Dr. Shawna
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Ms Peg Leg, if you're nasty! :
It may not be fair that they buy a steak on their EBT that one time a month, but it is also not fair that most of them are working jobs that aren't paying a livable wage and they literally NEED EBT to supplement the wage they're earning from billionaires. I'm not tired of paying for the poor, sick, and disabled. I'm tired of paying for billionaires.
2025-10-30 00:43:10
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cass.ieopeia :
My opinion changed when I grew up and realized that my mother chose not to get assistance because of her pride. She was more worried about her pride than making sure I was fed. I still struggle with an eating disorder from food insecurity.
2025-10-30 04:12:22
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ursa_mystic :
Because classism and ableism is deeply ingrained in us as a society, and from that comes the core belief that those “lesser” than us should suffer because we as the better advantaged are suffering but those above us are not. Therefore those “below” us should proportionately suffer more. We punish poorness. And we punish disability. They are the lowest of the low and therefore should be as downtrodden as their position dictates. And I hope you’re right, and the tide is turning toward humanity and that EVERYONE deserves to be housed, fed, and allowed happiness.
2025-10-29 22:27:07
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ₜᵢffₐₙy :
We got food stamps growing up. We never ate out because we couldn’t afford it. So on birthdays, holidays etc we got better food (with EBT) but that was the nicest food we had. Food we still had to cook. Cakes we still had to bake.
2025-10-30 00:44:26
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Julie Beers :
Also, I have worked way harder for a lot less money in my life. If “work” is the standard, I can think of many people who deserve what I have more than I do.
2025-10-30 15:31:27
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BetterOnTheRoad8 :
it matters because it's other people's money.
2025-11-02 23:20:08
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oldluckyduck :
Also there is this assumption that if someone is currently using benefits then they have always been using them and will always use them. I had that road block internally about 10 years ago when I went on unemployment. Society made me feel like it was a moral failing, but no, I had actually been paying into that system for 20 years. It was just my turn to use the benefits instead of paying the benefits.
2025-10-30 13:34:54
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camfelk :
Important lesson from a former elementary teacher… fair is not always equal. If I scrape my elbow, I need a bandage for my elbow. You bump your head, you do not also need a bandage for your elbow. Just something everyone could consider.
2025-10-29 23:29:18
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deconstructinglife :
Becoming disabled has taken me from theoretically knowing that life has value beyond what a person can DO, to having to face that reality and work thru the pain of trying to deeply and genuinely, radically believe that. Turns out, it’s just as hard, or harder even, to accept yourself when you can’t do the things. And if that’s true for one person, it’s true for all people. The ‘virtue’ of being a hard worker is a form of controlling the masses and we are it up.
2025-10-30 03:34:38
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💚💜Us💜💙 :
There is this private school commercial that plays all the time where I’m at and it pmo to no end. It’s asking 2nd graders to describe Charolette from the web you know! How she’s different from Wilber, the kids go on to say they would rather have a self reliant friend because then they would want to work for what they have/want instead of having it given to them. And it’s always bothered me about that book. That Wilber’s made out to be lazy and depressed. And Charolette is so condescending instead of just teaching him things. I mute the commercial when it comes on and the kids and I have a discussion on how every living creature deserves kindness and it doesn’t matter if we can or will get something out of the person or plant or animal. I can not understand this world
2025-10-30 17:34:30
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weekndwitch :
This man was incredibly smart. This is how to challenge capitalism. It’s just incredibly hard for many people to break through that conditioning.
2025-10-29 22:18:25
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Erin Whittington 🥰 :
I think also it boils down to this: People who think that way, like the "fairness" of it ...they think they're better than people who are on food stamps and they think, How dare someone who is less than me have something "better" than me. And when you talk about taxing the wealthy more, they would say things like, "But the wealthy are the ones who create jobs, so we shouldn't do that bc it would affect how many jobs they are providing"
2025-10-30 21:16:27
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Jenni Kuehn :
I don’t think it was ever true the system just brainwashed about what we want to be when we grow up and not what job we want to do
2025-10-29 22:06:09
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Steph :
Something I never hear anyone mention is that when you're living on the knife's edge of starvation, you get REALLY good at budgeting, scrimping, and making do, and so SNAP money can easily cover a couple steaks when you're already used to cooking cheaply. If you've been subsisting on $25/week, making Dollar Tree dinners, then someone hands you enough to spend $100/week, you can hit up the Dollar Tree as usual AND have lobster.
2025-10-30 13:08:13
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Honey Art Cafe :
people are wayyyyy too concerned with fairness in a world where so much is dependent on luck.
2025-11-01 16:17:51
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Reyoncé :
Many billionaires were born into the $$ they didn’t work hard for it! 💯💯💯
2025-11-03 12:15:00
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BingusDingusChingus :
As a teacher these conversations remind me of when kids are focused on another kid getting some needed support and saying that it isn’t fair. And then I have to explain to them the concept of equity.
2025-10-30 13:24:37
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BogartMumphreyTheEighth :
“A fancy restaurant was Fazzolis” that’s generational trauma. I wouldn’t subject anyone to Fazzolis.
2025-10-31 01:53:35
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sharksharkgoose :
i think a lot of ppl are jealous like this bc they don't qualify for help but need it. the answer isn't to take away help from others it's to give more help to the people who are still struggling but not "enough" for the requirements.
2025-10-30 23:45:21
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Christy Lilley305 :
I don't know about anyone else but my family gets SNAP and the only time we have steak is if it happens to be the cheapest meat in the reduced rack. As far as meat goes, we get bigger packages of hamburger and chicken that can be split up into multiple meals and smoked sausage because it's cheap and mixes into different kinds of rice and other things. Yes I buy snacks for my kids but also fruits and veggies and I cook healthy meals.
2025-11-02 13:22:50
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shannaballinger🆘🇺🇸 :
Oh my gosh, Professor Rutledge ❤️❤️❤️I am always so grateful for the English Department we had at WKU. The American Studies course in particular changed my life.
2025-10-30 13:47:15
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mehallya :
Government assistance did not always have the negative perception it does now. It was not until people of color became eligible to receive it that the leach rhetoric and similar sentiments became popular.
2025-10-31 23:24:28
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Ner :
Also Most people on Snap have jobs and are on it for months not years.
2025-10-30 07:12:27
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kasey109 :
I'm an ex-Republican. I realized a couple of years ago that I never allowed myself to just enjoy reading. I was always reading nonfiction because I felt like it was productive because I was learning something. It took me a while to reconcile why I deprived myself and wouldn't read fiction. Not everything you do has to be productive. I'm not simply a sum of my productive hours. I can enjoy a story without guilt now.
2025-10-30 03:27:19
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