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    Love it when they turn on their own:

    Sarah Huckabee never had a real job. Her daddy was a two-time governor. She never worked in the private sector. She never served in the military. Her entire qualification was her daddy,” the influencer added. “Maybe she should be cut off the taxpayer funds and get a job as a waitress.

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    And black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule,” posted Matt Walsh.

    Matt Walsh doesn’t know how numbers work…

    Most people on welfare identify as white, so pick any random welfare recipient, and statistically they’re gonna be white.

    I don’t know what them being single has to do with it, sounds like he just immediately started defending incels…

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      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

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      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.

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          Why are black people so good at white-collar crime and beating red-tape?

          Just tell me what color I’m mad at!

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            This is being saved and sent to my mom the next time she opens her bigot (and, coincidentally, welfare-receiving) mouth.

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          I understand that millions of dollars are being wasted going after a “miniscule” number of abusive recipients, and that it’s dumb to do so when the money could be better spent elsewhere.

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    The biggest welfare recipients are wealthy white guys. Remember when Brett Farve directed $5mil to his daughter’s school and then got another million for speaking fees from public funds?

    And that’s nothing compared to how much we subsidize billionaires and their corporations. Hell, Wal-Mart, an Arkansas based company, directs their employees to sign up for Medicaid instead of paying a living wage despite the Walton family having a net worth over $500 billion.

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    Brad exists. He drives a Cadillac and uses his food stamps to buy steak and lobster. All while popping out kids he can’t support and listens to the rap music.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    Pick a lane!

    Brown people took all the jobs
    or
    Brown people are all on welfare

    Which is it?!?

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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.

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    LOL, the reality doesn’t match their feels.

    I seem to remember these people screaming stuff like “facts don’t care about your feelings”. Meanwhile, they have so many feelings about so many things that are just wrong.

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