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  I've been in retail for over 20 years.  I don't know about anyone else, but I honestly couldn't care less how someone chooses to pay for their items.  I also don't care if your card has been declined for "insufficient funds" and you have to use a different card.  People might think we're judging them - I promise that I, at least, just want my shift to be over so I can go home.
  I will say that paying via SNAP is much, MUCH easier now that the program uses an actual card as opposed to literal paper coupons.  It's possible that the cashiers weren't "glaring" at you because they were judging you for what you bought - but because ringing someone out using those dumb paper food stamps was annoying and a pain.
  And it's also possible that your cashier's feet were aching and that's why they had a sour look on their face.  They may not have been thinking about you at all.
context: Does the GOP sit around and come up with the most vindictive terrible ideas or what? >
  
  They do. And when you start asking questions that point out how ridiculous their suggestions are they will grouse and say "it was just a suggestion" >
  
  “Never believe that ~~anti-Semites~~ Republicans are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The ~~anti-Semites~~ Republicans have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
  Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
  Edit by me. >
  
  FYI You didn’t need to cross out the “anti semite”. It belongs there. >
  
  Could have also replaced it with fascist and conservative. Yes, conservative belongs on the list. The whole premise of the “ideology” is to uphold status quos so that inequality in wealth and power can remain. At least initially. Now it’s all about returning to past status quos so that inequality can return to those levels. >
  
  yes. i try and explain to conservatives that the whole point of their ideology is to actively stand in the way of progress. social, economic, scientific, all forms of progress. your duty as a conservative is to prevent people from having new ideas. that is disgusting and inexcusable in my eyes. >
  
  The problem is that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They are fine with any progress that makes their lives easier (cars and modern medicine, for example) but they love obstructing only the stuff that they don't like. If they like conserving the status quo from the past they should have their cars replaced with horses and be directed to the local alchemist the next time they need something medicinal. >
  
  They want to live in the stone age while using iPhones. >
  
  Wrong.  They want YOU to live in the stone age, while THEY are using iPhones. >
  
  I wonder what portion of these SNAP recipients are GOP votes. >
  
  They also dont care because GOP has been successful in stoking up fear for Democrats.
  I showed my GOP family members videos of them talking about cutting SS and Medical and their response is its "fake".
  These people are reliant on SS, disability and Medicaid.
  When I point this out they say well they cant vote for Democrats because they will install socialism.
  At that point I'm just besides myself with trying to break through. >
  
  Ask them to define the socialism they are so scared of. 99.9% chance they will not be able to >
  
  They can't since they don't even understand they are reliant on the socialism we do have lol. >
  
  The famous 'keep the gubmint out of MY medicare' constituency. >
  
  I needed my bio father to give his tax info so I could fill out my FAFSA paperwork a couple years ago so I could go to college (ftr he wouldn't have paid anything, it was just to determine how much aid I was eligible for) and the fucker said no, because he didn't want the government to have his social security number.
  He didn't want the GOVERNMENT to know his SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
  He's allowed to vote. >
  
  That’s really sad.  Just asking, but is there any chance he is an illegal alien?  Or possibly some other shenanigans like has been on the run from the law and has been using a fake ssn?  Or like you inferred, just an idiot? >
  
  Nope, he was retired Navy and worked a job with security clearance, no way it was something illegal, etc.. He's just an idiot.
  I also think he did the FAFSA paperwork for his other two sons (and I'm really not being maudlin here, it's a point of fact) that he loves more than me. I grew up in foster care but he had them the whole time, it's a long story but he sees them more as his kids than he does me. >
  
  I’m so sorry for the start you were given in life. :(
  I was never in foster care, but when I was little my parents were foster parents to teens (1 living with us full time at most, but we did also have kids come for weekends sometimes, like a pair of sisters). >
  
  Jesus:  Hands out loaves and fishes to the poor and hungry:
  Republicans:  No fresh meat for you.  And no rice and no …. We hate poor people. >
  
  GOP Jesus: I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. And behold, now I'm all lazy and entitled, you shouldn't have done that. >
  
  When I was on food stamps years ago I remember store clerks glaring at me whenever I bought London broil — which I did when it was crazy cheap on sale. Would feed me for a week and cost less and had more protein than a similar amount of bologna, but apparently people on food stamps aren’t allowed to eat steak and should suffer even when inferior food costs more.