• alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    State doesn’t pay for kid’s lunch. If parent can’t afford kid’s lunch, state takes child and places them in a foster home. State pays foster home many many times the cost of lunch to take kid.

    Tell me what the goal of this system is so I can call someone else a conspiracy theorist for a change.

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        This is EXACTLY what they want. They sell the cute ones (check the protective services website, they have them listed for placement like a weird dating service or pet adoption site). They will prison to pipeline the rest while working them in “skill camps”.

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          CPS is a dystopian hell. I advocated for a child for a while, they would fuck up absolutely basic things, would not find out about things like hospitalization or legal trouble for weeks. When I brought up several months of basically no mental health care, they insinuated that I might be abusing the child.

          They won’t take action on actual abuse. It’s Kafkaesque.

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            To justify their budget, they must find “clients” to put in their system. Getting clients means finding just the right parent(s) that they can bully, intimidate, and exaggerate charges against. Child services no longer operates in good faith. They won’t even allow you to record their conversations because they are so apt to lie. The foster system is just as bad. Putting people on payroll to take care of kids that no one knows the location of. 23,160 foster kids were reported missing or unaccounted for in 2024. These were just the ones REPORTED. Where is the politician rage over this?

            • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              The foster care system is complicit in child trafficking, and the politicians are in on it. I recall a news story where a politician was “helping” pregnant women with visas and trafficking them and the babies.

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    Getting school lunches is so foreign to me, but then again people here in NL just bring home made sandwiches, which are generally cheaper to make than food like in the picture.

    At least in the schools I went to when the teature noticed somebody didn’t have lunch with them on a consistent basis they would ask what was wrong and give them food.

    Some other kids just kept eating unhealthy food every day because the school was still selling that. Heck in my first highscool they sold candy every thursday or so. It was an interesting time.

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      What’s NL? Why Americans always write their state names in abbreviations and expect people from other parts of the world to understand?

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        NL is the ISO standard abbreviation for The Netherlands and considering our history in the world (both good and bad) I assume most people understand where it is from…

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            Lmao your first hot take is hilarious though. “Why do Americans always do this shit! Oh not American, never mind, sorry for being a cunt.”

            Maybe realize were all humans first?

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    Christ empowered his followers to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and tend to the sick. For some reason American Christians have decided that these explicit dictates should he ignored, much like the reminder that it is not their role to judge, so that they can instead focus on bigotry.

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        It’s really not.

        The corrupt nature of the Church as an institution exists to take advantage of the naive humanitarianism of its fellowship.

        People, by and large, do want to help their neighbors and provide for the young and the elderly. Modern prosperity gospel Christianity and historical Catholicism/Protestantism hasn’t change human nature. People in the church still pursue benevolent goals. It only pollutes human perception and education, by misallocating resources intended to improve society.