Datasets:

---

innovation-hacking2

/

shitposting_dataset1

like 0

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ", ">\n\nI agree and would further add that there should be a large easy access \"Unsubcribe\" button readily available for all subscription based websites, especially the ones with auto-renewal." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ", ">\n\nI agree and would further add that there should be a large easy access \"Unsubcribe\" button readily available for all subscription based websites, especially the ones with auto-renewal.", ">\n\nWait, a websites most valued product wants to stop being monetized?!? For shame! /s" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ", ">\n\nI agree and would further add that there should be a large easy access \"Unsubcribe\" button readily available for all subscription based websites, especially the ones with auto-renewal.", ">\n\nWait, a websites most valued product wants to stop being monetized?!? For shame! /s", ">\n\nI agree. even on forums where you no longer want to post, but the admins keep your accounts anyway" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ", ">\n\nI agree and would further add that there should be a large easy access \"Unsubcribe\" button readily available for all subscription based websites, especially the ones with auto-renewal.", ">\n\nWait, a websites most valued product wants to stop being monetized?!? For shame! /s", ">\n\nI agree. even on forums where you no longer want to post, but the admins keep your accounts anyway", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular." ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ", ">\n\nI agree and would further add that there should be a large easy access \"Unsubcribe\" button readily available for all subscription based websites, especially the ones with auto-renewal.", ">\n\nWait, a websites most valued product wants to stop being monetized?!? For shame! /s", ">\n\nI agree. even on forums where you no longer want to post, but the admins keep your accounts anyway", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular.", ">\n\nmeanwhile reddit on mobile:" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ", ">\n\nI agree and would further add that there should be a large easy access \"Unsubcribe\" button readily available for all subscription based websites, especially the ones with auto-renewal.", ">\n\nWait, a websites most valued product wants to stop being monetized?!? For shame! /s", ">\n\nI agree. even on forums where you no longer want to post, but the admins keep your accounts anyway", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular.", ">\n\nmeanwhile reddit on mobile:", ">\n\ntake 1 minute to set up an account on an app\nno longer wants the account\nspends 30 minutes trying to figure out how to delete account\nfinds out you have to do it via phone call or email\nsends email\na week goes by and account still exists\nspend 30 minutes looking for the correct phone number \ncalls phone number and gets put on hold for 2 hours \nsomeone finally answers and says they need to get sent an email and open the URL \nhangs up and waits for email\nemail never comes \ngives up" ]

[ "This should be absolutely true for subscription services. I hate having to go through a bunch of menus then a tech forum that just takes me to Google settings just to not want a service anymore.", ">\n\nDrives me nuts that I can't delete a sub on my prime video account from the app. I don't have a desktop or laptop so it pains me to figure out how to get to the proper website to cancel the damn sub. \nAlso, why can I subscribe from my firestick but can't unsubscribe from it?", ">\n\npiracy is a lot less expensive, less hassle, less of a time investment. That service is taking your money and fucking with you, they deserve to lose you as a customer. \nI recommend a seedbox service so you don't download anything directly from your IP address. It's like $5 a month.", ">\n\nI mean I agree on the hassle/time bit. But, that doesn't make piracy ethical.", ">\n\nJust gotta have a code - don't pirate from small creators and the like. Outside the that, I have yet to see a reason why piracy is necessarily unethical.", ">\n\nDo you also sneak in to movie theaters without paying (assuming you're not taking a paying customer's seat)? Surely you'd find that unethical even if it was a large chain?", ">\n\nPlease explain to me why this would be unpopular.", ">\n\nUnpopular Opinion: Racism is bad.", ">\n\nI quite like eating food and breathing. Most people think I'm crazy for this, but its just my truth, yo.", ">\n\nI'm pretty sure this is not an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nYou mean the average person isn't advocating for hard to close accounts?", ">\n\nI am, I like a challenge! /s", ">\n\nAre you sure you want to delete your account?\nLook at all the nice benefits you're missing.\n[KEEP MY BENEFITS] [don't keep my benefits]\nOh, you don't want to keep your benefits? What if we offer you half the price for the first coming month?\n[YES, TAKE THIS MARVELOUS OFFER] [don't take the offer]\nYou don't take the offer? Then I guess there's nothing left we can say. But don't worry, cause we'll keep your data stored for over a year, so if you decide you come back, we still have all your stuff.\n[unsubscribe]\nTechnical error: please contact customer support during working hours.", ">\n\n[working hours] \n6am-7:43am", ">\n\nOne Wednesday a month.", ">\n\nCalls at exactly 6am\n\"Sorry we're experiencing large call volume at this moment, please call back later\"", ">\n\nExperiencing “Unexpected” large call volume.", ">\n\nYeah but how else will they keep all your information?", ">\n\nCookies?", ">\n\nOoh, cookies? don’t mind if I do", ">\n\nEveryone agrees. It's a popular opinion. But how do we make the rich robots do it?", ">\n\nDemocracy ?\nnvm", ">\n\nA little pro tip here about deleting your reddit account. Don't just hit the delete button, you should go through and delete all of your posts and comments. Here's how\nGo to your account on old reddit. Use RES to enable infinite scroll. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your previous comments/posts (the overview section of your profile. Hit ctrl + shift + J to open the console. Paste this code and let it go to work. (reddit comments are hard to format properly so every time I right [TAB] replace it with a single press of tab after you paste it) \nvar $domNodeToIterateOver = $('.del-button .option .yes'),\n[TAB]currentTime = 0, \n[TAB]timeInterval = 400;\n$domNodeToIterateOver.each(function() {\n[TAB]var _this = $(this);\n[TAB]currentTime = currentTime + timeInterval;\n[TAB]setTimeout(function() {\n[TAB]_this.click();\n[TAB]}, currentTime);\n});\nThe \"timeInterval\" value is the number in milliseconds between each deletion, if you go below 400 it will not actually successfully delete your posts (for you the minimum for successful deletion might be different for me it is 350-400). Refresh the page after it says everything is deleted and make sure that it is all deleted.", ">\n\nTechnical question. This is JS, can you just not not put in the TABs. I don't think whoever is using it will need to properly read it.", ">\n\nYeah he could also put it inside a code block for easy copying.\nCode that is\nIndented", ">\n\nI always have problems formatting code in hypertext. I know there's probably a comprehensive guide somewhere but I'd let thst pass", ">\n\nI also heard that despite You make a demand (that is enforced by law) to not keep Your data, Facebook still does keep Your data after You delete the account.\nCompanies, including these on websites, are doing everything to scam, deceive and just straight up lie. These are not exaggeration. They would make You feel like You doing something, but often You are doing something else. They hide the most important information, because they know people won't find them. They also do everything to make it harder to do something that is beneficial to the user/customer. Like mentioned account removal. Humble Bundle have like 3 steps to pause Your subscription. And first two steps have \"continue to pause\" as blue button, while the last step has blue button that completely negates the process of pausing the subscription, just so people don't realize they do. Also some people have paused subscription and it still take money from them anyway and sometimes they refuse to just give the stolen money back. Electronic Arts is a scammer on its own. Their games rarely run. And if they do, they have tons of issues like crashes and freezes. These problems only exist when You use their launcher. The same games on Steam never have any issues and if they do, it's game issue, not launcher issue, which means that the game was done that way and launcher won't have anything to say.\nThat's today's reality. Companies uses people like objects to make money.", ">\n\nI despise that Instagram and Facebook make you schedule the deletion of your account. It's fucking absurd.", ">\n\nHow’s that work?", ">\n\nIf you go through the account deletion process, it tells you a day like a couple weeks out when your account will be deleted. During the wait period, it allows you to reverse the deletion order at any time. It's odd.", ">\n\nI mean... No that makes sense. A big percentage of people probably realise they don't want to delete their account during that time.", ">\n\nI'd understand a day or two, maybe even a week, but the waiting period seems too long to me.", ">\n\nInstagrams is fucking impossible to delete your account, it’s tempting to just abandon it. \nIf there is a company that I wish ruin upon is Meta, hope they keep burning money on that useless metaverse bullshit and that pro privacy laws destroy their earnings.", ">\n\nThey make it hard to delete the accounts on purpose btw", ">\n\nNo, I like it when it's hard to delete my account. \nLmao. Awful post.", ">\n\nWhy’s it an awful post? They make it super easy to sign up but next to impossible to cancel.", ">\n\nIt is an awful post due to it not being an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\nI’ll do you one better. If you don’t access your account within a year you should get a couple of texts or emails and it should delete itself.", ">\n\nRequired by who? Another government regulation?", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion, but if you do want to delete an account you can usually just google delete x account and it gives a direct link to the deletion page", ">\n\nRequired huh", ">\n\nJust google how to delete it on such n such website, usually works.", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular, it's the same with subscriptions, I tried to cancel my PSN subscription and I got re-directed to 3 different pages and still had to do some searching before I could cancel it", ">\n\nNEVER link your card - only ever use the cash cards from the store, that way when it runs out it just runs out.", ">\n\nThere is no way in hell this is unpopular. What consumer sits around and actively opposes this?", ">\n\nNot sure this is an unpopular opinion.\nIn a similar vein, all subscription services that allow you to sign up on their website, should be requried to allow you to cancel on their website in the same way you signed up!", ">\n\nI couldn’t agree more. As a side note, subscription services that let you register in 60 seconds online but you can only cancel by phone after waiting on hold for 60 minutes should be illegal.", ">\n\nUnpopular opinions is just popular opinions", ">\n\nYes I'm sure everybody loves going through all the hoops of ending a subscription... I just discovered this sub recently and all the threads here seem like a joke to what this sub is about.", ">\n\nNot an unpopular opinion.", ">\n\namazon prime is the worst for this, you have to go through so many diffent menus to delete your acount, the good bit though is you have got a couple of days to delete after paying and you get a full refund, now everytime i want to whatch a movie i pay for a month, whatch the movie and then delete the acount and get a full refund, so take that amazon, i have gamed your system", ">\n\nRelated.\nI hate the question about cookies, if you don't want any you have to click extra, possibly be outthrown from the exact webpage, etc.\nIt's horrible.", ">\n\nThis is a ridiculously popular opinion", ">\n\nThey should, but they specifically complicates the process to make it look like they have more active users than they do. This is especially true for websites that are are predicted to grow in unpopularity.", ">\n\nGood news at least partially. Apple requires this already.\n\"App Store Review Guideline 5.1. 1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. This requirement was set to apply to all app submissions by January 31, 2022.\"", ">\n\nI think there should be a rule that OP describes why they think an opinion is unpopular", ">\n\nThe real kicker is when they don't let you remove your data. I recently accidentally installed Norton and when I went to uninstall it the help guide to remove all my data was just a broken link. (Context)", ">\n\nThis goes against business needs so this would probably never happen", ">\n\nYea fr bro", ">\n\nYSK: they don't delete your account. They deactivate it, which makes it inaccessible and invisible but the history remains. \nSource: have been injected involved with design and support of plenty of web apps. It's just to much trouble to delete you, so unless there is a specific, auditable legal requirement it's not going to get implemented.", ">\n\nBy websites you mean commercial platforms? I agree.", ">\n\n\nHow This Place Works\nUpvote: Opinions that you Disagree with.\nDownvote: Opinions that you Agree with.", ">\n\nI don't think it should be easy to delete your account by the click of a button. Especially important stuff. I agree it should be easy for YOU to do it, but there needs to be a safety net in case someone else is trying to delete your account.", ">\n\nIs this unpopular?", ">\n\nseems that if they do have a delete account button it is hidden on some random page deep in the site map.....ggrrrrgghh", ">\n\nWho is this unpopular to?", ">\n\nYes, websites should follow GDPR. So unpopular they made a whole ass law about it.", ">\n\ndiscord and reddit has that covered", ">\n\nNot sure if this is unpopular, I feel like most people prefer efficiency and accessibility for what’s theirs", ">\n\nThis is aperntli going to by a low in europ", ">\n\nI agree and would further add that there should be a large easy access \"Unsubcribe\" button readily available for all subscription based websites, especially the ones with auto-renewal.", ">\n\nWait, a websites most valued product wants to stop being monetized?!? For shame! /s", ">\n\nI agree. even on forums where you no longer want to post, but the admins keep your accounts anyway", ">\n\nI don't think this is unpopular.", ">\n\nmeanwhile reddit on mobile:", ">\n\ntake 1 minute to set up an account on an app\nno longer wants the account\nspends 30 minutes trying to figure out how to delete account\nfinds out you have to do it via phone call or email\nsends email\na week goes by and account still exists\nspend 30 minutes looking for the correct phone number \ncalls phone number and gets put on hold for 2 hours \nsomeone finally answers and says they need to get sent an email and open the URL \nhangs up and waits for email\nemail never comes \ngives up", ">\n\nIn the US we should have the \"right to be forgotten\" as they do in Europe, but our data is too valuable of an asset so that will never happen here." ]

[]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?", ">\n\n💯 What are we even bothering to defend here now??" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?", ">\n\n💯 What are we even bothering to defend here now??", ">\n\nPro-lifers have no end to their hypocrisy. They’re evil bags of donkey shit" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?", ">\n\n💯 What are we even bothering to defend here now??", ">\n\nPro-lifers have no end to their hypocrisy. They’re evil bags of donkey shit", ">\n\nRepublicans.\nRe-Pub-Li-Cans.\nRepublicans.\nNot \"Congress\".\nRepublicans." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?", ">\n\n💯 What are we even bothering to defend here now??", ">\n\nPro-lifers have no end to their hypocrisy. They’re evil bags of donkey shit", ">\n\nRepublicans.\nRe-Pub-Li-Cans.\nRepublicans.\nNot \"Congress\".\nRepublicans.", ">\n\nHow did providing people with basic needs like food and shelter become such a debate point?\nReagan and his welfare queen was a good start. Fuck his dried and desiccated swiss cheese Alzheimer brain. He isn't a role model, he was just a ventriloquist dummy for republican greed, self entitlement, irrational self importance and superiority, biases and judgment." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?", ">\n\n💯 What are we even bothering to defend here now??", ">\n\nPro-lifers have no end to their hypocrisy. They’re evil bags of donkey shit", ">\n\nRepublicans.\nRe-Pub-Li-Cans.\nRepublicans.\nNot \"Congress\".\nRepublicans.", ">\n\nHow did providing people with basic needs like food and shelter become such a debate point?\nReagan and his welfare queen was a good start. Fuck his dried and desiccated swiss cheese Alzheimer brain. He isn't a role model, he was just a ventriloquist dummy for republican greed, self entitlement, irrational self importance and superiority, biases and judgment.", ">\n\n\"Congress\"\nYou mean, \"Republicans\"? (Plus, maybe, the handful of usual turncoat \"moderates\"?)" ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?", ">\n\n💯 What are we even bothering to defend here now??", ">\n\nPro-lifers have no end to their hypocrisy. They’re evil bags of donkey shit", ">\n\nRepublicans.\nRe-Pub-Li-Cans.\nRepublicans.\nNot \"Congress\".\nRepublicans.", ">\n\nHow did providing people with basic needs like food and shelter become such a debate point?\nReagan and his welfare queen was a good start. Fuck his dried and desiccated swiss cheese Alzheimer brain. He isn't a role model, he was just a ventriloquist dummy for republican greed, self entitlement, irrational self importance and superiority, biases and judgment.", ">\n\n\"Congress\"\nYou mean, \"Republicans\"? (Plus, maybe, the handful of usual turncoat \"moderates\"?)", ">\n\nThe richest country, at the most wealthy time in history, has decided not to feed children in need to save a few bucks." ]

[ "This still infuriates me - like, it was good in every possible way. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING TAXES SHOULD BE PAYING FOR!", ">\n\n\"But I had to pay for my school lunches, why should they get it for free?\" - Republicans probably", ">\n\nYou can remove the probably.", ">\n\nIt’s republicans and demublicans like Manchin, Sinema, and others.\nEdit: Everyone is eager to point out that Sinema isn’t a democrat anymore. Sinema was a “democrat” when the program ended in June of last year.", ">\n\nRemember, the states with the lowest standard of living are all \"Red\" States.", ">\n\nThe UN honest to god said the south didn’t look like a first world country. Why does anyone think republicans are good for any economy?!", ">\n\nBasically, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, their parents voted GOP, eventually you go back far enough and find a voter who voted GOP when the GOP weren’t racist POS but their children were just stupid and voted for the same person their parents did and it just passed down. Now they listen to spoon fed lies from Facebook and Fox News and think democrats are evil incarnate. Then they blame democrats for GOP cutting services like this.", ">\n\nThey were all Democrats back in the day. They all flipped to Republicans when Johnson defied the dixiecrats and pushed through the Civil Rights Act.\nThey used to vote in their own self-interest to help the working man, and their fellow citizen, but black folks getting rights was a step too far.", ">\n\nThe parties as a whole swapped policies around that time. Republicans used to be good (Ie Lincoln), now we get Bush jr, Trump, and the idiots in congress now.", ">\n\nThe switch began long ago, that is why Teddy Roosevelt left the Republican party and joined the Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party. Teddy known as a trust buster , thought the Republicans were getting too cozy with big business. By 1947 Harry Truman was trying to integrate the military. Oh, lets not forget about FDR and his new deal.", ">\n\nSchool food programs are the NUMBER 1 source of food for children in poverty. This was one of the major pain points that didn't get enough attention when schools closed due to covid. We've slowly developed public schools as the biggest source of critical support for children in poverty. It is a system that needs massive improvements and intentional design. Not dismantling", ">\n\nThe odds of those kids growing up to vote Republican are pretty slim and their parents definitely aren't, so that's prime \"own the libs\" territory for the GOP with no real drawbacks. It's not like those families are writing their donation checks every year so they are entirely wasted money and effort.", ">\n\nThere are plenty of poor people in Republican strongholds. In Democratic areas, there is more likely to be local support. NYC has free breakfast and lunch for all (as well as pick up meals during summer and pick up meals throughout the first year+ of covid). The food sucks for the most part, but it's there.", ">\n\n“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”", ">\n\nFree public school lunches kept my siblings and I fed through public school! This is such a shame. If I didn’t have that one solid meal a day I may have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.", ">\n\n\nmay have taken to after school grocery theft (the gateway crime) like some of my similarly-starved peers.\n\nRepublicans would have preferred that so you could have a future life of crime and end up in a private prison.", ">\n\nOr as they may be alternatively known, the slave farms.", ">\n\nAnywhere you have:\n\nLimited education funding\nLimited access to nutrition\nLimited access to public services\nAn Amscot or other payday lender\nMilitary recruitment office\nHigh crime rate\n\nThat's a slave farm.", ">\n\nAbsolutely.\nBut prisons, especially for profit ones, are literal slave farms. As in, it was never made illegal in the Constitution", ">\n\nMy implication is that most of those bullet points funnel you into either debt, military or prison. All of which are different types of slavery, but you are right--being a prisoner means you are literally a slave.", ">\n\nThis thread needs to be blasted🔊🔊", ">\n\nRepublicans are becoming more open about the class war they've been waging for at least the last forty years.", ">\n\nWhen I talk to my friends about class war, they don't believe there's any class war. The capitalists have got us so brainwashed that the victims of the war don't even realize they're in one, let alone that they have to fight back.", ">\n\nThey have been brainwashed into thinking we are in a culture war while the leaders of the class war laugh all the way to the bank.", ">\n\nBrainwashed ha! They've willingly accepted the farce because it gives them something to focus on instead of improving their own lives. It's super comforting to believe it's just a bunch of silly teenager angst. Easier than the dark reality of the struggle for equality thats been lost pretty soundly by now.", ">\n\nOk, I see where you are coming from. If people didn’t have that weakness, they probably wouldn’t fall into such lines of thinking nearly as easily—but, the fact remains, they do have that weakness. It’s also not at all clear that an inherent weakness is the deciding factor—it could just as easily be a consequence of one’s social orbit, or exposure to propaganda. It’s very possible that most people have that weakness, and that many of those who do not fall victim to it were insulated by environmental rather than inherent factors.\nTo address this, we must consider Boenhoffer’s “theory of stupidity”. To be clear, “stupidity” in context does not mean an inherent intellectual inability, but, instead, a psychological tendency toward compulsive or willful ignorance. This tendency may be induced, especially via brainwashing—indeed, Boenhoffer arrived at his understanding by observing changes in German society throughout the rise and fall of the Nazi party. \nPeople who have such a weakness are still capable of being good people in an environment that effectively encourages it, just like people who are particularly prone to certain disorders may still avoid them in the right environment. \nWe could simply blame people for being overweight—it’s true that most could probably lose weight under the right circumstances and with a lot of effort—but we could also ensure that healthy foods are available at prices competitive with those of unhealthy foods. We could simply blame people for falling into addiction as a result of abrupt withdrawal of opioid medication for chronic pain or we could provide a structured dose-taper and alternative means of managing pain. We could simply blame people for being poor, or we could provide free decent-quality education, livable interim housing etc. so that they have a chance to escape poverty.\nSimilarly, we could blame people for falling into the trap that is the culture war—and hope that they either die or miraculously stop having that weakness—or we could do something about the environment that allowed that weakness to manifest itself.\nWe could mock and reprimand, or we could do something productive about it.\nSometimes there are problems in society which cannot be efficiently addressed by hoping that people have moments of metanoia. Sometimes people just won’t hear you until you remove the wax from their ears. These problems, then, must be solved by direct action. We must ensure that our society does not encourage such blindness.", ">\n\n\"Children might starve, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to insignificantly lower taxes.\"", ">\n\n~~Congress~~ Republicans got rid of a free lunch for all program. That means some students are going hungry.\nFixed that for you.", ">\n\nAnytime Republicans in Congress force something like this to happen, the media says \"Congress did XYZ.\"\nAnytime Democrats in Congress force something to happen, the media says \"Democrats did XYZ.\"", ">\n\nMy parents just paid off an entire school’s lunch debt. Nobody will ever know (it was anonymous donation) and even if they did media wouldn’t ever care but I’m proud of them and wanted to share.", ">\n\nConservatives, such a hilarious lot, they are all for owning the libs even if their kids have to go hungry for it.", ">\n\nThe richest country in the world, letting schoolchildren go hungry. Detestable.", ">\n\nThink of all money they’ll save by not making all those pb&j sandwiches. That’ll get our deficit back on track.", ">\n\nRepublicans. Republicans killed school lunch funding.", ">\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\nRepublican's (2030): Maybe the students should have guns", ">\n\n\nRepublican's: Maybe the teachers should have guns too\n\nThat teacher in Virginia who was shot by a 6 year old, according to the Republicans she should have been armed, then she and the 6 year old would have gotten into a gunfight in the middle of a classroom filled with first graders.", ">\n\nIt's so ridiculous, how easy do they think it would be for an educator to shoot a child, especially a fucking 6 year old? Most people would have a hard time bringing themselves to shoot a child, even if they present as a threat.", ">\n\nPlus they present a much smaller target.", ">\n\nThere’s no reason why schools shouldn’t provide meals to the students. This is just obscene.", ">\n\nWhere are the “All Lives Matter” crowd?? If they care for kids’ lives, they would be furious!", ">\n\nThis isn’t an election year. So no lives matter", ">\n\nWrong! Rich lives matter. Corporate interests matter! But fuck everything and everyone else.", ">\n\ncan't wait to see this sign in the next protest", ">\n\nJesus would be so proud of his chosen people.", ">\n\nHow are the Israelis responsible for this?", ">\n\nThe Israelites are Christian?", ">\n\nI thought they were Jewish globalists", ">\n\n'Globalists' is already the dog whistle for Jewish. That's like saying 'Jewish coastal elite' or 'Gay urban childless'.", ">\n\n“Urban” is PoC for them tho", ">\n\nSolution: Have the military come into the schools to feed the kids. (No guns, just military cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.)\n^(I know this wouldn't work.)", ">\n\n\nmilitary cooks, privates as servers, and food bought by the military.\n\nThey contracted that shit out a long time ago.", ">\n\nTo pull yourself up by your own bootstraps one must have a pair of boots. \nHow about we at least let children get through grade school before we start in with the ideological rhetoric of independent determinism.", ">\n\nStep one: criminalize abortion \nstep two: don’t feed hungry kids\nFucking ghouls", ">\n\nStop. Voting. Republican.", ">\n\nBuT tHeY cUt My TaXeS", ">\n\nmUh gAS pRiCEs", ">\n\nMay I suggest a hunger strike or a walk out to prove a point from kids and young adults in school. When I was in school (I am 26) I had friends that the schools free lunches was the only meal they got that day. No one should have to watch a friend starve.", ">\n\nUnborn babies have better rights than a public school student.", ">\n\nLess food means lower grades. Lower grades means Republican recruitment.", ">\n\nIt's almost like they don't actually care about children.", ">\n\nThey don't. It's obvious that they don't.", ">\n\nGot to love when it's the Republicans fault the news says Congress and when its the Democrats fault the news says Democrats.", ">\n\nIf it’s a law to go to school, it should be the state’s responsibility to feed and transport ALL children.", ">\n\nDemocrats would rather let no one go hungry even if that means some will benefit that don’t need it\nRepublicans would rather let everyone go hungry if that means someone dares to game the system\nVote accordingly", ">\n\nUnrequested increase to defense budget—no food for children. Merkuh!!", ">\n\nGotta feel the love the GOP has toward poor kids.", ">\n\nThis is a national security concern.\nHungry kids means weak soldiers", ">\n\nWhy should anyone fight for a government that would let them go hungry in a land of plenty?", ">\n\n💯 What are we even bothering to defend here now??", ">\n\nPro-lifers have no end to their hypocrisy. They’re evil bags of donkey shit", ">\n\nRepublicans.\nRe-Pub-Li-Cans.\nRepublicans.\nNot \"Congress\".\nRepublicans.", ">\n\nHow did providing people with basic needs like food and shelter become such a debate point?\nReagan and his welfare queen was a good start. Fuck his dried and desiccated swiss cheese Alzheimer brain. He isn't a role model, he was just a ventriloquist dummy for republican greed, self entitlement, irrational self importance and superiority, biases and judgment.", ">\n\n\"Congress\"\nYou mean, \"Republicans\"? (Plus, maybe, the handful of usual turncoat \"moderates\"?)", ">\n\nThe richest country, at the most wealthy time in history, has decided not to feed children in need to save a few bucks.", ">\n\nWe voted to tax the rich for free lunches in CO. So proud of my state." ]