I like generic yellow mustard. What the fuck is “Sunshine” complaining about?
They’re complaining about “welfare queens”, a common anti-poor trope. I doubt they even care about mustard.
Damn. At least Reagan was lying about poor people getting Cadillacs. Now it’s down to just fancy mustard?
So hands up everyone. Who’s consuming so much mustard that they have to replenish their supply on a monthly basis? Quite frankly you lot are weird
I use it as an emulsifier in salad dressings. Not sure if I make it through a pot in 4 weeks, but it’s probably close.
I’m more of a pepper guy myself.
Sacre bleu!
mustard is great on all kinds of things. live a little. sandwiches of course, but also sausage, hot dogs, in ground beef to give it some zing as a hamburger, on a hamburger, I dig it and try all kinds of strange combos. Wasabi mustard on a nice fatty salmon (pan fry to a nice caramelized crisp) is lovely.
I too enjoy mustard, but a bottle lasts months.
It’s so weird seeing that sunshine account when our local sunshine lemming is the opposite.
What do you mean this is obviously her they have the same name that makes them the same person.
We have a Sunshine here?
At Lemmy.ca
Oh yeah, now that I think about it I do recognize that name!
Oh yes, the classic “the poor people are secretly happy and that bothers me” argument. It’s like a cat call for stupid people. The whole point of it is to say “you’re not allowed to have anything remotely nice because I consider myself better than you.”
It’s mental illness made into a political platform.
Their position is more accurately something like “If I have to pay for you to have things, you shouldn’t be allowed to have nicer things than I can afford.”
Apply that analysis to the mustard argument in the post. It’s ridiculous. Nobody is using food stamps to buy a Porsche. If their life is made a little better because an extra bit of my tax dollars went into fancy mustard I’d consider that nothing short of a bargain.
That argument is literally gatekeeping fucking mustard. If you can’t spring for the grey poupon then being that much stingier with your taxes is not going to be enough to solve your problem anyways. You just want others to suffer because you suffer, which harkens back to my original point that is mental illness.
I feel like I’ve seen this post before - dijon vu.
This is just a totally brain dead take. Maybe the SNAP recipient likes brown mustard and prioritizes it. And you don’t care that much so you don’t prioritize it. If it mattered to you, you would budget to get fancy mustard.
If you really do feel you can’t afford fancy mustard, you shouldn’t be mad at the person who earns food assistance and then uses it to buy fancy mustard, you should be mad that you aren’t making enough to afford fancy mustard.
It’s also like $4 to get a bottle of Gray Poupon, absolutely ridiculous to be trying to whip people into a frenzy over that to begin with.
This is not the first time Republicans threw an absolute shit fit over negligibly more expensive mustard…
…while blowing hundreds or even thousands of dollars on red hats and overpriced campaign souvenirs.
Because in their minds, these people should be suffering more. Government food assistance should take the form of gruel, if it exists at all.
Edit: Oh I just realized what you were referencing lol
that is how conservatives do it, tan suit, hot dog, djoin mustard, sipping from a cup. they always trying to find some thing they can complain about, which is anything.
Theres the rub. The working class and poor have been indoctrinated to believe that they are their own enemies, and the puppet masters that orchestrated all of this class warfare are the rich to keep us busy from chopping their heads off.
The poor aren’t our enemies. They are the frogs boiling in water that the rich use to determine what they can do to everyone else.
Yeah, it’s not like SNAP users get a discount on “fancy” mustard, they just get use their government-given food money to buy whatever kind of food they want instead of the government policing how they are allowed to use their food money.
Oh the government absolutely polices how they’re allowed to use the money.
Okay, but apparently not when it comes to mustard.
This is just a totally brain dead take.
Well yeah, they’re complaining about people who receive SNAP benefits, so that’s a given.
According to Google, most SNAP recipients who can work, DO work.
A spokesperson for Google said that? Who even asked them?
SNAP recipients get nothing as Trump just announced he is going to brazenly violate the court orders that they be restored.
Uuuugh, god dammit. Thank you for sharing this. I hadn’t heard yet. I figured he was likely lying about half-funding it anyway, but it’s still disappointing. My dumb hungry ass got my hopes up a bit like an idiot lol
“poor people shouldn’t be able to afford food because I’m irresponsible with my money”
… That’s what this sounds like.
If you’re not “poor enough” to need snap, and you can’t afford to buy whatever food you want, within reason, then either, you need snap and you’re in denial, or you need to learn money management.
Snap recipients are forced to spend the money on food, since that’s the only place that money can be spent AFAIK… So they’re forced to be responsible with their food money. They can’t use the funds to get drunk at the pub and stumble down the street picking fights and ending up in the drunk tank.
If you’re not “poor enough” to need snap, and you can’t afford to buy whatever food you want, within reason, then either, you need snap and you’re in denial, or you need to learn money management.
There are breakpoints where earning slightly more money can cost you more benefits than you gained in pay. I could also totally see someone being in that range where they’re only a little out of range for SNAP and as such have to eat on their own income while someone earning a bit less gets supplemented to a higher total budget than they have.
Snap recipients are forced to spend the money on food, since that’s the only place that money can be spent AFAIK…
I mean without doing shady shit, yeah. But then in lots of places there are known and routinely practiced ways to launder SNAP into cash. One that was popular here for a time a while back was a convenience store that would buy cases of canned soda of specific kinds from anyone who came in with them for less than wholesale price. People on SNAP who wanted to launder it into cash would go somewhere like Wal-Mart, buy cases, go to this store and resell them at a loss to get cash while the store stocks shelves at a discount.
Laundering snap into cash seems like an enforcement problem.
But then again, we don’t want more cops… So I’m a bit split on it.
Or just get off the Nazi platform entirely. Seems pretty simple.
Consider that this person is the type to be actively funding the Nazi platform.
Yes the people with blue checkmarks are funding Nazis, but the dude pointing out the cost of mustard could also just fucking leave that shithole and leave it to rot. Same with anyone else left on there that doesn’t want to support Nazis.
Just fucking leave the platform.
Kill off whitepeopletwitter already.
All something needs is a French name and suddenly its fancy in the US.
Au contraire, legumes froid.
omelette au fromage
Whole discussion is about " I can only afford 1/3 price generic mustard, but SNAP recipients are spoiled"
SNAP funds can also be used to buy cheap mustard to stetch limited SNAP budget.
Subuscrube for more finical advice!
I’ve encountered people like this. They absolutely loathe when someone points out that what they said was wrong
“That foreigner/minority/impoverished person wants your cookie!” says the oligarch, standing on a mound of one billion cookies.
That’s not the same Sunshine that’s on Lemmy, is it? 🤔
My Twitter account was deleted ages ago under a different name. Mastodon fulfils all my needs.
Interesting, tell me more!
/j
Sunshine would never
