Flower Crowns and Skeleton Keys

[twinsfawn]

[profeminist]

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[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao

[anarchapella]

Also, SNAP “fraud” is like exchanging some of your stamps for cash to buy necessities you can’t buy with stamps, like soap or deodorant or tampons

[gei-ayanami-deactivated20190430]

TBH even if one hundred percent of people on food stamps were committing food stamp fraud I’d still be in favor of keeping the program around

[constant-instigator]

Hey I wanna talk about this.

I work at a drug addiction counseling center. A ton of my clients have, at one time or another, sold their food stamps. This is basically exactly what the GOP is afraid of, right? Drug addicts selling their food stamps.

I have learned, now, to ask them WHY they sold their food stamps. Here is an incomplete list of the answers:

- I need tampons, and you can’t buy them with foodstamps

- See above RE: toilet paper

- I was living in a hotel with no kitchen then. I had to buy pre-prepared food

- The homeless shelter won’t let me keep food in my locker or room, so I have to buy pre-prepared food (Yes, really)

- I had to make rent

- My sister had to make rent

- My son had to make rent

- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll die

- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll loose control of my mental health

But the absolute most common form of food stamp fraud I see? Giving away food stamps to other family members who get no food stamps or insufficient food stamps to feed their families. I see that every month. People glassy eyed and hungry because they gave away their food to their adult kids, their grand kids, cousins, siblings etc.

So, is food stamp fraud rampant? In some places, yes. And I’m not about to chastise people for it.

[marithlizard]

reblogging because it’s still true and important

[dcmt]

Don’t let your ignorant, racist uncle bring this shit up without shutting him down.

[everydayanth]

I’ve also found it incredibly alarming how quickly some people forget about their own dependence on food stamps, who then rant and rave about it. Like, I survived malnourishment as a kid because of food welfare programs, but my dad still complains about others with BS arguments. 

Don’t let people who think of poverty as a character-growth opportunity forget how welfare programs contributed to their own success or changes in position. My parents might be ashamed, but that doesn’t mean they get to shame, rebuke, humiliate, or unduly criticize others because of their emotions. Know the facts and how the whole system works inside society and shared cultures.

[asundergrowth]

[hazy-october]

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[ink-the-shitposter]

dude being a little kid during an election year was THE funniest thing. kids were all just repeating their parent’s political beliefs verbatim without understanding any of what they were saying. My elementary school did a mock election and I didn’t know what was going on so I just voted for Obama because thats what everyone else was doing. My friend and I were chatting on a swing set and she said to me “I hope Mitt Romney gets elected because I don’t think Obama will get anything done” bitch you are 9

[ink-the-shitposter]

[survivyng]

soft marble sculptures appreciation post. 

[positivity-in-recovery]

[arinashitabun]

Art by Hector aka shitty watercolor

[thisaccisdead]

[ID: a captioned screenshot of pam from the office, edited so that the caption reads: “And I feel anti-american in this 4th of july tonight.” end id]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[mysharona1987]

[greyhina]

Same energy as that time in college I told a girl that “the tarot” says she needs to go call her mom and start going to therapy and she fucking did.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thebadasssass]

please?

[plannedparenthood]

We mourn. We remember.  We stand with the LGBTQ community against hate and violence.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[heyheyrich-deactivated20220813]

This is actually a fascinating concept called the marginal propensity of consumption. It BASICALLY means that each additional dollar to a poor person (Like someone on minimum wage) is comparatively more valuable than each additional dollar to a wealthy person (like a millionaire or billionaire) because the poor person is more likely to go spend it on a good or service whereas the wealthy person will stick it in an offshore account.

With the poor person, it will continue changing hands within the economy and get spent more often, leading to higher economic output. The wealthy person takes that dollar out of the economy by sticking it in a bank account to grow their wealth, and the dollar effectively becomes useless and stops changing hands.

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[mrbingley]

buy my trans david shirt and help me raise money for my top surgery!

[mrbingley]

my surgery is on august 4th and i need to make the full payment two weeks before. i’m so close to my goal! less than a hundred shirts and i’m there! also: it’s pride month, baby!!!

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[naaaaaaaaaah-deactivated2020112]

to be clear 1984 is the name of the book that quote is from, the year he wrote it was 1949

[millennial-review-deactivated20]