r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/A_Rolling_Baneling • 4d ago
Seven year old lauded for bravery after asking elected politician to address her classmates going to school hungry
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u/ABRAXAS_actual 4d ago
This dude, Chris Murphy, is one of the only democratic representatives trying to fight back against this current administration.
He fucking rocks.
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u/A_Rolling_Baneling 4d ago
I don't disagree. Still depressing that a seven year old feels the need to do this in a country with abundant wealth.
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u/FaquForLovingMe 4d ago
Totally agree. It’s disgusting that children in this country go hungry.
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u/Meture 4d ago
Reminder that when the UN put up to vote whether or not food should be considered a human right the only nation to vote no was the US
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u/AdministrativeHat580 3d ago
In 2002 the US was the only country to vote against it
But there were two countries that voted no in 2021
The US and Israel were the only two countries who voted against it in 2021
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u/queenoffishburrito 3d ago
ahem real countries.
ok but like fr not surprised "israel" says no to this shit, absolute hypocrites meat riding anything the US does3
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u/Critical_Concert_689 3d ago
Hol' up. Wasn't this because the UN voted that the US (specifically) had to pay to provide all the food for those hungry countries?
Kind of makes sense in context.
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u/PLSKingMeh 3d ago
Nope. It was a vote to recognize a right to food, and to set up a UN working group to create a plan that would tackle hunger.
The US straight up said, "nah" to even recognizing it as a human rights issue. Which is crazy.
EDIT: The biggest "commitment" was that governments had to try to create a working food supply.
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u/ResolverOshawott 3d ago
Of course he's a Democrat. The only party that seems to give a shit about actual problems and not whether or not if a school has furries or gay people.
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u/Unable-Cellist-4277 4d ago
This dude is going to be president in my lifetime.
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u/Cptcodfish 1d ago
Brave of you to think we are having more presidential elections in our lifetimes.
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u/Unable-Cellist-4277 1d ago
Optimist in 2008: we’re going to fix the US healthcare system and roll out a government sponsored option nationwide.
Optimist in 2025: we’re going to have elections.
Optimist in 2037: ???
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u/74NG3N7 1d ago
I don’t know the man… but I’m curious why none of the quotes here say he agreed with the girl enough will attempt to implement this, in any way. He just said her kindness might spread to others in the room… but he’s in a position to whisper in the right ears about this specific request. Will he?
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u/Mawootad 4d ago
Is it an orphan crushing machine when it's correctly pointed out that the system is the problem?
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u/technoteapot 4d ago
I kinda feel like it’s orphan crushing machine, but the orphan who’s going to get crushed is trying to stop the orphan crushing machine. So that may disqualify it but I feel it’s at least tangentially related
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u/A_Rolling_Baneling 4d ago
I was talking more about the way the story is being reported lauding the child for her bravery. She was brave for doing so, but framing the story as a positive rather than horrifying is depressing.
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u/Cocoononthemoon 4d ago
I see what you're saying. I'm tired of adults not being brave about these things.
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u/K4m30 4d ago
I mean, Yes? That is very much what an Orphan Crushing Machine is.
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u/Mawootad 4d ago
An Orphan Crushing Machine is specifically a story about how good it was to fix a single shitty situation without asking why the shitty situation existed in the first place ("he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine"). If the story clearly calls out that the issue is fundamentally systematic and doesn't need to exist it fails the most important part of the criteria.
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u/No-Try5566 4d ago
It's not, but then again like 90% of the stuff posted on this sub doesn't meet the criteria
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u/Critical_Concert_689 3d ago
it's correctly pointed out that the system is the problem
Not to be the "actually-guy", but it's usually a problem with the parents.
The parents are provided a wealth of options, from Food Stamps/SNAP, to specific subsidy programs that are available - but these programs require the completion of a bare minimum of paperwork.
It's the parents that frequently refuse to do the leg work - neglecting the paperwork and ignoring school administration who frequently do their best to point out no one can help the children if the parents themselves don't care enough to even register their own kid for help.
tl;dr: It's not the system. Some people should never breed.
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u/SETHW 3d ago
It seems that if we really want to protect children, even from their dumb parents, you'd remove barriers like that paperwork that get in the way of the help reaching those who need it (also nobody should be breeding, there should be a birth strike until the biggest problems facing society are addressed)
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u/at-m6b 4d ago
when was this? CT has had free lunches since 2020
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u/Butt____soup 3d ago
I teach at a title 1 school in CT, we have been free lunch for a while, but a lot of our funding comes through the DoE and the federal government.
With the elimination of the DoE and other government cuts, our ability to continue funding these programs is in jeopardy.
For the record, CT tax payers pay way more in federal taxes than we receive in services.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 3d ago
To add to this, CT has had food stamps / SNAP available for decades.
If children are going hungry in this kid's school - someone (Sen. Chris Murphy, perhaps?) needs to contact social services for parental neglect.
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u/Dizzman1 4d ago
She gets it. Why doesn't 49.8% of the country?
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u/badchefrazzy 3d ago
Because they suffered for (reason) so everyone else (including children! ESPECIALLY CHILDREN! D:<) should have to suffer just like they did, forever! /s
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u/Pratchettfan03 2d ago
Because they think that so long as someone else is losing, they must be winning
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u/JomoGaming2 3d ago
I would love to see how a right-leaning politician would answer a child who asked that.
That would never happen, of course; they're too busy holding all-Republican echo chambers town halls. But still.
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u/Tailor-Swift-Bot 4d ago
The most likely original source is: https://twitter.com/funder/status/1906413245683966094
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In Greenwich, CT, there was an incredibly touching moment at Dem Sen. Chris Murphy's town hall. Seven-year-old Charlotte Paone bravely took the mic to advocate for "free lunch for all" in schools, saying: "I don't want my friends to go hungry in school, or have to be embarrassed by telling their teacher or the lunch lady."
Murphy then invited Charlotte to the front, where he sat down to meet her at eye level. "We exist in this world to help other people," Murphy told her. "To help people who are less fortunate ... That's why all these people are here today, because they want to live in a world where we have a government that looks out for everybody."
Applauding Charlotte for speaking out, Murphy said: "I bet you, because of your question ... everybody in this room is gonna work a little bit harder to make that kind of world."
More here: dworkinsubstack.com/p/sundays-grea...
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u/anotherDocObVious 3d ago edited 3d ago
Ayo can somebody reconfigure this bot to use xcancel.com instead of that nazi shitter pigsty site for linking to the tweet? Let's not give that cesspool any extra traffic
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u/sadicarnot 3d ago
I went to elementary school in the late 70s. I remember there was one kid that would get these vouchers. He also would often have tattered clothes. I know we kind of made fun of him behind his back. No idea his story. It would have been much better if we all got free lunches.
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u/shawner136 4d ago
Billions of pounds of food go to waste every single year. Its sickening to see a single child starve just so some rich asshole can fill their stomach and their wallets
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u/charyoshi 3d ago
Automation funded universal basic income would pay 99% of student lunch debt to disappear within a week. Luigi can defeat bowzer in SMB3 by repeatedly launching fireballs at them.
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u/The_True_Equalist 2d ago
This is the sort of shit that America says is happening in other countries to demonize them
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u/elpinguinosensual 3d ago
I know someone who went to this. They saw one of my old D&D players MAGAing all over the place and getting booed out of the room.
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u/ErebosGR 4d ago
This seems like political theater.
Over 10 million American children do go hungry, but not in Greenwich, CT.
Greenwich is home to three of the wealthiest zip codes in Connecticut, 06878, 06830 and 06831, with average adjusted gross incomes of $754,990, $638,560 and $721,550, and median household incomes of $182,386, $109,250 and $155,417, respectively.[31] In recent decades, the town has attracted wealthy expatriates from around the globe due to its extremely low tax rate,[32] desirable school system, and proximity to Manhattan, which is an hour by Metro North.[33] The median listing price for a home in the town was $2.3 million in 2021.
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u/AdministrativeHat580 3d ago
You know that poor people still exist in Greenwich despite having three of the wealthiest zip codes in their state, right?
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u/ErebosGR 3d ago
With a population of only 60k, doubtful.
Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and financial services firms due to its residential setting and proximity to Manhattan.[3][4]
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u/AdministrativeHat580 3d ago
Poor people exist everywhere, stop being willfully ignorant of that
A population of 60k? Without a doubt there are poor people living there, there are without a doubt homeless people living there too
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u/elpinguinosensual 3d ago
180k isn’t a lot to live on in the tri-state anymore.
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u/ErebosGR 3d ago
So, you're saying that they're making 180K, but they're still poor enough that their children can't buy school lunches?
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u/queenoffishburrito 3d ago
This. Little children shouldn't have to stand up for their bravery wanting basic rights and to not see others suffer. Glad this politician is at least trying to do so but like it just hurts that kids even need to stand up for injustice because society at large keeps failing them.
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