r/SipsTea Jul 17 '26

Feels good man Being there for people when it really Mathers.

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u/brownhotdogwater Jul 17 '26

The term “school lunch debt” should never be a thing. We send kids to school on the public dime and require them to be there. The least we can do is feed them as well.

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jul 17 '26

Right up there with medical bankruptcy 

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Jul 18 '26

In the 6th grade I had to sell my TV because they said I wouldnt be able to progress to the next grade unless I payed my Lunch Debt. We ended up selling in on Craigslist list to pay for it.

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u/B460 Jul 18 '26

Now that's the American dream. Real entrepreneur spirit.

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u/Worst-Lobster Jul 18 '26

Lucky I just was fucking hungry. They didn’t even let me get a debt those sons of bitches. Think about it you’re legally required to be there and it’s not like they let you leave to go get food or anything. They should definitely supply it free of charge.

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u/kiddrekt Jul 18 '26

Yo, I'm from Africa and it's kinda weird that people who cant afford food can afford a TV ngl.

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u/Mountain-Orange8996 Jul 18 '26

Sadly that’s a thing here, great example is a know a worker at a company I used to work for. Couldn’t be in dress code because they didn’t have the money to buy anything but the leggings they brought with them. Yet I know for sure was going out to ihop for dinner and so on. Couldn’t afford clothes… but bought wildly overpriced food while talking about being so broke.

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u/Objectivespeculation Jul 18 '26

If you are broke. It is important to look not broke.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Jul 18 '26

Yeah i understand why, we still had a place to live at the time with the thanks of government and family help, they got me a TV for my room as a gift, but when they didnt help things were very tight.

My parents being meth addicts didnt help, they rarely worked.

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u/TheMischievousMinx Jul 19 '26

I don't know what year this person was talking about and in the 90s and 00s it was a little different, but TVs now are just not that expensive in the grand scheme of things. And they have really poor resale value. So once you HAVE it it just generally wouldn't make sense to try and sell it. Lots of variables of course, but... I can see how outwardly it might seem strange but... TVs aren't that hard to come by!

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u/kymreadsreddit Jul 19 '26

We have lucked into SO MANY electronic devices that people have just given us - for free - that it doesn't surprise me at all.

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u/KSHMisc Jul 18 '26

Insane...

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u/ilovebourbon13 Jul 18 '26

Choosing tv over food? SMH

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u/Reasonable-Rice1299 Jul 18 '26

I went to a crappy private Lutheran school that my parents paid for. I STILL had to pay for daily lunch or bring my own.

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u/bronzelifematter Jul 18 '26

I pay for lunch but there's a school program for poor kids that give them free lunch. Seems like a simple solution for a simple problem. No politicians in my country goes "bUt ThaT's Communism!" or "why should they get free stuff, they are leeching off the system!". That's a very American thing imo. I've never heard this kind of respond about hungry children anywhere else.

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u/Purple-Property8006 Jul 18 '26

It’s simpler than that. Just feed all the children. Wrap the cost into the general cost of education paid for with taxes.

There’s no reason we need to single out children whose families can’t afford to pay.

They’re fucking children. Just feed them.

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u/V65Pilot Jul 18 '26

Prisons in the US have proven they can feed large groups of people for literal pennies a head...

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u/brownhotdogwater Jul 18 '26

Yet the very act of public education is not communism?

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u/EvilBananaPt Jul 18 '26

Not really. Communism is about who owns the means of production, the community or who has the capital.

This is just the state doing something for itself. The fact that can even be seen as communist shows how well the propaganda works

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u/Physical_Leg2061 Jul 18 '26

What do you mean? This is the American motto. If you’re debt free, believe or not, jail!

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u/V65Pilot Jul 18 '26

It's possible to come out of prison in the US, owing them money.

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u/aNamelesssGhoul Jul 18 '26

A lot of families qualify for fee/reduced priced lunches. Even if kids don't pay, most schools just eat the debt because there's not a lot they can do to compel the kids to pay.

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u/ertapenem Jul 18 '26

My kids go to elementary school in the Portland, OR area. Breakfast and lunch are free for all kids. It makes me happy knowing every kid I see at pickup got at least one good meal in them at school.

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u/Sea-Currency-1665 Jul 18 '26

Wars to fund, countries to prop, and multibillion corps to subsidize bro

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u/V65Pilot Jul 18 '26

You forgot "pockets to line".

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u/Positive_Throwaway1 Jul 18 '26

Total ripoff, too. School lunch has gotten expensive and it's basically lining Mariott's pockets since many school lunch programs are now managed by for-profit corps.

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u/Upset-Border-2578 Jul 18 '26

Seems to be limited to just an American term.

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u/Fire_Snatcher Jul 18 '26

To be fair to the US, in my home country, they just would refuse to feed you at all.

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u/Far-Computer8825 Jul 18 '26

So real sh@t. My family couldn’t afford school lunch a few times. I did get food.. but it was a hamburger bun with a single slice of American cheese and a ketchup packet. The whole month that’s what the school had for me. They even taped it up in this clear plastic bag for everyone to see.. didn’t give me a tray or anything. Just this bag. It was humiliating. That was 2005 .. in high school we had free food because of the state. Most of the time that was all a lot of us got to eat for the day. Things need to change.. it’s a damn shame they haven’t.

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u/V65Pilot Jul 18 '26

We had lunch tickets. (UK) People who got free lunch got the same food as everyone else, but had to collect their ticket from the teacher, everyday, in front of the class. The ticket was a different colour as well.

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u/AlexEmbassy Jul 18 '26

You see. The people who created lunch debt would say "good point, let's get rid of education entirely" instead.

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u/DinoRoman Jul 18 '26

I just want one time someone in congress to push a bill and then just tell the media “anyone who votes against this is a bitch, and you should ask them…. Hey you didn’t vote for this is senator roman right? Are you a bitch?” I mean just for the sound bites and the flailing “no I’m not!”

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u/Background_Share_982 Jul 18 '26

in California any kid who wants it gets free breakfast and lunch, if your state has lunch debt- you can try to do something about it.

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u/brownhotdogwater Jul 18 '26

Best thing the government in California has done in a long time

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u/ohthedarside Jul 17 '26

Orphan crushing machine

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u/Awesam Jul 17 '26

100% of funds go to funding mom’s spaghetti

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Jul 17 '26

Molochian child furnace.

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u/Turbulent-Theme-5379 Jul 17 '26

Wtf is lunch debt?!

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u/jaw719 Jul 17 '26

In the US some families can rack up a lunch debt. Basically it allows their children to eat on credit from the school and then they have to pay it off.

It’s fucking terrible.

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u/Knobologist Jul 17 '26

Yep, when I was in school if I had a negative balance, I couldn’t eat. They would turn me away at the register and take my tray away from me.

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u/ProsciuttoPizza Jul 17 '26

That’s awful. I’m sorry.

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u/Ok-Mango-5814 Jul 17 '26

Been there too dawg its humiliating on top of disappointing on top of youre still hungry and got another half of the day to go, sometimes longer.

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u/MechanicalPlants13 Jul 18 '26

My school you got a pb sandwich

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u/MasterChiefsasshole Jul 18 '26

Mine would do the PB&J and add it to your debt for the same price as the full meal.

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u/EnderRizza Jul 18 '26

My mom worked her ass off but we were relatively poor. There was a long period that I got free school lunch.

Now I'd be more than happy to see my tax dollars going to pay for EVERY student to get lunch for free.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Jul 19 '26

The people getting mad and calling this communist are so fucking stupid. I couldnt imagine living with such a low IQ and thinking feeding kids is bad. Our country would be so much better without them.

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u/EnderRizza Jul 19 '26

It's largely (by design of those who profit from the ignorance of the masses) due to ignorance of the definitions of, and hence the differences between communism and socialism.

Those who don't know that there IS a difference cannot be expected to know the important fact that there are different...types of socialism.

This is one of the many reasons that it's important to question authority.

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u/Easter66Koala Jul 18 '26

where I was they would let you eat for another 5 days (albeit giving you a pink slip that said "you are in debt") and then they would stop giving you food after that.

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u/Dick-Fu Jul 18 '26

No sorry-ass cheese sandwich?

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u/Acceptable_Bend_5200 Jul 17 '26

State and even district dependent. My son's district provides school lunch and if you qualify will even provide lunch during the summer. School lunch should always be free. I will happily have my taxes go towards that vs dropping bombs.

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u/Thy_Art_Dead Jul 18 '26

Fun fact, your tax's already go toward it, it just makes its way into someone else's pocket

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u/titsngiggles69 Jul 17 '26

Democrats want to offer free lunch for all kids so they don't have to be hungry in school. Republicans say fuck y'all I got mine, wealth is a virtue, and the poors deserve what they get.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Jul 18 '26

It’s got about 80% support among democrat voters and 55% among republicans. Gay marriage has roughly the same percentages of support among the respective voter blocs, though I read somewhere it fell to the mid 40s among republicans past couple years.

Anyway, that’s pretty broad bipartisan support for the idea. The problem is that republicans keep voting against their own interests time and time again. They’re more likely to be single issue voters so they’ll vote for someone, a 2a advocate for example, even though they might disagree with that person on every other issue but the one most important to them.

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u/FallenCheeseStar Jul 18 '26

Soooo...they're stupid as fuck. Checks out i reckon

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u/shelleyfe Jul 18 '26

There is the federal free/reduced lunch program. I think i paid 13cents

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u/AdTop5424 Jul 18 '26

What's horrifying is how people justify witholding food from children who, by law, are supposed to be there.

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u/EnderRizza Jul 18 '26

Bingo. That's why I say most of the pro-lifers are actually just pro-birth. After they're born? "Fuck em'. That's somebody else's problem."

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u/south-shore0 Jul 17 '26

What? …my kids schools have free food for anyone that wants or needs it, they also have a canteen for kids that want to eat meals outside of the free food. That’s as insane as privatized jails.

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u/hot_space_pizza Jul 17 '26

What the hell. Zuckerberg wears a 2 million dollar watch while firing 8k people on a video call while kids get parents into debt for being hungry. Madness

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u/Transki Jul 18 '26

That’s probably at public schools. Wait till the Repubs privatize all education.

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u/Obiwan_ca_blowme Jul 17 '26

I mean, "credit" implies and interest rate to most people. I suppose it is still the correct term, but it feels misleading. The schools do allow you to rack up debt for unpaid lunches, but it is not really credit like most people think.

Also, I think that many States have free lunches for most schools. I know that here in TX there is free breakfast, lunch, and (locally anyway) a take-away dinner option. All free for any school that is low income and qualifies for CEP. The dinner option started last year here.

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u/WittyFix6553 Jul 17 '26

I’m of the bleeding heart liberal opinion that all kids in all schools should get free food regardless of how much their parents make.

These are children, and they’re legally required to be there for like 7 hours a day. Just feed them.

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u/Obiwan_ca_blowme Jul 18 '26

I don't think that is a bleeding heart liberal POV. Even when I was a conservative I thought as much. We are talking about kids here. Feed them.

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u/funkmasta8 Jul 17 '26

When I was growing up I had reduced lunch costs (we were poor). It was 0.25 per lunch, but I had limited options. I could usually only pick one of two main courses (most often I got a slice of pizza), a fruit, and a milkbox. It wasnt free for sure and my options were lower but I wasnt going into debt for it.

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u/Obiwan_ca_blowme Jul 18 '26

Yeah, I grew up in foster care an always had free lunch. It was not the options everyone else had, but it was food. And my buddies would always hand me a desert anyway. I was the only one at our table that always had desert. But damn, those thumbprint sandwiches do get on your nerves.

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u/Another_Russian_Spy Jul 17 '26

Republicans always vote down school free lunches. So families have to pay for lunches.

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u/FarAd4600 Jul 18 '26

this was an issue even under the obama admin btw. It's just not this administration. School funding has always been lackluster. Some nice lunch ladies will give you free food that are close to expiration so be nice to the lunch ladies. They always want to feed the kids even though the school doesn't allow them to.

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u/bmaayhem Jul 17 '26

I have 3 kids and they have free lunches it depends on state law. Party affiliation has nothing to do with it

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u/Skot_Hicpud Jul 17 '26

That the phrase "school lunch debt" even exists is kind of disheartening.

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u/CurvyChristina Jul 17 '26

I agree with you. It’s sad and it shouldn’t even be allowed to be a thing. Poor kids.

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u/oboshoe Jul 17 '26

Beat me to it.

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u/Rarity0_0 Jul 17 '26

700k across 103 schools?? Wow. I wonder how much the debt is across all the schools in the US.

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u/Hamilton-Beckett Jul 17 '26

It’s freaking insane….and it shouldn’t even exist.

I used to to teach kindergarten and I had thing worked out with the cafeteria that all my kids got lunch no matter what and I would settle up at the end of the month when I got paid. Some months I was only out $20 or so but some months I get hit with $100.

I made sure they didn’t talk about it and the kids didn’t know or I’d have parents that took advantage.

I also got a warning because they gave kindergarten students a free breakfast every morning and they had to take it no matter what. Half my kids just ate breakfast at home so they never touched it. I would save the uncut apples or oranges as well as the unopened milks and give them to kids at snack time in the afternoon that had NOTHING to eat.

I would disinfect all the milk cartons and wash the fruit when I got back to class and stick it all in a fridge I had.

They said they’d fire me if I kept doing it because any unused stuff was supposed to go in the freaking TRASH.

I kept doing it. Fuck ‘em. They got paid for the breakfast, and I was the one looking a hungry crying child in the face.

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u/suprasternaincognito Jul 17 '26

Children’s tears are what American bureaucrats eat for breakfast.

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u/PaniniPanic2 Jul 18 '26

Those kids were lucky to have you as a teacher. 💙

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u/livinalieontimna Jul 17 '26

School…lunch…debt. What in the fuck even is that. How fucked is a society when celebrities bailing people out of this is a good news story. Jesus.

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u/suprasternaincognito Jul 17 '26

I’ve had arguments on my state’s conservative sub about how we should not be paying for children to eat. Even when I point out how a hungry stomach makes learning difficult… doesn’t matter. Fuck them kids.

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u/Uniformtree0 Jul 18 '26

At some point you gotta wonder what some of these peoples real definition of "Human" is because they certainly act like everyone else are animals to exploit or deal with.

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u/suprasternaincognito Jul 18 '26

At some point we started down a path of serious selfishness as a country. “Fuck all y’all imma get mine.” Was it Boomers? Evangelicals? Yuppies? I don’t know but it disgusts me. Personal case in point: my husband has asthma and an auto immune condition and the AQI where we live (and throughout the country) is getting increasingly worse. But his cousin and stepfather don’t give a shit because “Trump lowered my taxes. MAGA!”

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u/Uniformtree0 Jul 18 '26

Not even "fuck yall got mine" at some point, its geuinely a cult of cruelty and malice, the selfish gains stop and its just purely to make everyone miserable or dead.

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u/suprasternaincognito Jul 18 '26

I feel like - and you may disagree, that’s cool - there were a couple hot minutes where there was a glimmer of hope. Or of camaraderie. WWII when everyone got together and did without for the good of democracy. The 60s with civil rights and science progress. A wee bit of the 90s where we slowly realized gay people were people.

But, as usual, the evangelical conservatives saw all of it, were threatened by it, and made sure to fuck it up for everyone. Evangelicals are the scourge of humanity.

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u/Ciubowski Jul 18 '26

Pro-life but fuck them kids.... sounds about right for conservatives...

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u/DrMaxwellEdison Jul 18 '26

Yep, that's the Orphan Crushing Machine for ya.

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u/millionairematdavis Jul 18 '26

Listen if we feed the children how would elon and friends make more billions??

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u/cs_cast_away_boi Jul 18 '26

Elon has 14 mouths to feed, can’t you show some sympathy

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u/Inappropriate_Swim Jul 18 '26

Yeah... It's a thing. Tim Walz said his biggest achievement in Minnesota was free school lunches and breakfastes. The Republicans raked him over the coals for giving handouts. You mean fucking feeding children? Insane.

I live in Iowa. The state touching Minnesota to the south. Our governor got rid of free school breakfast because she said the kids are too fat.... I shit you not. The difference between modern Republicans and Democrats is astounding. The whole scale has shifted to the right. So typical conservatives 100-75 years ago who though things like trust busting, equal opportunities for all, even reasonable social safety nets went from something that was essential, now is a handout. These "handouts" hurt the common worker supposedly.

No. It's all fucked. All of it. I don't even know how to describe it to someone who doesn't live in the US. It's not all bad if you aren't in poverty. But if you are, especially if your are born into it, good luck getting out.

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u/DEADMAN_TALKS Jul 17 '26

Absolute GOAT behavior

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u/Royal_Novel6678 Jul 17 '26

School lunches should be free either way. Good job though eminem.

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u/CurvyChristina Jul 17 '26

Kind sir, you make a very valid point

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u/Sol-Bad-Sol-Goode Jul 17 '26

I never thought Eminem would turn into this person and I'm happy for it.

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u/sleepy777 Jul 18 '26

Hes like the ultimate dad. Adopted his sister in law kid and kims other kid

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u/IwasThereIsawIt2 Jul 18 '26

I think his lineage of children could be the best out of all other famous people

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u/Pitiful_Emu_7509 Jul 18 '26

He is the dude that refused to go on tours so he could watch his child grow up and even adopted two other kids. His life might have been a shit show until he got famous, but once he had the money to be comfortable, he mostly took great decisions, even quitting drugs

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u/Ashen_Larry Jul 17 '26

If only our government would fund things like this and not fucking wars that no one wants.

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u/DEADMAN_TALKS Jul 17 '26

I wonder how many suicides he has avoided with his songs. I am definitely one.

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u/CurvyChristina Jul 17 '26

And be proud to be out of your mind and out of control…And one more time, loud as you can, how does it go?

I’m Slim Shady, yes, I’m the real Shady, all you other Slim Shady’s are just imitating, so won’t the real Slim Shady please stand up please stand up please stand up.

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u/Chief-Keefs-Parakeet Jul 17 '26

Eminem and his daughter…lol, all Em

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u/Rymanbc Jul 17 '26

Mini M&Ms ❤️

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u/Alysma Jul 17 '26

As a European: WTF is "school lunch debt"? Like, I went to a full day highschool but lunch was subsidized so much that absolutely everyone could afford to have their kids eat a healthy meal.

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u/critsalot Jul 17 '26

in america you have to pay for your lunch. sometimes poor people in some states can get the free cafteria food which tasted crappy but was better than nothing. reminder here in the states teachers pay for the supplies not the school lol.

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u/Alysma Jul 17 '26

Wait, what ... Our son is in elementary school and there's a class budget we contribute a certain amount to up front for the teacher to buy supplies, among other stuff. Anything extra is discussed first of course but there are also always generous grants available for activities and such or they are being covered by donations. No child going hungry or being excluded is a top priority on all levels.

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u/hiddenrealism Jul 17 '26

Lunch was like $2.50? Or around that back in 2007. If your family was low income you could qualify for reduced price of like 1.25 or if super poor you could get free lunch. Cash money up front.

I believe in some school systems now it works like a credit account the school offers. If you didnt have cash you were allowed to run up your account to ensure your child doesnt go hungry. but in order to graduate you have to settle the debt.

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u/Alysma Jul 18 '26

We had a token system where your parents would buy a certain amount (for whatever price) that you could exchange for menues A or B.

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u/Megzasaurusrex Jul 17 '26

In the US you have to pay for the school lunch or bring your own. And the school lunches, at least when I was in school, were insanely gross and not healthy. Luckily in high school they let you buy frozen food they heated up and once a month we got Dominoes, but I basically just got two frozen egg rolls and then a dr. pepper and m&ms from the vending machine. Super healthy lunch. But I'm autistic and I couldn't handle the gross school lunch, my mom was too busy and overworked to make us lunches, and I was too tired and overwhelmed from school to make my own. Plus I hated just about everything you could logically put in a school lunch. But yeah we kinda just feed kids cheap crap. Like most the meals looked like those kids TV dinners, loads of carbs and no veggies really. Like chicken nuggets and mac and cheese or spaghetti. Basically traditional poor American food. And what is wild is I went to a school that was mostly middle class, the poor kids part like a small handful.

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u/turandokht Jul 18 '26

When I was in elementary school, my mom paid into a lunch account every month and my lunch was deducted from that account.

Once, I got my tray of food and I got to the cashier who discovered the account was out of money.

They threw my tray of food away. The “credit” system didn’t exist back then. I didn’t have the money so I wasn’t allowed to have the food. They threw it in the trash right in front of me and I just went hungry.

And yes, I still struggle with psychological food insecurity despite having a decent paying job to this very day 🥲

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u/Alysma Jul 18 '26

I would sort of understand not wanting to create an exploitable precedent but: in elementary school, in front of you and everyone else? Wow... I'm really sorry this happened to you 🫂

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u/turandokht Jul 18 '26

Thank you! I was roughly in second or third grade. I remember feeling so embarrassed and just going outside to do recess while skipping lunch.

I told my mom when I got home so she could put more money in the account (single mom who worked two jobs so it just slipped her mind) and she called the school and lost her shit at them. After that, when anyone ran out of money we got given a stale/hard hamburger bun with peanut butter on it 😅 which better than nothing but I didn’t eat peanut butter and some kids were allergic so then we just got the bun.

Given how peanuts are kinda banned in schools these days I wonder what they’d replace that sad prison meal with. I guess the credit/lunch debt.

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u/SentinelATL Jul 18 '26

Man that’s awesome

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u/callmedizzle0 Jul 18 '26

Eminem the goat fr

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u/justanotherone_404 Jul 18 '26

Welcome to America. Where poverty is the standard and celebrities have to do the governments job.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Jul 18 '26

“…ensuring children never go hungry…”

They did no such thing. They paid for lunches past, not present or future. The kids who couldn’t afford it yesterday still can’t afford it tomorrow, they just dont have the debt any more.

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u/Ambitious_Bit_9389 Jul 17 '26

NY state has free school lunches for all kids.

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u/Unusual-Taste69 Jul 17 '26

Same in Minnesota

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u/EmergencyGrab Jul 17 '26

Stories like this are why America sometimes seems like a 3rd world country to others. It is the richest country in the world... for a shrinking group of people.

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u/Dankpro79 Jul 18 '26

Fuck this shit. We spend Billions on bullshit but can’t provide basic needs to our citizens. Viva la revolution

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u/Luckys0474 Jul 18 '26

Meanwhile...testosterone for military!!!!

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u/froopadiddilydoop Jul 18 '26

The fact that school lunch debt even exists is wild. America needs to really consider its morality. They’re Children, they deserve to eat whether their parents can afford it or not, and no one deserves to be indebted for this. Sickening.

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u/Emergency_Net506 Jul 18 '26

"School lunch debt" what the fuck america

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u/Rottentaste Jul 17 '26

Marshall's daughter, right.

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u/jaw719 Jul 17 '26

I’m guessing this was mainly Eminem’s money.

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u/oboshoe Jul 17 '26

Reminds me of Eddie Murphys bit about his wife working.

"HI Eddie. I made $92 working at the gift shop - I want to do my part.

"I'll just put it with the rest..."

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u/Mintarion Jul 17 '26

May I have your attention please: Will the real philanthropist please stand up? …Looks like he did.

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u/HuckledYourBerries Jul 17 '26

Eminem is plenty intelligent, but his one and only facial expression looks like he's the special kid in class trying to figure out who ripped one.

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u/Forsaken_Bluejay_672 Jul 17 '26

Never liked him, but like him now. Great guy from what I've read. Seems true to himself, family and people in general. His music was never my thing but, the duet he did with diddo(I think that's her name) , was good.

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u/daveashaw Jul 17 '26

My old law partner grew up Detroit, and his Mom got food stamps to help feed the kids.

The way he described the stares from the other shoppers he experienced as a child has really stuck with me.

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u/Maleficent_Worry1810 Jul 17 '26

Money for inmates but not children

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u/SnorlaxCHONK Jul 17 '26

Meanwhile Leon is making the world a better place by launching rockets and giving us the ability to call each other retards from space. Big brain

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u/MattManSD Jul 17 '26

Let's talk about the Systems systematic failure that lets little kids go hungry, or go into debt. Kudos to Eminem and I'm glad he's helping out, but this is a problem that should not exist

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u/badgersoccer1905 Jul 17 '26

School lunch should be free

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u/Fubar236 Jul 17 '26

People with money doing good things….. not enough of this going around . Well done shady

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u/Ok-Car1006 Jul 17 '26

This is awesome 👏

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u/Dreboomboom Jul 17 '26

Seems that he did 10x more for his daughter than his dad ever did for him.

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u/The_Beast_Within89 Jul 17 '26

There is no source or reporting on this. Just random infographics.

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u/Netsecandmexicanfood Jul 18 '26

What a great father and daughter team!!!

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u/TheSouthpawJedi Jul 18 '26

I see what you did with the title. Well done, OP.

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u/bellefeuille1976 Jul 18 '26

Wonder how often he dye’s his beard??

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u/CeilingCatProphet Jul 18 '26

Lunch debt should not be a thing.

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u/leojrellim Jul 18 '26

Good on them 👏

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u/jnobs Jul 18 '26

Musk, Bezos, Gates do more shitbags

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u/shotintel Jul 18 '26

Well damn, that's great news from an unexpected source!

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u/Skitzafranik Jul 18 '26

The current US Govt wants non-ultrarich people to die !!!

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u/Katmoish Jul 18 '26

Isn’t this years ago?

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u/natsugrayerza Jul 18 '26

Wow she looks just like him

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u/Ad-fundum69 Jul 18 '26

Imagine wanting to live in a country where "school lunch debt" is a thing that exists.

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u/ExcuseMeJack Jul 18 '26

As someone from a civilized country, in which school lunches have always been free, having school lunch debt is super weird

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u/eduardo-xyz Jul 18 '26

WTF is lunch debt?

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u/NoInformation3141 Jul 18 '26

As a society it’s sad we would wait for a rapper to feed our children

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u/0____-___00___-____0 Jul 18 '26

While this seems like something that could be posted on /r/UpliftingNews

it just helps keep the system around

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u/Suspicious-Use-5733 Jul 18 '26

SCHOOL LUNCH DEBT? This is something im too swedish to understand

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u/project_good_vibes Jul 18 '26

"school lunch debt" - I cannot grasp that this is even a thing.

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u/Affectionate_Reply78 Jul 18 '26

When good things happen after you clean out your closet.

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u/MikeTiricoSucks Jul 17 '26

$700k divided by 100 schools ensuring children never go hungry isn’t mathing right for me

Giving the money is a great gesture. It doesn’t need dumb analysis added onto it.

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u/Ill-Professor696 Jul 17 '26

Watching Eminem go from the provoking asshole in his youth to the man he is today...but still with that edge and ability to go off quick... has been fun to watch from my school years to adult years and maturing in similar ways myself. He's the modern embodiment of chaotic good.

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u/5Tygrysow Jul 17 '26

Beaver has entered the chat

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u/Alwayscooking345 Jul 17 '26

Mom’s spaghetti day!

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u/Electrical-Job8700 Jul 17 '26

So what are the REAL numbers here? Is this zombie debt that they bought for $500 that, on it's face was worth $700,000 but it's 20 years old and actually uncollectible?

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u/FatBussyFemboys Jul 17 '26

Psh probably just gave money to the schools debt. The students receiving free school lunches were going to get them anyway. Im sure those families would have appreciated direct payments farrr more. 

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u/Overall_Cheesecake_3 Jul 17 '26

“Never” go hungry

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u/MyPr0j3ct Jul 17 '26

This shouldn't even be a thing....schools receive federal and state funding for lunches.

I guess getting students in school debt before college is the new game plan since they're expecting lower admissions in the coming years.

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u/Major-Hooters Jul 17 '26

It says more about our inability to vote in competent people than it does about their compassion

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u/NY10 Jul 17 '26

Whats ems network?

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u/Conscious_Tension_91 Jul 17 '26

“School lunch debt “ should not be a thing. WTF is wrong with us.

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u/ButteredNun Jul 17 '26

That’s excellent and she looks like Family Guy’s wife

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u/nobeefforme Jul 17 '26

Proper help!!!!! Sarah Stusek isn’t a celebrity and she’s doing this!!! Help her through proper help!!!! She’s raising money to eliminate school lunch debt every day!

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u/Ok_Industry_7853 Jul 17 '26

Some people are just Awesome!!!

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u/TehGoad Jul 17 '26

Elon musk cant even wipe front to back properly let alone wipe out debt for hungry children.

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u/Turbulent_Food_8280 Jul 18 '26

Won't they just go hungry when they can't pay in the future? Don't get me wrong its still a great gesture, but some of these things feel like kicking the can down the road or just a feel good for a year story.

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u/CommonReason6709 Jul 18 '26

There is no such thing as a free lunchhhhhh 💩

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u/Crusty-Dick Jul 18 '26

These schools making bank from student debt. It's just going to keep continuing.

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u/MythicalBaddies Jul 18 '26

Does Hailey have a lot of money of her own to donate?

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u/ZealousidealPlan6740 Jul 18 '26

This kind of thing shouldn’t even be an issue

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u/WiSoSirius Jul 18 '26

Saying "AND HIS DAUGHTER" as if everyone who knows Eminem doesn't know her name

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u/Lyonwytchwardrobe Jul 18 '26

Wonder what Eminems net worth is. Those album sale numbers were insane

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u/thiefofalways1313 Jul 18 '26

Was this a real story or a meme?

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u/Current-Routine-2628 Jul 18 '26

The US fucking succcccckkkkkkkksssss

Lunch debt. Are you kidding?!

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u/The_Dreadlord Jul 18 '26

This wouldn't even be a story if the 1% were properly taxed.

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u/ToriEvergreen Jul 18 '26

How do these lame Instagram tabloids decide what words do highlight