But muh bootstraps!

You know what's mad. My brother in law on benefits blames other people on different benefits

nothing makes a rich man feel better about himself than watching peasants fight over scraps

Same as the immigrants aren't stealing your job, the greedy capitalist are giving those jobs to immigrants to cut down their bottom line, and they love nothing more when you blame the immigrants.

At this point, the people smart enough to understand this- already get it. Those that refuse to accept it- are lost causes.

"Benefits" is a grotesque use of the word. Whoever came up with the idea of calling social security "Benefits" is an evil genius.

And the irony is that "I pulled myself up by my bootstraps" literally used to be an idiom about blatantly lying that you did something impossible before the boomers appropriated it.

Can we see a version that reads “the rich refusing the pay their fair share…”?

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I pulled myself up by my bootstraps. Of course, I was privileged enough to actually have boots with straps. It seems fewer and fewer people have these anymore and that's a damn shame.

fuck yeah. This is the dumbest shit. Allowing entrenched media structures, virtually always owned by corporate interests, to shape who the boogeyman is. Tip: it's never the corporate interests who control the entrenched media structures.

True

Can grab those bootstraps if you can’t afford boots 🤷‍♂️

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I mean, certain people in my life who were on benefits have negatively impacted me...

Though, the benefits had nothing to do with it. They were just shitty coworkers, and for the majority of them, just shitty people in general.

Sadly, not entirely true. When too many people have to depend on welfare money because rich people demand too much rent and pay too low wages, then everyone will get less.

But it's still rich people's fault so it's the same picture.

I support welfare for people who are willing to help themselves.

I'd be fine with giving free housing to people who work at least 32 hours per week, hit the gym and take care of themselves.

People being on benefits maybe.

I've had occasion in my life to spend some time around people who are on benefits because of mental health and drug abuse, and some of those persons were a nightmare to deal with, and absolutely affected my life negatively. Many conditions that put people on benefits also make them very unpleasant to be around. The key is to understand that they would still be difficult to deal with if they weren't on benefits, and desperation would only make them more of a nuisance.

This is a hilarious take considering the Bedlam unfolding in Dublin tonight.

Scumbags living their entire lives on some of the most generous benefits in Europe decide to burn the city because.... ? Racism?

Nothing to do with Billionaires.

Just generational scumbags trying to 1up their parents.

Get a grip.

If you think they dont negatively affect you then you probably havent lived around them. You have neighbors getting drunk every night staying up late because they have no job and then when you go to work they rob your house. They're overly aggressive and they treat the house/area like shit by smashing bottles and littering. Obviously not everyone on the benefit does this since I'm on the benefit and I don't do this.

If there were no billionaires it wouldn't change my life. Corporations would still dominate the world as hard as they do.