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Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 year ago by withersailor@aussie.zone to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] jrubal1462@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it really helps if you think of some people as people and other people as "people".

[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Kids at school are a statistic that cost money. They’re not seeing the kids behind the statistic, just the cost.

Maybe democrats should start spoofing the feed-the-starving-kids-in-Africa videos.

<video of some balding white guy sitting surrounded by kids in a school cafeteria, looking sad and hungry>“For just twenty five cents a day, you could feed these kids… and it would mean so much to them, but you have to vote for assholes, who hate actual Americans.”