• Tempus Fugit
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    1517 days ago

    I’ve been saying, “oh well” at just about every headline I’ve read in the past three months as a coping mechanism, but this one caught me off guard. I definitely expected Utah to charge kids full-price. Glad to hear they’re looking out for kids.

    • @[email protected]
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      Mormons kinda give a shit about their communities

      Good foreign policies too. They fought in court to pay less taxes because they dont pay for any war.

  • @[email protected]
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    10917 days ago

    Just a reminder that the LDS Church has $206 Billion in the bank.

    A church. $206 Billion.

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      They also own 2.7% of private land in Florida and 1 in every 550 acres of private land in the U.S.:

    • thermal_shock
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      516 days ago

      The show American Primeval was the beginning, they showed how they ripped people/towns/indians apart for that land under government control by Brigham young. True or not, I’d believe it given their stake today.

      • @[email protected]
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        Joseph Smith, the Jesus Christ of Mormonism, was killed by an angry mob who stormed a prison he was being held in to execute him for scamming them.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 days ago

        Its funny because I dont understand Mormons enough to know why the videos are taboo. They always look like dream sequences for some reason.

        • @[email protected]
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          316 days ago

          I’m 100% certain it is for Mormons, but I don’t know if it’s by Mormons or not. Based on my personal encounters with them, actual Mormon girls are way hotter than the girls in the porn.

        • @[email protected]
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          315 days ago

          also in the books!

          the expanse is probably the most faithful reproduction of a book series ever.

          especially considering it’s like, what?, 5 books they made into the series?

          it’s almost a 1:1 translation into a different medium, which is hella impressive!

          they cut some stuff here and there (more and more as the series goes on, for obvious reasons) but seriously, damn near everything about the main story is there!

          there’s really good reasons for the fans demanding more of it after Netflix stopped production

  • Fingolfinz
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    7117 days ago

    It makes me sad I wasn’t expecting this headline from Utah whatsoever when starting to read it but I’m glad it’s positive in the end

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat
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      2117 days ago

      Utah is a little weird in that they aren’t so Mich maga as much as they are Mormon, they have progressive politics when it just so happens to suit the church’s needs

      • @[email protected]
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        Sort of. Our leadership have been doing some incredibly sketchy things lately and are very buddy-buddy with Trump.

      • Fingolfinz
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        316 days ago

        Yeah that’s a good point. Mormons are still weird to me but I’ve known some and they are pretty chill people for the most part and pretty rational about stuff. Much, much easier to hang around than fucking southern baptists and can even be fun. I smoke a lot of weed and they never partook but never cared so I always thought that was cool

    • Realitätsverlust
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      416 days ago

      Imagine children getting free lunches and you still manage to make it about: “ARF THEM EVIL WHITE PEOPLE!!!11”

      Got outside, lunatic.

      • @[email protected]
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        Cracker please. /s

        Spicy response, I know, but “it’s always about evil white people”?

        Nuh-uh, not going there.

  • Beacon
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    “They had us in the first half I’m not gonna lie”

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    816 days ago

    That this is a state-level thing tells you just how much Democrats suck.

    • @[email protected]
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      1216 days ago

      And how awesome republicans are? Let’s look at all the policies in schools on average and decide. This is a great move by Utah, but I doubt the right wing Utahans pushed this.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        616 days ago

        The Republicans are awful people too.

        That’s the point I’m making.

        • @[email protected]
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          1016 days ago

          Your point was not clear. You sound like a maga, or one of those “undecided,” who are decidedly worse.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            616 days ago

            My point was exceedingly clear.

            If Democrats did their job at the federal level, student lunch debt wouldn’t exist. Instead, they’re helping Israel run an apartheid.

            You just didn’t understand it.

            • @[email protected]
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              215 days ago

              And the republicans are doing the same thing. Wait until they start building condos in Gaza.

              • FlashMobOfOne
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                115 days ago

                Gotta love “democracy”.

                Regardless of your constituency’s opinion, no one has any real power to hold a politician accountable for their promises.

      • @[email protected]
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        216 days ago

        There’s more than those two right parties. Take off your blinders and look around, will you?

        Maybe watch an election cycle in Canada or Mexico to see how blinded you are.

  • @[email protected]
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    5017 days ago

    They’re playing the long game here.

    1st remove fluoride from municipal water sources, kids start getting more cavities.

    2nd give free lunches.

    3rd kids stop eating their free lunches due to the pain of their cavities.

    4th State government proclaims they’ve done such a tremendous job with the economy that kids aren’t eating and needing free meals anymore, so they are removing them from the budget.

    /s

  • themeatbridge
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    14817 days ago

    Richest country in the history of the planet, and we have “lunch debt” for kids in school.

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          516 days ago

          Actually tho. Conservative politicians be pushing that pro-life shit cause of religion but also because they want to maintain their cheap labor force that they’ve sold the idea of “freedom” to

        • @[email protected]
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          716 days ago

          We can’t bailout lunch kids, what about my meth addiction debt? Nobody helped me. BOoTsTrApS!

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat
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      1017 days ago

      Can’t wait for school lunch debt to become non dischargeable in bankruptcy

    • @[email protected]
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      1616 days ago

      They held my high school diploma for 6 months because I had $20 dollar deficit.

      They never got the money because my dad threatened a lawsuit.

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        My school held someone’s diploma to the max legal limit (like 6 months) because they did a twirl when walking on stage to get the fake diploma case thing.

        Many US schools are more oppressive than some other country’s prisons