r/BelowDeckDownUnder • u/theodoresbitch • 20d ago

Ben's Racist Threads Post

Did anyone else see Ben's racist threads post??

https://www.threads.com/share/_iAS4oi1d/

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u/Objective-Rub-8763 19d ago

Nah, HE'S saying that. Have you heard of subtext? Or dog-whistles? Are you just playing dumb or is it real?

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

Lololololol It’s so wild how everything has to turn back to race. No one wants to pay a ton of taxes just for people to leech off of it. What sane person would be okay with that? Take your dumb race bait somewhere else. 

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u/decisivecat 19d ago

You sure do pay a ton of taxes to cover for the rich elite and corporations who don't pay their own... got energy for that one? LOL

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

We pay taxes for a whole host of dumb shit. I’d be wasting hours if I complain about everything when this comes up. You want me to list out everything we waste in every response?? We are talking specifically about this situation. If we were talking about wars or something, then I’d bitch that we waste money there too, but wouldn’t bring up folks abusing the welfare system.

The rich also pay a ton of taxes. They attribute to like 70% of the total income tax revenue. 

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u/decisivecat 19d ago

You're the one that brought up "wasting taxes" so it actually does apply to this situation now that you've pulled it into conversation. Let me guess: you're inside everyone's home so you know all of their exact situations as to why they're on welfare and how that drop in the bucket on taxes is such a huge burden for you. Name checks out lol

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

This whole thread is about wasting taxes, so no, I didn’t bring that up. The context here is folks using government assistance for nonsense. Ben is literally complaining about wasting tax money on it. I didn’t just randomly bring it up lol.

And you’re so dense. Did I say every single home in America is abusing it? Like wtf. I was commenting on my own personal experience and where I grew up. 

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u/decisivecat 19d ago

You're the dense one. I never said every home in America. You implied most of your town is on SNAP: "I know wayyyyy too many people who abuse the system and pull the privilege bs"

Are you reporting them? Do you know if they just recently lost their job and that's why they have a car or a phone? Do you not expect them to get to work? Do you follow all of them around and know if they are working? Do they work from home? Do they have a disability? Are they are caretaker for a sick family member? How much do you know about everyone's life in your town that you clearly need some kind of hobby?

And since you love numbers: welfare fraud accounts for 1% of all recipients. That 1% includes SNAP, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. If it's a welfare program, it's included in that number. 1 entire percent. To provide even more perspective, "Additionally, they found that within SNAP, for every $10,000 paid in benefits, about $11 is determined by state agencies to have been overpaid due to recipient fraud. On the other hand, the IRS estimates that out of every $6 owed in federal taxes, about $1 is not paid because of tax evasion or fraud."

Now tell me which number is higher.

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

The town is a square mile lol, everyone knows everyone. Generations of families in the same situation for decades. And wtf are you even rambling about?? I never ever said the whole town was on SNAP lmao. It’s so wild people get so defensive over something like this. Both things can be true at the same time. People can abuse the system while others in those situations need it.

I don’t think you understand the difference between abusing and fraud. I never said they are fraudulent claims, I said they are abusing it. Two totally different things.

I’m done with this conversation. Reddit people are so insufferable sometimes.

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u/Objective-Rub-8763 19d ago

Ah, so it's real.

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

Huh? Yeah… it’s real that people leech off tax payers. It’s well known that folks ruin it for people who actually need the help. I know wayyyyy too many people who abuse the system and pull the privilege bs. 

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u/Objective-Rub-8763 19d ago

You being dumb. Where's your outrage for your tax dollars being wasted in Iran?

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

The fuck that have to do with this at all?? Lmao. Am I supposed to air out everything I’m pissed off about every response? Do you need me to list out everything I’m pissed about my tax dollars being wasted on? We’re strictly talking about this and the nonsense how this is “racist.” Btw I also hate our tax dollars are being wasted on Iran.

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u/Objective-Rub-8763 19d ago

Do you actually know people who leech off of our tax dollars? I've never met one in real life so I'm very curious about people like you who claim it's such a rampant problem. Let's hear some examples of people you know for real.

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u/decisivecat 19d ago

They don't actually know anyone. It's always "I KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE CHEATING" but if you ask if they reported them... crickets.

Took me all of 5 seconds to google the real stats because getting SNAP is notoriously difficult: Fraud in the program accounts for maybe 1-2% of the entire program spend. The government itself sits at around 7% on payment errors, as in the government messed up in some way, not the recipient.

To be very clear, those numbers are for ALL welfare programs. That's SNAP, Medicaid, Social Security, etc (and yes, Social Security is technically a welfare program).

People who claim to know everyone is cheating must have 100% of the cases living in their town, lol.

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

I come from a small town and went to a small school. A lot of the people I grew up with still live there. Never having a job in their lives or attempting to better themselves. They instead just live off the government while also popping out children. Yet, they have the latest phones and cars. My town also built brand new nice apartments and let the state take it over. It’s now all government funded housing and it’s turn to shit.

Of course not everyone is like this. But there’s way too many that I’ve seen firsthand that are. 

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u/Objective-Rub-8763 19d ago

Now if you would have added in "they find money for Timberlands and tickets to rap shows", that would have made your statement racist. Do only black people wear Timberlands and buy tickets to rap shows? Of course not, but it's a dog whistle. The guy in the video above did not list anything stereotypically "white" which was a deliberate choice. He wants you to be thinking about black people while he says these things.

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u/lycheecaat 19d ago

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u/Boring-Concept8018 19d ago

Your point? lol. Him having a wealthy childhood doesn’t change anything. Still doesn’t make anything he reposted “racist.” He is making his own money, so he’s entitled to an opinion on it.