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Cake day: June 8th, 2025

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  • Used to work at a convenience store and definitely saw plenty of people come in, spend all their cash on 4-5 packs of cigarettes and a 12-pack of beer, then put food on the counter and pay for that with food stamps. It always felt a little wrong to me, but as I got older I realized these people are living lives of despair and it’s really just not the biggest problem in society when you have the rich engaging openly in corruption and violating laws while going unpunished. The rich get subsidies for fossil fuels, one of the most profitable businesses and no one audits that. Airlines and banks get bailed out all the time, and no one audits that. Trump takes bribes in the Oval Office and no one cares. Who gives a shit if someone making $7.25/hr uses food stamps to buy a pack of M&Ms when their employer doesn’t pay them enough to make ends meet, necessitating that they be on food stamps in the first place. We should be prosecuting businesses that underpay their employees and subsidize their bottom lines by making their employees rely on state benefits.