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• dandi8@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though...?

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes?

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• sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about using it for the free school lunches that the Governor decided to veto for some fucking reason?

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  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We would rather have the children starve to death than being called a communist.

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  • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was privately funded, this money would not have gone to school lunches

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that where guillotines come in?

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• nikita@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe it would’ve if governments taxed them properly and spent that money to save the planet

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• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So we might a well build some shit.

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  • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, it’s just $2,300,000,000

    Can’t even feed a packed homeless shelter for that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

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  • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those are two different states, plus flint does have clean water now (although the effects of contamination and lead exposure still remain in people who grew up drinking it)

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