'Disgusting': Republicans Applaud as Trump Brags About Taking Food Aid From Millions | Common Dreams

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• BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Food aid programs are a proven, effective way to lift people out of poverty.

  And I’ve got news for you. If AI and robotics keeps replacing jobs, more and more people will end up jobless and require aid. It’s looking almost inevitable at this point that either capitalism will collapse, or there will be huge famines and people will be forced into slavery to pointlessly serve the wealthy elite.

  On the other hand, the wealthy elite add nothing. No value. Not even from the point of capitalism. Not from any informed perspective.

  It’s obvious which way this would go if you put competent people in charge. But instead of competence, our system favors the most corrupt.

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  • slackarr@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    why are we calling leeches elite again?

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    • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hmm. I usually use the term “ultra wealthy”. Not sure why I used the word “elite”. I didn’t really think about it. I’ll try to avoid it in the future.

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    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Generational conditioning.

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• KnitWit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He phrased it as ‘lifting people off of food stamps.’ Pure evil.

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  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Like stopping vaccines is “lifting people off of health”

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have written about this before, but this is similar to the time I was the most confused and insulted in my professional life.

  Early last year, I attended a mandatory company event, it was mostly about the C-suit spoke about how great they were and the peons applauding, eh standard stuff.

  Then came a guest speaker…

  His entire talk was about how he had moved jobs from high earning countries to low earning countries, he did that on a stage infront of high earners in a high income country.

  And we were expected to applaud him.

  I was shocked at the insanity of it all, and how almost no one in the audience had the decency of looking uncomfortable.

  This is the same, they are talking about taking food from people to make their already privileged life even more privileged.

  And the crowd applauding doesn’t realize that the defining line for who will be included isn’t static, under the current regime it is a ratchet.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lets destroy this world we built

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  • Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Burn it all to the ground.

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait, republicans are against him finally? Are they actually going to do something stop him?

  No?

  Oh. Blowhard business as usual then. Carry on with the downfall of our nation.

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