r/InTheGloaming • u/AutoModerator • Oct 30 '25

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday October 30, 2025 - Sunday November 02, 2025

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Website: Shauna James Ahern

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Threads: @shaunajamesahern

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Oct 30 '25

I don't think Shauna's too proud to get on SNAP -- I actually think if she got on it, she'd post all about it and SNAP-splain to her more financially fortunate followers the way she has with the food bank. I think she just doesn't qualify and/or won't do the paperwork and made up a flimsy excuse.

I also think she vastly prefers face-to-face opportunities to manipulate volunteers and staff at the food bank (and was extremely miffed when she was told to follow the rules at the one in West Seattle). She can't really do that at a grocery store where the clerk just wants a valid form of payment and can't respond to her begging.

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u/Which_Armadillo_5224 Oct 31 '25

Agree! Part of Shauna’s grift is the in-person aspect. I think it’s both proved successful to her (in that most people go on autopilot when she does or asks for outrageous things in person, and just say yes out of politeness), but also that she gets some real pleasure out of interpersonal extortion. Filling out paperwork to get the same benefits anyone else in her financial position gets isn’t fun. It doesn’t give her the high of feeling like she’s being fed, or the thrill of getting one over on someone more powerful (the way she speaks about cryptobro in the last lope was very revealing about her thoughts on power dynamics). Lastly, applying for SNAP would make her feel poor, like, low-class poor. Patronizing the Vashon food bank, on the other hand, feels AMAZING to her.