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      Make em think their tax money is paying for “Ni–er food” and they’ll burn down the entire education system.

      Hell, replace Nword with F-word or Kword honestly doesn’t matter.

      Source: What happened to all the public swimming pools after Desegregation? And That one time a Republican signed a strict anti gun law the second the Black community exercised their Second.

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          I believe they referring to “kike”, a slur for jewish people.

          With the degree of self censoring and the love acronyms and shortening words, it’s becoming a challenge to follow written text.

          Is the fword “faggot”?

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            Thank you, I was also confused by what the fuck the “K-word” could be. I think we could asterisk out a letter, so meaning is still conveyed, and the impact of the word might still be felt and understood.

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              I understand your reasoning but I can’t subacribe it.

              A word is a word. A word becomes an insult if it is used against someone, with that specific intent.

              I specifically used the quotation marks because I wanted to convey the understanding that I was putting the words out with no connection to anything.

              Writing on a social media outlet feels more and more like walking through a trap field. Cryptic acronyms, forbidden and self censored words and redacted sentences.

              This is the worst kind of censorship I can think of. It blocks the person and others from fully expressing ideas and thoughts and preassigns a default judgement towards who is trying to convey an argument.

              The best way to void a word - especially if an insult - is to ignore it. Don’t use it, ignore it in others speech, attack the use of it as an insult.

              Self censoring is not a good thing.

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                Honestly I wanted to be edgy but been trained that I’ll get auto moderated if I just type it out.

                Also people really do be thinking you are racist if you type out a word (or recite a song lyric) from a different point of view.

                In other words, it’s a no win scenario.

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      “Free meals is communist!!”

      Which… If you think like they do, then socialism==communism==unamerican.

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      People who want others to suffer will support this. This will almost only impact low income (mostly minority) populations, the kind that republic voter love to hurt

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        You can’t punish bad parents by punishing their children. Even if their viewpoint was right this would make no sense.

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          Except, Republicans love to punish the children of poor parents for the crime of being poor.

          You don’t have to be a bad parent to be poor, you just have to be poor.

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            The assumption I mentioned was that in their worldview being poor is also being bad parents. Regardless, punishing children accomplishes nothing.

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              Kids that grow up hungry are more likely to enter the workforce early, doing the low-wage “essential role” jobs that the capital class desperately needs bodies for. Breaking the cycle of poverty is a big no-no for the 1%.

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              Yeah it does. The cruelty is the point. They’re trying to punish children and their parents for being (mostly non-White) poor.

              At the same time, they’re trying to turbocharge the school to prison pipeline so their owner donors from the prison industrial complex can profit off poverty and perpetuate more themselves, leading to an infinite loop of poverty, misery and demonization for anyone who’s not already a rich cishet white man.

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            They don’t see a difference between bad and poor. The only exception is the perfect poor republicans - but they’re only temporarily poor, they’re going to be rich one day so all this poor bashing isn’t counter productive to them!

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          They don’t care if the parents are bad or not, but hey just want to hurt poor people and minorities, to lost republicans those words are the same thing.

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      Going usual playbook, they’d prolly declare it “woke” and mumble the boilerplate shit about taxes, bootstraps, and communism.

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      The USA is a deeply racist settler colony founded on doing violence to those without the privilege to escape it. The idea that someone “undeserving” might get a benefit from one’s tax payment enrages the Republican voting base which is mostly white men who make over $50k a year.

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      I suppose taxes.

      I’m a republican and I fully support free school meals. We are already taxed for books, building, teachers, etc.

      I’d fully support basic supplies and meals as well. It just makes sense to make sure all students have the basic needs met since we are paying for it.

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        Instead of defining yourself by party membership in a group that doesn’t represent you, maybe you should think about not being a member of that party?

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          I’m a registered Democrat, but that doesn’t stop me disagreeing with the Democratic party on plenty of issues. The vast majority of people don’t adhere 100% to their party’s politics, especially with the big-tent two-party system in the US. I can’t speak for the person to whom you’re responding, but you can’t extrapolate from their disagreement on one issue to disagreement on others.

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            Yes, but this particular idea is intentionally letting children starve. Would you really want to associate yourself with a group that wanted to do that if you were against it?

            It’s like saying, “I’m on their side, but I don’t agree with their ‘kill the asylum seekers’ policy.” (I assume that will be a policy of theirs eventually.) How morally repugnant does a group have to get before you disassociate yourself with them?

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              It already is policy for some of them, see Abbott’s death trap along the Rio Grande or DeSantis wanting to station his state guard on major crossings to shoot undocumented migrants.

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            Getting people to think about identifying based on party membership is important to get people to actually think about whether they should be a member of that party. Sure, they might be all in on racist wall building, insurrection, and blowing Trump.

            But maybe a nudge can help them be a little introspective and think more broadly about whether they picked the right team if their team wants children to go hungry. Just trying to get them to think about things, not saying every party member needs to agree with everything about their party.

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        If you only identify yourself as being Republican because you consider yourself to be a conservative then I’ve got good news for you, no need to associate with the wackos, the US Democrats are the conservatives of the countries where there actually exists a political spectrum that extends further left than right of center 👍

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        Based, lobby your representatives and let’s try and get the basics down in a bipartisanly

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          Right now my largest complaint with the republicans is they just want to stop the democrats from doing anything.

          Good ideas should be pushed by both parties. The republicans are rarely pushing their own ideas. They’re just blocking other ideas.

          The basic should be supplied. When I show up to work, I dont have to buy my own paper and pencil. It’s supplied.

          Education is an investment in the next generation. I strongly support it.

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      By convincing them that their taxes shouldn’t come back to them in any way and should instead be used for a higher purpose. Corporation, that’s the higher purpose.