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hubiestubert [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:05:29 AM  
This has been a recurring point for the last twenty years. You gotta train those kids that they are the serving class, and you gotta train them early, or they might get ideas that they dream bigger.
 
OldRod [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:20:05 AM  
When asked to further elaborate, he added:

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koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:27:19 AM  
"If we could find a way for the students to work to earn credits for their school lunch

Ah yes, those freeloading children.  If only we could bring back child labor and distract them from their studies even more by starving them.
 
Psychopusher [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:42:14 AM  
Because nothing says "family values" like child labour, right, Republicans?
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:45:07 AM  
Last I checked, school was work.
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:51:58 AM  
This farking shiat again? Make the poor kids play servant to the rich kids.

Right wingers are farking scum. I take that back, that's not fair on scum. Right wingers make scum look clean and pure. Tainted evil farks.
 
Ringshadow [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:05:14 AM  
Here's the thing.

I'd be totally down in the American school system pulled a Japan and had ALL OF THE STUDENTS take care of the school.

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Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.
 
New Rising Sun
2023-02-03 11:05:50 AM  
"He has also declared that if you support abortion rights, that means you also support prostitution-as both are "a woman's choice." He contended that it is "a double standard" to say otherwise. "

Goodness.  He is in danger of almost coming to a realization there.
 
You Are All Sheep
2023-02-03 11:08:00 AM  
Richest country in the world.
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2023-02-03 11:08:37 AM  
"Your personal relationship to the God of creation is not something everybody else should be able to inquire about," he said.

After stating this, I bet he'll support a bill banning hijabs, yarmulkes and other visible non-Christian religious garb in school. "If it isn't the Christian God, it doesn't count as a relationship!"
 
Jeebus Saves
2023-02-03 11:08:38 AM  
What a shiat article.  We're supposed to be outraged by some vague quote?  Read a book and get a cookie at lunch or scrub toilets to eat?
 
olorin604
2023-02-03 11:09:15 AM  
Dude, I have no problem with the idea that all students should be responsible for keeping the school clean, but trying it to free lunch is bullshiat classist caste system elitism.
 
Flashfyr3
2023-02-03 11:09:54 AM  
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Copperbelly watersnake
2023-02-03 11:10:49 AM  
I'm sure by prostitution he actually means wanting to do anything in life other than be a housewife.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 11:10:52 AM  

Jeebus Saves: What a shiat article.  We're supposed to be outraged by some vague quote?  Read a book and get a cookie at lunch or scrub toilets to eat?


What's vague about "we should make children work for their food?"
 
Bill the unknowing [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:10:53 AM  

You Are All Sheep: Richest country in the world.


For a reason. Put those little Farkers to work. There are military roles they could a GREAT job in! And they can crawl through ducts much better!
 
Night Train to Wakanda
2023-02-03 11:10:54 AM  
Instilling work ethic because their parents decided being working poor wasn't worth the drain on their relationships.
 
Gin Buddy
2023-02-03 11:10:59 AM  
JFC - that's rich coming from an old asshole who has never worked for his goddam money...
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2023-02-03 11:11:18 AM  

Ringshadow: Here's the thing.

I'd be totally down in the American school system pulled a Japan and had ALL OF THE STUDENTS take care of the school.

[Fark user image 850x442]

Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.


Japanese work culture is not something I would want to promote emulating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
 
Majin_Buu [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:11:35 AM  
We can disregard the vile "opinions" of wealthy, non working sociopaths.
 
meat0918 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:12:22 AM  

OldRod: When asked to further elaborate, he added:

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What's funny is Scrooge isn't even that wealthy. He's a small business owner closer to the workhouse than a palace.
 
HerptheDerp
2023-02-03 11:13:07 AM  
Children enjoy playing Minecraft, they clearly yearn for the mines, repeal child labor laws.
 
Ringshadow [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:13:16 AM  

DarkSoulNoHope: Japanese work culture is not something I would want to promote emulating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi


Oh yeah absolutely not.

But getting Americans to think of us as a society that impacts each other and not a band of feral individuals would be nice? We could learn some good things from collectivist societies.
 
estrange666
2023-02-03 11:13:32 AM  
He has also declared that if you support abortion rights, that means you also support prostitution-as both are "a woman's choice." He contended that it is "a double standard" to say otherwise.
I actually agree, mostly.

"Prostitution is a choice, more so than an abortion would be," he added. "No one is forced into that."

But that's just not true at all.  If you'd like it to be MORE true, legalize it.

Thanks for playing :p
 
Halfabee64
2023-02-03 11:13:34 AM  

hubiestubert: This has been a recurring point for the last twenty years. You gotta train those kids that they are the serving class, and you gotta train them early, or they might get ideas that they dream bigger.


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Night Train to Wakanda
2023-02-03 11:13:57 AM  

DarkSoulNoHope: Ringshadow: Here's the thing.

I'd be totally down in the American school system pulled a Japan and had ALL OF THE STUDENTS take care of the school.

[Fark user image 850x442]

Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.

Japanese work culture is not something I would want to promote emulating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi


You're not promoting Japanese work ethic.

You're promoting buy in from the kids about shared responsibilities and that they own part of the school they participate in.
 
AurizenDarkstar
2023-02-03 11:15:48 AM  

Ringshadow: Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.


Would never happen with Republicans making the rules.

The minority kids?  Definitely.  The lily white kids?  Maybe, but only if they're dirt poor.

Trust me, they and the people that support them want slavery and indentured servitude back and legal again.  And since they really don't give a sh*t about the Constitution, what makes you think they'll let the 13th amendment stop them?
 
Marcos P
2023-02-03 11:15:56 AM  
Dude I don't even make the kids I have working for me farming WoW gold in my basement don't have to pay for their lunches
 
Shaggy_C
2023-02-03 11:16:16 AM  
Service in exchange for benefits from the government? Why not? I like the idea for purposes of paying for university, like an ROTC but without killing people.

Not sure I like the blatant class dichotomy on display at a high school though. Need to think through the mechanics to make it less blatantly "poor kids work for lunch whilst the rich enjoy their caviar" type of scenario.
 
GoldSpider
2023-02-03 11:16:20 AM  

estrange666: He has also declared that if you support abortion rights, that means you also support prostitution-as both are "a woman's choice." He contended that it is "a double standard" to say otherwise.
I actually agree, mostly.


For real.

You're offering to legalize prostitution so it too is safer?  I accept your proposal!
 
SirGunslinger
2023-02-03 11:16:21 AM  

DarkSoulNoHope: Ringshadow: Here's the thing.

I'd be totally down in the American school system pulled a Japan and had ALL OF THE STUDENTS take care of the school.

[Fark user image 850x442]

Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.

Japanese work culture is not something I would want to promote emulating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi


Funny enough it came from some workplace "expert" in the 50s that got laughed out of the US, but the Japanese went all in on.
 
GoldSpider
2023-02-03 11:17:04 AM  

Flashfyr3: [Fark user image 850x601]


There it is!
 
You Are All Sheep
2023-02-03 11:17:08 AM  
so school lunches cost 14 billion a year.  imagine had elon did that for a few years instead of buying twitter.

why do we need to tax the rich?  because they do stupid shiat like buy twitter so they can give nazis platforms.
 
physt [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:18:35 AM  
Look... it's pretty clear the right wing are talking themselves into committing genocide. Too bad there isn't anything we can do about it.
 
fiddlehead
2023-02-03 11:19:01 AM  
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This kiddo is awesome for raising money to pay for other kids' lunches, but the point is she shouldn't have to.
The big education bill moving through the MN legislature right now will fund school meals for all public school kids, no income cutoffs.
Good.
 
Unsung_Hero
2023-02-03 11:19:02 AM  

AurizenDarkstar: Ringshadow: Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.

Would never happen with Republicans making the rules.

The minority kids?  Definitely.  The lily white kids?  Maybe, but only if they're dirt poor.

Trust me, they and the people that support them want slavery and indentured servitude back and legal again.  And since they really don't give a sh*t about the Constitution, what makes you think they'll let the 13th amendment stop them?


I worked with a German kid once.  His dad got him a job as a janitor at the packaging plant where I worked.  We were only told that when he moved on a year later.  Good worker, head down, nose to the grindstone, never complained.

...His dad owned our parent company and wanted his kid not to be a privileged ass who didn't understand the company he was going to inherit some day.
 
Aar1012 [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:19:26 AM  
What's the over/under that he's supported hand outs to businesses?
 
Jeebus Saves
2023-02-03 11:19:36 AM  

Mrtraveler01: Jeebus Saves: What a shiat article.  We're supposed to be outraged by some vague quote?  Read a book and get a cookie at lunch or scrub toilets to eat?

What's vague about "we should make children work for their food?"


Because it's not clear what he means by work.
 
Gin Buddy
2023-02-03 11:20:15 AM  

edmo: Last I checked, school was work.


They already get up too early, and spend too long in order to provide daycare, and get too much homework which is largely just a waste of time, and now this dickless wonder wants them to work in addition to everything else that's farked up and broken with public education.

And this party is actually reflecting the values of half the voters?
 
snowshovel
2023-02-03 11:21:35 AM  
Ringshadow: Here's the thing.

I'd be totally down in the American school system pulled a Japan and had ALL OF THE STUDENTS take care of the school.

[Fark user image 850x442]

Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.

Why would you punish the football team like that by using their lifting time for housework that could be appreciated by those who were born to take care of the home?
 
Dromaeosaur
2023-02-03 11:23:35 AM  

Gin Buddy: edmo: Last I checked, school was work.

They already get up too early, and spend too long in order to provide daycare, and get too much homework which is largely just a waste of time, and now this dickless wonder wants them to work in addition to everything else that's farked up and broken with public education.

And this party is actually reflecting the values of half the voters?


Yeah this. Just let the kids have farking childhoods. Anyone who thinks forcing them to do more shiat at school will teach them anything other than to hate school that much more is a credulous boob.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 11:23:38 AM  

Jeebus Saves: Mrtraveler01: Jeebus Saves: What a shiat article.  We're supposed to be outraged by some vague quote?  Read a book and get a cookie at lunch or scrub toilets to eat?

What's vague about "we should make children work for their food?"

Because it's not clear what he means by work.


What do you think he means?
 
BoneSmuggler
2023-02-03 11:23:58 AM  
I RTFA. There is an awesome story in there about a girl who decided to work to pay for other people's lunch. There is hope. You just won't find it in twisted old republican farkheads.
 
Gin Buddy
2023-02-03 11:24:15 AM  

You Are All Sheep: so school lunches cost 14 billion a year.  imagine had elon did that for a few years instead of buying twitter.

why do we need to tax the rich?  because they do stupid shiat like buy twitter so they can give nazis platforms.



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Ringshadow [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:24:57 AM  

snowshovel: Why would you punish the football team like that by using their lifting time for housework that could be appreciated by those who were born to take care of the home?


GOD DAMMIT WHO LEFT IT OUT AGAIN

*grabs snowshovel and puts it back in the garage*
 
Lusebagage
2023-02-03 11:25:38 AM  
I say we ship the little ungrateful farkers off to the diamond mines!
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 11:25:46 AM  

Dromaeosaur: Yeah this. Just let the kids have farking childhoods. Anyone who thinks forcing them to do more shiat at school will teach them anything other than to hate school


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/Not to mention the class-based shaming
 
AurizenDarkstar
2023-02-03 11:27:47 AM  

Unsung_Hero: AurizenDarkstar: Ringshadow: Students in Japan spend fifteen minutes at the end of the day to tidy the school as a group.

Teaches social responsibility and life skills and stuff.

THIS I would advocate. But ALL STUDENTS participate to their own capabilities. No one gets to opt out.

Would never happen with Republicans making the rules.

The minority kids?  Definitely.  The lily white kids?  Maybe, but only if they're dirt poor.

Trust me, they and the people that support them want slavery and indentured servitude back and legal again.  And since they really don't give a sh*t about the Constitution, what makes you think they'll let the 13th amendment stop them?

I worked with a German kid once.  His dad got him a job as a janitor at the packaging plant where I worked.  We were only told that when he moved on a year later.  Good worker, head down, nose to the grindstone, never complained.

...His dad owned our parent company and wanted his kid not to be a privileged ass who didn't understand the company he was going to inherit some day.


I don't see how that equates to the government trying to make kids work at the school to pay for their school lunches.  Like, when are they going to be in class, or will they be forced to stay after school and do odd jobs around the school building?

Working if you're old enough to is one thing, but being forced to work for nothing solely so you can eat is a fu*king travesty.
 
MarciusDecimus
2023-02-03 11:28:24 AM  
That man is a textbook case of a person whose worldview is farked up beyond recognition and it guides everything he does. Also, he actually believes he is saying smart things when any person with a modicum of knowledge and critical thinking simply shakes their head in disgust. I guarantee you is a one of those dumbfarks that walks around constantly talking about "common sense".
 
pjabbott
2023-02-03 11:30:09 AM  
WTF is this, the Charles Dickens school of economics?
 
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