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Who out there is actually saying “children shouldn’t be fed”, for example? Fucking nobody, lol.

I’m not even American and I know that plenty of people are saying this 🙄

Here’s one example:

Congress ended the free-lunch-for-all program in June

Here’s another example:

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.”

Children who had access to food now don’t have the same access, thus “children shouldn’t be fed”.

Fucking nobody, lol.

You’re fucking callous.

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Wait, in your quote - their reasoning for blocking CEP is just “we think parents should be paying for their own kids’ lunches, unless they’re eligible for support (poor)”?

That’s not really saying “children should starve”.

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“There are plenty of people saying this”

shows no one saying this, and does the exact kind of extrapolation and exaggeration I talked about

Thanks for making my point for me.

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Your argument is basically “yes, everything they do is racist, but they didn’t publicly say the N-word, so they can’t be racist.”

If every action a politican takes makes it so kids can’t eat, they don’t want kids to eat.

Whether they say “I don’t want kids to eat” doesn’t matter at all. The fact that you have to hear the literal evil being spoken aloud to acknowledge it is “you” problem.

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But, if the quote about CEP is correct, the Republicans aren’t against feeding children at all. They are against providing free meals for people who can afford meals, and still providing free meals for eligible (poor) kids.

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Actions > words.

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This here is why no one wants to be your friend.

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