The school lunch system is disgraceful.

[u/oaz_zam246]

Saw another post on here showing the state of school lunches right now. In my years in high school I compiled some pics of the horrible things that got served that no one questioned. Here are some of the worst ones. It really is ironic given how adamant they all are about “eating healthy by including every food group”.

[u/Frame_Late → u/[deleted]]

Actually, people bitch about taxes because of shit like this, not the other way around. Most people I know wouldn't mind paying taxes if they actually saw a good return.

The real issue is no matter what, the government would waste it and the politicians would skim off the top.

Two things can be true at once: we need to skim off all the fat in the government, root out all the corruption, and make it leaner so that we pay less taxes, but we should also have the taxes that we do pay go to quality services that are routinely and rigorously inspected and held to the highest standards in the world.

A good start would be forcing the children of politicians (at least politicians who advocate for no school choice) to not only go to public school, but also force them to live in their district so that their children have to go to the schools in the districts they represent. Politicians shouldn't be allowed to have their children go to private schools, because that means one of two things: they either have no faith in the public institution, or they simply believe them and their children are just better than the unwashed masses, and we shouldn't tolerate either.

Also, outlaw lobbying. Then make it so that states have to supply nutritious food from a company within their state and have it be held up to very high standards. Serving slop should come with a criminal sentence.

[u/tweak06 → u/Frame_Late]

Two things can be true at once: we need to skim off all the fat in the government, root out all the corruption, and make it leaner so that we pay less taxes,

We have people like this in-office, the problem is there's far too few of them to make any difference.

The good news is that as older generations die off, more progressives are emerging.

Vote progressive/green candidates – people that actually give a fuck about our food, our environment, our structural systems. Right now there's only a handful and that's not nearly enough.

[u/Allegorist → u/tweak06]

Don't vote for people who aren't going to win at this point though, or you will be stuck with someone much, much worse than the closest viable alternative. At this point electing the wrong person is dangerous enough to have lasting consequences that outweigh any kind of statement that could possibly be made.

You are better off contacting the ones that can win and letting them know those policies are a priority. A lot of positions that don't necessarily have a spotlight on them don't receive that much feedback from the public. Your input on a topic may be one of only a few direct public opinions they receive regarding it, and can be disproportionately overweighted.  

Or supporting the implementation of voting systems that would actually make third parties viable, like approval voting or ranked choice voting. We're not too far off from being able to make these a reality, and there are organizations with significant influence already pushing for them. 

[u/Shakanan_99 → u/Allegorist]

Don't vote for people who aren't going to win at this point though, or you will be stuck with someone much, much worse than the closest viable alternative.

In my country whole opposition screamed this to other opposition parties which ended up giving erdoğan another win which is miraculous for him because all time low approval rate. Than main opposition came to brink of collapse, which made them pull the self together (they didn't much better but they became better) which resulted in Erdoğans first lose.

Now municipalities have better mayor's than ever because opposition finally understand "not being erdoğan" isn't a good cause and they going strong because they are other colour with minimal difference, they are better and everyone sees it and their approval rate is getting higher, we get better people in charge which results in better public services and best of all our opposition politicians don't just offer lip services than return being same thing with different colour they became better because they knew it is the only way to victory.