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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Shit schools make poverty trapped children, and poverty tapped children are more willing to not care about the legality of trying to survive or gain reputation with their friends/city. And the police love locking away people.

It's a win/win. You lower the cash to schools, increase the cash to police, police catch more "Criminals", and the politicians who sold this can tout the tough on crime to the next election cycle.

[–] SkunkWorkz 3 points 3 hours ago

And the low quality food means there is a bigger pool of low IQ aggressive high school graduates who want to join the police force.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Until the criminals learn to bribe police more than what politicians give them, and start buying more and more cops, and puff you are in a dictatorship ran by thugs

Wait, sorry nothing changes

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 1 points 6 hours ago

I had better food even during the fall of USSR

[–] Hellsfire29 2 points 8 hours ago

My school lunch was pretty good. Plus I got free lunches at that. Thanks Ma, for being poor.

[–] PushButton -3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I don't understand here.

Back in my old time, cafeteria food was also shit, so everybody was bringing their lunch (a sandwich, some fruits, a little boxed juice) and we called a day.

Is that piece of bread and rice (rice right?) and the piece of brown chicken we are seeing in the corner (badly cut out of the picture for more dramatic effect) free of charge? If so, what are you complaining about? If not, why don't you bring your god damn sandwich like it has always been?

[–] okamiueru 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If so, what are you complaining about?

I believe their argument was something along the lines of: 1. Over-funded police. 2. Underfunded child care.

Your argument seems to be, and correct me if I'm wrong: It's always been shit, and you [sic] can bring your own lunch.

[–] drunkpostdisaster 1 points 5 hours ago

I was thinking that seemed pretty decent as far as school food goes. Still, the point still stands.

[–] NegativeLookBehind 21 points 16 hours ago

Suck down your slop so officer Asswipe can have NVGs and play Urban Army Man with his racist asshole friends!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

GOOD! If those Cops DIDNT have all that Gear then they would just WAIT OUTSIDE if there was ever a School Shooter MURDERING all the Children inside!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

I get what you are doing here but I think you are misled. The police has a monopoly on violence to protect the state apparatus and the ruling class. Protecting normal citizens is a means to an end of that, it never was the goal. The US police originated in a force that brought back run away slaves. Are we talking about run away slaves? Is there private property at risk? Is the school shooter threatened any organ of the state? So why bother? TLDR ACAB

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[–] aesthelete 2 points 12 hours ago

I think you misspelled fascist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Can't lie tho. My lunches looked like this maybe not as bad but I loved em. The lunch lady was nice too and would give me extra sometimes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oliver Twist energy. I wonder if he ever had to pay off school lunch debt to graduate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Nah I paid it off in freshman year then our state started doing free lunches

[–] [email protected] 45 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

And you have 15 minutes to inhale your food before you're kicked out of the cafeteria. Keep up that productivity.

School district here even got rid of passing time to lunch. Your time begins the second class ends

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Where I am, parents have to pay extra to have their kids stay at school during lunch. Like we're paying a babysitter to watch them during that time. And then if we don't pay the kid isn't even allowed to stay on school grounds at lunch time.

[–] MutilationWave 12 points 20 hours ago

Where is this hell?

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[–] pdxfed 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

So I'm new to this and couldn't figure out why kids don't finish their lunch. Why are they given like 15 minutes to eat? It's unhealthy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The why is beyond me. Trying to meet state hours in minimal days to save operating cost? Lunch pulls admin and other staff to monitor instead of doing their other routines, so they try to minimize it maybe?

15 to eat, kick them out to recess so they can clean tables for the next group.

Many don't bother to eat because the lunch line eats up their time, too.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Its a sacrifice children must make. There is no other way.

[–] DarkCloud 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

...and if they're shot in the line of duty, that's just their jobs as school students.

[–] Jiggle_Physics 7 points 17 hours ago

How else will Jesus know we love him if we don't have, routine, mass sacrifices, of our children?

[–] NocturnalEngineer 22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Are you guys feeding catfood to kids now?

[–] InternetCitizen2 18 points 20 hours ago

Its what the cat wouldn't eat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

Does food made from cats count?

[–] InverseParallax 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, this isn't specific to capitalism. Pretty sure north Korea is similar.

This is just baseline authoritarianism.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty sure north Korea is similar.

The NYPD has a bigger budget than the DPRK. And New York hasn't been under siege by Pennsylvania for the last 80 years.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Pennsylvania, fix that

edit: scratch that, Jersey should join in

[–] InverseParallax 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The NYPD is also not in constant famine, they're one of the richest cities on the planet.

That's like being surprised rent is more expensive in midtown Manhattan than in rural Texas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

I saw a meme that called Plainclothes Officers "Secret Police" and it made me realize how much we're all brainwashed.

[–] bi_tux 21 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

you don't like cops, because they take a lot of resources for mostly nothing

I hate cops because I'm an anarchist and think the state shouldn't have a monopoly on violence

we're not the same

[–] Coreidan 4 points 16 hours ago

I don’t like cops because I think they are gigantic pussies

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