If you are republican you believe in cutting social safety nets, pro war, anti gun regulation, and anti lgbtq. I view all of those as "bad people traits". I don't think anyone who can say they are for gutting welfare can also say they are a good person at heart.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They might be polite to a fault, but they're still not good. I agree.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. You can say please and thank you all you want, hold doors open for people, smile at them on the sidewalk, but that's all thrown in the garbage if you aren't willing to actually do something to help people.

Welfare is a great example - most republicans use the "it's being abused" line as their go-to reason that it should be scrapped. Being a good person is knowing that it is being abused - but the value of it helping people outweighs the 1ish percent of people who are on it and abuse it.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

Half of the programs are so neutered it's like, who cares that it is? Ohhh noooo this guy makes $23k instead of $22k he still can't afford to eat let him have his blistering $100 of ebt. 🤷

My favorite is catching those "I wouldn't work either if I could just live on a check!" types. I encourage them to get that ssi check if they can, while explaining that they'll have to spend their savings down to under a grand, if they have two cars they'll have to sell one, etc etc - all to pull like $800/mo that'll drop to $50 if they log so much as a few hours at a part time job.

If that sounds like heaven to you, live yo best life fam. 🤷 But I don't think that reality aligns with their vision of life of SSI.