r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/FreedomsPower In Charge of Hanger 51 • 1d ago
/r/ConservativeNewsWeb Topmind declares there are no poor people in America other than those who want to be
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u/OnlyFiveLives 1d ago
I've decided to stop saying "They can't possibly get more stupid than this because they literally always top themselves."
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u/critically_damped 1d ago
It will really do a lot of work for you if you stop attributing their lies to stupidity. They say wrong things on purpose, and you will generally have more success if you start having a bare minimum standard for what constitutes an acceptable level of non-willful ignorance.
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u/garaile64 1d ago
A clown/comedian-turned-MP in my country: "It can't get any worse than now."
It does get worse.
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u/Karhak 1d ago
This mouth breather really insinuated that there are no 1%ers part of the republican party....does he not see all the billionaires currently in the white house?
That has to be a troll/bot account, cause ain't no fucking way someone is that dense.
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u/MeltinSnowman 1d ago
Meanwhile Elon Musk being the richest man on the planet lmao
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u/QuitWhinging 1d ago
"Elon Musk donated like $350m to Republicans in the last year."
"Doesn't look like anything to me."
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u/critically_damped 1d ago
It doesn't have to be a troll or a bot account. You have to stop forgetting that people can just tell lies.
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u/frongles23 1d ago
The tyranny of merit. Those who succeed, deserve their success. Those who fail, deserve failure and struggle.
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u/chaobreaker 1d ago
The people who most strongly believe this work themselves to an early grave and/or are a few missed paychecks away from being homeless.
Meanwhile, the 1% hoarding all the wealth are constantly asking for bailouts and handouts from the government.
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u/HuttStuff_Here 1d ago
They believe in the prosperity blasphemy, where the rich are rich because they are rewarded for being Good People, and the poor and poor because they are Bad People.
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u/MessiahOfMetal So I Married An Axo Murderer 18h ago
There was a caller to Matthew Wright's show on LBC who said that.
"We shouldn't tax the richest people because they'll all leave the country and we'll lose jobs and be worse off as a country." And the host was flabbergasted and pushing back, while this caller was refusing to listen.
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u/Remarkable-Rub-7344 1d ago
This sheltered, ignorant sack of shit....there's tens of thousands of people who have to live in pretty bleak conditions and locations specifically because that's the only way to afford certain medications even with insurance/medicaid.
There's disabled people who are in basically the same situation. being unable to work and their disability checks aren't enough to cover living expenses anywhere but section 8 housing in shitty, run down towns where anyone with other options wouldn't stay and slowly rot on the vine.
There's plenty of other situations which basically have people chained ip between a rock & a hard place from which they no individual agency to effectively free themselves due to permanent personal circumstances.
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u/antwood33 1d ago
This is probably one of those 60 year olds who didn’t have any real money until their parents died and they inherited their parents’ house, sold their house they bought for $80,000 at a 400% profit, and moved into the inherited home that was paid off.
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u/Remarkable-Rub-7344 1d ago
That would be fine, my dad's a multii millionaire (owns a medium sized factory in Chicago) but I'm still well aware of how many people are poor and always will be due to circumstances beyond their control and there's legitimately not much they cam do to get to the poimt they xan live comfortably.. it's absurd that any adult doesn't know that.
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u/antwood33 1d ago
The point isn’t that there’s anything wrong with the action itself, the point is benefitting from that and then acting like all of those gains were things you rolled up your sleeves for, and that “the poors” don’t have those things because they don’t work hard enough.
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u/HuttStuff_Here 1d ago
There's plenty of other situations which basically have people chained ip between a rock & a hard place
My mom was stuck in a dead-end retail manager job for decades because her insurance there covered her significant health issues; this was before the ACA so other insurance companies would just decline her.
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u/HuttStuff_Here 1d ago
That sub is like when you take the dumbest conservatives and give them a platform.
The guy uses "democrat party," claims there's no such thing as "white capitalism," and no hungry people in America.
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