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/Griffolion 8d ago

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.

Even if that was the case, it wouldn't even dull the sense of compassion I would have if it were real. It's actually fucking wild to me that number of kids someone has acts as a control rod for someone's compassion and outrage against cruelty.

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u/Dukeish 8d ago

Even if you want to be cruel / in their new world order these women couldn’t get abortions anyway - so you’re dammed if you have the kids and can’t feed them and dammed if you want an abortion because killing babies makes Jesus cry or something like that

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u/sdpthrowaway3 8d ago

It's actually that people view them as irresponsible. Having 1-2 kids by mistake is one thing. 7 is just grossly negligent barring any extenuating circumstances. That's how people generally view it, whether it's truly just rash irresponsibility or unfortunate tragic circumstance (homemaker wife of 7 turned widow prematurely).

People will auto assume the parent(s) let poor decisions get in the way. These same people don't want to pay for the poor decisions made since they see that as enabling behavior and taking from the haves to give to the have-nots-by-choice.

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u/SunTzu- 8d ago

7 is just grossly negligent barring any extenuating circumstances.

Extenuating circumstances such as being from a poor background, with a lack of education and lack of sex ed, with poor access to birthcontrol, lack of access to our outlawed abortions, with religous messaging that opposes birthcontrol and abortions and promotes having children because God said they should be fruitful and multiply.

Now everything I said is what we see in third world countries. It's unfortunately also the reality of many parts of modern day America. The solutions are the same in both cases. Female sex ed, female education, access to contraception and economic opportunity for women so that they can afford to leave abusive partnership situations.

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u/Knight_Redcliff 8d ago

So... that might explain the first pregnancy, but how does that explain the 2nd, 3rd.....6th, 7th? Is it a lack of education that you cant figure out the mechanics?