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Still can’t get over that elementary school posting about ice cream day and the line “Students are not permitted to buy ice cream for a friend.”

It’s like a story out of a childrens’ book where all the little kids go buy ice cream but one of them can’t afford it so his friends buy it for him and everyone is happy.

But we’re so far down the hyper-individualist rabbit hole that this very basic “sharing is caring” moral has vanished entirely, our culture is so rotten that “NO HANDOUTS, YOU’RE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING, FUCK YOU” takes precedence over basic empathy for freaking elementary schoolers.

Imagine being a teacher and having a little 6-year-old look up at you, asking if he can also have some ice cream like everyone else, and telling him “No.” The thought of that makes me so fucking angry.

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You’re not alone there. I hate it with every fiber of my being.

I still to this day have troubles when it comes to picking out, purchasing and eating food in public settings thanks to the sheer amount of anxiety that was inflicted on me as a child. The pitying, judgemental eyes glancing back at me as the lunch lady says I have too much food for the “free lunch”. Or even worse, now that I picked out extra, I have to pay “normal lunch price” plus the extra fee that I tacked on because I had the audacity to want a little extra slop. There was a “premium” lunch and snack concession line in the cafeteria for all the “better” treats, drinks and a bunch of random things you could bring back to your table to share with your friends. Good luck trying to convince the people running the concession line that you’re not scamming them by “pretending to have a free or reduced lunch” tag on your account. All because you wanted something a little sweeter to make the day easier.

This was a high school cafeteria. I can’t even understand how you could apply this way of thinking all the way down to the elementary schools. It’s just heartless and I want to write something angry and edgy at the end of this sentence to justify the rage I feel.

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That really seems like schniff pure ideology. Something I always appreciated about my cafeteria at a public (German) university was the attitude of the lunch ladies. They’re not particularly nice, in fact they’re kinda rude, but if you ask “can i have more potatoes/can i get more sauce” or whatever, they’ll shovel more food on your plate with this “sure, whatever, i don’t care” attitude.

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I always call Florida the Heart of Darkness for a reason. It really is a libertarian paradise lol

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In bad country children are indoctrinated to not care about human life

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Did you know that in American, there is no word for “kindness”? This is so sad, ChatGPT play Country Roads

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Did you know that you’re just a dreamer and kindness is inherently anti-human nature?

Checkmate commies

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Imagine being a teacher and having a little 6-year-old look up at you, asking if he can also have some ice cream like everyone else, and telling him “No.”

i can’t imagine being so out of touch with my basic humanity to do something so pointlessly cruel to a child

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One of my proudest moments was when I went out for icecream with a cousin and his young daughters. The 10-year-old and I were in line, I had offered to pay. Clerk took her order and asked her “One scoop or two?” She looked up at me, I whispered to her “Two”, and she got the biggest happiest grin on her face. No child goes without excessive amounts of icecream when I’m around.

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kaiserreich maybe the hexhaters are right… /s

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HOLA MI AMIGO

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Oh my bad guys I didn’t realize the Nazi soldier who was in the SS had a problematic past.

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“He was defending his country!!”

We’re gonna have “maybe hitler was right about a few things” by the next election cycle

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Which is awesome because he literally wasn’t, Ukraine was never a country of any kind prior to the formation of the Ukrainian ssr, which is exactly why the Galacian fascists wanted to murder every non-galacian Ukrainian - their ‘ethnostate’ dreams were hampered by the lack of a clearly defined Ukrainian ethnicity which is part of why they were so excited to exterminate poles, jews, and anyone else they deemed insufficiently Ukrainian.

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He was right about the last decision he ever made, the coward.

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The more you know

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IIRC there were eastern bloc westerns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern

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