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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
oh, i get it. because someone didn't bring in signed affidavits, sworn on some sort of bible, testified in a court of law, broadcast it in the media, it obviously doesn't fucking happen. Because I see someone in a grocery store line using food stamps to buy milk, bread, and cereal while wearing more gold chains that Mr. T, leather jackets that cost as much as two months of my car payment, and load those groceries up in a Lexus to take home to a run down trailer park, I should just assume that they know how to manage their finances or some stupid shit. get fucking real for a change.
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You don't need a signed affadavit, you just need the ability to recognize the usefulness of anecdotal evidence. Let me help you out: anecdotal evidence is useful for appealing to people on an emotional level. Beyond that it doesn't mean anything. You saw a poor guy with a nice jacket? So the fuck what? I saw a guy in a sports car use a racial slur-- I guess everyone who drives a sports car is a bigot.
If every time you happen to notice that someone who lives in a poor neighborhood has something nice you think to yourself "welfare cheat," then you are an idiot (and I'm not saying that you do).
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Originally Posted by powerclown
You people come fly in to Detroit this weekend and I'll take you on The Tour, as my ex-fellow employees used to joke about. Block after block of neigborhoods with cars worth 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the houses they were parked in front of. I'm not saying they're all owned by welfare kings and queens; there's probably a middle manager or boss' kid in their somewhere...
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You don't know what you're saying, because you're not really saying anything at all. You don't know anything about these people. From what I've heard of Detroit, most cars are worth 1/3 to 1/2 the price of an average house.