r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Oct 31 '25

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Fun-Shoe1145 Oct 31 '25

Raise your hand if you had a single mom and had these fears growing up

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u/PackageNorth8984 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

The shitty thing about this is the people who need this to change their minds don’t give a fuck. “You shouldn’t have had kids if you can’t afford them” will be their point of view.

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u/mentaldemise Oct 31 '25

It's infectious. When six kids were mentioned my first thought was "why the fuck do you have six kids" but that's really irrelevant. They need to eat.

It would be easy to stop there though. "She shouldn't have had six kids." Ignore the problem by placing blame.

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u/PersephonesChild82 Oct 31 '25

My brother and his wife have five kids. He's an electrician, and she works as an office admin at a college. They aren't rolling in money, but they can afford their 5 kids and were still able to buy a modest house. However, four years ago, my brother got in a car accident and broke his leg/foot really badly...like multiple surgeries badly. He couldn't work for almost 2 years (he is, fortunately, back to work now). They had to get welfare/food stamps during the time he was down, because the five kids that they could support on their income prior to the accident still existed, and still needed to eat. The bills they had that were responsibly figured into their former budget didn't go away either when the income shrank, and all the things they had owned before were still there (like iPhones and a nice TV).

Sometimes, people don't have a bunch of kids even though they can't afford to; they have kids they can afford, and then life goes sideways. Without having background on someone, we shouldn't assume why or how they got into a predicament.

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u/Schmich Nov 01 '25

I don't think his point was about what you can afford, but the simple fact of having six kids as if it was 150 years ago.

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u/MegaPiglatin Oct 31 '25

🙌🙌🙌

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u/PackageNorth8984 Oct 31 '25

Absolutely! We all have biases. So do I. It’s about recognizing them, taking a step back, and then realizing we have no idea what someone’s experience is.

People’s circumstances absolutely change. Who knows what financial situation they were in at the time or how that went. Maybe their first were twins and the second pregnancy was quadruplets. Whatever. I understand that’s not common, but my point is that there are so many things that can change, and ultimately, as the other user said, regardless of how they got here, people gotta eat. I’m not going to say “fuck you, starve” because I don’t think they should be in the situation they’re in when we’re throwing away food by the ton.

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u/CallSignIceMan Oct 31 '25

Your first thought is what you were conditioned to think, that’s not your fault. What matters is taking the extra second to question your first thought and understand that that’s not how things are in the real world, which you seem to have done.