TranscriptionA Twitter post by Fuckin' Princess @8WithaTiara that reads “Everybody talking about how poor people shouldn't be able to buy junk food on food stamps.. Well, I don't think billionaires oughta be able to buy 14-year-olds on private islands.. But here we are.”

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[–] 19 points 1 year ago

Calvinism did a number on this country. "Good things happen to good people" -> "Bad things happen to bad people" -> "If you are poor you probably deserve it, so we shouldn't help you" -> "It's okay to give money to billionaires, they wouldn't be billionaires if they weren't good people".

Corollary: "Even though poor people are bad and I'm broke, that doesn't mean I'm a bad person. I'm just a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire, thus a good person, so it's okay to help me specifically. But not the poor, they're bad."

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