Meanwhile, in actual reality, 'Shaniqua' in her urban apartment is subsidizing their suburban welfare queen asses, not the other way around, and that's on top of the actual Welfare the ad says they're getting!

ahh yes, Reagan's welfare queens.

They don't see themselves as part of the problem they are handwaving into a crisis.

They can't put two and two together. If I need this, maybe others do too.

I know these types:

“I need to be on welfare because <reason.> It’s everyone else who’s mooching off the system.”

"I'm not a welfare kween U r a welfare kween 😭"

-magafolk

If the number of single white males abusing the system is miniscule, doesn't that imply that the numbers from smaller demographic groups are even lower? Is there a problem or isn't there, you can't have it both ways.

The stats make black and Hispanic SNAP recipients seem a bit disproportionate but the difference is small enough so as to be easily explained by institutional barriers

Lol where I live there are hardly any black people, mostly white and Asian. The welfare line is still super long. Do these people just think that if black people didn't exist welfare wouldn't be a thing anymore?

I'd rather my tax dollars pay for Brad to be lazy than to pay for missiles that kill the innocent. I'd rather my tax dollars go to funding education and health care than either of those, too.

Brad uses welfare to pay for a refrigerator and a phone with your money, and watches The Price is Right all day long, laughing in a carefree manner. Brad is why you can't get a 9 AM Saturday tee time, and is also why your kids won't speak to you. Brad has access to unlimited viagra, with none of the side effects listed during the Fox Friends commercial break, and a full head of hair, thanks to the welfare state.

Brad is going to get his settlement check one of these days.

I have spent enough time in a very poor town to know that they just don't see this in each other. They all hide their SNAP like they hide their drinking from people at church. They don't pick up on the "learned poverty" shit that they do which is exactly the kind of stuff they identify in the "ghetto."

It's all the same kind of, always having to pick from a bunch of bad choices, not having a good education, sometimes feeling culturally bound to bad habits, etc. The biggest difference as far as I can tell is that they defend and even embrace the conditions as something their father and his father and his father perfected and bestowed upon them, whereas in the hood people are still rightfully angry about being asked to integrate with their oppressors.

yeah but you shouldn't use racist logic to fight against racists, because there's always the implication that sorting by race is somehow useful or good

and of course racists will always backpedal and shift the goalposts, so while there is a need to clarify, you really shouldn't argue along those lines

the real impenetrable argument is "everyone should have food", upgrading to "everyone should have enough good food" when they're being a pedant. they'll still argue with it, but at least you've made your point clear. it's not like american racists care about their image anymore. nowadays they'll probably just say no to that in an effort to look cool and powerful.

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Time to link Ur-Fascism again: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

Everything is projection. They have poor empathy, so when they try to imagine other people they just imagine themselves.

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