For those in the U.S., how do you feel about food stampes (SNAP?)

[CyberCubed]

How much longer do you think SNAP will stay "shut down?" They have a backup fund for emergencies like cases like this one, but I don't think they dipped into the reserves yet. Although if this goes on longer they might have to.

I honestly wonder if this is a way to starve out all the poor low-income black and hispanic families and get them out on the street.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

They have a backup fund for emergencies like cases like this one,

That's the thing, right there. There's a backup fund for certain emergencies, but does this qualify as one of them? Some courts are saying no, it does not, and to dip into it for this would be illegal.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's the thing, right there. There's a backup fund for certain emergencies, but does this qualify as one of them? Some courts are saying no, it does not, and to dip into it for this would be illegal.

Exactly how is helping the American people illegal?

They're sending ICE agents to harass, rough up and falsely arrest legal citizens just because they're a little too brown or their English isn't up to snuff. Why cover their faces? Why not ASK FOR ID before grabbing people? Why not send them after actual Chicago gangsters instead of unarmed citizens that can't fight back? Talk about how illegal all of that is.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Exactly how is helping the American people illegal?

Funds allocated for X cannot be allocated for YZ. It's just the law. Now, that may prove not to be the case but the courts have to determine that. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find unilateral support for a HUGE emergency package for a thing like SNAP benefits, which are supposed to be a supplemental aid. The government has been shut down for a month and whatever they DID set aside or the cushion they allocated lasted that long for many millions (a questionable amount of millions, at that), so there's that. That's a pretty huge amount of money as it stands.

In the meantime, maybe direct that ire to the democrats refusing to reopen the government instead of what your resident scare news is telling you to do? SNAP would restart tomorrow.

They're sending ICE agents to harass, rough up and falsely arrest legal citizens just because they're a little too brown or their English isn't up to snuff.

That isn't happening. If there are legal people rounded up in big operations targeting actually illegal immigrants they are interviewed and released. Obviously if you're the one legal immigrant swept up in a dragnet to take out 30 illegal immigrants in an operation on, say, a place of work... I mean, that sucks for an hour or two but what's the alternative?

Why cover their faces?

You're a smart guy, you know the answer. Especially after cartels have pretty loudly said they're hunting for these guys and their families.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

In the meantime, maybe direct that ire to the democrats refusing to reopen the government instead of what your resident scare news is telling you to do? SNAP would restart tomorrow.

Nonsense. The Republicans have the ability to open the government. They just want to force the Democrats to sign a bill that will completely wreck health benefits for everybody. That's what this is really about. Sign our bill or else you'll lose SNAP/EBT and starve, and hopefully start riots so we can enforce martial law.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That isn't happening. If there are legal people rounded up in big operations targeting actually illegal immigrants they are interviewed and released. Obviously if you're the one legal immigrant swept up in a dragnet to take out 30 illegal immigrants in an operation on, say, a place of work... I mean, that sucks for an hour or two but what's the alternative?

It's happening to more than just a few. A lot of it can be solved by asking for and checking for ID before just strong-arming people and shoving guns in their faces. Any self-respecting citizen has their ID on them. I assume you do as well, as do I. They just don't bother to ask. Racial profiling to the extreme. The Proud Boys obviously don't give a ****. You wish it was just 'sucks for an hour or two'.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

You're a smart guy, you know the answer. Especially after cartels have pretty loudly said they're hunting for these guys and their families.

Oh well. That's what the racist cowards signed up for. Regular police run the same risk with gang members, they don't wear masks like cowards.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Nonsense. The Republicans have the ability to open the government.

If they nuke the filibuster, sure. The nuclear option.

They just want to force the Democrats to sign a bill that will completely wreck health benefits for everybody.

Now you're just coming off at the seams, man. "Everybody" is on the ACA? It's crap. But more importantly, it doesn't cover crap. Even after I voted for Obama and looked into what I'd save with it when I was making squat wages it was ridiculously higher than what my crap company was already giving me. And that was at the height of it.

It's happening to more than just a few. A lot of it can be solved by asking for and checking for ID before just strong-arming people and shoving guns in their faces. Any self-respecting citizen has their ID on them. I assume you do as well, as do I. They just don't bother to ask. Racial profiling to the extreme. The Proud Boys obviously don't give a ****. You wish it was just 'sucks for an hour or two'.

IDs... you mean the ones you can get in many states you get regardless of your status? That doesn't prove anything. I wish it did!

Oh well. That's what the racist cowards signed up for.

AH! Now we come to the truth. I appreciate you leveling here. You want these ICE people to be dead and possibly their families. This is what the left won't actually admit, but you do.

[CyberCubed]

I mean I understand Coola's concerns, he's not only hispanic but of course has brown skin so is a likely target of ICE. Light-skinned or "white looking" hispanics are more immune to being targeted. Doesn't matter if you're a legal citizen or not, it's not like everyone standing around has a sign above them saying "legal or not legal" like a computer hologram or something.

Coola just got married and he doesn't want to be rounded off by the ICE agents, even by accident. He doesn't want to be shipped off to Alcatraz.

Even if Coola mentions he used to live in Mexico with his family despite being born in the U.S., if an ICE agent hears that it's "good enough" for them and he'll be shipped off and forced to work on the slave farms for the rest of his days.

Poor, Coola, he's "one of the good ones," he doesn't deserve to live in fear and prosecution. You hear that, Coola, you're "one of the good ones!" We know you're not like those other hispanics from Mexico!

#SaveCoolaFromICES

#JusticeForCoola

#WeLoveYouCoolaYagami.

[ToTheNines]

Why do you feel compelled to make posts like that?

[sdp]

Some people don't understand the struggle some of us have. Imagine being a black, a woman, a higher weight/curvy, and a gender fluid. That's 4 minorities all in one person. 4x more difficult life than the average WHITE CIS STRAIGHT MAN. And now they take our food stamps!

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

Some people don't understand the struggle some of us have. Imagine being a black, a woman, a higher weight/curvy, and a gender fluid.

Well, we'd have to imagine you (who's "us"?) as any of those things but the higher weight class because they don't apply to you. But for the sake of argument, what would this hypothetical "struggle" be on the day to day, exactly?

[ProphetofGanja]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Why do you feel compelled to make posts like that?

Trolls gotta troll

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by ProphetofGanja

Trolls gotta troll

I know the average cybercubed post isn’t meant to be taken seriously, it just seems oddly malicious and antagonistic when Coola has expressed legitimate anxiety over the matter.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

AH! Now we come to the truth. I appreciate you leveling here. You want these ICE people to be dead and possibly their families. This is what the left won't actually admit, but you do.

Not particularly but that is what they signed up for. Let them reap what they sow.

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

I know the average cybercubed post isn’t meant to be taken seriously, it just seems oddly malicious and antagonistic when Coola has expressed legitimate anxiety over the matter.

Cybercubed is a troll. Anything he says rolls off my back.

[CyberCubed]

I want Coola to stay safe.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Not particularly but that is what they signed up for.

To put their families' lives at risks, you mean? But that's only if they DON'T wear a mask*.


*: Which is always "funny" to consider because the push for that is coming almost exclusively from the same people that insisted that everyone must wear masks and you're a selfish prick if you don't and probably want to kill grandma, too.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

To put their families' lives at risks, you mean? But that's only if they DON'T wear a mask*.


*: Which is always "funny" to consider because the push for that is coming almost exclusively from the same people that insisted that everyone must wear masks and you're a selfish prick if you don't and probably want to kill grandma, too.

Yeah cause those people were grabbing innocent people, even elderly and beating them up or dragging them through the streets to stuff them into their vans. Funny how these racist bullies want free enterprise to beat up and harass whoever they want while hiding under masks to prevent any consequences.

But of course, your type would consider those 'collateral damage' because it's more important to harass Felipe selling fruit in the corner than going after actual gang members or cartel types.

All these people claiming they're 'taking their jobs' and yet you don't see white people tripping over themselves to work picking fruit in the fields.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Yeah cause those people were grabbing innocent people, even elderly and beating them up or dragging them through the streets to stuff them into their vans

This is a very fictional world you've created for yourself, hosted by a news media that thinks you're stupid.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

This is a very fictional world you've created for yourself, hosted by a news media that thinks you're stupid.

I guess by your logic you're like, the only legal Hispanic in the entire country.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I guess by your logic you're like, the only legal Hispanic in the entire country.

I don't even know what that means. They really got you good, though... and that's too bad.

[Mayhem]

If you honestly think ICE has not grabbed tourists and legal citizens as part of its campaign, then you’re living in cuckoo land Andrew…