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Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

A Winner is Jew posted:

Now is this a dick measuring contest with or without the viagra he takes with him on caribbean sex tourism trips?

He's a real capitalist CEO. He gets 8 kids to measure his dick for him for no pay.

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mr. mephistopheles
Dec 2, 2009

A Winner is Jew posted:

Now is this a dick measuring contest with or without the viagra he takes with him on caribbean sex tourism trips?

It is both with Viagra and taint-to-tip.

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
Limbaugh's really been raging at Millenials the past month. One of my favorite current things is when he tells my generation how stupid we are and then segue into a LifeLock advertisement

mr. mephistopheles
Dec 2, 2009

"Millennials are stupid entitled idiot babies."

"Why won't millennials vote for us?"

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!
For once that's a valid question. Half of their entire base is made up of whiny entitled babies. Guess the problem is with the diagnosis. Or maybe that your policies disgust them across the board.

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

mr. mephistopheles posted:

It is both with Viagra and taint-to-tip.

I was gonna say, how hard are you leaning on the ruler to jam it into his abdomen?

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

mr. mephistopheles posted:

"Millennials are stupid entitled idiot babies."

"Why won't millennials vote for us?"

I'm just amazed at how thickheaded they are about that age group.

Greg Gutfield has been the one parroting that recently, and seemingly grouping everyone into the "Millenial" camp.

Look, I don't have a problem if you're stating that some Adam Duritz dipshit with dreads, majoring in something fairly useless, and not "trying" is an rear end in a top hat. I'm sure everyone can agree with that.

But he's the exception to the rule, and not in the majority.

slightly unrelated but it's amazing how they'll twist something to fit their worldview.,

I swear on that "5" show they were claiming that the reason that "Duck Dynasty" had high ratings was because the family "prayed" together around the dinner table, and that Americans were searching for a way to view a normal american family. Rather than you..know, people wanting to yuck it up at the Antics of Rich White Trash.

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

FuzzySkinner posted:

Look, I don't have a problem if you're stating that some Adam Duritz dipshit with dreads, majoring in something fairly useless, and not "trying" is an rear end in a top hat. I'm sure everyone can agree with that.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Can you clarify, please?

I went to art school and majored in Illustration, which turned out to be largely "useless" in a practical sense but not entirely in an educational sense. I knew really good, smart, well meaning people with their heads screwed on straight that majored in theater, dance, pottery, music and what have you. Art school students who majored in Painting or Crafts were looked down upon by people majoring in Industrial Design, Graphic Design and, to some extent, Illustration, and often vice versa, where the kids majoring in more commercial and career oriented educations were looked down on by the "purists".

Can you clarify "useless" for me? I'm not trying to be confrontational. I'm already aware my degree is useless in retrospect but the 'dipshit with dreads' comment struck me as weird and off-putting. Sort of like the stereotype of the OWS protesters.

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

mr. mephistopheles posted:

"Millennials are stupid entitled idiot babies."

"Why won't millennials vote for us?"

Here's Rush back in May, Millennials simply haven't earned the right to be listened to by Republicans :smug:.

quote:

I understand the desire and need for people of younger generations to be heard and acknowledged. I totally get that. But the truth is that it is up to you to be heard, up to you to get noticed, up to you to stand out. You are not entitled to be respected just because of your age. The only exception is the Seasoned Citizen population, which is the greatest collection of wisdom in the country (I don't expect you to believe that). You can demand to be respected, recognized, and listened to all day long, but understand that no one has any obligation to listen to you.

You are going to have to make them want to ... by virtue of your achievements. By demonstrating potential. By being interesting. Yes, even by being provocative. Fearless. Everyone has the right to speak, but we do not have a right to be listened to. No one has a constitutional right to be heard. In other words, don't sit around and wait and hope or demand that somebody listen to you. Take action. Be heard, but above all, make something happen.

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

BiggerBoat posted:

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Can you clarify, please?

I went to art school and majored in Illustration, which turned out to be largely "useless" in a practical sense but not entirely in an educational sense. I knew really good, smart, well meaning people with their heads screwed on straight that majored in theater, dance, pottery, music and what have you. Art school students who majored in Painting or Crafts were looked down upon by people majoring in Industrial Design, Graphic Design and, to some extent, Illustration, and often vice versa, where the kids majoring in more commercial and career oriented educations were looked down on by the "purists".

Can you clarify "useless" for me? I'm not trying to be confrontational. I'm already aware my degree is useless in retrospect but the 'dipshit with dreads' comment struck me as weird and off-putting. Sort of like the stereotype of the OWS protesters.

No, No, No, No. Not what I mean't at all.

The Arts are very important in our society and provide quite a bit of beauty to our world. I too was a graphic arts major for a while, and switched when I found out it wasn't for me.

Theatre, Ballet, etc. All are very important.

Not what I mean't at all.

I was saying there's a few degrees out there that are kind of narrow in focus, and kind of don't allow people much of an opportunity outside of attempting to be a College Professor (in which there's very few of those type of positions, because tenure).

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
Apparently every hack is making a children's book: http://www.dickmorris.com/a-perfect-christmas-gift-whats-it-like-to-be-president/

quote:

In What’s It Like To Be President, your child will learn:

• How a bill becomes a law

• What role lobbyists play in legislation

• How leaks to the media shape our politics

• How the bureaucracy tries to control Congress…and the president!

• How the Parties can reconcile and act together

• What role does public opinion play in legislation

They’ll read a fascinating story with twists and turns that will make them insatiably curious about our government. The humor and cartoon/illustrations keep the tone light and engaging.

Your child won’t be able to put it down…and you might sneak a peek yourself!

ProperGanderPusher
Jan 13, 2012




MaxxBot posted:

Here's Rush back in May, Millennials simply haven't earned the right to be listened to by Republicans :smug:.

*joins an OWS protest in order to be provocative and take action*

*is beaten within an inch of life by cops*

*cops are praised by Limbaugh and co. for dealing with non-genuine American appropriately and jokes are made about the potential benefit of another Kent State incident*

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

quote:

• What role lobbyists play in legislation

• How the bureaucracy tries to control Congress…and the president!

Your child won’t be able to put it down…

I'd take that bet.

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

BiggerBoat posted:

It means Democrats can appoint judges, committee members and pass the legislation that they were elected to do. Even legislation previously championed and advocated by the GOP. Basically, it means the majority elected government can function and write laws.

It also means that Harry Reid and Barrack Obama are (at last) fed up with this:

http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/TVNews/MSNBC%20TV/Maddow/Blog/2010/01/filibuster3.jpg

and have actually realized that Republicans will almost literally block anything, are beyond compromise and elected Democrats want to get a few things done before the next election cycle.

If you're FOX News or Rush Limbaugh, it's a mad, totalitarian, dictatorial power grab designed to pack the courts with liberals and make Obama King for Life.

edit: gently caress. image leeching.

Who was it in this thread talking dumb poo poo saying "well, yeah, but the Democrats started it"?

Because no. Look at that loving graph. I've heard conservative Republican voters opine that Democrats did the same thing under Bush and it's complete bullshit. Bush had a blank check for 4-6 years until he wasted the good will and trust everyone placed in him after 9/11. The only thing Bush didn't get was Social Security reform.

Look at this even:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/im...LEeG8pnJ7y9v4Zg


or especially this;

NPR reported today that the number of judicial appointee filibusters under Obama was more than twice of all the previous administrations combined since Eisenhower. They're right.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2013/07/DPCC_Cloture-Votes-01.png

Good on the democrats for finally realizing something.

This has reminded me of the end of the Joe Pesci character in Casino:

"The word was out. The bosses had enough of Nicky. They had enough. How much were they going to take?"

As some radio host pointed out this morning, the notable thing here was how suddenly it happened, without giving the GOP much advanced warning to engage in their specialty of ginning up their media machine for some epic long cable news talking head media war, the Great Filibuster Fight! Granted this has been an ongoing issue for years and has heated up in the last year or so since the GOP Senators basically pulled the football away from Harry Reid yet again after a gentleman's agreement, but I really wonder if the 3 straight blockages of DC Circuit nominees was really the last straw and suddenly put into motion a plan that had been drawn up a while ago.

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

Zwabu posted:

This has reminded me of the end of the Joe Pesci character in Casino:

"The word was out. The bosses had enough of Nicky. They had enough. How much were they going to take?"

As some radio host pointed out this morning, the notable thing here was how suddenly it happened, without giving the GOP much advanced warning to engage in their specialty of ginning up their media machine for some epic long cable news talking head media war, the Great Filibuster Fight! Granted this has been an ongoing issue for years and has heated up in the last year or so since the GOP Senators basically pulled the football away from Harry Reid yet again after a gentleman's agreement, but I really wonder if the 3 straight blockages of DC Circuit nominees was really the last straw and suddenly put into motion a plan that had been drawn up a while ago.

Wouldn't surprise me if there was a deal made with the traditionalists in the senate where Reid put one last compromise in place but if they republicans went back on that then they had to vote to nuke em from orbit.

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

Zwabu posted:

This has reminded me of the end of the Joe Pesci character in Casino:

"The word was out. The bosses had enough of Nicky. They had enough. How much were they going to take?"

That's funny because Harry Reid was totally a character in Casino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KDmG4bxXY

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

FuzzySkinner posted:

I was saying there's a few degrees out there that are kind of narrow in focus, and kind of don't allow people much of an opportunity outside of attempting to be a College Professor (in which there's very few of those type of positions, because tenure).

So...Arts degrees then?

Which degrees were you talking about specifically? Again, I'm not trying to pick on you or gently caress with you at all and you made it clear that I have you wrong, so no dram here. I'm just trying to understand your post.

I assume you're speaking to things like Humanities and Philosophy degrees? Stuff like that?

Can you define "worthless" and "narrow" for me so I can better understand your point and what you're driving at? What did you switch to and why?

Thanks.

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

I know you all have been wondering just what noted racist columnist John Derbyshire has been up to since getting fired from his National Review gig, for, uh, being a racist, and not a very subtle one at that... Apparently he's been writing pieces for Vdare.com! Like this one, in which he uses a movie he hasn't seen as a starting point for making the case that slavery, the U.S. antebellum Southern version, wasn't all that bad:

quote:

Plainly there was more to American race slavery that white masters brutalizing resentful Negroes. How much more, though? What was slavery actually like?

...

Of slavery as a condition—the ownership of human beings—the first thing to be said is that any person of feeling and imagination has to think it wrong, on the Golden Rule principle. The liberty to work out your own destiny, by your own volition, is a sweet thing, as the Spartans told the Persian. I wouldn’t deprive anyone of it.

That said, some historical imagination is in order. People are born, raised, educated, and find themselves in a certain kind of society to which those around them are all accustomed. American slave society was a way of life; a settled way that most people took for granted, as most people will anywhere.

There were aspects of life resembling slavery in the communist China where I lived, 1982-3. People had no liberty to find their own employment. You were “assigned” to a “unit.” If unhappy there, it was a devil of a job to get re-assigned.

Families broken up? One of my Chinese colleagues lived alone because his wife was “assigned” to a distant province. He only saw her once a year.

The guy drank a lot.

Yet while there was much grumbling, and some scattered seething rebelliousness, most Chinese got along with the system. A lot of people were very happy with it. You didn’t have to think much, or take much responsibility. And that suits many of us just fine.

...(much drivel snipped out here)

In the matter of slavery, though, I already feel sure that the shallow good North, bad South simplicities of Abolitionist Porn and popular perception bear little relation to the thorny tangles of reality.

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

BiggerBoat posted:

So...Arts degrees then?

Which degrees were you talking about specifically? Again, I'm not trying to pick on you or gently caress with you at all and you made it clear that I have you wrong, so no dram here. I'm just trying to understand your post.

I assume you're speaking to things like Humanities and Philosophy degrees? Stuff like that?

Can you define "worthless" and "narrow" for me so I can better understand your point and what you're driving at? What did you switch to and why?

Thanks.

Business degree.

Mainly because I found that while I could use Photoshop very well, I wasn't very artistically inclined.

Was trying to construct a very narrow straw man and I think I failed in regards to my point.

Zuhzuhzombie!!
Apr 17, 2008
FACTS ARE A CONSPIRACY BY THE CAPITALIST OPRESSOR

Zwabu posted:

I know you all have been wondering just what noted racist columnist John Derbyshire has been up to since getting fired from his National Review gig, for, uh, being a racist, and not a very subtle one at that... Apparently he's been writing pieces for Vdare.com! Like this one, in which he uses a movie he hasn't seen as a starting point for making the case that slavery, the U.S. antebellum Southern version, wasn't all that bad:

"You know... slavery and Communism ain't bad if you're at the top."

BrotherAdso
May 22, 2008

stat rosa pristina nomine
nomina nuda tenemus

Zwabu posted:

I know you all have been wondering just what noted racist columnist John Derbyshire has been up to since getting fired from his National Review gig, for, uh, being a racist, and not a very subtle one at that... Apparently he's been writing pieces for Vdare.com! Like this one, in which he uses a movie he hasn't seen as a starting point for making the case that slavery, the U.S. antebellum Southern version, wasn't all that bad:

As an American historian specializing in antebellum studies, I actually started shouting as I read this. I have never seen someone so willfully misinterpret and cherrypick, ever, the scholarship they are reading. And I live in the ex-capitol of the Confederacy.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Zwabu posted:

I know you all have been wondering just what noted racist columnist John Derbyshire has been up to since getting fired from his National Review gig, for, uh, being a racist, and not a very subtle one at that... Apparently he's been writing pieces for Vdare.com! Like this one, in which he uses a movie he hasn't seen as a starting point for making the case that slavery, the U.S. antebellum Southern version, wasn't all that bad:

I can't think of many worse places to go if you're trying to prove how not racist you are than vdare. Maybe AmRen and Stormfront, but that's about it. FFS, go write at WND or some poo poo, at least they still pretend they're not open racists.

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

ReidRansom posted:

I can't think of many worse places to go if you're trying to prove how not racist you are than vdare. Maybe AmRen and Stormfront, but that's about it. FFS, go write at WND or some poo poo, at least they still pretend they're not open racists.

I don't know if vdare is Derbyshire's regular gig now but he's written more than one piece for them, all racist screeds.

I don't think he's trying in any way to prove how NOT racist he is. He's going the other way, owning it and letting his (Confederate) freak flag fly.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Zwabu posted:

I don't know if vdare is Derbyshire's regular gig now but he's written more than one piece for them, all racist screeds.

I don't think he's trying in any way to prove how NOT racist he is. He's going the other way, owning it and letting his (Confederate) freak flag fly.

Ah, well spot on then.

psychic chasms
Oct 23, 2012

SCREWED UP CLICK TILL THEY LAY ME IN MY CASKET
http://nationalreview.com/article/364579/history-knockout-alec-torres

This is really loving racist. I know I should be shocked.

ChristsDickWorship
Dec 7, 2004

Annihilate your demons



The outrage over "Knockout" is really absurd. Even if the game existed and was widespread, how could you possibly be more afraid of knockout than actually getting mugged? If the game has really been popular since the 1990s, there must be 10s of thousands of victims and only a handful are dead or seriously injured. There must be hundreds if not thousands of deaths where robbery was the motive in the same time period. If you're already someone who crosses the street when you see black youths headed your way, why would Knockout even be news to you?

It reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when I got 7 emails in one day about that Cryptolocker malware like it was the worst virus ever. I would much rather have my computer immediately notify me that my hard drive has been encrypted for ransom than unknowingly be a zombie in a botnet or bitcoin mining network like most of the nasty malware does.

Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

Apparently every documented case of a black guy punching someone is now the knockout game.

This just in: :siren: Will Smith confirmed to have participated in knockout game :siren:

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

wixard posted:

The outrage over "Knockout" is really absurd. Even if the game existed and was widespread, how could you possibly be more afraid of knockout than actually getting mugged? If the game has really been popular since the 1990s, there must be 10s of thousands of victims and only a handful are dead or seriously injured. There must be hundreds if not thousands of deaths where robbery was the motive in the same time period. If you're already someone who crosses the street when you see black youths headed your way, why would Knockout even be news to you?

I'm imagining that soon enough, I'm going to see random old white people on the street react like this whenever a black kid older than 7 walks by.

e: Like, I'm really thinking there's going to be a stand your ground case where some old dude with a concealed pistol is going to be on trial for manslaughter, and people on the internet are gonna be like "it's a tragedy what happened to that young man, but what was the reason he walked up to that man so quickly? He had a bus schedule in his hand, but the shooter had a reasonable fear that the bus schedule could have been weighted with lead pellets, to use as a kind of 'cosh', or 'blackjack'. Dont laugh; It Happens. The game of 'Knock-Out' is real."

woke wedding drone fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Nov 23, 2013

Dr.Zeppelin
Dec 5, 2003

Zwabu posted:

I know you all have been wondering just what noted racist columnist John Derbyshire has been up to since getting fired from his National Review gig, for, uh, being a racist, and not a very subtle one at that... Apparently he's been writing pieces for Vdare.com! Like this one, in which he uses a movie he hasn't seen as a starting point for making the case that slavery, the U.S. antebellum Southern version, wasn't all that bad:

Looking forward to Richard Cohen citing this in his retraction of his "I guess slavery was bad after all" article.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



The Australian media is currently freaking out about the same thing but it's white people doing it so it's blamed on isolated incidents of drunken violence instead of crazy racist poo poo.

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

SedanChair posted:

I'm imagining that soon enough, I'm going to see random old white people on the street react like this whenever a black kid older than 7 walks by.

e: Like, I'm really thinking there's going to be a stand your ground case where some old dude with a concealed pistol is going to be on trial for manslaughter, and people on the internet are gonna be like "it's a tragedy what happened to that young man, but what was the reason he walked up to that man so quickly? He had a bus schedule in his hand, but the shooter had a reasonable fear that the bus schedule could have been weighted with lead pellets, to use as a kind of 'cosh', or 'blackjack'. Dont laugh; It Happens. The game of 'Knock-Out' is real."

Somehow this post reminded of the Millwall Brick; a weapon soccer hooligans would make out of a newspaper.

Von Sloneker
Jul 6, 2009

as if all this was something more
than another footnote on a postcard from nowhere,
another chapter in the handbook for exercises in futility
I decided to tune into Glenn Beck's Blaze channel earlier today just to see what their "Real News" show was like, foolishly thinking it would be a momentarily objective respite from the rest of the Beckian horrors (I mean, "Real News," it's right in the name! :haw:). Instead what I found was a panel of people, including either a psychologist or social sciences professor, I forget which, literally putting the blame for the "epidemic" of the knockout game on LBJ's Great Society, liberalism generally, and, yes, wait for it, you know it's coming, Barack Obama. Their underlying apolitical point was that it was due to the absence of fathers and the disintegration of the family in African American communities, but they never failed to link that to liberals liberals liberals. Supposedly liberalism fosters not just family fragmentation but a lack of repercussions for harmful actions. It was an insane discussion.

The reason they linked it to Obama was his justice department's opposition to "stop and frisk." Needless to say, I didn't stick around to watch the rest of the show.

cafel
Mar 29, 2010

This post is hurting the economy!

Von Sloneker posted:

The reason they linked it to Obama was his justice department's opposition to "stop and frisk." Needless to say, I didn't stick around to watch the rest of the show.

Yes, if only the cops could search all black youths for hands that could be potentially balled into fists. But of course everyone else should be able to carry concealed guns without question.

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro

Von Sloneker posted:

Their underlying apolitical point was that it was due to the absence of fathers and the disintegration of the family in African American communities, but they never failed to link that to liberals liberals liberals. Supposedly liberalism fosters not just family fragmentation but a lack of repercussions for harmful actions. It was an insane discussion.
For people of his typical viewing demographic, there's an understood connection between welfare, public housing, busing and all the liberal social engineering of the progressive era - particularly LBJ's Great Society anti-poverty/civil rights stuff - and the disintegration of the family. Essentially, all these programs eliminated the need for family structures, created government dependency, the government became Big Father, families broke up and pretty soon welfare queens were driving around in Cadillacs making GBS threads out babies to make more money and gangs of black kids were wilding in Central Park. It's all linear in their minds.

Of course this is a hugely self-serving and distorted view of what happened and why, and they toss in everything including the kitchen sink, but it's not even necessary to elucidate with that generation when referencing the topic. It's baked in to their world view.

EDIT: On a tangentially related note, if you didn't catch the little headline, Bernie Goetz was arrested the other day for selling drugs on the mean streets of New York. Irony: still dead.

ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Nov 23, 2013

Eponymouse
Nov 2, 2013

Beneath the skin, we are already one.

What's the best way to refute the conservative talking point that black people are kept in perpetual poverty by welfare? It's sometimes combined with: "Democrats supported slavery!" or "Planned Parenthood is committing black genocide!" which I know are easily refutable.

GROVER CURES HOUSE
Aug 26, 2007

Go on...
Giving people money makes them poor? Giving people money makes jobs vanish from the market? :confused:

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Eponymouse posted:

What's the best way to refute the conservative talking point that black people are kept in perpetual poverty by welfare? It's sometimes combined with: "Democrats supported slavery!" or "Planned Parenthood is committing black genocide!" which I know are easily refutable.

Paul Ryan.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Eponymouse posted:

What's the best way to refute the conservative talking point that black people are kept in perpetual poverty by welfare?

You can't collect TANF for more than 60 months and you have to be either working or educating yourself 30 hours a week in order to qualify for TANF benefits. Also, only 1/3rd of TANF recipients are Black. The rest are mostly White and Latino.

beatlegs
Mar 11, 2001

Eponymouse posted:

What's the best way to refute the conservative talking point that black people are kept in perpetual poverty by welfare? It's sometimes combined with: "Democrats supported slavery!" or "Planned Parenthood is committing black genocide!" which I know are easily refutable.

Well, let's imagine we took away that awful welfare. Since there's not an abundance of jobs available at this point, crime would increase. This would put huge pressure on local governments to come up with more money during a time of recession. Uh oh, looks like we created a new problem! Also, think about local businesses in those areas that take food stamps. Their revenue would drop drastically, forcing some of them to close down. Oh no, more inner city blight! More reasons for people to be angry, dispirited and less likely to bootstrap themselves out of poverty.

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GROVER CURES HOUSE
Aug 26, 2007

Go on...

beatlegs posted:

Well, let's imagine we took away that awful welfare. Since there's not an abundance of jobs available at this point, crime would increase. This would put huge pressure on local governments to come up with more money during a time of recession. Uh oh, looks like we created a new problem! Also, think about local businesses in those areas that take food stamps. Their revenue would drop drastically, forcing some of them to close down. Oh no, more inner city blight! More reasons for people to be angry, dispirited and less likely to bootstrap themselves out of poverty.

If you feel like bending the truth a little, remind them that food riots are A Thing and played a part in the Arab Spring. Play up the fact that people who have literally nothing to lose, not even food off their table, are more than willing to commit crime. You know, crime that lands them in courts and jails, both of which are far more expensive than just handing out food stamps like candy.

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