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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

But that is the whole point of this. These people making and advocating for this kind of stuff are abusers. The GOP is a pro-abuse party. We need to stop pretending otherwise. The goal is to enable abusers. When these people talk about "parental rights" that is what they mean. They believe they have a right to abuse their kids including starving them. They also believe that anyone who tries to assist their children—even so much as feeding them—is interfering with their right as a parent.

I know this because my step-dad was exactly of this type of mindset when I was a kid. They don't see children as having rights or dignity. They are just property of their parents with zero personage to them. Food insecurity even when the parents have the ability to feed their children is used as a form of control. "If you won't do as we say you won't eat" was very much a thing in my household and a lot of others I knew growing up.

Allowing free breakfast and lunch at school usurps their ability to use hunger and starvation as a punishment. I know it's dark but it's worth noting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

the unplanned kids that arrived under anti abortion laws.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why do they want the children to suffer for it though??? ~Cherri

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i understand its a bullshit argument, but even if were true, idgaf why kids dont have food, i want them to get food one way or another

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Well, sweeping chimneys and working night shifts in abattoirs is a good way of acquiring the money for it!

/S