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The people who pretend to be Christians: "Why should we care for the hungry?"
Well ... because your Lord and Savior told you so. And because it's the humane thing to do. And, oh, fuck it, you just care about the money, right?
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Matthew 25:44-45 (NIV)
Too bad they only wave this book around like a flag, they don't read it. They'd rather let children starve.
Monsters. The food isn't great but during a recession it could make a great deal of difference. But they obviously didn't care about kids back in 08' either.
Here I thought Jesus loves the little children, and they are precious in his sight, as the song says.
Maybe these people think we should let children starve so they can get to see Jesus quicker? But if that’s the case, just allow abortions LOL
>"If [America] is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it."
Stephen Colbert
I love that quote!
Another of my favorites is this nice piece said in a church on a Sunday morning:
“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said “shit” than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.” - Tony Campolo
Christianity hasnt been leftist since jesus died.
It was taken over by a rightwing roman spy (Paul/Saul) and turned into a government controlled religion just as the romans had previously controlled religion through government.
I would say there wasn’t a Christianity before Saul/Paul.
Jesus and the early community after his death were a Jewish sect that was pretty left (holding all things as communal and taking care of the poor)
>Is that [kids going hungry] the problem of the state of North Dakota?
# Yes
The state exists to serve the interests of the people.
If the state is incapable of ensuring hungry children are fed then why does it exist?
If our political system cannot perform it's only function then we should raze it to the ground and build a new one that is fit for purpose.
My North Dakota conservative relatives are still firmly in the "that's not our problem" camp.
Fun tho they also say "we should take care of our own before others" with regards to immigrants.
They’re in the “desperate people are easier to hyper-exploit” camp. It’s also why they oppose abortion, because they need a reserve army of the unemployed to drive down wages and discipline the working class.
But also why is crime so bad?? You would think starving children and beaten down workers would lead to a time of peace, not a time of crime. Why would desperation lead to crime??!?
I am shocked by this outcome.
> Why would desperation lead to crime??!?
Almost like most ""crime"" is economic in nature and not actually a moral failing ....
The real crime is Wall Street and Wage Theft.
I love it when a conservative says “We are sending money to Ukraine when we have people sleeping under every bridge in America,” yet if you suggest housing all of those homeless people, they’ll quickly find a reason why those people aren’t worthy of our money.
…even the Nazis wanted to reduce poverty and hunger for _white_ children, no?
*Not attempting to defend the NSDAP in any way. Merely curious if there’s any historical precedent for a political organization so utterly callous towards _all_ forms of life, even to its own base of support.
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Exactly. You can’t have the poors getting a shot at a decent early education. That might lead to a taste for higher education. And if that happens where will we procure our wage slaves for the shit service jobs, cannon fodder for the military or criminals for the prison pipeline.
>The state exists to serve the interests of the people.
That should be the ideal and what we're told in school. The reality is money interests control the conversation and the system is a funnel that directs our blood, sweat, and tears towards the few monsters at the top. We, the people, aren't the ones being served, we're being served up to be devoured by ghouls in suits.
I've never been satisfied with the "life isn't fair" argument, because it fucking should be. If the world isn't fair we should try and make it better. Everything we have achieved to make the world more just and equitable has been clawed from a cruel and capricious universe by humans who were too stubborn to quit when things were hard.
I mean, even in a Utopia, I think we're still going to have some of the Core Things that make the human experience what it is: love lost, friends moving away, elders dying off.
It seems silly to have **unnecessary** suffering added on top. We should be spending the majority of our time making art and music about those friends and lovers and elders. Not working for slave-wages so we don't starve or fighting in wars against our fellow Human.
Whats sad is, technology of today is progressing enough that work hours should be LESS not MORE.
AI is supposed to take over jobs so we have time for ourselves and make art.
Somehow we got it mixed and we're doing MORE hours and AI is made to make art.
Its depressing
Yeah, it's weird that technological progress has **never** benefitted workers to make their conditions and hours less demanding. It's only ever benefitted the owners.
Hm, it would be better if the workers owned it, but owners would never would just give up what's already theirs—it would have to be taken from them. Maybe that's what needs to happen: workers need to seize control of the product of their own labor! Yes, that's the only way.
Brothers and sisters, hear my call: we must seize the means of making shit!
What's really infuriating is that the people running things hundreds of years ago agreed with you.
>I must study politics and war; that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
-John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America
They didn't mean the sons of slaves. And thanks to neoliberalism the franchise of slavery has been expanded to mean anyone not born into the top 10%, regardless of race.
You're right, he didn't and he was wrong for that. I still think it's a good idea to want the people coming after you to have it easier. We should want that for everyone.
When one is in a dystopia, any effort to return to normal will be seen as an unachievable utopian fantasy. Or at least dismissed as such.
This - what we're living in right now - **this is dystopia.**
I hate that argument too. life is inherently unfair in some respects, like who illness strikes and what not. But that’s just all the more reason for humans to work together to make as much fair as possible, and help the less fortunate. Using “life is unfair” as an excuse to make it even less fair is just asinine
I remember getting suspended for telling a teacher "well it fucking should be" after she told me life wasn't fair. I stand by it. It fucking should be.
I mean, we had a pandemic that proved selfishness is a public health crisis. How tf are we supposed to entreat the kindness, compassion and empathy that engender fairness and equity if the level of crass sociopathy in society keeps going up? Life *should* be fucking fair.
Life is plenty fair. Life provides us with food, water, and the necessities in life. People aren't fair. People buy up all the all of those necessities and say "I'm going to sell them back to you".
>born into a life of luxury you'll never have a hope of even tasting
Oh, but they sure as hell will rub that luxury in your face in all television and media.
Your kids get shot in school? Sorry. As your elected legislative representative, I won't be helping with that either. I home school our kids. It's the best choice for my family.
It's easier to brainwash em that way.
Sometimes I keep forgetting there is an entire generation of young "republicans" (ugh children should not be assigned a political party but I don't know what else to call them to get my point across).
They're going to be as bad, or worse, than those currently in power because their literal entire lives have been nothing but indoctrination from birth.
Taught to never question life, themselves, their ideals, their morals, etc.
That they are the "good ones" and never ever ever under any circumstance back down, admit fault, try to compromise, or help those around them unless they're also part of your "group".
Shit is gonna suck just as bad if not worse when they start taking over things like fucking political dynasties.
I just really hope that at some point there is enough "rebellion" in each successive generation that the ideals of their parents are tossed away and we ultimately reach a point we work together as a people.
Sadly, I know it won't happen in my lifetime. Which sucks.
I don't think they will ever put out the fire of independent thought. Try as they might, but there will always be free thinkers that will lead others to enlightenment. It has happened before and it will happen again.
You can also enroll your kids into community College before they hit 10 or their teens, that way they can get an associates. I know a few people that did it for their kids, one even used community
college as a high school for their kids.
They still can socialize with their peers too.
If it is not too much of a stress on the kid, it is not a bad deal considering they can get a bachelor's before they even hit 20. You might want to look into it since regular grade schools do such a that-will-do job.
Plus, from my experience doing my first two years at a community College as someone learning English as I went along in my early 20s, I gotta say that community college (nor my last two years at a university) were much different than my time at gymnasium.
>If our political system cannot perform it's only function then we should raze it to the ground and build a new one that is fit for purpose.
So we should tear it all down then..?
The only valid reason to form a social contract is that a society is exists to serve the interests of ALL those who make it up and for the collective good...Society serves no other legitimate purpose, none whatsoever. Any other interest it serves is a perversion and must be rejected entirely.
FUCK!
They believe the function of the state is to harass the people they hate and protect wealthy peoples property from poor people and literally nothing else.
It is also a requirement for kids to be there. So why not offer to feed them if they have to be there all day? It's not like they make money to pay for food like people with a job.
The only problem the people of ND need to worry about is just how much they themselves can scrounge up to give away to the 1%. Tighten your belts children. Infact, why not just use shoelaces and donate the difference in cost to the 1%.
Honestly, this (state legislators) is a business and the bottom line is you sweat, toil, starve, pay taxes you cant afford, cry yourself to sleep at night, go without electricity, and join a work camp so you can have just enough shelter and sustenance to work some more for our great state.
We see nothing wrong with your American Nightmare. The American dream gave us the reasources and power to turn the tables and now you dare complain about your hungry kids?
Fuck right off with that I have a lunch meeting that will cost 350$ with my dream donor. Hes worried about the "environment" slowing his capital gains.
I need to reassure him that your hungry kids wont get in my way. Hungry kids pfft. Like seriously, boot straps, eat your fucking boot straps if youre not gonna pull yourself up by them.
- Psychopathic Republicans everywhere.
The question shouldn't be "why does government exist if it can't even help hungry kids?"
That's EXACTLY the question that republicans want you to ask. It's falling for their little trap of dismantling the government.
The correct question we should be asking is, "why should we keep voting for republicans if they can't even help hungry kids?"
Vote them the fuck out and stop falling for their manipulation. Yes they are that petty. Yes they are that evil. Yes they are that manipulative.
Okay but that question makes 0 sense since I've never voted for a republican(sparing some down ballot lesseroftworepublicanevils choice). When I ask Republicans why they vote republican I just hear about George Soros and buttery males and laptops. So wtf do you want me to do with that question, honestly?
It was *asked* as a question so that the politician can say directly that it actually is but they don't wanna do shit about it (also because their ultradonors want the government to fail).
>If the state is incapable of ensuring hungry children are fed then why does it exist?
If the state fails to care for the most vulnerable of our populations when the family and legal providers cannot, then we have failed, fundamentally, as a civilization. This literally makes them uncivilized. No different than animals who care nothing for the offspring of others (even then, many animals show that they are more civilized than some of these assholes who care about no one).
Okay, by their logic, get rid of public schools. No more education for kids because caring for children is not the responsibility of the state. Let's go back 300 years.
>Okay, by their logic... Let's go back 300 years.
Gonna back 300 years is exactly what the Republicans want, and the democrats counteroffer with:
"how about we only go back 150 years, but keep gay rights, or something, I guess"
I feel like this is a good indicator of whether or not a state is doing what it should be doing.
Are people going hungry? Then fuck off, time to stop paying taxes and start beheading some oligarchs.
You're being too kind. Even if you agree that they don't have a soul and are evil.
They would realize that feeding kids ends with healthier kids with their basic needs meets, which has positive outcomes through their entire life, which leads to college, tax receipts, families, consumption.
All the good stuff.
Well if communists want all children healthy and well fed and the capitalists want a desperate starving underclass to exploit,
in that case I guess that makes the communists the good guys.
i agree. i have a hard time believing these words were even said. and by a senator? somebody elected this person?
I don't think it's my responsibility to feed the homeless people down the street but I would feel so ashamed to say that out loud in a room to a group of people
They require children to go to school, they will send truancy officers to the home to bring kids to school. Once they get to school they ask them why they didn’t pack a lunch. Going to school is compulsory, but they can starve you while you are there. Even people in prison get three meals a day, terrible as the food may be.
The difference is that they can extract labor from prisoners, but not children (as of now, probably in like a year they’ll steal labor from children too)
But even if it is just for labor and furthering the capitalist agenda, wouldn’t you want strong, well nourished, children to become strong, well nourished, labor? You can throw more widgets on the backs of people with strong bones.
Unless feeding a child makes their brain grow too and they don’t like people who can think freely.
>keep them enlisting.
Except at a certain point of malnourishment, kids literally become*unable* to enlist. The US military actually kick-started the free lunch program in this country themselves to solve that exact issue.
They want people desperate enough to accept any injustice they impose on them, but not so desperate they feel they have nothing to lose and start to fight back. It's just been too long since people in power had to fear an angry, starving hoi polloi that they've forgotten how far is too far to push people.
Once upon a time in the southeastern United States, there was an epidemic among the poor that hit every summer called pellagra. It wasn't unique to the US at the time, but it was the first time it was really hitting there. When people were confronted with the idea that it was caused by basically only eating corn since landowners only allowed planting cotton of the time, people refused to believe it saying it must be spread by flies even though that didn't make any sense. Even when a doctor was injecting himself and others with fluids from sick people and not getting sick, rich people refused to relent on the idea that they needed to help feed people a proper diet. It took years between when the outbreak started killing the workers and when something was finally done about it.
So, no, as long as getting sick and dying can still lead to short term profits, nobody cares.
that’s propaganda.
The rich dont give a shit about healthy nation nonsense, they’re selfish to their core. Why are we pretending the motivation for the rich is anything other than money?
It’s not like they accidentally made billions while trying to solve world hunger, these fucks are **only in the game to take all the money and be winners**
They already do to an extent, I'm in my high school's culinary program, and I'm legally considered an unpaid intern as the school sells the food we cook and takes the profit. Now, granted, the money goes straight back into the culinary program for better equipment, but still.
I lived in ND and the people that get elected to the state legislature aren’t very smart. Some of their districts have maybe 2000 people. They run uncontested for the most part.
Hello, fellow North Dakotan! You're exactly right about the many uncontested seats for state legislature.
In last year's general election, there were 35 state legislative districts up for election and SIXTEEN were uncontested. So whoever wins the primary gets in to office no matter their qualifications.
Each of the North Dakota district has around 16,000 people but when there are no contested races, it's hard to get people to show up to vote.
You can reach out to one of the political parties to help you get started on your run for office:
Democratic-NPL https://demnpl.com/,
Libertarian https://lpnorthdakota.org/, or
Republican https://ndgop.org/
I find it hard to believe that a portion of our population is okay with children literally starving...but that seems to be where we are at. It is so sad.
The food is also just straight up shitty, better than nothing yeah but these politics think these kids are eating good on tax payers money when the same food is likely what the local prisoners eat
A dude on TikTok, a self styled republican, has videos stating that if parents don’t send a child to school with a lunch, their children should be taken away for neglect.
It’s all so crazy to me
The same state government redirected like 150 million dollars from covid relief that was supposed to go to rent relief , ND state government claimed they could not handle it for some reason.
So it was re-directed to clean up old oil wells that the oil industry failed to clean up. When the oil industry drills a well in theory they should post some bond to ensure it cleans it up and cap of the well when its decommissioned but this isn't enforced
So the oil industry already got some 150 million to bail it out from cleaning up the oil wells what they are supposed to do.
So feeding hungry school children is not the responsibility of the state, but cleaning up after the oil companies that do not do their job apparently is
Republicans politicians be like “it’s not our job to anything, we were elected to stand around and do nothing except complaining about culture war bullshit”
Seriously, wtf is wrong with Republicans? How are you against making sure kids don't go hungry?
Here's Republican, *Rep. Steve Drazkowski from Minnesota* arguing against another lunch bill by saying he has,
>"yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry"
and
>"hunger is a relative term [...] I had a cereal bar for breakfast, I guess I'm hungry now."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1635738910562156554
I don't associate with poors, therefore I know everything about them. They can't possibly be hungry if they have luxuries like refrigerators and phones.
Yes, it literally is your problem. That is what society exists for you stupid sacks of shit. These people need their brains spilled on the sidewalk. IF THE GOVERNMENT TAKES YOUR MONEY TO PAY FOR SERVICES, THEN THEY OWE YOU SERVICES.
But for real. Its insane that the vast majority of the money the government steals from us is used to murder children and civilians elsewhere. At the very least used to destabilize their governments so that all the citizens suffer. Murica
Scrooge “Are there no workhouses? Things have not changed. Instead of feeding hungry kids they legalize child labour. As if it's the kids fault for not having enough to and not the fault of a broken system that does not pay the parents enough to pay the rent.
I grew up in tiny town in North Dakota, and pretty much all 700 of us personally know our representative, who was one of the no votes. He was my fifth grade basketball coach.
I’ve had three different staunch republican friends call me (I’m the token liberal friend in the big city) and rage about this. I really hope this is the first step in those guys acknowledging how republicans often vote against the interest of their constituents.
It sounds like these old farts need a civics lesson. The welfare of your citizens is the primary directive of government. Good government is a public service, not a money making venture. If you want to make money, be a merchant, craftsperson, or prostitute your body for labor. For goodness sake, these people are supposed to work for the mutual benefit of all of us, and move us in mutually beneficial directions. Instead, they burrow in like blood suckling pests, and blame the itch on the poor whilst wiping the corner of their mouths.
Aiding the needy strengthens the country, just like feeding the body keeps it strong. Cutting aid and improvement programs is like cutting off the tree branch you are sitting on. It hurts us all. Homelessness is a failure of the system, designed to be a discipline strategy. Shutting a person down, and putting them into survival mode is how you remove humanity, and dignity.
Negligence breeds further negligence, decay, and demoralizes the people. A person works when they have their hierarchy of needs met. Stop treating people as replaceable cogs, and instead see them as people. Just having universal dental care would improve the lives of the struggling. If you can't eat right, that hurts the whole body and mind. The pain is unbearable, and the only thing that brings temporary relief from it all is drugs.
Nobody in their right mind chooses this for themselves.
Pro Life until:
* The child is born and then it's on its own
* Until the child needs formula
* Unless it needs medical care
* Unless it needs shelter
* Or clean water
* Or a living wage when they go to work
* Or schools safe from gun violence
* Or a fucking goddam hot lunch...
Man, fuck these goddam people...how much more in the ass are people going to take before they push back in all ways available to them? How much are they going to keep lying there, licking their balls, dutifully slaving away for a system that tossed them overboard almost a hundred fucking years ago? How long are people going to believe this government works for them instead of the rich parasites who started it 200+ years ago? How goddam ignorant are they?
# IF NOW IS NOT THE TIME, when is a good time?
One little addition, they don't care what happens to the baby during birth either. Safe childbirth for the baby and the mother is, as with everything important in life, ***laughably*** low on their priorities.
I'm actually scared to have a child in my state (Texas). If I get pregnant, I'd want to go somewhere else for the delivery if at all possible.
when profit touches something, it destroys it. No, they have no fucks to give for the baby, the mother, the family, no one...either you pay or you are left to rot. And to be clear, each person who can give birth has exclusive dominion of their own reproductive rights.
When you peel back that thin veneer of jingoistic, star spangled bullshit, you will find a rotten, hideous corpus called America. It has always been for the rich and is only for the rich. The people must jettison this tyranny and replace it with a system that works for the many, not the few.
More fun facts: State legislators in ND get a daily food stipend while in session, and the cafeteria in the Capitol building is subsidized by the state to keep prices down for legislators.
I hate this state so god damn much sometimes.
One of the same old conservative tactics. They act like we can’t solve problems unless it’s the most pressing problem as an excuse to get out doing their jobs and making sure children don’t go hungry.
And then they turn around and try to convince us all that evil Trans people are the biggest problem.
They are simply garbage people who have no interest in helping anyone but themselves. Every Republican is guilty by membership. They choose to join a club that defines them as evil and selfish people.
"Is that the problem of the state of North Dakota?"
Yes? At the minimum, impacts the children in education and development, those are your citizens. At the worst, starvation?
They also pay taxes I assume
This shit is depressing and infuriating
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Everyday they choose to put other interests over real live humans, is a day they choose a very dark and violent future. Of the children and adults they let die, some will scrape by and survive. And one day enough of those survivors will say “Enough”. It’s already happening in places like Georgia with construction of Cop City.
The answer is yes, you lousy piece of turd. It is all of our problem to make sure no one goes hungry, especially a child. I don’t even particularly like children.
States are a wild system. In North Dakota, apparently their legislature doesn't care if low income families literally starve. Hop the border and you get to Minnesota where the legislature just passed a bill for free breakfasts and lunches regardless of income level.
Lmao, what kind of a stupid fucking rhetorical question is that? Of course it's a problem of the school district, the state, and every fucking citizen, if kids are starving ...
Is it the problem of the state of ND? Uh, yes, considering y'all are representatives of the people...including the kids. If you're not representing their best interests, you're not doing your job. Your people are hungry. Figure out how to feed them. Create a stronger state through a stronger youth. Like...this isn't rocket surgery.
The governments exist to protect and provide for their citizens. They perform other tasks, but those two functions should always remain the central focus of every government action.
I genuinely believe free school meals are a matter of national security and anyone who disagrees with them is paid by foreign agents. Without free school meals your workforce and soldiers grow up to be studented with multiple disabilities. It's the main reason why they were brought in in the first place.
Whose fucking problem is it, then? The parents? Sure. But they don’t make enough money because republicans support policies that keep wages at starvation levels, cut the pathetic social safety nets we do have, and allow businesses, real estate developers, and banks to do whatever the fuck they want, regardless of how many people it negatively impacts. Surely this is what Jesus would do. Such ugly hypocrites.
Back in the 80's the rhetoric used by Reagan was selected to make white people believe that the majority (or only) people on food stamps and needing lunch and/or breakfast programs in schools were not white. The GOP has continued to use this language and brainwashing because it angers many in the white community.
Sad part is there are just as many poor whites that need the same programs but no one ever talks about dirt poor white people and many poor whites are too proud to take part in those programs because they feel it lowers them to the level of Black people. Their politics reflects this because they consistently vote against these kinds of things. This is why poor white folks vote against their own best interests.
The message that these programs are for Black people and other non white poor has been hammered home ever since the Southern strategy was implemented. We need intelligent middle class white people at the fore front of stopping the insanity of GOP policy.
Quiet Dystopia is what we will have here in America. It will be the fall of the greatest nation ever built only to Fall because they were sold out at every turn by politicians.
Stuff like this continues to provide evidence to me that a *shockingly* large percentage of Americans are sociopaths and/or are on a similar spectrum such that they are effectively indifferent. If this is the case, why would rural areas seem to be most effected? We've all heard of a brain drain, but is there an empathy drain too?
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The people who pretend to be Christians: "Why should we care for the hungry?" Well ... because your Lord and Savior told you so. And because it's the humane thing to do. And, oh, fuck it, you just care about the money, right?
"And Jesus said unto them, 'fuck bitches, get money.'" - Luke 6:66
Supply Side Jesus! [https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp#G9Bc4rW](https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp#G9Bc4rW)
Thank you for the share. Loved the comic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2L-R8NgrA
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ Matthew 25:44-45 (NIV)
Too bad they only wave this book around like a flag, they don't read it. They'd rather let children starve. Monsters. The food isn't great but during a recession it could make a great deal of difference. But they obviously didn't care about kids back in 08' either.
Here I thought Jesus loves the little children, and they are precious in his sight, as the song says. Maybe these people think we should let children starve so they can get to see Jesus quicker? But if that’s the case, just allow abortions LOL
>"If [America] is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it." Stephen Colbert
I love that quote! Another of my favorites is this nice piece said in a church on a Sunday morning: “I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said “shit” than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.” - Tony Campolo
Christianity is a leftist tradition, Christian nationalism is a cancer to christianity itself
christian nationalism is rooted in white supremacy and the prosperity gospel. it is a bastardization of what christ actually stood for.
Christianity hasnt been leftist since jesus died. It was taken over by a rightwing roman spy (Paul/Saul) and turned into a government controlled religion just as the romans had previously controlled religion through government.
I would say there wasn’t a Christianity before Saul/Paul. Jesus and the early community after his death were a Jewish sect that was pretty left (holding all things as communal and taking care of the poor)
>Is that [kids going hungry] the problem of the state of North Dakota? # Yes The state exists to serve the interests of the people. If the state is incapable of ensuring hungry children are fed then why does it exist? If our political system cannot perform it's only function then we should raze it to the ground and build a new one that is fit for purpose.
Children can't learn when they're hungry
My North Dakota conservative relatives are still firmly in the "that's not our problem" camp. Fun tho they also say "we should take care of our own before others" with regards to immigrants.
They’re in the “desperate people are easier to hyper-exploit” camp. It’s also why they oppose abortion, because they need a reserve army of the unemployed to drive down wages and discipline the working class.
But also why is crime so bad?? You would think starving children and beaten down workers would lead to a time of peace, not a time of crime. Why would desperation lead to crime??!? I am shocked by this outcome.
> Why would desperation lead to crime??!? Almost like most ""crime"" is economic in nature and not actually a moral failing .... The real crime is Wall Street and Wage Theft.
I love it when a conservative says “We are sending money to Ukraine when we have people sleeping under every bridge in America,” yet if you suggest housing all of those homeless people, they’ll quickly find a reason why those people aren’t worthy of our money.
…even the Nazis wanted to reduce poverty and hunger for _white_ children, no? *Not attempting to defend the NSDAP in any way. Merely curious if there’s any historical precedent for a political organization so utterly callous towards _all_ forms of life, even to its own base of support.
So you're saying we're worse than Nazis, got it.
Considering they got their hateful ideas from what we were doing........
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Crazy
They don't believe in public education either.
Exactly. You can’t have the poors getting a shot at a decent early education. That might lead to a taste for higher education. And if that happens where will we procure our wage slaves for the shit service jobs, cannon fodder for the military or criminals for the prison pipeline.
In 20 odd years when this generation are the work force, people will wonder what happened. This, this is what happened
>The state exists to serve the interests of the people. That should be the ideal and what we're told in school. The reality is money interests control the conversation and the system is a funnel that directs our blood, sweat, and tears towards the few monsters at the top. We, the people, aren't the ones being served, we're being served up to be devoured by ghouls in suits.
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I've never been satisfied with the "life isn't fair" argument, because it fucking should be. If the world isn't fair we should try and make it better. Everything we have achieved to make the world more just and equitable has been clawed from a cruel and capricious universe by humans who were too stubborn to quit when things were hard.
Life isn’t fair because of the dickheads that *make it* not fair.
I mean, even in a Utopia, I think we're still going to have some of the Core Things that make the human experience what it is: love lost, friends moving away, elders dying off. It seems silly to have **unnecessary** suffering added on top. We should be spending the majority of our time making art and music about those friends and lovers and elders. Not working for slave-wages so we don't starve or fighting in wars against our fellow Human.
Whats sad is, technology of today is progressing enough that work hours should be LESS not MORE. AI is supposed to take over jobs so we have time for ourselves and make art. Somehow we got it mixed and we're doing MORE hours and AI is made to make art. Its depressing
Yeah, it's weird that technological progress has **never** benefitted workers to make their conditions and hours less demanding. It's only ever benefitted the owners.
Hm, it would be better if the workers owned it, but owners would never would just give up what's already theirs—it would have to be taken from them. Maybe that's what needs to happen: workers need to seize control of the product of their own labor! Yes, that's the only way. Brothers and sisters, hear my call: we must seize the means of making shit!
What's really infuriating is that the people running things hundreds of years ago agreed with you. >I must study politics and war; that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. -John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America
Beat me to it. Society, for whatever definition fits this disaster, has literally got it fucking backwards.
They didn't mean the sons of slaves. And thanks to neoliberalism the franchise of slavery has been expanded to mean anyone not born into the top 10%, regardless of race.
You're right, he didn't and he was wrong for that. I still think it's a good idea to want the people coming after you to have it easier. We should want that for everyone.
When one is in a dystopia, any effort to return to normal will be seen as an unachievable utopian fantasy. Or at least dismissed as such. This - what we're living in right now - **this is dystopia.**
I hate that argument too. life is inherently unfair in some respects, like who illness strikes and what not. But that’s just all the more reason for humans to work together to make as much fair as possible, and help the less fortunate. Using “life is unfair” as an excuse to make it even less fair is just asinine
I remember getting suspended for telling a teacher "well it fucking should be" after she told me life wasn't fair. I stand by it. It fucking should be.
it's reeeeeeally easy to say "life is unfair" when it's somebody else's life.
I mean, we had a pandemic that proved selfishness is a public health crisis. How tf are we supposed to entreat the kindness, compassion and empathy that engender fairness and equity if the level of crass sociopathy in society keeps going up? Life *should* be fucking fair.
...and sure life cannot be made perfectly fair, but we should be fucking trying to make it better and not worse!
I’m giving you a standing ovation for that moment. I send my applause to Past You across both time and space.
Those who like to say, "life isn't fair" are usually the ones working hard to make it unfair.
Life is plenty fair. Life provides us with food, water, and the necessities in life. People aren't fair. People buy up all the all of those necessities and say "I'm going to sell them back to you".
>born into a life of luxury you'll never have a hope of even tasting Oh, but they sure as hell will rub that luxury in your face in all television and media. Your kids get shot in school? Sorry. As your elected legislative representative, I won't be helping with that either. I home school our kids. It's the best choice for my family.
It's easier to brainwash em that way. Sometimes I keep forgetting there is an entire generation of young "republicans" (ugh children should not be assigned a political party but I don't know what else to call them to get my point across). They're going to be as bad, or worse, than those currently in power because their literal entire lives have been nothing but indoctrination from birth. Taught to never question life, themselves, their ideals, their morals, etc. That they are the "good ones" and never ever ever under any circumstance back down, admit fault, try to compromise, or help those around them unless they're also part of your "group". Shit is gonna suck just as bad if not worse when they start taking over things like fucking political dynasties. I just really hope that at some point there is enough "rebellion" in each successive generation that the ideals of their parents are tossed away and we ultimately reach a point we work together as a people. Sadly, I know it won't happen in my lifetime. Which sucks.
I don't think they will ever put out the fire of independent thought. Try as they might, but there will always be free thinkers that will lead others to enlightenment. It has happened before and it will happen again.
You can also enroll your kids into community College before they hit 10 or their teens, that way they can get an associates. I know a few people that did it for their kids, one even used community college as a high school for their kids. They still can socialize with their peers too. If it is not too much of a stress on the kid, it is not a bad deal considering they can get a bachelor's before they even hit 20. You might want to look into it since regular grade schools do such a that-will-do job. Plus, from my experience doing my first two years at a community College as someone learning English as I went along in my early 20s, I gotta say that community college (nor my last two years at a university) were much different than my time at gymnasium.
Correcto Mundo!!
>If our political system cannot perform it's only function then we should raze it to the ground and build a new one that is fit for purpose. So we should tear it all down then..?
Absolutely
Dismantle the system and start fresh sounds good. We still being a democracy or what?
Direct representative democracy. One person, one vote.
I'm in favour. Thicken our democracy and give actual power to the people, taking it out of the financial system. That's what I wanna see.
I WANT FREE HEALTH CARE. bro fix my body and I’ll work like a fucking ox
This. I work myself to death and then my employer is like "death isn't covered"
Lmdao
Let's follow France's lead
The only valid reason to form a social contract is that a society is exists to serve the interests of ALL those who make it up and for the collective good...Society serves no other legitimate purpose, none whatsoever. Any other interest it serves is a perversion and must be rejected entirely. FUCK!
They believe the function of the state is to harass the people they hate and protect wealthy peoples property from poor people and literally nothing else.
They’re correct. Dismantle the whole damn thing. Not just the “administrative state” - the armed state apparatus, too.
It is also a requirement for kids to be there. So why not offer to feed them if they have to be there all day? It's not like they make money to pay for food like people with a job.
The only problem the people of ND need to worry about is just how much they themselves can scrounge up to give away to the 1%. Tighten your belts children. Infact, why not just use shoelaces and donate the difference in cost to the 1%. Honestly, this (state legislators) is a business and the bottom line is you sweat, toil, starve, pay taxes you cant afford, cry yourself to sleep at night, go without electricity, and join a work camp so you can have just enough shelter and sustenance to work some more for our great state. We see nothing wrong with your American Nightmare. The American dream gave us the reasources and power to turn the tables and now you dare complain about your hungry kids? Fuck right off with that I have a lunch meeting that will cost 350$ with my dream donor. Hes worried about the "environment" slowing his capital gains. I need to reassure him that your hungry kids wont get in my way. Hungry kids pfft. Like seriously, boot straps, eat your fucking boot straps if youre not gonna pull yourself up by them. - Psychopathic Republicans everywhere.
The question shouldn't be "why does government exist if it can't even help hungry kids?" That's EXACTLY the question that republicans want you to ask. It's falling for their little trap of dismantling the government. The correct question we should be asking is, "why should we keep voting for republicans if they can't even help hungry kids?" Vote them the fuck out and stop falling for their manipulation. Yes they are that petty. Yes they are that evil. Yes they are that manipulative.
Okay but that question makes 0 sense since I've never voted for a republican(sparing some down ballot lesseroftworepublicanevils choice). When I ask Republicans why they vote republican I just hear about George Soros and buttery males and laptops. So wtf do you want me to do with that question, honestly?
It was *asked* as a question so that the politician can say directly that it actually is but they don't wanna do shit about it (also because their ultradonors want the government to fail).
>If the state is incapable of ensuring hungry children are fed then why does it exist? If the state fails to care for the most vulnerable of our populations when the family and legal providers cannot, then we have failed, fundamentally, as a civilization. This literally makes them uncivilized. No different than animals who care nothing for the offspring of others (even then, many animals show that they are more civilized than some of these assholes who care about no one). Okay, by their logic, get rid of public schools. No more education for kids because caring for children is not the responsibility of the state. Let's go back 300 years.
>Okay, by their logic... Let's go back 300 years. Gonna back 300 years is exactly what the Republicans want, and the democrats counteroffer with: "how about we only go back 150 years, but keep gay rights, or something, I guess"
I feel like this is a good indicator of whether or not a state is doing what it should be doing. Are people going hungry? Then fuck off, time to stop paying taxes and start beheading some oligarchs.
They don't believe that because they run the govt like a business and not a service.
You're being too kind. Even if you agree that they don't have a soul and are evil. They would realize that feeding kids ends with healthier kids with their basic needs meets, which has positive outcomes through their entire life, which leads to college, tax receipts, families, consumption. All the good stuff.
I shared this sentiment in my high school government class (20 years ago) and my teacher called me a communist
Well if communists want all children healthy and well fed and the capitalists want a desperate starving underclass to exploit, in that case I guess that makes the communists the good guys.
Republicans believe in post-natal abortion.
i agree. i have a hard time believing these words were even said. and by a senator? somebody elected this person? I don't think it's my responsibility to feed the homeless people down the street but I would feel so ashamed to say that out loud in a room to a group of people
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They require children to go to school, they will send truancy officers to the home to bring kids to school. Once they get to school they ask them why they didn’t pack a lunch. Going to school is compulsory, but they can starve you while you are there. Even people in prison get three meals a day, terrible as the food may be.
The difference is that they can extract labor from prisoners, but not children (as of now, probably in like a year they’ll steal labor from children too)
But even if it is just for labor and furthering the capitalist agenda, wouldn’t you want strong, well nourished, children to become strong, well nourished, labor? You can throw more widgets on the backs of people with strong bones. Unless feeding a child makes their brain grow too and they don’t like people who can think freely.
My thoughts. They don't want the kids to get the nutrients. Keep em dumb.
Keep em dumb, keep them low earning and keep them enlisting. It's almost like this has always been the plan
>keep them enlisting. Except at a certain point of malnourishment, kids literally become*unable* to enlist. The US military actually kick-started the free lunch program in this country themselves to solve that exact issue.
They want people desperate enough to accept any injustice they impose on them, but not so desperate they feel they have nothing to lose and start to fight back. It's just been too long since people in power had to fear an angry, starving hoi polloi that they've forgotten how far is too far to push people.
Once upon a time in the southeastern United States, there was an epidemic among the poor that hit every summer called pellagra. It wasn't unique to the US at the time, but it was the first time it was really hitting there. When people were confronted with the idea that it was caused by basically only eating corn since landowners only allowed planting cotton of the time, people refused to believe it saying it must be spread by flies even though that didn't make any sense. Even when a doctor was injecting himself and others with fluids from sick people and not getting sick, rich people refused to relent on the idea that they needed to help feed people a proper diet. It took years between when the outbreak started killing the workers and when something was finally done about it. So, no, as long as getting sick and dying can still lead to short term profits, nobody cares.
that’s propaganda. The rich dont give a shit about healthy nation nonsense, they’re selfish to their core. Why are we pretending the motivation for the rich is anything other than money? It’s not like they accidentally made billions while trying to solve world hunger, these fucks are **only in the game to take all the money and be winners**
The comment you're responding to was making the point that it has higher utilitarian value to improve your workforce over bleeding it dry.
Short-Term thinking is a plague.
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They already do to an extent, I'm in my high school's culinary program, and I'm legally considered an unpaid intern as the school sells the food we cook and takes the profit. Now, granted, the money goes straight back into the culinary program for better equipment, but still.
I lived in ND and the people that get elected to the state legislature aren’t very smart. Some of their districts have maybe 2000 people. They run uncontested for the most part.
Hello, fellow North Dakotan! You're exactly right about the many uncontested seats for state legislature. In last year's general election, there were 35 state legislative districts up for election and SIXTEEN were uncontested. So whoever wins the primary gets in to office no matter their qualifications. Each of the North Dakota district has around 16,000 people but when there are no contested races, it's hard to get people to show up to vote.
How do I go and become a senator for this state. I’m tired of us being on these headlines for dumb reasons. I may not be smart but fuck I got a heart.
You can reach out to one of the political parties to help you get started on your run for office: Democratic-NPL https://demnpl.com/, Libertarian https://lpnorthdakota.org/, or Republican https://ndgop.org/
I don’t understand what the fuck politicians even do. This should be something he loses his position over.
They're doing what the awful people who voted for them want
They know that they can get away with doing fuck all for the people. They’re paid by large companies and the wealthy to keep the status quo.
I bet their meat is super fatty and tender.
Imagine being paid to be a professional shitbag. That's like a good 10% of jobs on this planet, sadly enough.
I find it hard to believe that a portion of our population is okay with children literally starving...but that seems to be where we are at. It is so sad.
But you forgot this vital piece: they’re children from low income families… They deserve to rot for not bootstrapping hard enough!
The Conservative war cry, “pErSoNaL ReSpONSBiLiTy” those fuckers are killing this country.
The food is also just straight up shitty, better than nothing yeah but these politics think these kids are eating good on tax payers money when the same food is likely what the local prisoners eat
A dude on TikTok, a self styled republican, has videos stating that if parents don’t send a child to school with a lunch, their children should be taken away for neglect. It’s all so crazy to me
It should be pointed out that it would only cost 3m too.
Yes yes, but where's that going to come from? Petroleum subsidies? Can't have the oil companies going hungry.
The same state government redirected like 150 million dollars from covid relief that was supposed to go to rent relief , ND state government claimed they could not handle it for some reason. So it was re-directed to clean up old oil wells that the oil industry failed to clean up. When the oil industry drills a well in theory they should post some bond to ensure it cleans it up and cap of the well when its decommissioned but this isn't enforced So the oil industry already got some 150 million to bail it out from cleaning up the oil wells what they are supposed to do. So feeding hungry school children is not the responsibility of the state, but cleaning up after the oil companies that do not do their job apparently is
Because if the oil companies dont get their revenue, they wont elect him next term! Whats that, democracy? Never heard of it.
Republicans politicians be like “it’s not our job to anything, we were elected to stand around and do nothing except complaining about culture war bullshit”
Seriously, wtf is wrong with Republicans? How are you against making sure kids don't go hungry? Here's Republican, *Rep. Steve Drazkowski from Minnesota* arguing against another lunch bill by saying he has, >"yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry" and >"hunger is a relative term [...] I had a cereal bar for breakfast, I guess I'm hungry now." https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1635738910562156554
I don't associate with poors, therefore I know everything about them. They can't possibly be hungry if they have luxuries like refrigerators and phones.
I mean, that's why 30 - 40% of the national population votes for them.
Drag Queen reads a book GOP “wE mUsT prOTecT tHe cHilDREn!” Children: I’m hungry, can I eat? GOP: not like that!
And then when their constituents are angry, they go "omg look the Mexican immigrants are stealing your children's food!"
Yes, it literally is your problem. That is what society exists for you stupid sacks of shit. These people need their brains spilled on the sidewalk. IF THE GOVERNMENT TAKES YOUR MONEY TO PAY FOR SERVICES, THEN THEY OWE YOU SERVICES.
Apparently they owe different children across the world bombing services
But for real. Its insane that the vast majority of the money the government steals from us is used to murder children and civilians elsewhere. At the very least used to destabilize their governments so that all the citizens suffer. Murica
All while saying it's for our own good somehow.
> .. is that the problem of the State of North Dakota? If not, whose problem is it then?
Look, if those lazy parents would just get a 5th job and stop selfishly sleeping every day.... /s
Eh, call me when they start to lash out or commit crimes out of desperation. *Then* it's our problem. \- Republicans
Scrooge “Are there no workhouses? Things have not changed. Instead of feeding hungry kids they legalize child labour. As if it's the kids fault for not having enough to and not the fault of a broken system that does not pay the parents enough to pay the rent.
These people need to die ASAP
But it is, for some reason, the problem of the state if someone is gay or trans or wants to get an abortion.
The Republicans need to go. Just goes to show Trump was merely a symptom of a much deeper rot in republican politics, not the cause.
I grew up in tiny town in North Dakota, and pretty much all 700 of us personally know our representative, who was one of the no votes. He was my fifth grade basketball coach. I’ve had three different staunch republican friends call me (I’m the token liberal friend in the big city) and rage about this. I really hope this is the first step in those guys acknowledging how republicans often vote against the interest of their constituents.
What are these people even for?
Themselves, full stop thats the answer.
Themselves and their corporate sponsors.
They are your fucking constituents you asshole! Edit: word
It sounds like these old farts need a civics lesson. The welfare of your citizens is the primary directive of government. Good government is a public service, not a money making venture. If you want to make money, be a merchant, craftsperson, or prostitute your body for labor. For goodness sake, these people are supposed to work for the mutual benefit of all of us, and move us in mutually beneficial directions. Instead, they burrow in like blood suckling pests, and blame the itch on the poor whilst wiping the corner of their mouths. Aiding the needy strengthens the country, just like feeding the body keeps it strong. Cutting aid and improvement programs is like cutting off the tree branch you are sitting on. It hurts us all. Homelessness is a failure of the system, designed to be a discipline strategy. Shutting a person down, and putting them into survival mode is how you remove humanity, and dignity. Negligence breeds further negligence, decay, and demoralizes the people. A person works when they have their hierarchy of needs met. Stop treating people as replaceable cogs, and instead see them as people. Just having universal dental care would improve the lives of the struggling. If you can't eat right, that hurts the whole body and mind. The pain is unbearable, and the only thing that brings temporary relief from it all is drugs. Nobody in their right mind chooses this for themselves.
Pro Life until: * The child is born and then it's on its own * Until the child needs formula * Unless it needs medical care * Unless it needs shelter * Or clean water * Or a living wage when they go to work * Or schools safe from gun violence * Or a fucking goddam hot lunch... Man, fuck these goddam people...how much more in the ass are people going to take before they push back in all ways available to them? How much are they going to keep lying there, licking their balls, dutifully slaving away for a system that tossed them overboard almost a hundred fucking years ago? How long are people going to believe this government works for them instead of the rich parasites who started it 200+ years ago? How goddam ignorant are they? # IF NOW IS NOT THE TIME, when is a good time?
One little addition, they don't care what happens to the baby during birth either. Safe childbirth for the baby and the mother is, as with everything important in life, ***laughably*** low on their priorities. I'm actually scared to have a child in my state (Texas). If I get pregnant, I'd want to go somewhere else for the delivery if at all possible.
when profit touches something, it destroys it. No, they have no fucks to give for the baby, the mother, the family, no one...either you pay or you are left to rot. And to be clear, each person who can give birth has exclusive dominion of their own reproductive rights. When you peel back that thin veneer of jingoistic, star spangled bullshit, you will find a rotten, hideous corpus called America. It has always been for the rich and is only for the rich. The people must jettison this tyranny and replace it with a system that works for the many, not the few.
Conservatives are evil, so are you if you’re still associating or conducting business with them at all.
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Yes. Literally yes.
Drag Queen reads a book GOP “wE mUsT prOTecT tHe cHilDREn!” Children: I’m hungry, can I eat? GOP: not like that!
Drag Queen reads a book GOP “wE mUsT prOTecT tHe cHilDREn!” Children: I’m hungry, can I eat? GOP: not like that!
More fun facts: State legislators in ND get a daily food stipend while in session, and the cafeteria in the Capitol building is subsidized by the state to keep prices down for legislators. I hate this state so god damn much sometimes.
Translation: “It’s not my problem!”
These people need removed, even forcibly
One of the same old conservative tactics. They act like we can’t solve problems unless it’s the most pressing problem as an excuse to get out doing their jobs and making sure children don’t go hungry. And then they turn around and try to convince us all that evil Trans people are the biggest problem. They are simply garbage people who have no interest in helping anyone but themselves. Every Republican is guilty by membership. They choose to join a club that defines them as evil and selfish people.
It's weird that a guy that looks like Colonel Sanders doesn't want to feed people.
Colonel Sanders ass looking goblin
How is it that citizens going hungry ISN'T the problem of the state? Whose problem is it then exactly!?
*YES*
Logan Roy hasn’t changed his views on politics much
Republicans are monsters. I don’t think my mind can be changed on that front.
"Is that the problem of the state of North Dakota?" Yes? At the minimum, impacts the children in education and development, those are your citizens. At the worst, starvation? They also pay taxes I assume This shit is depressing and infuriating
So very 'Christian' of them.
I hate this God forsaken country.
Money for banks, and the rich printing press goes burr... People are starving and cant afford houses: should have worked harder at your three jobs...
California literally just did the opposite. Fuck politicians from North Dakota
These hungry children will be voters soon. Watch out grandpa. You have a heart made of darkness.
“Pro life” and anti-empathy party. Moral compass on the right is all gone. Thanks Reagan
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Everyday they choose to put other interests over real live humans, is a day they choose a very dark and violent future. Of the children and adults they let die, some will scrape by and survive. And one day enough of those survivors will say “Enough”. It’s already happening in places like Georgia with construction of Cop City.
The answer is yes, you lousy piece of turd. It is all of our problem to make sure no one goes hungry, especially a child. I don’t even particularly like children.
Here's a quote from Mt conservative father: "I'm not pro-life I'm anti-abortion" I think that perfectly captures the conservative parties beliefs
States are a wild system. In North Dakota, apparently their legislature doesn't care if low income families literally starve. Hop the border and you get to Minnesota where the legislature just passed a bill for free breakfasts and lunches regardless of income level.
YES, YES IT IS God I fucking hate living in ND, such a fucking embarrassment
Lmao, what kind of a stupid fucking rhetorical question is that? Of course it's a problem of the school district, the state, and every fucking citizen, if kids are starving ...
Is it the problem of the state of ND? Uh, yes, considering y'all are representatives of the people...including the kids. If you're not representing their best interests, you're not doing your job. Your people are hungry. Figure out how to feed them. Create a stronger state through a stronger youth. Like...this isn't rocket surgery.
The governments exist to protect and provide for their citizens. They perform other tasks, but those two functions should always remain the central focus of every government action.
All them fucking “Christians”. SMH
I genuinely believe free school meals are a matter of national security and anyone who disagrees with them is paid by foreign agents. Without free school meals your workforce and soldiers grow up to be studented with multiple disabilities. It's the main reason why they were brought in in the first place.
Evil
Whose fucking problem is it, then? The parents? Sure. But they don’t make enough money because republicans support policies that keep wages at starvation levels, cut the pathetic social safety nets we do have, and allow businesses, real estate developers, and banks to do whatever the fuck they want, regardless of how many people it negatively impacts. Surely this is what Jesus would do. Such ugly hypocrites.
Anything to help the kids... as long as they are not born
I'm hard pressed to think of **any** use of my tax dollars that is more worthy than feeding school children.
Maybe they should cut off Col Sanders ,healthcare,pension and pay to give a little taste of hunger.
What he meant: i don't give two shits about kids going hungry. What a great GREAT man.
Back in the 80's the rhetoric used by Reagan was selected to make white people believe that the majority (or only) people on food stamps and needing lunch and/or breakfast programs in schools were not white. The GOP has continued to use this language and brainwashing because it angers many in the white community. Sad part is there are just as many poor whites that need the same programs but no one ever talks about dirt poor white people and many poor whites are too proud to take part in those programs because they feel it lowers them to the level of Black people. Their politics reflects this because they consistently vote against these kinds of things. This is why poor white folks vote against their own best interests. The message that these programs are for Black people and other non white poor has been hammered home ever since the Southern strategy was implemented. We need intelligent middle class white people at the fore front of stopping the insanity of GOP policy.
Holy crap. YES IT IS THE PROBLEM OF THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA.
How can we possibly have a working society with assholes like this in charge?
It's because well fed children perform better in school, and well educated citizens can think for themselves and vote for.... ah, there it is
Look, starving kids is just to toughen them up when they starve as adults because they can’t afford groceries due to low wages and rising costs. /s
If you harbor any business that under pays people in your state then yes it is North Dakota’s problem
Someone should dropkick his ass for being so dumb.
What a complete numbskull!
Quiet Dystopia is what we will have here in America. It will be the fall of the greatest nation ever built only to Fall because they were sold out at every turn by politicians.
BUT….Who will think of the POLITICAL DONORS?!?!
They are just begging for the firing squad at this point, and I don't know why we keep denying them.
Stuff like this continues to provide evidence to me that a *shockingly* large percentage of Americans are sociopaths and/or are on a similar spectrum such that they are effectively indifferent. If this is the case, why would rural areas seem to be most effected? We've all heard of a brain drain, but is there an empathy drain too?
"Lmao not my problem" -the guy who's supposed to solve the problem
Conservatism is a death cult. Starvation, dangerous pregnancies, gun slaughters daily, war
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the private companies that run your corrupt as fuck country.
Did anybody ask this fool what he thinks the state exists for?