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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

The fact that its been so normalized to be this openly shitty and callous toward frigging children... i dont even know how to react to this any more.

Im not saying its hopeless, but I feel like a lot of people on the "lets not let children go hungry" side of the fence are almost left speechless by these idiots. But i feel like thats almost part of their strategy - stunning the opposition. There has to be a better response.

What's the best way to respond to this kind of brazen cruelty? (Besides voting and campaigning for candidates who arent sociopathic).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (24 children)

What's the best way to respond to this kind of brazen cruelty?

Voting is a must. Political apathy is how this stuff happens. Outside of voting, just being vocal about your distaste for these policies might help let people around you know that not everyone supports this. And if you come face to face with someone who is outspoken in their belief that some children deserve to starve, then you know who to avoid being around.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Listen, this is hard thing for me to type but I think is relevant to the Republican mindset. Hundreds of children are being murdered in their classrooms. Literal murder. Of children. This is not enough to sway Republicans on gun control. If actual murder of 6 year olds doesn't have any effect on them, surely 6 year olds being hungry is not even going to make them blink. This is the reality with these people. They simply do not care about you, or your children, and everything they do is governed only by money and power.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Oh this is nothing by comparison. Republicans also vote to legalize child rape (which they preciously insist on calling "child marriage") and are trying to bring back child labor because adults are getting fed up with unfair labor practices while little kids are easier to manipulate.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

Beyond disgusting. Keep the kids hungry so they can't learn while sitting in their underfunded classrooms. Uneducated masses ripe for the conservative picking. Can't see through their lies if you've never been taught how to think. I hate it here...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gosh... Just imagine that not guaranteeing a meal to children, preventing them from eating in some cases, is what you want more than anything.

Simply blows my mind.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

These people jerk off to the idea of hurting children. Every new policy Republicans come up with, whether its supporting ~~child marriage~~ legalized rape with 12 year olds or trying to bring back child labor, or making children too hungry to learn anything in school, makes their "moral" panic over a bunch of people who happen to be wearing dresses reading to kids even more hypocritical. Honestly I think it's the idea of children being functionally literate that probably terrifies them the most.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why….. I grew up on free and reduced lunches. The return on investment here is immense.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I make six figures working at the highest levels of my career in support of government agencies. I used free/reduced lunches my entire schooling. It’s super ridiculous

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why aren't they self aware enough to realize they sound like cartoon villains?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They are appealing to their voters who want them to "hurt the right people"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know, I try to keep an open mind and try to understand how the other side could come to the conclusions they do, but sometimes they really make it difficult. I genuinely don't get how this could be construed as anything other than malicious. What's the benefit in this? How is this "thinking of the children?" How did a political party come to represent views that are so aggressively anti-humanity? It's such a bizarre platform to attach yourself to so proudly and openly.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

imagine being in the strategy meeting with your team, when they suggest a play based on suspending withdrawing food from child would go well with your voters.

imagine agreeing to go with it. getting a speech written about it and one day standing at the lectern to say in front of crowd of assembled people "it is not our responsiblity to feed children". and then pausing for applause and going home and telling your spouse, "today went great".

in this supply chain of inhumanity, there were so many opportunities for the heart to say "yo...something is off here.....cant quite put my finger on it.......but it doesnt seem.....right ?."

to sail through all those checkpoints of human decency, and go through with it, is nothing less than psychopathy.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

It's really quite shocking how the GOP agenda can be predicted by asking yourself, "What's the worst thing someone would in a given situation?". What's even more shocking is that they have engineered the political framework to disproportionately grant them enough power to sometimes pass these regressive policies. But for most of America, sigh, just another Thursday...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tearing down women's rights. Ruining queer people's life, especially trans people. Making sure children can't eat for free. Wow. Quite the priorities over at the Republican party.

I'm not American, I've just been looking from afar for a long time now. But from everything I'm seeing... it feels like they're going to be in for quite the rude awakening in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

They're not even bothering to lie any more, and yet everyone still votes for them.

You know that scene in Final Fantasy 8 where Edea announces her evil plan to a huge crowd and calls them morons and they all clap and cheer? This is like that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“It’s not enough that I should eat, children should starve. “ -the gop.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Either that or "I don't believe that anyone is starving. I just ate a large lunch so obviously nobody is going hungry."

They only recognize that something is real when it affects them personally. If it doesn't then they'll either claim the thing doesn't exist or will say it's that person's fault that they are going through that (likely for being "too lazy" to pull themselves up by their bootstraps).

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They care about children until they’re born then they want nothing to do with them. Oh wait they also use children to pass anti lgbt legislation.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's crazy to me is it seems like they just want children to suffer. They want to force women to give birth, but then don't give a shit about what happens to the children after. On top of that, it's like they are trying to make them suffer even more for their parents being unable to provide.

I could somewhat get attacking programs for adults. Still disagree, but I guess it's the "they should be able to provide for themselves" mentality. But then doing this for children when they are literally unable to provide for themselves or have any responsibility for being hungry. Yes, let's make the helpless children suffer.

Disgusting times we live in.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How did this get normalized? Why is this even something that is even considered debatable? As a society, feeding our children should be the first priority.

I'm flubbered.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Echo chambers that reinforce the lie that democrats want to take your money to pay for irresponsible people’s children.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they are irresponsible, but that's not their kids fault. Feeding kids regardless of who their parents are, is a basic morality thing.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The whole point in these kind of moves is to cause congestion and exhaustion in political movement.

It’s a struggle to campaign for actual improvements when we’re all stuck fighting garbage like this all the time.

It’s deliberate obstruction and a standard GOP play

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Daily Reminder that this is a gold plated dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The second gilded age. And I'm not sure it will end as peacefully as the first.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What. The. Fuck. Is wrong. With. These people?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just evil… no nuance needed.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

These are the same people who can expense up to $79 per day for food and drink. They're fine taking hand outs, they just don't want you to have any.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given that the Republicans are nominally a Christian party, has no one in the party had a look at what Jesus taught about feeding the hungry? It is pretty clear, and it is NOT this.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

It's just cruel. A disgusting, cruel mindset from those who genuinely just want to hurt others.

Anyone supporting this lacks the most basic of morals. There is no excuse for this.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very on brand for them. Especially after they denied free school lunch in North Dakota and turned around a week or so later and raised their daily meal allowance.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

what they fail to understand is that for poorer communities, kids rely on these lunches for meals when their families can't afford to buy food

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they understand, they just don't care.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, they understand and they care... They want the poor to be trapped by debt and struggling starting at a young age.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And they want those children to have jobs to pay for their own lunches.

"Toughen up little Suzie, you gotta get back to work if you want to eat."

Fucking psychopaths

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

What a weird priority to have.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I’m reluctant to use the word “evil”, but I can’t think of another word that accurately describes their goals and behavior. They simply hate anyone who isn’t just like them. Different race? SUFFER AND DIE. Different economic bracket? SUFFER AND DIE. Different beliefs on sexuality? SUFFER AND DIE.

They think that others are a threat to the “moral fabric” of America, but they themselves are a threat to the mere existence of millions of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I imagine they twirled their mustaches and maniacally laughed while announcing this. How much more cartoonishly villainous can they get?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"There is no such thing as a free lunch", they said :(

To pull more of the article into the comment section:

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.”

Of note is that the CEP is not even something every school participates in; it is a meal service program reserved for qualifying schools and districts in low-income areas. The program enables schools that predominantly serve children from low-income backgrounds to offer all students free breakfast and lunch, instead of means-testing them and having to manage collecting applications on an individual basis. As with many universal-oriented programs, it is more practically efficient and, as a bonus, lifts all boats. This is what Republicans are looking to eliminate.

It’s the kind of provision that many would want every school to participate in. Why not guarantee all our children are well fed as they learn and think about our world and their place in it, after all?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really putting evil front and center this time, huh.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck your kids, billionaires need yet another tax break. -Republicans.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Just normal GOP evil.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Give the poor nothing and we will have nothing left to lose. eyes guillotine hungrily

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

God this is depressing. What kind of world do we live in and when will we start creating a better one?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pro-life, pro-child, pro-family values 👍🤗💖💯

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's like they say, universal free school meals leads to a lazy population and communism.

Jokes aside, I really don't understand their fear of anything that resembles socialized programs.

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