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Please give us some examples of this, as I'm very interested in where these delusions actually come from. Are they made up in your own mind or are they actually reality?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen
When this kind of shit has a Wikipedia entry, you don't really have an excuse for not understanding a long-term vilification of the poor in general in the US, used as an excuse for excessive means testing, and gutting social programs in general. More recently, in Florida, where they began a program of drug testing recipients of welfare, they spent more money drug testing people than they saved by kicking people off the program for being caught doing drugs.
The US is, by the numbers, a majority Christian nation. Thus it follows, a large number of those people must be behind these attitudes.
That's fact that you used a Wikipedia page as a source is hilarious, anyone can edit a Wikipedia page....
You tried to edit any significant Wikipedia pages recently? Go ahead, I'll wait. If your edit exists longer than 6 hours I will personally wire you $50 through your choice of carrier.
Edits are tracked on Wikipedia through a large and obnoxiously thorough community of fact checkers and editors. Posting random bullshit on there will get it deleted nearly instantly and if you do it again you'll be ip-banned. They don't fuck around with that anymore. Wikipedia is humongously crowdsourced and because of that, is actually probably one of the most trustworthy and accurate information sources we have available to us as a species. Every edit made to any page will be scrutinized by 480 community members within 2 hours and if any of them find you're spewing bullshit without sources it's gone.
When was Reagan president? Like 100 years ago? Good lord get with the times....
You're getting absolutely dunked on in the comments, and you have absolutely no response besides 🙉🙈
Facts don't care about your feelings 😬
You must be very young or very ignorant, if you don't remember how the GOP used one fraudster as a boogeyman excuse to defund public services for people who truly needed them.
https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html
See the current "platform" the GOP is running whose basis is slashing all federal agencies to dust. What do those federal agencies do? Provide aide and collect taxes.
If you haven't seen this, I am rather curious what rock you are living under. Is it an igneous rock or a metamorphic?
~~sedimentary~~ sedentary
Federal Agencies are now lumped in with the poor?? Come on you can do better than that.
What the fuck does this sentence even mean?
It means they're clearly a bad faith troll.
Its ridiculous. If we can't agree that the purpose of society is to increase the standard of living for those within it we are doomed to fail. Its not like any of these chucklefucks are suckling Musk's tits themselves. They will be just as fuck as the rest of us if these plans are enacted. Fuck.
They're deeply deeply stupid people.
Lmfao, no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Exactly.... you have none.
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I give you a 1/10 overall for trolling, the 1 is for making me laugh a little at what a joke you are..
I didn't know there was a name for it but yeah I've made it a point to not engage with those types for years now.
You're getting absolutely dunked on in these comments and your only response is 🙉🙈
Facts don't care about your feelings 😬
Matt Gaetz is still in office so there's that
See top comment.
The other reply in this post has lots of examples; you can refer to that.
The point I’m trying to get at though is the hypocrisy.
If there is one conservative politician who acts illegally but the supporters of that party ignore it and instead criticise others more harshly for the same actions they are enormous hypocrites.
Google is free my dude. Just search for recent charges again politicians, and tally up which parties they belong to.
But let me guess: any source that doesn't support your world view is "fake news"