My landlady spends all day watching right-wing news/chat programmes on TV, like GB news and all that. Today I overheard a conversation on TV, they were talking about how children of poor parents shouldn’t expect society to feed them. A man phoned in to say he and his wife always fed their own kids, and the taxpayer shouldn’t be expected to feed other people’s kids. He said he’d travelled the world and had seen “real poverty” in other countries.
The presenter (a horrible woman, can’t remember her name but whenever she’s on TV she is always saying awful things) was agreeing with him.
What kind of sick, evil minds think it’s OK to let kids go without food in the sixth richest country on earth? Who think it’s fine to punish kids for their parents inability to feed them? Let’s not forget many of these parents are in full time work but their wages are so low they can’t afford rent and food.
And these conservative idiots always want to save a penny now, even if it costs pounds later. When kids become ill due to malnutrition and end up unable to work because of it, then these fuckers will be whingeing about the benefits bill.
I am sure this is what happened to me. I starved for years as a kid, and as an adult was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. A study recently came out showing that thyroid cancer can be caused by long-term malnutrition (especially selenium deficiency). Now I can no longer work. This is the real consequence of leaving children to starve.
And the idiocy of the man bringing “real poverty” in other countries has me enraged. Kids are going without food in the UK right now - that IS real poverty! I’d like to see that idiot look one of these hungry kids in the eye and say “Kids in India have it worse than you, so don’t complain! It’s your parents’ fault you’re hungry so why should I help?”
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What kind of sick, evil minds think it’s OK to let kids go without food
People so desperate to hold onto their place in the social heirarchy that they’ll gladly toss their children, the future, into a pyre.
kind of wild to absolve a society of feeding it’s young by saying “I’ve been to the places we destroyed and looted and they’re a real mess, so what’s going on here is not a big deal.”
anyway, conservatives have to plug into media feeds that blast this sort of garbage at them 24-7 in all the “regular normal man on the street” formats, because without it they might stray off the path and revert to basic humanism. this shit is the only way for them to feel normal while harboring monstrous values.
We need a thousand luigis for all the fucking media owners
Manufacturing consent for austerity by making normalizing turning off human empathy and decency. They can’t outright say "we overspent on the military and our colonies are revolting so there’s less outside explotation revenue. So we or rather our creditors, who also own major shareholding interest in the parent company of this propaganda outlet, decided to exact wealth by starving some of you and leaving you to die. This is going to be a medium to long term program so itxs ok to elect assholes who will vote favorably in destroying the social contract.
They’ve spent all of their lives being told that there is no such thing as society and that they have no connection to or responsibility toward anyone outside of their immediate circles. This idea is so engrained into our society that it’s as invisible as the air we breathe.
What kind of sick, evil minds think it’s OK to let kids go without food
zionists
Thatcher won comrade, there’s no society. It isn’t just the UK, large swathes of people have moved away from looking at things like starving children within their own communities and proposing some sort of plan to fix it - and I mean this politically neutral - to just figuring out who to blame. Sure starving children is a problem, but it’s very clear these few (hundred?) thousand individuals fault for being bad people.
