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Flying Squid

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You do know those doctors and lawyers paying back their student loans can be Republicans, right? Do you think they believe they’ve failed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps enough?

I’m in Indiana. I’m surrounded by Republicans. My wife has Republican relatives who are in these situations and in successful careers. This is not how they think. School vouchers are about their idea that public schools are atheist liberal institutions which will teach children to be transgender and worship Satan.

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This is the school- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_School_of_Baton_Rouge

Current tuition is $20,000 a year for high school- and he went in high school- and I doubt (accounting for inflation) that it was so much more affordable when he was a kid that poor kids could go.

But who knows? Maybe he got a scholarship. Considering he got loans from friends according to the article, I doubt it.

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Except that “the unworthy” are doctors and lawyers. Including Republican doctors and lawyers. Who will be paying back student loans their whole life. So maybe there’s more to it than that.

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Yeah, I looked at the menu and it seemed surprisingly limited, especially for a fast food chain.

Here it is:

That’s their entire menu.

Culver’s: We have all food ever created for sale right now on our 80-page menu. Have fun at our drive-through.

Raising Cane’s: Fuck you, you have five options and all of them are chicken fingers.

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I do not see how a childless Republican got theirs with school vouchers. The only people school vouchers benefit are people with school-age kids that want to send them to private religious school.

The reason they’re in favor of school vouchers is that they hate public school and they want to religiously indoctrinate children.

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It seems to me that in a case like this, averting cruelty would be the bigger thing. What kind of environmental impact can the fake fur industry have when contrasted with the environmental impact of, for example, the entire fossil fuel for generating electricity system? Because I’m guessing it’s a tiny drop in a giant bucket and we can be more concerned with averting unnecessary cruelty here.

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I sure as fuck wouldn’t add either of my grandmothers, but I’ll take your word for it on yours.

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Are you operating under the absolutely bizarre assumption that the only Republicans who are in favor of school vouchers have school-aged children? Or children at all?

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Sure, but also think of all the horrible people throughout history that clawed their way to power and ruled both ruthlessly and successfully.

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