How about instead of asking for donations, the money is just collected through taxes? What a ceazy idea!
Using taxes to pay for things? Crazy!
I want my taxes to go to burying brown child under rubble in Palestine! (ever conservative ever)
And steal this child’s opportunity for gumption? The media’s opportunity to placate us with a heart warming story? Deprive us this chance to be outrage?
Taxes steal all of this from us!
How in the hell is he going to obtain his own bootstraps if you’re paying for everything with our taxes?!?!?
Let them get jobs in the mine! I’ve been working there since I was eleven and I turned out just fine!!
Excuse me - I need to go move my lifted ram 2500 before the repo man finds it.
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Is the child/family going to do that?
Why is Lemmy like this?
Obviously we all agree the programs should be changed, but this kid/family can’t do that themselves. Instead, they’ve found a way to provide direct action, via community support, which is a core anarchist leftist trope, and should be commended.
It’s not a critique of the child. It IS a critique of the system. No one is saying what he did was bad, or that he shouldn’t have done it. They’re saying HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO. It’s like the heartwarming stories of Americans funding their medical care through go-fund-me. It’s horrifying to any sensible person.
Anarchist and Libertarians can care for each other. If there ever was a more clearer justification for actual taxes and government. It’s where it’s things that would increase access to freedom. Like not having to beg to survive, come into the conversation.
The comment I replied to, as written, comes off as a critique of the child/family’s actions.
They have no influence on the macro conditions.
Edit this is like :
“Man saves child from drowning”
Then comment is like “why could the child access a river?”
Like, yeah, we all agree the child should have been supervised around water, but that’s not the point of the article. The point is that someone completed a charitable/selfless action.
Lemmy constantly kneejerks to the macro, abstract case and it’s silly. Lemmy prefers to complain about out of system variables than commend I’m system variables.
”Children in elementary school should not have debt tied to their name. We have found out that there are high schools that keep seniors from attending prom or walking at graduation if they have stuff like student lunch debt,” Kramer said. “Some families can’t help it. They can’t pay it off.”
In case anyone had any doubts that the cruelty is the point. Stratify children based on their socioeconomic status at the earliest possible opportunity.
In a video shared to his mom’s Facebook, Daken had challenged “friends, family and local businesses to donate what they can to this cause.”
If they’re required to be there by law it’s inhumane to charge them money for food.
Careful now, this is part of the thinking that people [backwardly] use to proselytize for more charter schools, homeschooling, the dissolution of the Department of Education, and a host of other stupid ideas.
They’ll see this and say, “yeah, they shouldn’t even be required to go to school! so they have to earn a wholesome Christofascist education” or some other nonsense.
Nevertheless, I agree. Food should be a right for everyone.
I’m fine with private schools competing with public services as long as:
- They receive zero public funding
- They require the same (or higher) standards as public education
- Public education spending is not reduced
Education, infrastructure, healthcare, military protection, and mails services are some of the core services taxpayers should be most happy to invest tax dollars in. These services should feel like we’re getting a great deal for our investment. If anyone wants to spend more on private sector businesses, that’s up to them. But not there’s no need to sabotage the publicly funded services.
Ah yes, another fucking horror story painting a stark picture of the in-progress collapse of our society being dressed up as a happy happy feel good story.
Honesty surprised the school didn’t refuse the money. It’s happened before.
In Iowa the governor refused free no strings attached federal money to help pay for underprivileged kids’ lunches. Her reason? “There’s an obesity epidemic”.
Republican states read like an actual onion article.
Hence “not the onion” subreddit and Lemmy instance
Orphan crushing machine
Goes brrrrr
It’s fucking Missouri, so I’m sure the warrant for his arrest will be issued shortly. Those idiots have to have a law against paying for others school lunch debt.
The New American Dream.
An affordable meal?
An affordable _________
How sweet. They gave him a nice little certificate
id do this and pay for everyone’s debt except for my bully. fuck you Jason.
