• Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I heard a lady ranting about these same fake anecdotes a few years ago and finally interrupted to tell her, look, I’m on food stamps, and it’s not nearly enough, and the restrictions are so arbitrary and punitive that you can’t even get hot food, and if you wanted to trade SNAP benefits for drugs you wouldn’t get very many drugs at all. She said, “Oh, I wasn’t talking about you, because you’re educated.” Even when they think they’re dialing it back they manage to go in weirder, even more offensive directions. Needless to say, she had no idea how much education I may or may not have had.