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    6 hours ago

    When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.

    ~Hélder Pessoa Câmara

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        4 hours ago

        At the root of that is racism and prejudice, just like everything else. They don’t want the money going to certain groups, and the charities that they support align with their goals.

        This is the same reason for private/charter schools; they get to be more…selective in their admissions (and deep down this is the real reason people support voucher programs)

        It’s all about control and the chain of oppression.

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          Reminds me of that recent ad that pissed off the right wing world because it depicted a white person as a Welfare Queen.

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            3 hours ago

            Please…biggest welfare queens out there are probably the Waltons.

            The whole reason they keep their billions is because a huge chunk of their employee payroll is subsidized by welfare and medicaid…and then most of that money ends up getting spent in their stores!

            You know what the worst part is…is that between Amazon, Target, and Walmart…Walmart is actually seeming like the lessest evil. What the fuck, timeline?

            I don’t even remember what I had against Target so bad. I wanna say it was how quickly they kissed-the-ring on Trump-2 and started echoing his anti-DEI sentiment, but who knows, a lot has happened.