• Neuromancer
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    121 year ago

    I suppose taxes.

    I’m a republican and I fully support free school meals. We are already taxed for books, building, teachers, etc.

    I’d fully support basic supplies and meals as well. It just makes sense to make sure all students have the basic needs met since we are paying for it.

    • snooggums
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      231 year ago

      Instead of defining yourself by party membership in a group that doesn’t represent you, maybe you should think about not being a member of that party?

      • @Fried_out_Kombi
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        161 year ago

        I’m a registered Democrat, but that doesn’t stop me disagreeing with the Democratic party on plenty of issues. The vast majority of people don’t adhere 100% to their party’s politics, especially with the big-tent two-party system in the US. I can’t speak for the person to whom you’re responding, but you can’t extrapolate from their disagreement on one issue to disagreement on others.

        • Flying Squid
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          71 year ago

          Yes, but this particular idea is intentionally letting children starve. Would you really want to associate yourself with a group that wanted to do that if you were against it?

          It’s like saying, “I’m on their side, but I don’t agree with their ‘kill the asylum seekers’ policy.” (I assume that will be a policy of theirs eventually.) How morally repugnant does a group have to get before you disassociate yourself with them?

          • @Mirshe
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            41 year ago

            It already is policy for some of them, see Abbott’s death trap along the Rio Grande or DeSantis wanting to station his state guard on major crossings to shoot undocumented migrants.

            • Flying Squid
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              11 year ago

              I was thinking more hunt them down across America, but you’re not wrong.

        • snooggums
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          51 year ago

          Getting people to think about identifying based on party membership is important to get people to actually think about whether they should be a member of that party. Sure, they might be all in on racist wall building, insurrection, and blowing Trump.

          But maybe a nudge can help them be a little introspective and think more broadly about whether they picked the right team if their team wants children to go hungry. Just trying to get them to think about things, not saying every party member needs to agree with everything about their party.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      If you only identify yourself as being Republican because you consider yourself to be a conservative then I’ve got good news for you, no need to associate with the wackos, the US Democrats are the conservatives of the countries where there actually exists a political spectrum that extends further left than right of center 👍

    • @GodricOP
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      71 year ago

      Based, lobby your representatives and let’s try and get the basics down in a bipartisanly

      • Neuromancer
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        41 year ago

        Right now my largest complaint with the republicans is they just want to stop the democrats from doing anything.

        Good ideas should be pushed by both parties. The republicans are rarely pushing their own ideas. They’re just blocking other ideas.

        The basic should be supplied. When I show up to work, I dont have to buy my own paper and pencil. It’s supplied.

        Education is an investment in the next generation. I strongly support it.