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I am crying omfg
There are two kinds of people.
“Nah son, get outta here!” 😩😭
MY HEART
Oh my god
Protesting is a FELONY in Tennessee now…Facism at it’s finest (x)
I’m sorry, but people need to know this. This is LITERALLY the most blatant telltale sign of totalitarianism and this needs to be spread like wildfire. DO NOT LOOK AWAY.
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even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao
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
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
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.
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Ha ha seriously tho.
I needed to hear this right now. <3
My new favorite post.
As someone who finished her undergrad at 40, I feel this later update. Take your time. Progress made at any speed is progress.
That’s why you should never accept the excuse “Well it was a different time.” They knew it was wrong. They always knew.
It is with GREAT pleasure I give you the words of Josiah Tucker, a Welshman from 1775, reacting to the American founding fathers (I have bolded for emphasis but the italics are his because he was salty AF, if anyone wants the specific thing I got this from send me an ask or a dm because I have to look it up.):
“You have now plainly and flatly told us, without any Colouring or Disguise, that you renounce all Subjection whatever to the Legislature of the Parent-State; and that you will not acknowledge, that she has any other Authority or Jurisdiction over you;—but what you yourselves shall please to give her. This is speaking plainly and to the Purpose: And so far you have acted a fair and consistent Part. But, Gentlemen, are you and your Constituents, (for here I include you all) equally consistent and uniform in other Parts of your Conduct? And can it be affirmed, that you are as strenuous Advocates for Liberty in other Cases, as you are in this? You bravely declare, “That by the immutable Laws of Nature, you are entitled to Life, Liberty, and Property.” Certainly you are: And the Reason you give is not a bad one, when soberly understood, viz. “Because you have never ceded to any Sovereign Power whatever, a Right to dispose of either without your Consent.” Permit me therefore to ask, Why are not the poor Negroes, and the poor Indians entitled to the like Rights and Benefits? And how comes it to pass, that these immutable Laws of Nature are become so very mutable, and so very insignificant in respect to them? They probably never ceded to any Power,—most certainly they never ceded to you, a Right of disposing of their Lives, Liberties, and Properties, just as you please. And yet what horrid Cruelties do you daily practice on the Bodies of the poor Negros; over whom you can have no Claim, according to your own Principles? What shameful Robberies and Usurpations are you daily guilty of in respect to the poor Indians, the only true and rightful Proprietors of the Country which you inhabit? These Things, Gentlemen, ought not to be: For whilst you, and your Constituents, are chargeable with so much real Tyranny, Injustice, and Oppression; you declaim with a very ill Grace against the imaginary Tyranny, and the pretended Oppression of the Mother Country. I am not unacquainted with you Manner of carrying on your bartering Trade with the Indians, any more than with your Treatment of your unhappy Slaves the Blacks. I could also give some Specimens of your equitable Mode of measuring, and making Purchases of Lands from the Natives;—even when you condescend to the Formality and Farce of making a Purchase from them:—Also how you contrive to thin the Numbers of these unhappy Tribes by Means of your grand Engines of Death, Rum, and the Small-Pox: And then how you drive the miserable Survivors away, and seize their Lands.”
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one of my patients came in for an emergency visit, because she snapped the wire on her retainer watching the movie when MBJ took his shirt off she clenched her teeth so fucking hard she snapped it. that is the fucking funniest shit ever to me this tiny 17 year old girl thirsting so goddamn hard she busted steel
Y'all, it gets better. She found out.
We interviewed her, obviously.
update:
Such a developing story.
I love this story
This was a wild ride from start to finish
I know I say this a lot, But this is one of the best things on this website
Sophia is currently doing great in college, and I still get about one kid a month in the office who asked if this really happened.
This just kept on getting better.
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This is why governmental regulations regarding hazardous materials are important, and why following them is important, and safety inspectors are important. It's not just red tape, limits on ammonium nitrate, or hydrogen peroxide (yes, the stuff you use to clean wounds at a 3% dilutions is a bomb at higher concentrations - they use it as rocket fuel), or even regular gasoline prevent disasters like this from happening.
Regulations are not repressive red tape. They save lives.
Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not
Your safety regulations are written in blood, and companies will only make them because they fear legal repercussions otherwise, not because they value your lives.
Does anyone know the location/date of the event pictured?
Beirut, Lebanon
Happened Aug 4 2020
Thanks. Tragic and awful. Ammonium nitrate is not even a little bit of a joke.
Everything said above is absolutely correct. Consider the fact that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols used “only” two tons of ammonium nitrate to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
This was the result of their act of domestic terrorism:
A multi story building (containing men, women and children) was blown away.
By comparison, the dock in Beirut had 1,000 times the amount that was used on the Murrah building.
That said, because I know how easily the West could distort this into some casually racist hot take like, “Well why did ~those people~ keep it stored there like that?” I think it’s important to add that, while corrupt members of the local government knew about the poorly stored explosives, the average citizen in Beirut did not know. And the people took to the streets in justified anger, mad that their government would allow the conditions for such an unnecessary catastrophe occur.
Deregulation of safety precautions is done to save corporations m o n e y.
Greed.
Even if it costs innocent workers and unsuspecting neighbors their lives. So this is not something unique to Lebanon. Not hardly.
Does anybody remember the push for deregulation, the “anti-red tape” agenda, and Grenfell Tower? How about what happened in West, Texas?? Greedy Republican Governors routinely cut “red tape” and scrap safety rugulations for big businesses. (x) (x) (x) (x)
So yes, safety regulations are written in blood, and no, regulations are not repressive red tape.
My heart goes out to the people in Beirut. Such a catastrophe, and what makes it even more maddening is because it was completely avoidable.
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Hey this is me doing standup!
this is fantastic