Post #3081549
2026-06-03 20:40 UTC
Replies (24)
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@thedarknite@aus.social 2026-06-03 22:42
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
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@thedarknite@aus.social 2026-06-03 22:42
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
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@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social 2026-06-03 23:16
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Dutch law does not allow parents to gift groceries to children if these children live on social security. If they do, the social security income can be demanded back (which of course nobody can do because you need every fucking cent of it to survive). Otherwise, the Netherlands is known as a tax haven (which the government denies). Companies can get away with just about anything.
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@bignose@social.chinwag.org 2026-06-03 23:21
but surely by denying them financial security, housing security, health care, and basic pleasures, we are incentivising them to stop being poor. if we let them have nice things how will they be motivated to make something of themselves @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca #Neoliberal #Austerity #FuckYouIveGotMine #BlameTheVictim #MeritocracyMyth #TINA
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@earthshine@masto.hackers.town 2026-06-03 23:48
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca They'd regulate away their right to experience happiness of their own accord if they could.
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@gabbywheels@toad.social 2026-06-03 23:49
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca How else can you feel superior? /s I grew up in foster homes. Same. So much cruelty is small people trying to make themselves feel bigger by punching down. Right now in the USA we have an entrenched administration cheering their worst impluses on. Hugs.
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@Petesmom@kolektiva.social 2026-06-03 23:53
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Even necessities. People in US still ask why an unhoused person needs the "luxury" of a cell phone 🤦♀️
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@vampyre@transfem.social 2026-06-04 00:02
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca As a disabled person, this is so true.
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@Scienceisnotopinions@mstdn.ca 2026-06-04 00:15
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca I went through this when I received student loans. There were actaully folks at the university I went to who made comments like, "must be nice to be able to afford that."😩
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@Bel_tamtu@meemu.org 2026-06-04 00:52
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca As someone on disability I wholeheartedly agree.
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@fluffy@plush.city 2026-06-04 01:34
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca I want to scream every time someone mentions the "nice cellphone" that a homeless person has, as if the $150 they spent on the cheapest smartphone they could find would have made them not homeless if spent on rent instead
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@LeonianUniverse@leonianplace.masto.host 2026-06-04 01:49
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Yes and its absolutely wrong. Many people don't have the ability to choose to be in those situations, doesn't mean they should be made to feel bad about that fact.
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@kevinashworth@mastodon.social 2026-06-04 02:00
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Yes. The people who receive the biggest payments are the ones who merit any scrutiny. For every dollar a fixed-income person gets there’s thousands and thousands of dollars going to Musk or Tom Steyer or many others. All basic social services are affordable and super cheap in comparison.
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@JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net 2026-06-04 04:56
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca What are we being punished for?
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@Nina_cried@mastodonapp.uk 2026-06-04 06:35
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca People who struggled for every penny years ago, and worked their way up to a comfortable position now, are uncomfortable seeing other people given the things they were struggling for. They don't see the opportunities they had then that few people are giving out nowadays.
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@iwein@mas.to 2026-06-04 06:40
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca They're just bullies: cruelty is their purpose. The best proof of this is that policy makers on that particular bandwagon are happily taking away nice things that are objectively free, or even negative cost to society. E.g. affordable housing. Voting for bullies is stupid, or evil (usually both).
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@Sylocule@cyberplace.social 2026-06-04 06:52
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk The reality is that poverty (and most homelessness) is government ‘policy’. Considering Norway has eliminated homelessness through policy to help the less fortunate, all other G20 governments should hang their heads in shame
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@ScotInTraining@mastodon.scot 2026-06-04 06:55
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca the persecution of the poor is interesting, as there is a viewpoint that the poor have done something to deserve it. This is despite 2 truths 1 society is rigged against the poor- paying more than the rich for the same things 2 the same factor thst makes people poor is the same factor that makes people rich- luck
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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu 2026-06-04 09:12
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca My housemate is disabled, and the government is making her jump through all the hoops to the point that she spends tens of hours a week doing bureaucracy just to prove to them that she is worthy of the pittance that they are giving her. It is fucking cruel, and degrades us all as a society for allowing them to be treated with so little dignity. @oliof@social.treehouse.systems
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@aj@home.ajacks.net 2026-06-04 09:27
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Someone told me once that the key to understanding the conservative/right/rich ideology is that it all stems from the idea that rich people are rich due to their virtues and that being rich is virtuous, and poor people are poor due to their failings and being poor is a failing. After that day to me, all govt policies suddenly make perfect sense as to why the performative cruelty is so important to those who propose and support them.
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@nini@oldbytes.space 2026-06-04 09:43
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca "B-b-b-but what if someone who doesn't deserve it gets it??" Okay, wanna talk about things being taken by people who don't deserve it? Got a big list, you'll definitely know some of them and every one of them are wealthy. "Oh but they earned it, these welfare cheats are scamming us all and living better than I do with my money!" No, they didn't earn it, you just chose to give them the benefit of the doubt because you don't question that amount of money. They are the real cheats, the biggest recipients of government money, pay the least in and the real reason you live so poorly. Maybe the rich people with their decadence on your dime are simply people you envy while the poor are people you'd loathe to be given how you treat them.
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@HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social 2026-06-04 10:23
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca "Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."
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@TerryBTwo@ohai.social 2026-06-06 08:47
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca This crosses over with a number of other issues such as our appalling school meals (featured yet again on R4’s Food Programme this week) or care for the elderly etc etc. It’s as if the English see social provision as a form of charity to be given suspiciously reluctantly and grudgingly rather than as social duty.
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@arrrg@kolektiva.social 2026-06-06 19:57
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca People who are disabled or poor should have the nicest things. They should want for nothing. The result is that there would be no poverty and those with disabilities will be able to live free and full lives. How is this bad?