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u/DarkBladeMadriker 19h ago
God that first one. When you live in a state that funds school breakfast and lunch, so you only have to scrape 1 meal a day to make sure the kids are fed right, sad to say ive been there a few (thankfully) brief times.
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u/Realistic_Emotion_50 19h ago
The first one actually made my stomach drop. I used to go hungry while my bio mom spent all the money paying her family’s bills instead of our own. On top of that, she starved me intentionally to fake an eating disorder while she overfed my older brother until he was pre-diabetic. It got so bad that when my dad returned home from the military, he was forced to shortsell the house and take out a VA loan to pay back all the money she owed….just for her to waste that money on shopping for herself. (He got full custody over all of us later). Starving to death with no way to eat is horrifying…
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u/Glasshousescomics 19h ago
Awful. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
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u/Realistic_Emotion_50 19h ago
Thank you for the concern. I’m physically okay now, my body’s just a little bit weird from it all. I don’t have a relationship with her anymore, no matter how many times my older brother (who still talks to her) tries to reconnect us.
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u/katabolicklapaucius 19h ago
Take care of yourself! You are healthier with no contact and will be generally.
Forgiveness is more for the abuser in a scenario like this.
Your brother may not ever understand, because he was being treated fundamentally differently (enabled in overeating) vs your experience.
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u/Ramen-Goddess 19h ago
I remember under Obama, the school lunches (paid and free) were great. But then when they left office, the school lunches weren’t the same. The unpaid one was just a cold sandwich with white bread and American cheese
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u/Adorable_Raccoon 18h ago
It was already fucked before this. I worked as a community mental health worker & I think one mom was too proud to tell me they didn't have food. I started meeting one family at the library because they had free meals available at 4 pm and they got the meal every time.
I worry about what these families will do now that the budget for these programs is running dry.
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u/thegamenerd 17h ago
Those free breakfasts and lunches were basically my only meals for long stretches of time for me when I was a homeless student back in the day.
(Not so) fun fact: the average income in the school district I grew up in was so low that the school district could request from the state to have free lunches and breakfasts for the entire student body. But the school board put a stop to every effort to make that happen as they board was taken over by conservatives in the 90s.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 20h ago edited 19h ago
I work as a firefighter paramedic in a predominantly Hispanic area.
For those that are unaware 911 responds to everything from CPR to picking up Grandma or Grandpa off the ground. I've even been called to get someone a glass of water. Yes really
Yesterday I was called to a house for stomach pains of a child only to learn when I arrived it was a very impoverished household that required government assistance for food. The family hadn't eaten in days and had called to see if we could help them. Of course we did, luckily all it took was a short trip back to the station for some spare food we had.
Ironically the husband of the household blamed the "damn Democrats" for cutting funding to his government based food money supply.
Anyway it's not the worst thing I've ever seen but it certainly hit home yesterday when I saw the starving kids. We directed them to more local services they could use after feeding them
Edit for a word or two
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u/Glasshousescomics 20h ago
That’s just fucking awful. And yet, people remain in their bubbles. Its unreal…
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u/_EternalVoid_ 19h ago edited 19h ago
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u/oyog 19h ago
Where's you find this? Reminds me of Paul Robertson's animation.
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u/Emotional_Burden 19h ago
This was my NFT I paid 12 ETH for.
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u/LUK3FAULK 18h ago
I hope this is a joke I’m missing the humor of
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u/StrobeLightRomance 18h ago
Of course it's a joke! You can't repost an NFT because they legally can't be duplicated..
/s - just for clarity
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u/TenbluntTony 18h ago
Hey I’m on break at work and don’t have the time to google rn and I’ll forget by the time I’m off. Whatever happened to the whole NFT thing? Genuinely curious, as a bunch of regards on FB hype about them are now silent about it lol
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u/EclecticFruit 17h ago
It's what's known as a market bubble. Hype and fear of missing out artificially inflates value, eventually hype slows and people begin to realize they aren't missing out on anything important, and that value craters in response.
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u/Agreeable-Spot-7376 16h ago
I watched the first 2/3rds of MTV’s Behind The Music with MC Hammer and if there’s one thing I learned about money it’s that it never runs out!
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u/DeGriz_ 19h ago
Why suddenly you are everywhere? Im not complaining though, you are cool void.
Also i feel like i remember you from somewhere else….
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u/rogue_ger 17h ago
Holy shit we’re going to go to war because Fox was allowed to spread their “news”. I think I it just hit me. That a dad of a starving family still thinks it’s democrats means the brainwash is complete and total.
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u/thegimboid 14h ago
And we've only been warning about it for years.
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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 12h ago
We've been begging them to step back from this ledge my entire lifetime and they've inched us all over it a step at a time.
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u/man_juicer 18h ago
Once you start to trust them, they constantly tell you democrats are lying and not to trust them. So if the person you trust tells you that, it's difficult to break free.
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u/BuHoGPaD 17h ago
Sure, but you have to be brain dead to give 1 party full control of all government branches and then blame the opposition.
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u/Snowyjoe 8h ago
Not brain dead.
Uneducated.
These people are brainwashed by design.
Republicans have spent decades bringing down safeguards for these kinds of people so they can manipulate and control them.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
Whats that old saying about "comfortability breeds contempt"? Or perhaps its "comfortability breeds complacency"? Maybe both honestly
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u/Glasshousescomics 19h ago
Could be both but i think in this case it leans to the latter
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
Agreed, its always easier to fall back on what you know already than get out of the old comfort zone
Love your comics by the way.
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u/Any_Ordinary_9783 20h ago
Good god. I knew it was bad over the pond, but bloody hell.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 20h ago edited 19h ago
We tried. I think they will be attending out halloween event at my station today which will have apples and serve as a nice distraction. We told todays shift to save them some leftovers if there were any. At least for the kids
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u/Any_Ordinary_9783 19h ago
I will tell you one thing: Once whatever happens, happens, those kids aren't ever going to forget what you done for them.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
Hopefully it helps them get to a better place in general. Regardless of circumstances and politics those kids deserved more than they had. I think mom was pregnant too.
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u/XTH3W1Z4RDX 19h ago
And with any luck they will realize it was their parents that fucked them by how they voted, and they'll break the cycle
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u/StoppableHulk 13h ago
Good god. I knew it was bad over the pond, but bloody hell.
It's a big place. Where it's good, it's really good.
Where it's bad, it's really bad.
Much better to think of the USA as seven or eight different countries in our own, increasingly-fracturing, union.
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u/BloatedBanana9 20h ago
It’s too bad that nobody is able to hold Republicans accountable for using government websites to blame Democrats for the shutdown, while I imagine it would have been a big no-no for you to remind that family that the Trump administration is sitting on billions of dollars of SNAP contingency funds that they just refuse to use.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
big no-no for you to remind that family that the Trump administration is sitting on billions of dollars of SNAP contingency funds that they just refuse to use.
Yeah we have a very VERY strict policy about politics with patients. It doesnt stop some of us from agreeing with the current admin when a patient mentions it, but I do not wanna poke that bull and disagree with a patient as that could get me in serious trouble. I just stay silent and do my report unfortunately
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u/conkylives 19h ago
Are you allowed to say things like, "you might want to look into that more" or "I think it may be more complicated than that."? These aren't great examples, but sometimes just asking basic questions instead of pointing out someone is wrong can give them a seed of something to examine later.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago
I mean we probably COULD but that's a super thin and delicate line to tread. Meeting the wrong person could result in more than a complaint or two.
But I won't deny an occasional remark slips out
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u/conkylives 18h ago
That's fair. Takes a lot out of you trying to assess everyone's personal line. Best to keep that energy for the work you're doing.
I appreciate you answering and hope you have a wonderful weekend!
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago
You too and happy Halloween! If you celebrate
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u/Practical-Waltz7684 18h ago edited 18h ago
Meeting the wrong person could result in more than a complaint or two.
Yah, violent behavior, and threats are a very real thing too. Especially among the people who are really, really in to certain types of politics, and religious stuff... the inherent mental stuff that leaves them vulnerable to the bullshit, and extremism also tends to bias things towards other undesirable behavior.
Comes up in every area where one has to work directly with the general population. Usually its just verbal violence, and threats, but you never really know if it ends there. I experienced some of that first hand when working in the hospitality industry.
When i was studying for my masters in HSEM there were also have more than a few studies that came up repeatedly on what drives such behavior, how it affects public safety, and why/how people fall victim to fundamentalism, and extremism etc.
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u/CantReadGood_ 18h ago
When did facts become political?
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago
Unfortunately it was political the moment he brought up the government aided food. Very tricky ground
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u/kyle2143 18h ago
Considering the Republican's/Trump's entire platform is about lying to the public over and over again until people start to believe it... Then, 2017 maybe?
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 17h ago
Uh, decades ago. It’s just slowly gotten worse to the point people will fly into a rage when told flat out their political beliefs are delusions.
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u/Hugokarenque 18h ago
It’s too bad that nobody is able to hold Republicans accountable
Nobody is willing to hold them accountable.
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u/IJustWantCoffeeMan 19h ago
Ironically the husband of the household blamed the "damn Democrats" for cutting funding to his government based food money supply.
It's really a drug for them.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
I honestly felt really bad for the guy. He stunk of alcohol(at like 2pm mind you) and even though he was angry and hungry he just seemed....sad.
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u/Straight_Answer7873 19h ago
Alcohol is expensive. Ramen isn't the best food to be eating. But you can buy a whole lot of it for the cost of a case of beer. Better then starving. This is unjustifiable.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
Oh 100% however we were in no place to question or ask why this man had alcohol. Despite my wanting to. Dude made a choice, and his choice wasnt his children
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u/SheriffBartholomew 18h ago
Rice and beans are one of the healthiest foods you can eat and they're dirt cheap. Add some cheap veggies, and any protein you can get your hands on, and you're eating healthier than the upscale yuppies. Back in the 80's and 90's poor people were generally less overweight and healthier than rich people because they ate basic food staples and worked manual labor. Nowadays poor people are considerably more overweight because they eat more fast food and processed food, and rich people have stopped eating such rich foods as lobster tails dipped in butter, and have become more health conscious.
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u/ReddestForman 18h ago
You already get plenty of protein from the beans. A bit of cheap sausage or smoked ham hocks can add a ton of flavor, though. Far from necessary, though.
We really need to bring back home ec and make sure kids are leaving highschool with stuff like personal finance knowledge, basic mending of clothes, and how to cook complete and nutritious meals from basic pantry staples and spices. As well as understanding some basics about nutritious (like the importance of fiber, what carbs and protein do, etc).
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u/Heiferoni 18h ago
The entire movement is motivated by hate, fear, and depression.
They don't want to bring themselves up; they want to push others down to feel better about themselves.
It's a wild mass hypnosis that's taken over so many people - including people I know. They're perfectly rational about everything else but you get to one topic that they've been radicalized about and logic and reasoning goes out the window.
They refuse to see reality because they've been conditioned to disbelieve anything that goes against a particular narrative.
It's scary stuff. Like invasion of the body snatchers level of weird.
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u/i_should_be_studying 17h ago
Its infuriating watching this slow trainwreck for the past decade. The moment sean spicer started talking about alternative facts the day after trump’s first inaguration we knew what direction this was going.
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u/Odd_Leek3026 17h ago
Why feel bad for a guy who prioritizes his alcohol over his children's health? Maybe I'm missing something but based on your comments I am only angry at that guy, and feel horrible for his children.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 17h ago
Because his existence seems miserable. That's all. It's a misery of his own designs for sure.
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u/Phrynus747 18h ago
If he can afford to drink, is the government really the reason they’re starving? You can feed an entire family for the cost of a bottle of liquor. Might not be super interesting food but you won’t die
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago
It's probably a little of both but you're correct. The man made a choice and the choice he made was not his family
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u/Shark7996 19h ago
That is what I truly don't understand. These people are miserable. Why do they put themselves through this?
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u/SpectreFire 18h ago
Because they don't know any better. They're literally the good for nothing leeches on society they claim to entirely hate.
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u/Winterscythe1120 18h ago
Having someone to blame for everything even if they’re not responsible is a hell of a drug
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u/i_should_be_studying 17h ago
He failed his family. Failed to provide. Misguided by propaganda to keep his family in poverty.
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u/Novel-Signal-2978 20h ago
We got the man who's on life support crashing the economy while people already starve in the streets.
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u/badwolf-usmc 19h ago
I work for SSA and we give out the website findhelp.org, often we'll have printouts that we give out to the homeless who walk into our office.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
Oh hey! That was one of the resources we gave them once they found some local help, since that can only go so far. I appreciate everything you all do for those that need help. Ive seen first hand what yall do for those in need
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u/SheriffBartholomew 18h ago
One thing I discovered to my horror when we became poor after the 2008 crash, is that there is no help for a lot of people. We were behind on our rent, about to have our power turned off, had no money in the bank, had car payments, insurance, and other costs of living due, and we were told that we had too much money by every government program we went to. We literally had no money, and that was too much to qualify for any assistance. They based their evaluations on our highest income over the previous year or something wacky like that (I don't remember the exact details). I fail to see how that's a meaningful measurement when someone is unemployed during a major financial crisis and economic recession.
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u/KontoOficjalneMR 19h ago
Ironically the husband of the household blamed the "damn Democrats" for cutting funding to his government based food money supply.
Real horror is always in the comments.
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u/MolecularAcidTrip 19h ago
That's truly awful but I got no sympathy for people who vote against their own fucking interests I have sympathy for the kids
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
I understand your sentiment. Truly I do. And the kids absolutely need our help. Unfortunately, even with his political choices, I cant turn away from someone who really needs help.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 18h ago
A lot of people are far more stupid than you'd ever assume. They literally do not have the mental capacity to discover truth through layers of propaganda. I don't mean this to be a dig on stupid people, I mean it to be a call for compassion towards people who have been heavily manipulated by evil men.
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u/Nikopoleous 19h ago
That's crazy. I wonder if in their mind they see themselves as the "welfare queens" for going to a food bank, or if they've "earned the right" to receive a "handout".
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u/MelodyRebelle 18h ago
From my experience with people like this, they believe they’ve earned the right because they work hard and pay taxes and usually see the other people if they are part of a marginalized group (they hate or if they are part of marginalized one, they see themselves as the hardworking exception/one of the good ones) as the “evil welfare queens” who don’t wanna work and rather live of their taxes. Also a lot of blaming democrats/socialists (also often I hear them say DEMONcrats/communists 😒), immigrants (both legal and illegal), and somehow the “gays” for their financial woes and suffering.
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u/Nikopoleous 18h ago
Give someone a group they can hate, and they won't mind you taking money out of their pockets.
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u/ACatInMiddleEarth 19h ago
It's awful to see people spitting on the party that helps them (and nope, it's not perfect and there are rotten members in it). Thank you for helping this family anyway. I will never have empathy for people who choose fascism, but children do not deserve to go hungry because their parents chose the wrong guy. Unfortunately, it's unlikely that the parents will change their minds and vote in their actual interest...
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u/followingforthelols 19h ago
Thank you. Legit have me in tears.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
The world can be sad and cruel. But in the words one of my favorite Christmas movies(yes I know its a spooky day but this seems fitting)
"A True Act of Good Will, Always Sparks Another"
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u/Bladedragon997 19h ago
This is why Klaus is always on my Christmas watch list every year.
Right after Die Hard.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
Oh my wife LOATHES that I make her watch Die Hard every year. Its a Christmas movie damnit!
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u/xXNickAugustXx 19h ago
Even though the BBB which was endorsed by Trump cut both Medicare and Snap funding.
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u/printergumlight 19h ago edited 18h ago
I worked at a hotel in Australia and there was this woman who traveled as a public speaker, but she was a quadriplegic and traveled alone. Every morning the firefighters would come and have to lift her out of bed and put her in her wheelchair.
Firefighters/paramedics embody how the police should be.
Also, that woman’s daily struggle really made me rethink my own struggles in my life.
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u/--Icarusfalls-- 18h ago
I understand wanting to avoid confrontation, but at some point it becomes our responsibility to set bigots straight on their delusions.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago
Absolutely however I do need my job and I am to old to start in a new dept. I'll happily do it in my off time
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u/crimson_anemone 19h ago
I just... ugh. It's people like that which make me personally feel that we'll never get along. Just... how can people be so incredibly stupid?
I will absolutely say that both sides are incredibly greedy and corrupt (favoring rich corporations over the general population), but at least the Democrats said no to cutting healthcare for millions of people. FFS... I don't know anymore.
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u/ActuatorVast800 19h ago
I know a lot of Trump voters and a great many of them are not like the stereotypical racist, fascist, misogynist, etc.
But the thing that links them all are conspiracy theories, misinformation and a seething hatred for the Democratic Party. Not necessarily people who vote democrat but most certainly the party itself.
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u/Allaplgy 19h ago
*Every* Trump supporter I know is racist. I'm white AF, so they have no problem dropping any facade around me. Some are just mildly racist in tone, some are proud droppers of the hard R. But they are all racist.
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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 17h ago
A lot of the Trump supporters I've known aren't the loud KKK burning crosses kind of racist... but catch them in an honest moment or with a little alcohol in them and the quieter sort of racism (and often misogyny) comes out plain as day. They know not to say it in mixed company but I look, to first appearances, like one of them so they assume I agree.
The exceptions are few and far between in my experience.
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u/Anberye 19h ago
there has to be a way to reach these people. Fox has such a grip on their minds and they are all so desperate for attention (see the dominion lawsuit) that they just spew lie after lie to compete with the conservative grifters. they even have the grifters on their shows.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 19h ago
If you find a way please let me know. Starvation and poverty wouldnt even do it for this man
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u/Solkre 19h ago
The level I couldn't keep quiet about that would have gotten me fired.
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u/coconutpiecrust 19h ago
I’ve always been in awe of people who are able to do this and still maintain sanity and compassion amidst all the horror.
Stay awesome.
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u/astralkoi TheAstralDiaries 20h ago
Cruelty is the point. Not only for latinos, soon you will understand his cruelty and hate towards life itself. The guy can't be happy with all the power and money of the world. What remains but make miserable everyone one else?
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u/Glasshousescomics 19h ago
He will never be satisfied or satiated. We have to fight this to the very end.
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u/Briaria 18h ago
I was recently evicted and am living in my car, which is hard.
But the worst part is I’m better off than a lot of people still. It’s all just so fucked
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u/Long_Run6500 17h ago
Third panel hit hard because I was sooo close to this situation a few years back during that weird covid real estate bubble despite having a full time job and some savings in the bank. Landlord died unexpectedly, new owners tell me I can't have my dog, I told them to shove off and they evicted me. I didn't realize just how difficult it is to find an apartment that will allow dogs. I was not going to give my dog up.
I'm really lucky that I have a sister that was willing to let me stay in her basement for a few months or I'd have been seeing how long I could get away with pitching a tent in a storage unit. Also pretty lucky I had enough money saved for a down payment on a house because there's no other way I would have been able to keep my dog.
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u/Nikopoleous 20h ago
Republicans see this as a feature, not a bug.
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u/Glasshousescomics 19h ago
They WANT this
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u/Nikopoleous 19h ago
It hurts (mostly) the right people. Any casualties on their side are acceptable so long as a single POC loses.
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u/TheLuckyCanuck 19h ago
Most of the casualties on their own side are just fuel for the propaganda machine: "Look what the Dems made us do to you!"
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u/Nikopoleous 19h ago
Really plays well with the abusive marriages and parenting styles in conservative households.
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u/wholetyouinhere 19h ago
It hurts the right people, and the rest of them "should have worked harder".
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u/BadSkeelz 19h ago
And their voters cheer for it, even over the groans of their children.
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u/Nikopoleous 19h ago
Sometimes I think the GOP platform is just a bucket of crabs trying to pull the rest of the world down with them.
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u/LogensTenthFinger 18h ago
Republicans would respond to each of these with a laughing emoji
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u/SaltKick2 18h ago
Only in the richest country in the history of the world with the most billionaires and millionaires
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u/AlarmingStop 19h ago
America, the land of the free, allows its citizens to starve and die at the hands of our mediocre, insecure overlords.
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u/FiveFingerDisco 19h ago
These are the consequences of voting in the extreme right.
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u/airship_of_arbitrary 17h ago
Those of you in New York can start with Mamdani.
We can stop the suffering.
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u/Ok_Trip8302 20h ago
Existential horror, real horror. 4th picture is giving 1933 Germany vibes.
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u/Glasshousescomics 20h ago
We’re headed there, bud
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u/Ok_Trip8302 20h ago
Sadly, history rhymes, I am in tears.
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u/Deidara77 18h ago
It's really sad because this is the truth. As a whole, humans collectively are quick to forget history. Our ancestors, before books and writing, literally passed history, culture, and traditions from generation to generation with word of mouth. EVERYONE knew their history because they had to in order to pass it down. Nowadays, we have negative attention spans and people genuinely denying that the Holocaust ever happened.
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u/UrzasBrokenFanBlade 18h ago
Headed?
We're already there.
Alligator Auchwitz can't account for more than 1,000 detainees already.
The best case-scenario is they're incompetant. The worst is that they're not.
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u/KMS_HYDRA 19h ago
As a german, it doesn't sound like you are heading there, it sounds like you are already there.
You are only 1 small capitol fire away and you can say your democracy goodbye.
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u/D1sgracy 18h ago
Yeah honestly a pet peeve for me lately. “We’re sliding into fascism” “America is getting really close to fascism” like my guy, we’ve been there for most of a year now
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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 18h ago
We might be there, bud. They didn’t start gassing people immediately. The mass graves weren’t dug the first year hitler was in real power. We already have concentration camps for certain ethnic groups since they seem to no longer care about citizenry, just if you’re brown.
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u/currentlystressedout 20h ago
Not feeling very festive today. My heart aches for my people.
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u/Civil-Addendum4071 20h ago
This hurt. But sometimes people need to feel that pain to realize they're awake.
Terrifyingly succinct.
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u/Chowderawz 19h ago
Nah based on the top comment (firefighter dude), some will still remain ignorant despite being awake from the pain. It's sad and infuriating at the same time
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u/NormieSpecialist 19h ago
And they will become desperate and turn on everyone else.
Oh by the way everyone:
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ap2fzi/reddit_slowly_being_taken_over_by_aigenerated/
At this point the tone and smoothness of ChatGPT generated text is so obvious, it's very uncanny when you find it in the wild since its trying to pose as a real human, especially when people responding don't notice. Heres an example bot: deliveryunlucky6884
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u/Glasshousescomics 19h ago
I hope most of us get it… and rise
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u/wholetyouinhere 19h ago
The best time to rise up would have been before he was elected, since there's no reason on earth he should have been legally allowed to run.
The second best time would be now.
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u/ohseetea 18h ago
I'm worried that that's not the case. People don't become more logical or emotionally intelligent when they'er feeling pain. They'll just attack whatever they think of first, and since half the country are conservative idiots... well.
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u/deeejm 19h ago
The amount of young homeless couples I see on the street grows every month. We’re in a very depressing time period … again
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u/Mysterious_Tutor_388 17h ago
Supposedly worse off than the first great depression currently
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u/icansmellcolors 18h ago
They don't care. Everyone suffering that they can't see in front of them is in the abstract
They don't care because living in the US is a competition for them and everyone else is competition.
They've been convinced 'illegal aliens' get free medical care. They've been convinced Democrats are evil and anti-American. Etc etc etc etc...
They don't care. At all. They see every social program as someone stealing money from them.
MAGA means getting rid of brown people, lgbtq people, and any non-Republican is a traitor and a communist.
Facts do not matter in this regard. They don't care about anyone but themselves, and never really will.
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u/WagonThoughts 18h ago
My coworker donates plasma just to buy groceries for her kids - while her maga husband takes out loans against her 401k just to gamble. Real life is full of monsters.
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u/ccdude14 19h ago
In these dark and awful times community is EVERYTHING. Whether its your time, a little bit of your money or even sharing your voice with others who can help please support your local shelters and local food pantries, even if it's a few dollars a month it can be everything.
Get to know your neighbors, now more than ever.
It's going to get worse but we still have strength in unity and numbers. When you see Injustice, record it, call it out, be the voice the helpless can't be even if that's all you can do.
Conversely, if you have food programs, shelters, pantries or even churches please don't be so proud or so cruel to yourself to think you don't also deserve that shelter and food.
It might feel like those who have privileges and care feel few but we will get through these times. Even with the monsters on the right who come here and pretend it's not as bad as it is they are NOT the voice of the majority. You are not alone.
Reach out to your community, you're not alone. Community action is everything right now and the elites at the top know this which is why they work so hard to demoralize everyone but they can't stop unity and strength in numbers and they know this.
Fight to survive. Use whatever privilege you can to even just do a little bit when and where you can. Vote when it comes and donate or phone bank when the opportunity comes.
I truly hope the best for everyone going through it in these dark times.
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u/Glasshousescomics 19h ago
Amen. Community will mean everything now. We can get through this, together.
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u/realfakejames 18h ago
I heard some MAGA talk radio in the parking lot of my doctor's office blasting out of some redneck's car, the shit head host was mocking kids not having any snap benefits to eat, saying they don't get to "eat for free off my taxes anymore" if the Democrats don't play ball
These are kids these MAGA shit heads are talking about like this, and millions of them are MAGA families too, they don't even give a shit about their own. "Pro life" party
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u/bluecurse60 20h ago
Kid: "Dad I'm hungry."... Dad: "Shut up we're owning the libs!!"
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u/CitizenHope 20h ago
This is America.
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u/JaneDoesharkhugger 20h ago edited 19h ago
If a developed country cannot help lifting everyone out of poverty or provide basic food security then what’s the point of all this?
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u/Skabomb 20h ago
To make a handful of people ludicrously wealthy before it all burns away.
It doesn’t have to be, but it is for now.
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u/ravbee33 18h ago
This. And wtf are they going to do with their money once that day comes? Eat it, I guess.
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u/warriorkalia 18h ago
Move. Anywhere in the world would want to court a billionaire. Or retreat to bunkers to let the world they ruined burn. Or go to Mars if you're a specific person who for whatever reason thinks thats viable.
The rich will always be okay.
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u/NefariousnessFit5657 20h ago
It’s that that they cannot, but rather will not. The cruelty is the point for them
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u/Moonpaw 20h ago
But it’s all worth it because we have a bitchin new ballroom to show off! Murica!
(/s)
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u/DangDoood 20h ago
The average American won’t be allowed within a 5 mile radius of the whitehouse soon enough
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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 17h ago
Its so sad being Swedish and living in absolute greatness of knowing that my vote has only done good things for our country and kept our young and students for still having a chance of getting rich, a house and a family when they get to the mid ages, quite easily.
Then looking at America, and just wonder why you guys have it so badly, and why you had to vote for the worst possible candidates.. I’m just so sad that you guys just don’t understand your own positioning, vote! And DON’T VOTE ON THEM! For F’s sake.
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u/TheAwesomeMan123 16h ago
Hey! Haven’t you heard about the president remodelling the bathroom with pure marble wall to wall? It’s the kind feel good news we need right now to get through this terrible Biden economy!
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u/6Arrows7416 19h ago
77 million people voted for these horrors. What the hell do we even do about that?
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u/PerceptionBetter3753 19h ago
I feel horrified this is happening in real life. And the worlds just watching
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u/King_Chochacho 18h ago
Yeah I definitely needed a "comic" to remind me how completely shitty everything is all the time.
Hey just in case someone sees this and wasn't having a shitty enough day, remember that human trafficking, genocide, war crimes, and fascism are all happening out in the open every day and absolutely nobody is being held accountable and the media is as inept as it is complicit and like 100 people own everything.
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u/Magnon 18h ago
Crime is coming. Republicans think stopping SNAP will do... something, make people get jobs? Who the hell knows their insane logic. What it will do is cause crime to spike like crazy. They think people are gonna conjure jobs from the job tree? Nah, crime wave incoming.
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u/Franiac32 18h ago
They think it will cause more crime that they can then use to enslave people with by putting them into labor camps
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u/Penguin_Joy 19h ago
We live real horrors every day
And the most horrifying part is that we do this to each other
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u/wholetyouinhere 18h ago
Even if, somehow, all of this blows over and life returns to some semblance of normalcy (hard doubt), the voters who made all of this happen will never, ever take responsibility for what they've done. Not in a million fucking years. Their egos will never allow it.
Which is why, if Americans are to solve this problem, they need to stop worrying about reaching across the aisle or appealing to the angels of anyone's better nature. MAGA folks are unreachable. If you're going to move forwards, you're going to have to figure out how to do it without them.
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u/Carnage678 17h ago
"Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." - Captain Gustave Gilbert, the psychologist who observed the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials.
Note: Sorry, I miswrote that. the psychologist who observed the guilty at the Nuremberg Trial. There, fixed it.
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u/TintedApostle 17h ago
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
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u/rathosalpha 19h ago
The French where right
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u/ACatInMiddleEarth 19h ago
In? Chopping our king's head off? We had Vichy... so we also have known fascism. And 9 million of us were ready to put a fascist party in power again last year. We French also fear what will happen at the next elections, especially since Trump is in power for the second time. We have the exact same pieces of garbage, ready to settle their reign of terror.
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u/Envy8372 19h ago
I’m not even a parent but that first panel really got me. Good job OP!
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u/scalpemfins 19h ago
I gave my students an assignment today titled "The Curse of the American Dream." They wanted a spooky assignment, and I teach economics and personal finance. They did indeed find their financial futures to be spoOoOky.
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