• DancingBear@midwest.social
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    10 hours ago

    It’s a nanny state. Sure, candy and soda is bad for you, and america has an obesity problem, but I’m against this.

    Just give people money and let them buy what they want / need.

    I’m tired of pedophiles and gay homophobes shaming poor people for having a soda and a candy bar. (Edit: not my intention to associate lgbtq with pedophiles, but it seems a lot of homophobes are into it. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being gay, but republifuckers need to mind their own business in general and stop judging others for the behaviors they are ashamed to participate in themselves.)

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      At a minimum they should talk about how they will move to providing healthy foods as they cut the bad stuff. Moving to unhealthy food to none, seems like a bad move. Like wtf

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      14 hours ago

      It’s a nanny state.

      I mean yea, but so is giving you money for food. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that the food you get with it to be nutritious.

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        14 hours ago

        Just give them money, I don’t care if they want hookers and blow

        It’s none of your business what poor people spend their money on.

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          Then they spend their money on hookers and blow, and then come back saying they have no money to buy food. Do you let them starve then?

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            11 hours ago

            lol… I’m just tired of people trying to gate keep basic needs as though they somehow know better than poor people what they need.

            If we checked what government subsidized millionaires and billionaires spent their money 10% as much as how we do poor people we could actually save money……

            Food stamps and wic and other programs are generally less than a couple hundred dollars. It’s not your business what they spend it on.