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> There are 0 starving people in the United States, That is somewhere between misleading and flat-out untrue. While starving to death in the US is exceedingly
by notacoward 8y ago
> There are 0 starving people in the United States,
That is somewhere between misleading and flat-out untrue. While starving to death in the US is exceedingly rare, the number is still non-zero and there are literally millions who are "food insecure" (the term used for statistics etc.) to some degree or other. That's starving, as anyone who has actually had trouble affording decent meals (as I did when I was young) would know. The fact that there are also poor people who are obese doesn't change that one bit.
And you know the funny thing? The reason there are so few people starving to the point of death is distinctly non-capitalist food programs. Capitalism failed them; social democracy saved them. That you would claim the near opposite is frankly disgusting.