Hipsters on food stamps

September 18, 2012 6:21 AM

Hipsters on Food Stamps.
posted by - (8 comments total)

Luckily, this is a double, so we don't have to do this.
posted by nathancaswell at 6:23 AM on September 18, 2012 [3 favorites]

Timely and insightful.

*eyeroll*
posted by kmz at 6:23 AM on September 18, 2012

Amen!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 6:24 AM on September 18, 2012

Calling someone a “hipster” is a license to spew all kinds of demented hate.

Oops. Wrong forum.
posted by 2N2222 at 6:24 AM on September 18, 2012

Man, this hipster thing has been going on for, like, 10 years at this point. Can't we find a new youth subculture to hate indiscriminately?
posted by Copronymus at 6:25 AM on September 18, 2012

"Can't we find a new youth subculture to hate indiscriminately"

I love hating youth subcultures. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
posted by DU at 6:26 AM on September 18, 2012 [3 favorites]

So basically these articles are about anyone under the age of 35? Because at this point, that's what the generic term has come to represent.
posted by Windigo at 6:26 AM on September 18, 2012

The last time I checked, you needed to be really poor to qualify for food stamps (especially if you're single), and the food stamps themselves didn't provide for a whole heck of a lot.

Unless they're lying about their income, I find it completely unfathomable that anybody would chose to put themselves in a position where they qualified for any of the American social welfare programs.

Sorry, but hating somebody for being on food stamps is just about as rational as hating someone for being blind.
posted by schmod at 6:28 AM on September 18, 2012 [3 favorites]