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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, who exists almost entirely as a Twitter troll at this point, raged that “black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule. Practically non-existent. But of course Republicans don’t have the balls to do this ad with ‘Shaniqua’ as the villain.”

Fucking idiot. There are ~4x the white people in the U.S. (>50%) compared to black people in the U.S. (<15%).

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 hours ago

As though half of all white people in Alabama aren't on food stamps…

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 50 points 19 hours ago

Right-wing pastor Joel Webbon was explicit: “Why pick a White man? You should make your message more believable by picking someone Black.”

A lot of these guys are just completely mask-off these days.

[-] apudgypanda@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago

they should have their heads "off" too

I have a good nick name for them, torso boys!

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 10 points 15 hours ago

Yat they always insist they aren't racists

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

They want to sell the illusion that their racist welfare cuts are, in fact, colorblind, or at least to an outward audience. Even in cases when a certain welfare is more enjoyed by whites, such as disability in Hungary, as Fidesz made it harder to access to many disabled people, due to far-right bloggers between 2006-2010 told people, that "voivode and overweight Roma drug dealers" are pretending to be intellectually disabled and amputees, to get welfare money and disabled parking spots for their Mercedeses. Though some bloggers also went after neurodivergent people, and claimed they were pushed into intellectual labor, due to "DEI mandates" and the mothers of those people fucking the way to their children (yes, they plagiarized it from Forrest Gump, because fascists don't have imagination, as seen by the sheer amount of AI slop they pump out).

[-] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

How do you pretend to be an amputee?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Don't remember, how the blogs tried to sold it exactly, but it worked so well, that the state still has to check amputees every year, just in case someone "lied about it".

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 day ago

“black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule. Practically non-existent.

Pretty ridiculously disingenuous and misleading to make this complaint when there are more white people on food stamps than black people.

dignity of work

What a joke

[-] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

When looking at stats, you shouldn’t look at absolute numbers, you need to look at distribution too. According to google US is approximately 59% white, and 13% black, and food stamp numbers are 38% white and 25% black. So there does seem to be truth to if you are black you are more likely to be on food stamps.

Systemic racism might play a factor here.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

So there does seem to be truth to if you are black you are more likely to be on food stamps

Sure but in context that should not matter at all if the question is what demographic is the appropriate choice to represent the typical US welfare recipient. In this case total numbers are more relevant than relative proportion, you'd want the median person.

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

More than 1/3 of just under 2/3 of the population vs 1/4 of slightly over 1/10 of the population.

Rough estimates

White on food stamps: 76.2 million

Black on food stamps: 11.1 million

[-] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

That’s my point though, those numbers are meaningless. What if I gave you these numbers:

White not on food stamps: 122.6 million

Black not on food stamps: 33.2 million

There are zero valid conclusions to be drawn.

Analyzing the actual numbers, it seems a random black person is 3x more likely to be on food stamps than a random white person in the US.

(0.25/0.13) / (0.38/0.59) = 2.99

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

Also, if there are 100 evenly distributed welfare recipients in a room, and you pick one at random, it is more likely they will be white than black.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

Systemic racism might play a factor here.

Might? Centuries of being held down at every turn and prevented from accumulating generational wealth "might" be a factor in modern poverty?

[-] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

Not everything is literal my guy. Try reading between the lines.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago
[-] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Holy shit lol this gave me a chuckle. Thanks for that.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 9 points 18 hours ago

I have been a white man who needed assistance and turned to "welfare" to survive.

[-] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

I as well, it was what opened my eyes in my 20’s that all the bullshit I was fed as a kid was in fact false.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 17 hours ago

Congratulations on your transition! How do you feel now?

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 7 points 16 hours ago

It's nice not needing the help anymore. Transitioning to being not broke wasn't an easy or quick process, and I certainly couldn't have done it all on my own, but it was worth it. I'm still a white guy though I try not to hold that against myself.

[-] zedgeist@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Will you hold it against me? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

I'll have to ask my wife, y'know, out of respect for her.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

“black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule. Practically non-existent.

Pretty ridiculously disingenuous and misleading to make this complaint when there are more white people on food stamps than black people.

That's called statistics! Remember, there are 3 types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

This is just another rebranding of the "13 50" bullshit in a different trenchcoat.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 25 points 23 hours ago

British right-wing commentator Charles Cornish-Dale, known online as “Raw Egg Nationalist.”

Wtf why do raw-egg eating weirdos seperated by an entire ocean and half an America know, let alone have a take on political ads in Arkansas?

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 points 17 hours ago

Because the bad guys, including the racists that supposedly hate each other's races to death, all stick together in destroying us, while we fight amongst ourselves.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 54 points 1 day ago

Every one of those right wing complainers are among the worst people on earth.

They never seem to complain about rich people who just live off investments and inherited wealth.

[-] Krumm@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm working hard so those at the top never have to.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago

republicans, white people and conservative pocs are taught through propaganda that being rich/white is the epitome of an "citizen" so no they will never complain about rich people.

[-] reader@lemmy.zip 4 points 20 hours ago

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[-] AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago

Snowflakes everyone of them

[-] RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

They can't agree on the type of evil they want to be

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago

"I want to be Krang from TMNT and suck the whole world into dimension X!"

"Well I want to be The Man With the Golden Gun and steal solar technology that can be weaponized into a giant space laser and hold the world ransom!"

"I just want to be Abys Mal from Aladdin and get a cool hat..."

[-] magikmw@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

I was today years old when I learned that guy is called Abis Mal. There's so much these movies lose with dubbing.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 day ago

"I want to be Krang from TMNT and suck the whole world into dimension X!"

Look, all I'm saying is that Krang is sitting at the perfect height.

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I was confused at the thumbnail, I mean wtf does Jizz In My Pants have to do with this?

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

Every time my welfare cheque comes I JIZZ IN MY PANTS!

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