How the hell do they want to convince people this is a good thing?
“Free meals is communist!!”
Which… If you think like they do, then socialism==communism==unamerican.
Public schools are already under that banner. This shouldn’t even be a question.
And they want to do away with public schools…I’d say that tracks for them.
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.
People who want others to suffer will support this. This will almost only impact low income (mostly minority) populations, the kind that republic voter love to hurt
You can’t punish bad parents by punishing their children. Even if their viewpoint was right this would make no sense.
Except, Republicans love to punish the children of poor parents for the crime of being poor.
You don’t have to be a bad parent to be poor, you just have to be poor.
The assumption I mentioned was that in their worldview being poor is also being bad parents. Regardless, punishing children accomplishes nothing.
Kids that grow up hungry are more likely to enter the workforce early, doing the low-wage “essential role” jobs that the capital class desperately needs bodies for. Breaking the cycle of poverty is a big no-no for the 1%.
It hurts people. That’s the goal.
You’re trying to use logic against the illogical.
Like throwing paper at a brick wall trying to knock it down
They don’t care if the parents are bad or not, but hey just want to hurt poor people and minorities, to lost republicans those words are the same thing.
Going usual playbook, they’d prolly declare it “woke” and mumble the boilerplate shit about taxes, bootstraps, and communism.
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.
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.
I suspect his information is out of date, $50k isn’t a lot of money but 10 or 20 years ago it was.
This chart bothers me because the y-axis is all over the place in terms of range. Sometimes it’s $15k range, sometimes it’s $30k, sometimes it’s $50k. Really skews the data.
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.
I suppose taxes.
I’m a republican and I fully support free school meals. We are already taxed for books, building, teachers, etc.
I’d fully support basic supplies and meals as well. It just makes sense to make sure all students have the basic needs met since we are paying for it.
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?
I’m a registered Democrat, but that doesn’t stop me disagreeing with the Democratic party on plenty of issues. The vast majority of people don’t adhere 100% to their party’s politics, especially with the big-tent two-party system in the US. I can’t speak for the person to whom you’re responding, but you can’t extrapolate from their disagreement on one issue to disagreement on others.
Getting people to think about identifying based on party membership is important to get people to actually think about whether they should be a member of that party. Sure, they might be all in on racist wall building, insurrection, and blowing Trump.
But maybe a nudge can help them be a little introspective and think more broadly about whether they picked the right team if their team wants children to go hungry. Just trying to get them to think about things, not saying every party member needs to agree with everything about their party.
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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I grew up poor and food stamps were an essential part of my childhood. I cannot believe these monsters would let anyone go without food. Absolutely disgusting.
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!
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?
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.
Wait this is satire?
Me: oh, certainly that’s satire!
Also me: it’s…
it’s…
n…not…
…satire?? o_o
No it isn’t, and apparently it’s actually. Real headline. And when I went to read a little more about it, the republican study committee did release a 2024 budget proposal eliminating free lunches (among other things).
Lol it seems real
Even if it is satire, we’ve heard them attack school lunches before. A thing must be semi-plausible to trick people. They want to destroy public schools and this will be in their playbook at least locally in some districts.
"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.”
This is real.
Ah yes, the good ol’ “Well the fact that I believed it really says something about today’s society.”
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?
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!!
