this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
1415 points (98.6% liked)

Microblog Memes

5392 readers
3379 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

No, freeloaders are the not white ilegal imigrants. White imigrants are great!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Stupid question: If undocumented, how are they verifiably paying anything close to this figure in taxes? Pls respond

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

probably the tax on their daily spendings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

How would that be tracked as "spent by an undocumented immigrant"?

As undocumented immigrants, they'd be unable to have bank accounts, so all of their payments would be in cash wouldn't they?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not all taxes are collected, much of what we pay in taxes is added on to the cost of things.

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 2 hours ago

For example, sales tax.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Sensible question. Nobody even knows how many undocumented people are in a country - because they're undocumented.

This has to be a made up figure. The sentiment might be correct but the data is dubious.

[–] [email protected] 277 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Yes, but corporations pay into the system in other ways. Take for example the time Duke Energy had a big coal ash spill into a river. They took the income resources they had and not only paid a fair fine price, cleaned up the...

Wait. No they didn't. They passed on all the costs to their customers. Fortunately those customers were able to use the free market and choose another provider...

Wait. No, they can't. Huh. That IS a freeloader.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago

I was about to flame you up 😤😂

[–] [email protected] 38 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yes, I remember this. Duke assessed the river bed and determined that a cleanup could cause more damage and would be super expensive. So they did no cleanup AND increased rates.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 hours ago

increased rates

You think that assessment was free? Think again pal.

[–] Ismay 43 points 1 day ago

Damn I hated you on those first lines 😂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Climate Town, is this you??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Lol, no, but maybe I was channeling him. Great Youtuber.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

You had me going there for a minute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

I hate you. Wait no I don't 😂

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think they care. I think they just say they are free loaders because what they really feel is hate towards people of other races and ethnicities, but they can't say it out load or often even admit it to themselves.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 day ago

Its funny how much owning a successful business sound exactly like being a lazy, work-shy layabout who does nothing while living off of other people's hard work.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Posts like this are important, but unfortunately in vain, I'm afraid. Those who still don't understand it will never understand it. I think they don't want to. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say it's still important to post and talk about, not for the people who know and don't care, but for the people who don't know and do care.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Racism is either a symptom or a tool:

Those who cant make sense of their situation being unsatisfactory may fall prey to it to soothe themselves.

Those who hoard all of the worlds wealth use it to distract from that fact.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Worth noting that a lot of the people raging about immigrants don’t see themselves as racist.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a quote that fits this situation well:

When you‘re dead, you do not know you are dead. Its only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I'd actually be willing to bet that we (the US taxpayer) paid those corporations for the privilege of their continued existence

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Office depot you said?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reading about The Bracero Program seems kind of wild in today's anti-immigrant US climate.

The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Temporary agricultural worker visas are one of the types of work visa with no limit, and actually have more protections than a lot of regular US workers. They still hire illegals because illegals are cheaper.

load more comments
view more: next ›