• @Blue_Morpho
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        415 months ago

        “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No.”

        Actor Craig T Nelson on how the government never helped him.

        • @GraniteM
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          135 months ago

          So help me there was some big deal right wing personality who talked about how the government shouldn’t subsidize education by saying that when he was a kid he wanted an education so he… went down to the public library and read books there. Not a hint of irony. Can’t remember exactly who it was, but the dissonance stuck with me.

          • @Blue_Morpho
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            15 months ago

            I never heard that one. If you figure it out, post back.

            • @GraniteM
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              35 months ago

              The difficulty in locating the original is that Republicans are ALWAYS trying to destroy public education and public libraries, so it’s kind of like trying to Google John Smith.

    • @MrVilliam
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      225 months ago

      I literally knew a girl who said this. She truly had no idea that they were the same thing, but rattled on about wanting it gone while benefiting from it.

      I also knew an older woman who hated Obama and said “he’s arrogant for naming that after himself.” She didn’t believe me that her favorite channel was the one who named it after him unofficially and that its official name was ACA.

      They truly just repeat bullshit until it sticks, and it usually works on the people who don’t bother to diversify their information sources. It’s so goddamn frustrating.

      • @Anticorp
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        95 months ago

        She didn’t believe me that her favorite channel was the one who named it after him unofficially and that its official name was ACA.

        That can’t be true, because I’ve heard it called Obamacare 30 times. Everyone knows it!

        • @jaybone
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          65 months ago

          “Everyone says so”

          It’s like an introduction to fallacies in a freshman year philosophy class.