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[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

City officials be like: Bring BACK THE BLUE food tray.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 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 7 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] 3 points 9 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 9 hours ago
[–] NegativeLookBehind 23 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 1 points 10 hours ago

I had better food even during the fall of USSR

[–] Hellsfire29 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day 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!

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day 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

[–] pdxfed 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 19 points 1 day 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] 13 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

Where is this hell?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 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] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] DarkCloud 23 points 1 day 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 21 hours ago

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

[–] PushButton -5 points 9 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 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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 9 hours ago

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

[–] NocturnalEngineer 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you guys feeding catfood to kids now?

[–] InternetCitizen2 18 points 1 day ago

Its what the cat wouldn't eat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

Does food made from cats count?

[–] bi_tux 23 points 1 day 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 5 points 20 hours ago

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

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[–] InverseParallax 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

This is just baseline authoritarianism.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 7 points 18 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 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Pennsylvania, fix that

edit: scratch that, Jersey should join in

[–] InverseParallax 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

Because they're an international trading hub at the central of a global empire.

North Korea is a bombed out backwater with more economic sanctions on it than Cuba, whose people spent the last 70 years gradually rebuilding after the US literally bombed them back to the stone age.

Even then, NYers are getting shot over proximity to fare evasion. Korea's rough, but I've yet to hear of anyone executed for failing to pay for a bus ticket.

[–] InverseParallax -2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm not the one who made the comparison.

Also, bombed out? They were a larger economy than sk at first, Kim IL sung did an OK job.

But the problem with a hereditary monarchy is the fastest sperm is often the dumbest, as evidenced by his 2 moron heirs.

But no, his hereditary dystopian dictatorship where people are reduced to eating grass and anyone who disagrees ends up in camps is still better than NYC, where we know about incidents like this which everyone agreed was horrific because we have freedom of speech.

But please, go to North Korea right now and start talking shit about Lil Un, I'm curious how that will go.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 1 points 1 hour ago

They were a larger economy than sk at first

They were a larger economy after decades of domestic rebuilding, while SK was left to languish under a brutal right-wing military dictator. Then the US transitioned the SK economy into a tech manufacturing hub and granted a handful of influential families access to the limitless low-interst credit window of the Federal Reserve. The South became a workhouse for the American retail electronics market, where Korean workers got paid pennies to work long hours in dark warehouses to make low-cost bobbles for their western peers. This allowed these six influential families to go on a construction bonanza using the leverage afforded from foreign export revenues. Cheap steel from China combined with the fossil fuels imported from Russia and the Middle East, allowed the SK economy to soar past its heavily sanctioned NK peer... on paper.

But the real legacy of the Korean economy for its people enormous entrenched personal debts. The South Korean economy is a product of cheap foreign lending. Household indebtedness to gross disposable income ratio in South Korea from 2012 to 2022 has grown from 152% to 203%.

South Korea's prosperity is entirely predicated on its continued access to cheap credit and cheap foreign commodities imports. North Korea's stalled growth is a consequence of its embargo, the continued need to deter a large military presence on its southern border, and its need to build and maintain an economy entirely within one half of a small peninsula.

But please, go to North Korea right now and start talking shit about Lil Un

Please go to your local police department and start screaming obscenities at whomever is on duty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] aesthelete 2 points 16 hours ago

I think you misspelled fascist.

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