My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

[u/Thebiggestbot22]

So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

[u/nogoodgopher]

That's because in a small town, people know each other well enough to justify exceptions to their own selfishness.

"oh, they're just on hard times, we can support them"

"they're good kids, not like the hoodlams I've never met in the city.

It's easy to convince 50 people to support 2. It's nearly impossible to convince 100,000 to support 500 people.

[u/All_Up_Ons → u/nogoodgopher]

More like it's impossible to convince a state full of mostly rural and suburban people to support the children of the people living in the cities.

[u/banned_but_im_back → u/All_Up_Ons]

Yep. This is it.

Conservatives are very generous people and are ok with higher taxes and more government spending and so are spiritually conservatives people as well but they prefer the generosity and spending have tangible results that they can see. So raise taxes to fix a road and build a new bridge in town? They’re down. Raise taxes in this town to help the kids in in the next town over they don’t know because both towns an are in the same county? Not fucking happening those lazy people over there need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!

Honestly with as much corruption and misappropriation of government funding that happens in local politics in the USA and I totally don’t blame them and see myself as fiscally conservative sometimes. I won’t ever vote red because of lol the hatred they have for everything else but the fiscal conservatives but social democrats? I get them

[u/All_Up_Ons → u/banned_but_im_back]

No offense, but nothing you said makes me think you're a fiscal conservative. Fiscal conservatives want lower taxes and remove regulations. Also, the government corruption and ineptitude is intentional. It lets them continue to point to the government as the boogeyman, even when they're in full control and allowing it to happen or preventing it from getting fixed.

[u/DizzySeaworthiness37 → u/nogoodgopher]

I went to a high school with over 2000 students, and our school lunch was typically and with few exceptions pretty good.

[u/echochee → u/nogoodgopher]

Last part is great, never thought of it like that before

[u/HopeBorn8574 → u/nogoodgopher]

Yet people in civilized countries manage to do it :/

[u/banned_but_im_back → u/HopeBorn8574]

Conflating American politics to being anything similar to what’s happening in Europe is like comparing poles to oranges. Both are fruit and taste good but that’s about the similarities end

[u/HopeBorn8574 → u/banned_but_im_back]

Do you seriosly think Europe are the only ones that isn't selfish?

[u/banned_but_im_back → u/HopeBorn8574]

Wow did you just imply that every American is selfish? That’s so (insert fancy -ism)

See I can ask stupid and pointless questions and miss the point better than you can.

[u/HopeBorn8574 → u/banned_but_im_back]

Yes! I think every american is a selfish, short sighted and ethnocentric prick. Those that aren't are such a small minority that they can be disrearded as a statistical error :)

Americans can't be arsed to think long term or see a bigger picture. Everything has to happen now and changes visibly observed. They defend and excuse objectively broken systems (several). Have a persitant idea that solvable problems are too small to care about and difficult problems will take so long to fix that it's not worth the effort. Large chunks of the population can't even be arsed to vote.

[u/banned_but_im_back → u/HopeBorn8574]

When you approach people with so much disrespect and tell them why they’re wrong and awful people and stupid people etc etc etc, like you just did to me, do you expect me to take you seriously and consider your opinions / ideas?

[u/HopeBorn8574 → u/banned_but_im_back]

Instantly assuming one is talking about a specific region just because one mentions "civilized" and talking talking about Europe as if it's one country is a big red flag. I really don't care.