Influencer calls for feeding ‘prison loaf’ to poor people instead of SNAP benefits
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Conservatives: let’s torment the poor in order to motivate them not to be poor
Also Conservatives: decimates middle class, reduces class mobility
Also also Conservatives: blame [insert demonized group here] for the inescapable suffering we caused
…and when you’re in prison for not paying your dues to the IRS etc you can moan, bitch & whine about being fed Nutraloaf while other streamers who do pay their taxes and don’t think the way you do can yap about you, Karen… er, I mean Diane.
Diane needs to shut her Yap! Or maybe, since she’s suggesting this, let her try living on nothing but Nutraloaf for a month, and let’s see if she changes her tune after that. I’d guess after that, being able to buy normal food on what you get from EBT would seem quite luxurious!
I was getting EBT basically all throughout 2020 and 2021, and if I remember it right, I was getting $243 per month at the time. So about $8 per day, in other words. And that was the maximum you could get. You weren’t having fine dining on that, but you could at least get by, and I’m sure it was a hell of a lot better than eating “prison loaf” every day.
Thing is, people who need assistance shouldn't be just surviving. They should be allowed to actually live a little.
But then again, this is the same class who claim owning a refrigerator and microwave is proof against poverty because they're 'luxury items'
Adorable. A human parasite telling struggling, working poor what they do and do not deserve… You and your ilk contribute zilch to society and humanity as a whole, personally in my opinion you lot should not be able to make a single dime from your internet yapping and shilling, much less anything tax deductible, you piece of rotting human shit. A person working a full time job should never struggle but I’d simply LOVE to see you forced to eat nutraloaves till you actually start contributing anything meaningful to the rest of us.
You know, it occurs to me these are the same kinds of people who go to Europe and are absolutely aghast when restaurants charge for water.
Edit: And just a reminder privates in the supposedly venerated military and their families rely on benefits like these to scrape by. Attacks on these programs, these “handouts” as they’re so often called, are attacks on those in active service who can’t exactly get a second job and many of whom enlist in the first place because of some other “handout” such as trying to get an education to get a job with a livable wage if they survive their tours of duty so as to not be spit on by people like this. But as it turns out it’s never good enough if you’re not already firmly entrenched in comfortable financial and social standing before you ever set foot in the military or the working world. It’s a sharp contrast to quite a number of conservative “military wives” in that category of inherited comfort who expect invoking that as their “employment” status and even their “rank” to entitle them to preferential treatment and far more significant handouts than a small grocery allowance.
The linked article includes a picture of Nutraloaf, which...yeah, not appetizing in the slightest, but then again it's not supposed to be.
“Nutraloaf provides the correct incentives: you won’t starve and you’ll be motivated to earn enough money to eat real food again,” she added in her viral X post.
Yes, because the reason poor people are poor in this country is because they're not willing to work. Not that they aren't able to work, or do work but make very little money, or have genuinely put in the effort to get a job but constantly get turned down, or the fact that numerous billionaires (and a trillionaire) pretty much hoard money and pay little to nothing in taxes, no - it's the poor's fault they're poor.
The food, also known as “prison loaf” or “meal loaf” is often served in US prisons to inmates as punishment.
...and the poor deserve to be similarly punished, apparently.
“‘We should treat the poor like we treat misbehaving prisoners,’ is def a take I expect from u,” one X user wrote. “They can opt out at any time by simply paying for their own food,” Yap responded.
This may just be the article's wording, but this looks a whole lot like her not denying that "let's treat the poor like we treat misbehaving prisoners" is what she's proposing.
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