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whoa heckin' wholesome r/UpliftingNews am i right so-true

only in this epic Land of Freedom™ could such a blessed thing happen. if this was Bad Country, those children would still be in debt for needing to eat lunch at school.

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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 9 months ago

he raised $20000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile, the orphan crushing machine could have been disabled with $20 in explosives if you take out the mechanic who repairs it first

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago

Communism when no food but this is all good. Good ol Arby's paying the food debt 7000 starving children while making almost 4 billion dollars in 2019.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

Shit like this is just marketing because every bazinga brain redditor is going to share it as le uplifting news

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah, I know what they're doing, it's just so gross in several different dimensions.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

did reddit-logo ban r/orphancrushingmachine? at least some of the liberals over there are aware enough to see through this crap

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[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

if America directly governed the entire world, we would have starvation even if the global population was 1,000 people

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

a bread line implies the existence of bread

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Schools aren't corporate enough for a bailout

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Relative to China, America has

-4x more prime farmland
-1/4 as many people to feed
-that farmland is higher quality soil
-receives more regular rainfall (no monsoon pattern)
-has warmer winter temperatures
-has cooler summer temperatures

there's no excuse lol
this shit is literally 100x easier to do in the US and they're still failing

[-] italktothewind@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

that's capitalism for ya 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Add to your list:

  • US farms get billions of dollars in government subsidies per year.
  • farms destroy their crops during times of surplus to keep market prices up.

But poor farmers are going to starve if we let children eat for free.

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Good ol' capitalism by the good ol' US of A.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 39 points 9 months ago

But what if I pointed at China and said the words "social credit score" when you tell me lunch debt for children is evil? What then, commies?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 32 points 9 months ago

A social credit score is only fine if it's expressed in dollars. If you're poor, it means you're a bad person.

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

Mathing out how much money per kid was spent versus how much their shitty fucking school food cost made me so angry I deleted it and wrote this instead

there are ticks out there leeching off school children the same way they do prisoners, and it is fucking gross on both counts and a demonstration of how absolutely morally bankrupt our society is

adventure time indeed, jfc

everybody deserves tasty and nutritious food, safe and warm shelter, comfortable and clean clothes, healthcare, and community, and I will fucking fight a motherfucker who wants to disagree to my face

fuckers. gd this shit makes me so fucking mad.

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 9 months ago

I'm sorry but what the Kentucky fried fuck is 'lunch debt'

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

In America there's no such thing as a free lunch

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

A lot of deranged people see that as virtuous.

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 9 months ago

We didn't have that when I was a kid. I just didn't get to eat lunch some days.

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You didn't deserve it obviously. Back to the slave pits!

[-] ForkBombRaja@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

In America if schoolchildren cannot afford their food at school they go into debt for it and they/their family owes the school debt now.

Yes you read that right, children in debt for food.

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Which makes sense cause the kids aren't in the mines getting coal how else they gonna eat

FOR FUCKS SAKE

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

I wonder how many lunch debts could be dealt with if that money was spent on REDACTED instead

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

$1 million donation from the Arby's Foundation.

Excerpt of Condition of the Working Class in England, by Engels, 1845

from the section titled "The Attitude of the Bourgeoisie Towards the Proletariat"

[some sarcasm throughout from Engels, for those who find difficulty noticing it in text]

Let no one believe, however, that the "cultivated" Englishman openly brags with his egotism. On the contrary, he conceals it under the vilest hypocrisy. What? The wealthy English fail to remember the poor? They who have founded philanthropic institutions, such as no other country can boast of! Philanthropic institutions forsooth! As though you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their very life-blood and then practising your self-complacent, Pharisaic philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them! Charity which degrades him who gives more than him who takes; charity which treads the downtrodden still deeper in the dust, which demands that the degraded, the pariah cast out by society, shall first surrender the last that remains to him, his very claim to manhood, shall first beg for mercy before your mercy deigns to press, in the shape of an alms, the brand of degradation upon his brow. But let us hear the English bourgeoisie's own words. It is not yet a year since I read in the Manchester Guardian the following letter to the editor, which was published without comment as a perfectly natural, reasonable thing:

"MR. EDITOR,– For some time past our main streets are haunted by swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent molestations. And why else do we pay such high rates for the maintenance of the municipal police, if they do not even protect us so far as to make it possible to go to or out of town in peace? I hope the publication of these lines in your widely- circulated paper may induce the authorities to remove this nuisance; and I remain,– Your obedient servant, "A Lady."

There you have it! The English bourgeoisie is charitable out of self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery. You shall despair as before, but you shall despair unseen, this I require, this I purchase with my subscription of twenty pounds for the infirmary!" It is infamous, this charity of a Christian bourgeois! And so writes "A Lady"; she does well to sign herself such, well that she has lost the courage to call herself a woman! But if the "Ladies" are such as this, what must the "Gentlemen" be? It will be said that this is a single case; but no, the foregoing letter expresses the temper of the great majority of the English bourgeoisie, or the editor would not have accepted it, and some reply would have been made to it, which I watched for in vain in the succeeding numbers. And as to the efficiency of this philanthropy, Canon Parkinson himself says that the poor are relieved much more by the poor than by the bourgeoisie; and such relief given by an honest proletarian who knows himself what it is to be hungry, for whom sharing his scanty meal is really a sacrifice, but a sacrifice borne with pleasure, such help has a wholly different ring to it from the carelessly-tossed alms of the luxurious bourgeois.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch13.htm

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Give this man a twister account

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

That’s an average of $142.86 for anyone curious

[-] SkibidiToiletFanAcct@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

Ukraine could've used all those lunches and more.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago
[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Jesus. Get your shit together America

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I hope Empire implode

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Death to capitalism, and death to America - capitalisms black beating heart.

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

"THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT CANT BE SOLVED EASILY!"

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