I’m formally requesting that the trump administration not be given food until the shutdown is over.
I think they should all be given extra holes to enjoy more oxygen flow through thier systems.
agrees in a way that keeps me off a watchlist
If you’re NOT on a government watch list by now, you should be ashamed of yourself.
“To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
Martin Luther King Jr
In surveilance capitalism, there is no “list”. Everyone, everywhere is surveiled.
Why is he so against feeding the poor?
I have to credit a random Redditor from 10 years back or so that had some excellent analysis I haven’t seen elsewhere or since. This Redditor’s thesis was that the GOP have two core concepts:
- Society is zero-sum. For someone to gain something, someone else must lose something.
- Each person has a certain class level in society and that each person should stay in their class. If you are poor, you should stay poor. If you are rich you should stay rich. Attempting to move up into a higher level class should be restricted by any means of government possible.
Looking at these two together explain nearly every GOP initiative or position. So lets apply it to your question:
Why is he so against feeding the poor?
Applying the first concept: For the poor to be fed (gain), those that are not poor have to pay (loss). The GOP in power are largely rich, so they see the poor being able to eat through SNAP as a personal loss to the GOP.
Applying the second concept: SNAP may allow someone to spend what little other non-SNAP money they have on things that would advance them into a higher social class such as:
- more education to be able to earn more for higher skilled work
- more efficient transportation allowing them to access higher paying jobs either farther away or at more available hours
- specialized tools that could be used to earn higher income
So the GOP don’t want the poor to be fed because they believe the poor should be poor and stuck there forever.
So what you’re saying is they’re sociopathic monsters?
I can’t even tell if I’m being sarcastic. One question: what did they say about the poor also seemingly voting to remain poor?
To quote Trump: “We won with the poorly educated, I love the poorly educated”.
Also that LBJ quote: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
The “logic” that anyone on SNAP is capable of paying their way up the “ladder” is complete horseshit. (though I know you phrased it as what the 1% believe, not reality in any way) Also, there is no ladder.
The “logic” that anyone on SNAP is capable of paying their way up the “ladder” is complete horseshit.
By his own admission, the mother of JD Vance (VP) was on that era’s equivalent of SNAP (Food Stamps). Her son became a US Senator and now sitting VP.
“He explained, “I was raised in a working-class family. My mother required food assistance for periods of her life. My grandmother required Social Security help to raise me. And she raised me in part because my own mother struggled with addiction for a big chunk of my early life. I went to college on the GI Bill after I enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in Iraq.””
The key word here is “paying”. Nothing you provided in reply qualifies for that term. He’s simply jumped from hand-out to hand-out and clearly has been looking for a way sneak out onto the upper crust the whole time.
The key word here is “paying”. Nothing you provided in reply qualifies for that term.
I’m not following you here, please clarify. The only time I used the term “pay” was in the context of the zero sum example. I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to. The next time “paying” is used is you saying it. So I guess I need to ask what you mean when you said “paying their way up the ‘ladder’”. Can you explain what you’re meaning there?
Nah. I’m spent. This bullshit is all too real for me and carrying on with fellow rando anons online is only hammering the dark AF reality that nothing is ever going to change. We just get used to the new fuckery every generation. Cheers.
Republicans want a hopeless electorate as someone who is facing desperation more likely to compromise against their own best interests to meet short term needs
Also authoritarians can’t stand any challenge to their absolute authority.
They don’t like him and can’t give him money. So they need to die.
No, they do, both. They need to be kept poor and desperate.
Wow, they really just want people to starve, huh?
Yes. Republicans are the party of hate and suffering.
Are you religious? Then these “people” can be described as demons.
Not religious? These “people” can still be described as demons.
Most empires start to collapse when they can’t or refuse to feed the poor.
We want to starve poor people and kids lol.
– this fucking “government”
Spending taxpayer money to force the courts to obey his decision to starve Americans in need.
Totally patriotic!
40% of SNAP recipients are children. I guess it’s par for course that a pedophile would want to abuse kids in one way or another.
Appeals court
Be metal
