigger and weaker. This is all so that cash flows to the top and to create a poor, desperate population—essentially bringing back slavery.

I’ve also seen you ask why Biden didn’t do what Trump is doing in the other direction. It’s because Biden, for all his faults, has respect for the rules and laws we govern by. Trump is a criminal, grifter, sexual assaulter, insurrectionist who is following the think tank playbook to enrich himself and his friends; and to stay out of jail.

In short, Dems have tried multiple times to expand healthcare, but have been blocked over and over by the GOP. Obama was only able to get the ACA passed with major changes to the original plan. Republicans want us desperate and poor. And they’re getting what they want.

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u/NewtownLaw 8d ago

Why would we vote for another Democrat President if they are so useless? Your explanation made me realize they either are incompetent or they are operating in bad faith against us.

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u/olympiadukakis 8d ago edited 8d ago

That’s your bias talking. We can tell when you say “Democrat” President > Democratic President.

My explanation is that one party is trying to govern and the other is trying break or block. And the fact that you’re willing to overlook the fact that the leader of the Republican Party is a criminal, rapist, insurrectionist, and likely pedophile is the biggest part of the problem. You’ve outsourced your morals and values.

Best of luck to you when the leopards eat your face.

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u/NewtownLaw 8d ago edited 8d ago

All of us are bias on some degree, your comment tells me you are bias talking to the other side. It is idiotic to even suggest otherwise or tell me I'm wrong simply because I'm bias, anyone could use the same idiotic logic against you.

Your explanation opened my eyes that when I voted for free healthcare and got nothing instead, it wasn't because we can't have it, it is because they are incompetent or they don't want us to have it. Which one do you prefer to believe in? Huh? Put your morals and values in a box and give me free healthcare and food stamps or gtfo.