Imperial boomerang is used constantly in my media world. It happens slowly, while we are wide awake.
I still encounter too many who defend this way of viewing things. They ignore our bloated military budget - declare it's unrelated - and harp about the undeserving taking more than they're worth. It's heartbreaking and challenges one's ability to give a heck but I stand tall.
Back to back people talking to me with that viewpoint. The military is totally unrelated somehow.
I hear we give too much money to other countries but Israel is ok. I don't understand.
Its American exceptionalism through and through. We are conditioned to view the military as justified and soldiers as heros. Meanwhile our military is used to terrify the world and hold them into submission.
And we didn’t always have a “standing army”. Such a thing used to be weird and now it’s normal. Who needs a professional army - for what enemy? Armies are for emergencies only.
Hi good person. That was a well written post, and I agree with you fully on the screwed up neocon foreign policy that has ruled in these United States since the fall of the Soviet Union. And you're right, as well, that what we allow "over there" will eventually happen "over here." Think: Gaza. We let the bastards get away with that crime, there's nothing they won't do.
I see more nuance in the question of "SNAP" benefits and such. Let me tell you why and start with an example. Just last week, there I was at the special counter that sells smokes, and this guy in front of me, he had some food to pay for and wanted smokes too. Well, he paid for that food with his nifty EBT card or whatever; that was clear, and then he pulled out the biggest wad of cash I have ever seen to pay for his smokes. Now mind you, this is a dude with gold chains and his paints hanging half down his ass. You don't see how this dynamic wouldn't bug people. Indeed, I suspect bugging people is at least half their objective for the day.
Or consider, good person, the very many "tic-toc" videos we have of clearly obese people either bragging about benefits or making threats if those benefits are removed. That's not a good look, to say the least, see?
And then I find out just how high those benefits can be; more than I've ever been able to earn in a given month when risking my life and doing overtime, dude. There's something wrong with this picture.
Do I want to harm the needy, to starve anybody, to take away from kids? Hell no, of course not. But the abusers are also a very real valid problem, and thanks to their own behavior public and freaking tic-toc videos, we have plenty of evidence to back this valid concern.
The system is broken. I'm sure we agree on that. But the presumption that the HUGE boom in benefit takers under Biden was all kosher is unfounded, I would argue. I think we have a lot of grifters and bad actors, out there.
Imperial boomerang is used constantly in my media world. It happens slowly, while we are wide awake.
I still encounter too many who defend this way of viewing things. They ignore our bloated military budget - declare it's unrelated - and harp about the undeserving taking more than they're worth. It's heartbreaking and challenges one's ability to give a heck but I stand tall.
Back to back people talking to me with that viewpoint. The military is totally unrelated somehow.
I hear we give too much money to other countries but Israel is ok. I don't understand.
Its American exceptionalism through and through. We are conditioned to view the military as justified and soldiers as heros. Meanwhile our military is used to terrify the world and hold them into submission.
And we didn’t always have a “standing army”. Such a thing used to be weird and now it’s normal. Who needs a professional army - for what enemy? Armies are for emergencies only.
Thanks for this.
I appreciate you!
Hi good person. That was a well written post, and I agree with you fully on the screwed up neocon foreign policy that has ruled in these United States since the fall of the Soviet Union. And you're right, as well, that what we allow "over there" will eventually happen "over here." Think: Gaza. We let the bastards get away with that crime, there's nothing they won't do.
I see more nuance in the question of "SNAP" benefits and such. Let me tell you why and start with an example. Just last week, there I was at the special counter that sells smokes, and this guy in front of me, he had some food to pay for and wanted smokes too. Well, he paid for that food with his nifty EBT card or whatever; that was clear, and then he pulled out the biggest wad of cash I have ever seen to pay for his smokes. Now mind you, this is a dude with gold chains and his paints hanging half down his ass. You don't see how this dynamic wouldn't bug people. Indeed, I suspect bugging people is at least half their objective for the day.
Or consider, good person, the very many "tic-toc" videos we have of clearly obese people either bragging about benefits or making threats if those benefits are removed. That's not a good look, to say the least, see?
And then I find out just how high those benefits can be; more than I've ever been able to earn in a given month when risking my life and doing overtime, dude. There's something wrong with this picture.
Do I want to harm the needy, to starve anybody, to take away from kids? Hell no, of course not. But the abusers are also a very real valid problem, and thanks to their own behavior public and freaking tic-toc videos, we have plenty of evidence to back this valid concern.
The system is broken. I'm sure we agree on that. But the presumption that the HUGE boom in benefit takers under Biden was all kosher is unfounded, I would argue. I think we have a lot of grifters and bad actors, out there.
I wish you only well, on this day.