The average cost to American taxpayers for SNAP/food stamps is $36/year. (TikTok screencap)

  • daannii@lemmy.world
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    Most of the people bitching about this are people who get welfare.

    I’m from poor white trash rural Midwest.

    Everyone there gets welfare. Everyone there constantly complains that so and so doesn’t deserve it.

    They also bitch quite a lot how the black people dont deserve it. Even though there are like zero black people in the area. So they know zero black people. But somehow they know that lots of black people are abusing the system.

    It’s this whole. “I don’t have anything because other poor people are strealing it”.

    I’m pretty sure it’s just projection.

    Like. They would steal if they could so they think everyone else is.

    It’s frustrating to deal with such people but at the same time I do acknowledge that poverty can cause hostility.

    I believe the term is called "scarcity of resources " in social psych studies. ?

    Lucky for me, my grandfather is hella left liberal. So when I have to visit family for holidays I spend most of my time with him. And he likes that I listen and agree with him about how everyone around him is a bigot.

    Yes Grandpa. They are.

    He also really hates Trump. I mean. He gets fired up. “That Son of a bitch” is his name for him.