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[–] Z3k3 126 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You know what's mad. My brother in law on benefits blames other people on different benefits

[–] Brunbrun6766 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Disabled veteran relative who gets mad about other disabled people parking in handicap parking....

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should have ten different levels of handicap parking passes and then we could watch them all fight.

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[–] EvilEyedPanda 27 points 1 year ago

My step dad, on disability for his knees, yelling about single mothers getting food stamps.

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[–] cynar 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Like a tortoise without a shell on.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

nothing makes a rich man feel better about himself than watching peasants fight over scraps

[–] AWistfulNihilist 13 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, when the food is bad in prison you don't blame the other inmates.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

HOBO FIGHT!!!!

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[–] EvilEyedPanda 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same as the immigrants aren't stealing your job, the greedy capitalist are giving those jobs to immigrants to cut down their bottom line, and they love nothing more when you blame the immigrants.

[–] just_change_it 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Immigrants spend less on frivolous bullshit and send money to other countries. Businesses lose out on that end, especially tech companies and wealthy industries.

Manufacturing and manual labor jobs love immigrants because they can pay them minimum wage for horrible working conditions compared to your typical minimum wage 3rd+ generation white worker.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Benefits" is a grotesque use of the word. Whoever came up with the idea of calling social security "Benefits" is an evil genius.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there's nothing inherently wrong with the word "benefits" anyway. It's a positive word. people have come to villianize the word, associating it with those who mooch off the government. But no. benefits are not a bad thing, and people who receive them are not bad people. I agree with the John krasinski meme up there. Rich people are the enemy. poor people are the victims and deserve all the "benefits" they can possibly get.

edit: changed the word "demonize" to "villainize" which was on the tip of my tongue but it took me two days for the right word to come to me. I'm quite pleased with my brain for finally getting it. That's why I'm including this loquacious edit.

[–] 2deck 4 points 1 year ago

Implies benefits for doing or being able to do no work. Insensitive and inflamatory.

'Welfare' and 'income assistance' are terms more commonly used in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we see a version that reads “the rich refusing the pay their fair share…”?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make the memes you wanna see in the world!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

they'rethesamepicture.jpg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That and they're working on every way to drain you tax money too

Infuriating video about mounjaro weight loss shots potentially bankrupting medicaid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjAhDQKpS0&pp=ygUieW91dHViZSBtb3VuamFybyBiYW5rcnVwdCBtZWRpY2FpZA%3D%3D

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And the irony is that "I pulled myself up by my bootstraps" literally used to be an idiom about blatantly lying that you did something impossible before the boomers appropriated it.

[–] mdurell 7 points 1 year ago

I pulled myself up by my bootstraps. Of course, I was privileged enough to actually have boots with straps. It seems fewer and fewer people have these anymore and that's a damn shame.

[–] crystalmerchant 7 points 1 year ago

fuck yeah. This is the dumbest shit. Allowing entrenched media structures, virtually always owned by corporate interests, to shape who the boogeyman is. Tip: it's never the corporate interests who control the entrenched media structures.

[–] youngGoku 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Can grab those bootstraps if you can’t afford boots 🤷‍♂️

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