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When I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.
This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way.  THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR! >

"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?" - Republicans probably >

You can remove the probably. >

It’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.
Edit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore.  Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year. >

Remember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all "Red" States. >

The UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?! >

Basically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this. >

They were all Democrats back in the day.  They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.
They used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far. >

The parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now. >

The switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business.  By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military.  Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal. >

School food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling >

The odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime "own the libs" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort. >

What makes you say that? I’m genuinely curious. It’s been my experience that some of the GOP’s most ardent supporters are those getting fucked the most and the hardest by Republican policies. >

"Yeah, we don't like taxes for the rich!"- guy who drives off in 1974 beater truck to his trailer. >

Free public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers. >


may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.

Republicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison. >

Or as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms. >

Anywhere you have:

Limited education funding
Limited access to nutrition
Limited access to public services
An Amscot or other payday lender
Military recruitment office
High crime rate

That's a slave farm. >

Absolutely.
But prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms.  As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution >

My implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison.  All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave. >

This thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊 >

"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes." >

Taxes that they, the people that voted against this, don't even pay anyway >

~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.
Fixed that for you. >

Anytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says "Congress did XYZ."
Anytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says "Democrats did XYZ." >

My parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share. >

Your parents are awesome people. >

Republicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.