• brown567@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    25 minutes ago

    I have the “radical”, “Communist” opinion that if you’re going to demand somebody stay in the same place for 6+ hours you should feed them.

    From a purely logistic standpoint, requiring each parent to provide food for their child is an embarrassingly inefficient process. Every part of feeding people benefits massively from an economy of scale!

    • Broad nutritional decisions can be made by a professional, instead of thousands of busy parents with varying levels of nutritional education and understanding
    • Procurement and preparation of food can be done on an industrial scale, permitting the use of equipment that would be impractical for preparing single-child portions, and would be prohibitively expensive for families, and allowing the work to be done by a handful of dedicated chefs instead of–once again–thousands of busy adults
    • Distribution would occur in close proximity to preparation, in a situation where the children are already gathered in one place, instead of relying on the most ridiculous supply line I’ve ever heard of: dividing the food into meal-sized portions and entrusting each to one of thousands of children for transportation

    If we want to come at it from a position of Christianity, feeding those he taught was something Jesus saw as worth the working of a miracle on a couple occasions

    • Matthew 14:15-21
    • Matthew 15:32-38
    • Mark 6:37-44
    • Mark 8:1-9
    • Luke 9:13-17
    • John 6:5-13
    • L7HM77@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      7 hours ago

      Nothing in America makes sense, until you look at the world through the lense of Christianity. The denomination who believes existence should be agony without any form of pleasure of any type. (Lutherans? I can’t remember the name.)

      Then suddenly, everything falls into place. Low wages, excessive cost of living, the way your boss gloats about tax dodging and wage theft. We’ve been force fed propaganda through every medium available for generations, to the point where the general public pushes against their own best interests, because it’s what we’ve been told is the only way.

      The low-level owner class has an engrained core belief that causing suffering brings people closer to god, and helping people causes hedonism and puts people in hell, and the uneducated class that worships them agrees.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      Prosperity Gospel nutjobs who think that those who aren’t successful deserve their suffering because they honestly believe that one’s success is directly related to the “will of God” and thus those who suffer deserve their suffering because it is ordained by God.

      Morons, basically.

      • tmyakal@infosec.pub
        6·
        6 hours ago

        My BIL told me he could’ve been as rich and successful as Trump, but he just didn’t have it in him to work that hard day in and day out.

        Meanwhile, Trump just had his 101st golf outing this past weekend. Nearly a quarter of his current term has been on the links.

    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
      48·
      20 hours ago

      So, I grew up in the kind of poverty where the free lunch at school was sometimes the only meal I’d get each day.

      My church hated it. They didn’t offer help with food, but they thought that the free lunches was keeping people from being desperate enough to fall for their shenanigans. Me passing out in Monday’s first period from hunger was a good thing, because they say suffering brings you closer to god. Fasting was a good thing, if you’re hungry enough you develop a sort of lightheaded swimmy euphoria that was said to be the holy spirit filling you with god’s love.

      It’s why they were against all forms of safety net, it was seen as a sign of disbelief in god’s ability to provide. If god wants you to die homeless on the street, who are we to argue with him?

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      19 hours ago

      Plenty of videos of people asking trump supporters and good christians at pro-life rallies to sign petitions to guarantee free lunches and childcare for every kid… With predictable results from the people attending.

    • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      23·
      21 hours ago

      The kind that watches right wing propaganda 24/7 and is convinced that if billionaires can just make it to trillionaire status and we stop spending a few million on starving kids, we’ll unlock some fanciful utopia of everyone being rich by virtue of working hard.

  • apftwb@lemmy.world
    17·
    18 hours ago

    Can someone give me the cost of universal free lunch in terms of Tomahawk missiles?

    • resting_parrot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      According to govfacts.org one tomahawk missile costs between $1.75 and $4 million.

      Estimates for universal free school lunch are harder to find, but these two sources say $30 billion and $27 billion.

      That means roughly 7000 to 17000 missiles to one year of universal free school lunch. Of course, this does not take into effect the other benefits of universal free lunch. Right off the bat, there would be a reduced administrative cost in tracking and verifying free lunch eligibility. Then there are things like increased attendance and focus in class which lead to long term benefits of a better educated person and more.

      It is widely reported that the US has used more than 850 tomahawk missiles in the first four weeks of this war. That means the cost of the war in missiles alone is somewhere between $1.5 and $3.4 billion.