“I have seen homeless who buy bottled water on SNAP only to dump and resell the bottles so they could get cash for their addictions”
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You didn’t see that, you saw a viral video of a black person dumping out water in a parkinglot and everyone told you it was an EBT scam. Just because you see it shared on the internet does not mean it’s common.
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Maybe the solution is to help their addictions rather than just throw them cash they can only use to buy ramen and bottled water. You don’t nuke or means test a helpful program just because you fail to address another issue.
Some people really cannot separate the video they’re watching from the text that someone overlaid on the video. If I record someone moving a box from a room, I can put the text “this is a box of unscanned ballots ->” and “the employee is taking them out towards the parking lot” and some people will just unabashedly say they saw the thing happening that they read in my anonymous text.
