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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

School lunch debt

Just fucking look at those words.

If you have kids and you live in a country where that phrase exists, and you're not doing anything about it, you're not a human any more

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Americans hate women, it's simple. Who is disproportionately affected by hungry children? Who has limited bodily autonomy? We can point to the Republicans for wearing that hate publicly, but Democrats haven't done their part to sign laws that would fix this. Women in America hate women too, it's weird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Fuck you, I'm in California don't lump us in with that shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had never heard of free lunch before the US. Don't get me wrong, this is awesome but that was not something where I grew up (Europe). That being said, all education and higher education was basically free. No free lunches, but no crazy tuitions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Where I live in norway it is not like you could buy lunch either. People made lunch at home and took to school. Usualy a piece of bread and slice of brown cheese. May be different in huge schools.
And anyways if someone had forgot, the teachers had a backup solution, for free.