• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Americans don't do breadlines. They privatized the breadlines ages ago. Now they just staff a thousand offices with ten thousand bureaucrats who have the job of saying "No soup for you!"

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      tbf the food stamp people are usually much quicker and more helpful than, say, unemployment people, food stamps would be alright if 1) everyone got them all the time it wasn't means tested bullshit and 2) it wasn't such a pathetic allotment. With no income I got like $300 a month in stamps, for some reason idk I was supposed to get $250, so like thanks government for ensuring I don't strictly starve, but...

      • HamManBad [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Universal food stamps would be dope, it would remove the stigma and literally everyone but the rich would come out ahead

    • bigtimecringe [any]
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      2 years ago

      theres breadlines but theyre not breadlines anymore so its fine. mcdonalds and burger king operate like fucking social services in alabama