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A Twitter post by Fuckin’ Princess @8WithaTiara that reads “Everybody talking about how poor people shouldn’t be able to buy junk food on food stamps… Well, I don’t think billionaires oughta be able to buy 14-year-olds on private islands… But here we are.”
I agree it’s weirder that people don’t recognize poor people as humans with human needs.
It’s ok to stop and get a $7 coffee sometimes and still be poor. You are allowed to spend $100 at a bar and be poor. Not everyone is mismanaging their money that got them to be poor, some of them grew up in it and stay that way.
Some poor people know there is no miracles going to pull them out of a shitty situation, doesn’t mean they need to live a life of fucking toil and despair. Everyone needs to get off their fucking backs for enjoying a moment of what most well off folks get to enjoy without a thought.
mental health is one of the most important things to people picking themselves up, dusting themselves off, and getting back on their feet
entertainment - as much as “we” deride people spending “our tax money” on fun - is, imo, a human right in the category of “life, liberty and happiness”
Calvinism did a number on this country. “Good things happen to good people” -> “Bad things happen to bad people” -> “If you are poor you probably deserve it, so we shouldn’t help you” -> “It’s okay to give money to billionaires, they wouldn’t be billionaires if they weren’t good people”.
Corollary: “Even though poor people are bad and I’m broke, that doesn’t mean I’m a bad person. I’m just a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire, thus a good person, so it’s okay to help me specifically. But not the poor, they’re bad.”
For reals. Privileged people only think equality encroaches on their freedom when actually it looking out for your neighbor. But I hear God is into hating your neighbors now a days