lierdumoa:

bunniesravenclawsupernatural:

tinyowlnonsense:

This is so cute, I’m so happy

how to waste food that could satisfy a family for a month.

This is a gross false equivalency. Stop exploiting the plight of poor people to justify your ableism. If this mom bought her kid a gaming console, would you be here sneering “that’s $300 that could have been donated to a food charity”?

I mean let’s be realistic — giving $300 to poor people would go a lot further towards feeding the hungry than $125 worth of spaghetti*.

Anyone who knows anything about how poverty actually works knows that waste and scarcity are not the reasons people go hungry. Waste and scarcity have nothing to do with homelessness, either. There is more than enough food to go around.  There are more than enough houses to go around. Society has a surplus of resources, and has had this surplus for many decades. 

Society denies resources to people who lack capital. That’s the only reason poverty exists. 

Poor people aren’t suffering because one mom decided to do a nice thing for her Autistic kid’s birthday.

Poor people suffer because they don’t have enough money. 

Every kid deserves a birthday present they can enjoy, and $125 is a perfectly reasonable amount of money for a typical middle-class parent to spend once a year for a child’s birthday, so you can take your hate-on for Autistic kids and shove it up your spaghetti hole.

*180lbs cooked spaghetti is approximately 86 lbs dry spaghetti, at $1.45/lb (the price of a box of barilla) is ~$125 worth of food