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Why would I be mad at corporations stealing trillions when there are poor people getting dozens of dollars!
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"I have seen homeless who buy bottled water on SNAP only to dump and resell the bottles so they could get cash for their addictions"
You didn't see that, you saw a viral video of a black person dumping out water in a parkinglot and everyone told you it was an EBT scam. Just because you see it shared on the internet does not mean it's common.
Maybe the solution is to help their addictions rather than just throw them cash they can only use to buy ramen and bottled water. You don't nuke or means test a helpful program just because you fail to address another issue.
Some people really cannot separate the video they're watching from the text that someone overlaid on the video. If I record someone moving a box from a room, I can put the text "this is a box of unscanned ballots ->" and "the employee is taking them out towards the parking lot" and some people will just unabashedly say they saw the thing happening that they read in my anonymous text.
You know, it drives me crazy that people fall for deepfakes that are poorly done and even get in arguments defending that they are authentic, but I guess they could be doing worse. Probably old people with bad hearing, anyway.