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   There it was this morning, plain as day. It was a screenshot of a woman   
   going off about how her food stamps were cut off, the $1,000 per month she   
   and her family supposedly get from the government, juxtaposed against her   
   being called out by someone else for hair extensions, expensive trips to   
   the nail salon, and tattoos. In short, she wastes money on unnecessary   
   things and then demands money from the government to support herself.   
      
   She's squandering money on luxuries while relying on the taxpayers to fund   
   her groceries for anywhere between four and seven people in her household.   
      
   And worse, there's no sense of shame among many of these people. There's   
   no concept that maybe they should keep their heads down and just be   
   thankful for what they've gotten.   
      
   Instead, many tried to brag about what all they'd do if they didn't get   
   SNAP money. They threatened violence and got away with it.   
      
   There used to be a stigma for being a welfare recipient, and while I get   
   that it's not always fair to stigmatize people for temporary setbacks, too   
   many people are still making a lifestyle based on government largesse.   
      
   These people are too comfortable doing so and are too demanding to be   
   permitted to go about their lives unchallenged.   
      
   People who refuse to work, who maintain large households and exist off of   
   taxpayer money, shouldn't be accepted. They shouldn't be tolerated. They   
   should be demeaned and mocked as the leeches they are.   
      
   When I was younger, this happened. It was considered mean to do, but it at   
   least meant those who got welfare in some form at least kept quiet about   
   it. Many were made to feel a sense of shame about it, which often led them   
   to take steps to get off of it and to pay their own way. Others were too   
   damn lazy to care, though, so reforms had to be made by implementing work   
   requirements.   
      
   But those requirements are so minor that recipients are getting off easy.   
      
   For those of you who may not remember, back during the reform debate, some   
   literally thought they were entitled to welfare money as their due. That   
   hasn't changed, and that's why these people need to be stigmatized. They   
   need to be made to feel bad about the position they have put themselves   
   in.   
      
   And it's not just the welfare queens, either.   
      
   There are a lot of people who are in positions due to their own decisions   
   who somehow think they deserve special treatment. You majored in Lesbian   
   Fruit Bat Studies in college, and you can't get a job? No wonder you   
   can't. You've proven you're too irresponsible to be trusted with your own   
   oxygen supply, much less anything that requires the least bit of   
   responsibility beyond putting on clothes to cover your reproductive parts.   
      
   You see racism everywhere around you, and that's why you're an a**? Maybe   
   what you chalk up to racism is because you're an insufferable piece of   
   filth, and people don't care about your ethnicity, just that you're a   
   horrible human being.   
      
   Communist? Enough said, mockery and laughter to follow.   
      
   Too many people get away with being terrible in various ways. We need to   
   stigmatize these people for exactly what they are: Con artists, deadbeats,   
   and pathetic excuses for human beings barely qualified to turn oxygen into   
   carbon dioxide.   
      
   Sure, there's a line there. Each of ours might be a little different, but   
   there's a big difference between a disabled veteran who can't work versus   
   someone really upset that our tax dollars won't be available to fund their   
   eyebrow waxing. Those who cross that line need to be the subject of scorn,   
   if for no other reason than to make it loudly apparent that it's   
   unacceptable to do that when you can work.   
      
   Do enough of that, shame people into cleaning up their lives on their own,   
   without expecting someone to do it for them, and we really will make   
   America great again.   
      
   https://townhall.com/columnists/tomknighton/2025/11/07/its-time-to-   
   stigmatize-some-people-again-n2666120   
      
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