• Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz
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    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

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

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          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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            This goes kinda well with actual stated goals of some republican representatives, who want to loosen up child labor laws.

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              Yes, that was my point. They’re practically trying to legislate the kind of stuff that would have literally been cartoon villain conspiracies back in the 90’s. It’s insane that we’ve let them shift the discourse this far right. We’re already in dystopian late-stage capitalism with crumbling public infrastructure being used as an excuse to increase giveaways of public funds to private corporations and that’s just not right-wing enough.

              To these people, freedom only counts if it’s for the owner/capitalist/investor class. How else could we claim with a straight face to be the land of the free when we have the highest prison population per capita on the planet?

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      The Republican party serves the rich. Poor Republican voters are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires so they are cool with suffering themselves as long as other poor people are suffering. Other people deserve to suffer because of skin color, religion, “laziness”, or whatever, so they keep voting to cut services for themselves.

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      “those deadbeat parents should’ve got an abortion if they can’t feed their kid” --republicans probably