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I'm watching the Jeremy Vine show on TV in the UK right now and the topic of discussion is disability benefits. Of course it's nothing but hate and lies about the disabled. A caller phoned in to say he's struggling to survive on the disability benefits he's paid and the panel all made sarcastic faces and tore this to shreds, someone said disability benefits are too much and people just waste their benefits on nonsense.

One panellist said there are too many young people on disability and they need to be pushed into work. After all younger people can't be genuinely disabled, right? She also said the elderly shouldn't get state pensions or help with their winter fuel bills. Lots of hateful people phoning in to say the disabled shouldn't be given any more money.

One woman now saying she's an employer and proudly bragging that she tries to sabotage disability claimants benefits claims. This is how she does it: when a disabled person is forced into having a job interview with her and tell her they're disabled and can't do the job, she phones the job centre to tell them the candidate is trying to get out of working so they get their disability benefits stopped.

Why don't they just legalise assisted suicide since they want rid of us so much? There aren't even enough jobs for all the healthy unemployed people already.

EDIT: Now callers are whingeing about benefits being paid to help people pay for their kids. AND saying the birth rate is too low. They're whingeing the birth rate is too low while also wanting to not help parents financially at the same time.

EDIT: Hahaha now they’ve changed the topic. They’re complaining about how people are so obese now that their coffins no longer fit in the crematorium.

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[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m watching the Jeremy Vine show

Your first mistake. Fuck that right wing consensus manufacturer.

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I probably should have more accurately said I was being subjected to it because my landlady was watching it.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

The people I currently live with really enjoy a particular TV show from South Korea with a tendency to bring up the North and be weird about it, and the argument that'll happen if I stay in the room and say anything is absolutely not worth it. I usually just finish whatever I was doing and go to my room as quickly as possible. Yeah, it's frustrating.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, fuck anyone that dehumanises people and trivializes disability struggles like this. Evil shit.

It's wild just how many people fail the basic empathy test.

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

empathy seems inherent to our species but also it seems the trick to turn this basic feature off is pretty easy to pull.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tangentially related but I remember 10 or so years ago they had that dogshit show "Benefits Street" that was demonising an impoverished community in Birmingham where a lot of the residents were on welfare (to the point it basically doxxed several of them and they got sent death threats) while at the same time we have a literal monarchy that leeches off the country and provides absolutely nothing in return.

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The same people who demonise benefits claimants tend to be the same ones who worship and support the royals, too.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Absolutely, yeah

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

hamas-red-triangle

she phones the job centre to tell them the candidate is trying to get out of working so they get their disability benefits stopped

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Unrelated but check out this dope-ass joker hammer made by a company in England named "Kinetic Customs":

I bet those claws could easily slip between something patella-shaped and pop it right out! 😃