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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Every time I read about this I remind people of the Iowa governor.

The feds offered free money to help clear Iowa kids lunch debt.

Iowa governor Kim Reynolds turned it down because "we are in an obesity epidemic".

Read that a couple of times to yourself just to let it sink in. Conservatives are about hurting people just so they can get a couple of easy points in the polls, even if it means literally letting innocent children of poor families go hungry.

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Conservatism is a death cult.

They don't care if you're healthy, if your community survives, if your kids get a good education, or if the national debt goes up, down, or sideways.

They only do what gives them immediate gratification based on their own faulty morals.

Covid Kim Reynolds is one of the worst people you could ever meet.