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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Don't do my boy Fry dirty like this.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

"Thanks. I may not be smart, but I have a good heart. That's what my mom always said."

"She was a wise woman."

"Also, she said I wasn't much to look at."

"A wise woman indeed."

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Switch panels 2 and 4.

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Kids need to use their bootstraps. I grew up on welfare, nobody gave me any handouts.

(Yes that was a real comment from a dumb fuck relative on Facebook)

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

I met a guy in the military who said the same thing, he's a self-made man... Living off American tax dollars.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Keep your government hands off my Medicare!

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

My late stepdad literally was ranting about the evils of Obama wanting to create socialized healthcare (the ACA was before Congress at the time) while filling out the paperwork to apply for Medicare.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

"I've been on food stamps and welfare, anybody help me out? No."

https://youtu.be/yTwpBLzxe4U

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago

A convicted felon who inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father, so he shouldn’t even need the money in the first place.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well if those kids wanted some free money, they shouldn't have broken Supply Side Jesus's first commandment "Thou shalt not be poor".

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I'm paraphrasing here, but they also missed the part about, "Thou shalt be born of the poor for this is the Lord's will and none shall help you, for this is thine destiny. Amen."

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a fun new nickname for the prosperity gospel 🤣

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Their fake christianity rationalizes it

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The illusion of the world being a meritocracy also plays a role i would imagine, "why should i have to pay just because they got parents too lazy to work", meanwhile the parents in question work 3 jobs and still don't make enough to pay rent

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yep. Religion isnt going to fix the economy

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But there's no profit in giving money to needy school kids. There's profit in propping the candidate that's gonna cut your taxes.
There's probably a Rule of Acquisition for this.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Billionaires aren’t the only ones giving money. There’s a lot of dirt-broke dumbasses donating their last 5 bucks to a billionaire’s legal fees.

As for rules of acquisition…

treat your friends like family. Exploit them.

once you have it, never give their money back.

the bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

every man has his price

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago

The broke dumbasses do it for sport.
And those definitely are Rules of Acquisition, if slightly reworded, but I don't find them relevant to the situation. Perhaps the following rules are a better fit from the protective of the "donors":

#33. Never hurts to suck up to the boss.
#34. War is good for business.
#285. No good deed ever goes unpunished.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

If we only cut taxes on corporations and billionaires even more, they would be able to create more jobs to help the ~lazy~ parents of the poor kid.