Now that's some devotion!
Now that's some devotion!
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How the hell do they want to convince people this is a good thing?
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Make em think their tax money is paying for "Ni--er food" and they'll burn down the entire education system.
Hell, replace Nword with F-word or Kword honestly doesn't matter.
Source: What happened to all the public swimming pools after Desegregation? And That one time a Republican signed a strict anti gun law the second the Black community exercised their Second.
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This town had a lovely swimming pool which was suddenly closed and filled in during the 1960s. I can't imagine why.
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What is the Fword or the Kword?
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...k word?
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Going usual playbook, they'd prolly declare it "woke" and mumble the boilerplate shit about taxes, bootstraps, and communism.
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The USA is a deeply racist settler colony founded on doing violence to those without the privilege to escape it. The idea that someone "undeserving" might get a benefit from one's tax payment enrages the Republican voting base which is mostly white men who make over $50k a year.
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mostly white men who make over $50k a year.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/
About 60% of American households cross that threshold. It kinda comes off like you're saying people who make that much are overprivileged.
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Instead of defining yourself by party membership in a group that doesn't represent you, maybe you should think about not being a member of that party?
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If you only identify yourself as being Republican because you consider yourself to be a conservative then I've got good news for you, no need to associate with the wackos, the US Democrats are the conservatives of the countries where there actually exists a political spectrum that extends further left than right of center 👍
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Based, lobby your representatives and let's try and get the basics down in a bipartisanly
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Doesn't sound like you fit in with the Republicans at all
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By convincing them that their taxes shouldn't come back to them in any way and should instead be used for a higher purpose. Corporation, that's the higher purpose.
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It... helps the people they hate.
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I don't need the government to feed my kids. But at the moment they are taxing poor workers to do so. Is that a good idea?
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So maybe tax the rich? As long as there is a single person who can't afford to feed their kids, the government should feed them.
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Yes, this helps poor workers because their kids get free meals. This isn't raising taxes on the poor.
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the solution isn't to stop feeding them altogether, but to tax those who actually wouldn't miss any of the money used for that.
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You don't need the government's help. I happen to know a lot of families DO. There are kids right now, in the richest fucking country in the world, who might only have one substantial meal in their day, and that's their school lunch.
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poor workers aren't being taxed. The US has a heavily progressive tax system. Anyone making less than 40-50k pays almost nothing in taxes as a percentage of income, as compared to someone making 300k a year.
These meals help the poor and middle class the most and are paid for mostly by high earners.
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Ban abortions, then starve the children. If wasn't already apparent that the Republican Party is evil, this should make things much clearer.
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Is it the government's job to feed us? Who do i call to order my free Wendy's
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Starving children don't learn. An educated populace is good for the economy. Feeding children benefits you directly in the long-term.
But people like you never think about things past the short-term.
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Yes, you ghoul, you do have a moral responsibility to help feed starving children in your community. Morality is wild, eh?
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That's arguably the single most fundamental job of the government, yes.
The fucking romans had this figured out god damn.
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Yes, fuck you
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Food should be a basic right. So, yes. I would argue that it should be the government's job.
In fact, I would argue that all the basic survival needs should just be provided to us free of charge. Leave money and income and working as such for earning yourself luxuries.
Anything less and you're just forcing people to work under the threat of starvation and homelessness. And is that right?
...also were talking about literal children here. It's not like they have a choice exactly.
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To feed children? Step back, take a look in the mirror, and ask yourself where you went wrong that you're talking about taking away food from children's mouths. You are a monster.
If you also think abortion should be illegal in addition to not feeding them, you aren't just a monster, you're an indescribably awful evil.
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What is the governments job if it‘s not „preventing children from staeving“?
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In my opinion, yes. But even if you disagree with that.
This is the federal government attempting to undo states choosing to feed children. So this is even worse, this is them actively taking away the ability for states to choose to feed children.
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It literally is, by the doctrine on parens patriae. It is the duty of the state to act in the best interests of its citizens who unable to pursue those interests themselves, whether it’s because they are incapacitated, or minors. This goes back centuries, to the time of monarchy. Our ancestors resolved the question of “who should care for the orphans?” with the simple answer, “it is the king’s duty.”
It is the government’s job, in its role as sovereign, to feed kids who don’t get enough to eat. And if it’s not, we should just burn it all to the fucking ground, because why else even have a society?
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It's a major failure of a society when people don't have access to the basics. Basic food, water, shelter, and basic healthcare. America fails quite badly on this.
Wendy's is luxury food however. If you want it, go earn money and buy it yourself.
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You're arguing against feeding fucking children...
Did you ever stop to think, "are we the baddies?"
Unbelievable.
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Wendy’s
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You guys will make up ANY ridiculous straw man argument to screw yourself and everyone over won't you? You just are desperate to make everyone except the 1% stay suffering.
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Come on now.
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Bread and Circuses.
You're an evil ghoul. Evil ghouls get banished, not fed.
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It basically is in a fairly straightforward way.
In the Declaration of the Independence it states thusly:
"that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Since you cannot have Life without food, it would logically follow that it is the government's job to (secure these rights) food for people. If it does not, then the Declaration of Independence states that we can overthrow the government.
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Wow, the smooth brain takines of this sub would down vote me out of existence and "banish" me if they had the chance. Great advert for the society you would run.
None of you have any inquiry as to why I would say that.
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I mean, if you put enough effort into disincentivizeing kids from attending to school, maybe they'll go back to work in meat packing plants and coal mines like god intended!!
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Sarah, don't you have a state to "govern"?
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A lot of students don't want to go to school but have no choice, both because of societal and legal pressures.
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A lot of kids also don't want to brush their teeth, go to bed at reasonable hours, or clean their rooms.
Kids don't really get to just do whatever they want it turns out because they aren't the best at taking care of themselves and making good decisions.
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Yes, this is good. In order for society to run and all people to vote and participate in our country, we need a minimum education.
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But, um, the first national free lunch programs were started in this country because when WWII started, the government found that the post-Great-Depression populace was so stunted from malnourishment that there was concern about recruiting enough eligible soldiers. So, does this mean Republicans no longer want a military? No more sending poor people to fight their wars?
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Why would foreign agents want us to have a strong military?
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If that is the case, this is a very pacifist move by the republicans. Kudos! Finally someone looking out for the peoples interests instead of corporate/military complex.
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Instead of a military they'll just have Russia annex us.
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They're trying to get rid of the they/them army and replace them with... uhhh... IDK that's where my theory breaks down (probably because Republicans don't normally make sense)
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I'm an adult & food stamps have gotten me through many rough patches. studies show that investing in social services is better for the economy than letting people starve, who woulda thunk?
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Yeah, these "pro-life" monsters absolutely would have children starve to get closer to another 0 at the end of their bank accounts. Vote well, and influence your local community as much as you can!
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Yeah, because the Dem leadership and the candidates they pick in the primaries have been doing doing a great job containing and restraining the worst elements of the far right 🙄
If you just vote for the same invertebrate corporate stooges again, they'll be sure to do what they say THIS TIME!
We need a general strike and a viable and principled third party to the left of the Dem corporation.
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Counting the GOP as "Blatantly Evil" shouldn't even be a lukewarm take at this point.
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It's just like Jesus said, someone who hurts a hair on a child's head is guaranteed to get into heaven /s
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And lo, Jesus did taketh the loaf and the fish, and did so declare unto to the crowd that they could go forth and multiply, for the bread and the fish did belong only to himself.
Selfishness 14:7-10
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Image Transcription:
News article title reading "Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority" followed by the first sentence of the article reading "As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back."
Below the article screenshot is a picture of Henry J Waternoose III, the spider-like monster from Monsters Inc, saying "I'll starve a thousand children before I let this company get taxed"
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Good human
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Thank you, fellow human 🤖
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Imagine being a piece of shit as one of your party's pillars
Actually skip the imagine part
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Now imagine people voting for you despite it being against their interests.
Literal clown world.
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Why are they still allowed to rule? They demonstrate clearly that they are not fit for the job.
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Family values means forcing children in already marginalized and impoverished families to go hungry.
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There family values mean "I value my family, not anyone else's", they're a weird mob.
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Do they really even care about their own family?
More like "I value myself and the outward appearance that I care about my own"
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"I'm not loving anybody I'm not legally required to"
Red Forman
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Makes it way easier to gain support for "letting the kids work." Since they're just kids, we can probably let employers pay them less than minimum wage...paying all those kids a full minimum wage would cost too many jobs...besides, its not like they need to "live" off that money...its just supplemental income for the family. Everyone wins! Employers get cheap labor, and the poor are less educated and more desperate and thus easier to exploit.
/s obviously
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Can I get a source on this? Because I know the GOP is Batshit, but this is cartoonishly evil, and I feel like a republican voter will immediately assume it's fake.
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Looks like it was cropped from this New Republic article from last June.
In short, the article says the Republican Study Committee's proposed 2024 federal budget calls for removing the Community Eligibility Provision from the National School Lunch Program which provides funding to low income schools to have free meals for students
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States rights. Amirite?
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In case you wanted more proof that conservatives are evil.
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The fact that my partner thought this was a real headline when I told her about it is a scathing indictment of the current republican party platform.
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"The Republican Study Committee (of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members) on Wednesday released its desired 2024 budget, in which the party boldly declares its priority to eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, from the School Lunch Program. Why? Because “CEP allows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.”
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I mean, maybe I'm wrong here, but I'm not against schools providing free healthy lunches to every student regardless of whether their parent makes minimum wage or is in the 1%, so long as we start taxing accordingly. I feel like if we legally make children attend school and get an education (which we should, to be clear) then we should feed them while they are there. If children are fed and learn healthy eating habits in school, it theoretically would set them up much better as they grow older, no? I don't even have children and would be happy to see my tax dollars go to school lunches.
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This is real.
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Wait this is satire?
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Ah yes, the good ol' "Well the fact that I believed it really says something about today's society."
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I mean, the republican party has gone off the rails with their party platform the last few years that was kind of the point. Do you disagree?
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I think the fact that this isn't satire and this is a real and accurate headline says a lot about our society actually.
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This is something that even Putin's minions would be too scared to say aloud.
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It's weird how cartoonishly evil the GOP's policies are, and yet they never seem to have problems getting any votes. I'm pretty sure if the GOP wanted to legalize pedophilia or wanted to just outright destroy the Earth, their base of voters wouldn't even blink. At least with Democratic policies, they are debatable, like I could see how somebody might potentially disagree with their execution. "There's a problem, and here's how we want to try to solve it." With GOP policies though, I just can't imagine who gets behind this shit, or I can imagine, but I can't believe those are actually real people.
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People that aren't educated and have no empathy.
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Some here asking who are or would still vote for them, well in their eyes, they don't want to feed YOUR kid(s), they believe their kids are well fed. Only when when they are in need will they have empathy.
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Bad plan.
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Here's an interesting tidbit (middle of page 127):
funding for low-emission and expensive school buses and ferries
So they like increased exhaust for our children (and everyone else also) to breath?
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Real talk though corporate taxation is a regressive tax on the poor, because costs get passed on as the tax is universal.
Better option is just taxing the wealthy directly. Harder, even significantly harder, but better in all respects.
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Bullshit. Eliminating corporate taxes just lets the conglomerates off the hook while doing nothing to make them stop their price hikes. They'll always find another pretense to squeeze as much profit out of the people as possible.
What would ACTUALLY work is direct price ceilings, increasing the federal minimum wage to at least $20/h and closing every loophole so that what anti-profiteering and antitrust laws are ALREADY in the books actually get enforced.
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Let's tax poor people to pay for wealthy people's children to have lunch. Great idea
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Well that's a stupid ass way to go about it, I'd rather tax everyone based upon their wealth to feed all the children. The poorest would even be exempt, as they cannot bear the tax burden, while the wealthy would pay more, as they can.
Too bad nobody ever thought of that before
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You know how tax works right?
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Yes. I know what being poor is like
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You know, I tough it might be good to fact-check this screenshot. It might be missrepresenting something. So I did a little digging and it turns out that this is based on a document provided by the Republican Study Committee (about three quateres of house rebuplicans are members).
I read the
Dokumentdocument (you can find it here) and HOLY HELL THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE READ IN A LONG WHILE.It's so full of lies, half-truths and so, so, so much finger pointing to the "woke socialist Biden Administration" (yes, that is a quote), so removed from reality... It was painfull to read. There is so much utter nonsense in that one document.
Anyhow. The headline is dead on. And it's far far from the worst thing that they are proposing.
I need to bang my head against a wall now untill i have erased the memory of reading this bullshit.
It's all about elimination of all federal regulations:
Fucking dinosaurs don't realize that they haven't even printed a yellow pages in around a decade. Last time I received one it was like 30 pages long for a major city.
Talk about pandering to their elderly base. Most Gen Z probably don't even know what a "yellow pages" is.
the republican party head quarters are on yellowpages.com - i think they should lead by example
That is the dumbest idea I've heard today
Of course, they're all for federal regulations when it comes to limiting transgender people getting medical care.
that's the phone book right? or is it different
Play them at their own game by listing a child starving service in the Yellow Pages.
The yellow pages test comes from a dead libertarian Austrian "Economist". Kinda interesting since he died in 1995 and the school of economics he followed was already obsolete when it came out in the 1930s.
This stuff is part of the reason why age does matter in elected office. People get ideas and they don't let them go even long after they have been disproven.
Because of the similarities between Republicans and the UK Conservative party, I am 100% convinced this is a collaborated narrative. They have collectively decided on which levers to pull and push because of data they have at hand. Some people have no moral compass at all when it comes to making money. And let's face it, this is purely about backhanders and donation funding.
Rupert Murdoch owns The Sun in the UK, and Fox News in the US. That's probably your common denominator.
It's impossible to overestimate the evil of the Republican party.
Go play some tetris. Supposedly helps.
But that is exactly what they are counting on. We need more angry informed people instead of the angry idiots that lap this up because "woke is bad" but can't explain what woke is. Woke = anything you disagree with.
Hmm. They want to protect social security for seniors.... Isn't that just like socialism but with extra steps?
I understand discouraging it, as the free school lunches were shit and are shit that is barely edible, but banning it seems wrong. There are some places where there are kids who will eat the disgusting whatever it is they pulled from the dumpster behind the school, but I don't think most people would want to. But also from the quotes you provided, I doubt it's about that...
I was one of the kids that received free lunch at school growing up. No, it wasn’t my favorite food but it was a meal that I would not have had otherwise. It was free lunch or no lunch due to no fault of my own. I preferred to eat something rather than starve.
The solution is to this issue is more money from school free lunch. Starve the beast is a well known political tactic.
I thought that something like 40% of kids are in low income families who can't afford lunch. Is that still the case?
In case you are unaware, you weaken anything you want to say by purposely changing the spelling of words. It panders to those who are like minded, while pushing away those people on the fence you want to convince.
Four words into your second paragraph is where a lot of people will stop reading.
Something to keep in mind if you want to make an impact.
I am German. Auto correct changing "document" to "Dokument" (the German Word) happens easily on a phone set to German and honestly just didn't jump at me as wrong. After all it's how I am used to read the word.
But I am honestly curious. How does a misspelled word pander to those that are like minded? Does "Dokument" have any meaning in English that I as a not nativ speaker am not aware of?
You do also know that in addition to German words being similar, other languages have similar words, right? And maybe they use the spelling they are familiar or maybe their auto correct choose the spelling in their native language. This comment is ridiculous and assumes that first off, everyone speaks English, and second, everyone speaks it perfectly.
In case you are unaware, no. Lol