I make my kids lunches every day. I still would if they were free, and school lunch should be free.
I wish I could comprehend why some people think hungry kids is OK. At the same time… I kind of don’t want to understand them. I want them to not be selfish pieces of shit instead.
Usually the excuse I hear on the ‘‘we can’t just feed children’’ crowd is that they don’t want their tax money, or anyone else’s helping the WRONG children. Often they mean non white children. There’s a strong history in white supremacy of stopping people from feeding black children, government or private efforts, the FBI has killed people over it.
Oh I know the excuses they give (and the racism behind so much of it). I just can’t comprehend why, which is why I say I don’t want to understand, just have them, you know, not be shitty.
At least locally there is a push for it which I’m advocating for. We just got preschool for free too, so that’s a step in the right direction - lunch is next on the docket, I expect some battles there…
So many of them are afraid. The fear centre in a conservative’s brain is show to work overtime compared to others’.
If you want to see the number on your paycheque go up you have two options: get paid more or pay less in tax. You have some semi-direct power over the government when you vote and vague transparency means that you kinda know where the money is going. Raising your pay, though, is a lot harder. You have no safety net and you know that executives and middle management are big babies so losing income and references is very dangerous. You basically have to be incredibly gentle with those people or even put yourself down or they will hurt you without a moment’s thought for a quick buck and a little petty revenge.
You run through those cycles enough times and you get a large group of people with fucked up generational/cultural trauma where they will blame the government for letting corporations do things like leave for other countries instead of being mad at the corporations for abandoning us so that number go up. They’ll blame immigrants for taking the jobs but not the companies for firing locals to brutally exploit migrants who are just trying to survive. They are so used to the evil of corporations that they’re numb and call others crazy for wanting things to change.
Basically even the best intentioned ones are profoundly stupid cowards who have turned to the most wild levels of simping for people they know are evil because they’re afraid of being punished. They go after anyone who might make the corporations angrier and meaner, usually the government and the implementation of taxes and regulations, and punch down because they don’t even have the courage to punch laterally, let alone upwardly.
(And now a lot of them are just generationally brainwashed wahooo)
This story should help you comprehend that crowd. In their ideal world, hungry children pull themselves up by their bootstraps because being hungry motivates them to work harder. Children working to pay off their lunch debt is the pinnacle of their ideology.
I make my kids lunches every day. I still would if they were free, and school lunch should be free.
I wish I could comprehend why some people think hungry kids is OK. At the same time… I kind of don’t want to understand them. I want them to not be selfish pieces of shit instead.
Usually the excuse I hear on the ‘‘we can’t just feed children’’ crowd is that they don’t want their tax money, or anyone else’s helping the WRONG children. Often they mean non white children. There’s a strong history in white supremacy of stopping people from feeding black children, government or private efforts, the FBI has killed people over it.
Oh I know the excuses they give (and the racism behind so much of it). I just can’t comprehend why, which is why I say I don’t want to understand, just have them, you know, not be shitty.
At least locally there is a push for it which I’m advocating for. We just got preschool for free too, so that’s a step in the right direction - lunch is next on the docket, I expect some battles there…
So many of them are afraid. The fear centre in a conservative’s brain is show to work overtime compared to others’.
If you want to see the number on your paycheque go up you have two options: get paid more or pay less in tax. You have some semi-direct power over the government when you vote and vague transparency means that you kinda know where the money is going. Raising your pay, though, is a lot harder. You have no safety net and you know that executives and middle management are big babies so losing income and references is very dangerous. You basically have to be incredibly gentle with those people or even put yourself down or they will hurt you without a moment’s thought for a quick buck and a little petty revenge.
You run through those cycles enough times and you get a large group of people with fucked up generational/cultural trauma where they will blame the government for letting corporations do things like leave for other countries instead of being mad at the corporations for abandoning us so that number go up. They’ll blame immigrants for taking the jobs but not the companies for firing locals to brutally exploit migrants who are just trying to survive. They are so used to the evil of corporations that they’re numb and call others crazy for wanting things to change.
Basically even the best intentioned ones are profoundly stupid cowards who have turned to the most wild levels of simping for people they know are evil because they’re afraid of being punished. They go after anyone who might make the corporations angrier and meaner, usually the government and the implementation of taxes and regulations, and punch down because they don’t even have the courage to punch laterally, let alone upwardly.
(And now a lot of them are just generationally brainwashed wahooo)
This story should help you comprehend that crowd. In their ideal world, hungry children pull themselves up by their bootstraps because being hungry motivates them to work harder. Children working to pay off their lunch debt is the pinnacle of their ideology.