My gripe is that they miss the mark by targeting new dads. The reason dad jokes are great is they are the first jokes your kid understands. So I would think dads of 4 to 9 year-olds would be a better target.
The high you feel when your kid cracks up at some offhand dumb joke can't be bottled.
But the reason I love this as a resourse is that explaining jokes to a curious child develops connections in their head in a way that only a parenting rolemodel can really do. So even if it's not laugh-out-loud funny to explain a joke, if your child tells you that they do not get a joke, first and foremost realize that is a vunerable admission. Buddies will rag on you for not getting it. Parents see a gap in their kids' world experience that they can fill.
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse is an Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs/Federal grantees, states, and the public at-large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.
tbf the effort spent on the dad joke gizmo was probably like one dev having some fun compared to the rest of the site
You want to know a good joke? The funding for this site was approved by congress in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 section 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood
I'm guessing you're just reacting to the title. The site has a lot of useful information. I hope a useful site like that is not the bullshit reason you don't want to pay taxes.
The bottom half of wage earners pay zero federal income tax, and around 90% of federal income taxes are paid by the top 10%.
Most people get more back than they had withheld all year. It's most likely that these aren't YOUR tax dollars, and if they are, YOUR contribution is likely microscopic.
I'd take that 100% of the time over many of the other things our tax dollars pay for. Plus, it's just a website with resources for fathers in general, not a whole site dedicated to dad jokes.
That's the point I'm making. Give me a government that I can see the taxes I pay benefitting myself and the others I share a government with and I won't mind paying.
War and dad joke websites aren't my idea of money well spent.
Trivially silly opinions can be countered by trivially silly points. Yes.
You don't need to be creative every time some idiot repeats themselves. Though I guess it's futile since they clearly won't change their minds. So it's more for anyone reading it who might think the original opinion makes any sense.
"I don't want to pay taxes if they're going to be used on stupid shit and bombing people" is not successfully countered with "roads". Roads are obviously not stupid shit, if my taxes were only paying for stuff like roads I wouldn't complain. Justify taking my money from me at gunpoint to pay for a dad joke website.
The bottom half of wage earners pay zero federal income tax, and around 90% of federal income taxes are paid by the top 10%.
Most people get more back than they had withheld all year. It's most likely that these aren't YOUR tax dollars, and if they are, YOUR contribution is likely microscopic.
I just don't think taxes should be used to pay for a (likely overpriced) dad joke website man. There's a perfectly good Lemmy community full of them that I get for free. This dad joke website is emblematic of a larger systemic problem, that most of the money we pay in taxes doesn't actually benefit us in any tangible or measurable way.
I also don't want to contribute to bombing innocent people.
You're not happy your tax dollars funded a 20yr war in Afghanistan that was ultimately lost in less than 2 weeks, and Gulf War 2: Iraqi Boogaloo The Hunt for Nonexistent WMDs?
Someone cited recently how much we were paying a year just for air conditioning in Afghanistan: $20 billion. Meanwhile we’re like “hey, maybe children shouldn’t be starving in school and forced to throw their lunch in the trash at the end of the line if they can’t pay for it, maybe states shouldn’t be sending parents to collections for a $90 kid’s lunch bill” and conservatives: WHO’S GONNA PAY FOR THAT??
Funding for the NRFC is provided through the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which authorized the use of funds for “the development, promotion, and distribution of a media campaign to encourage the appropriate involvement of parents in the life of any child and specifically the issue of responsible fatherhood, and the development of a national clearinghouse to assist States and communities in efforts to promote and support marriage and responsible fatherhood.”
Well, the bottom half of wage earners pay zero federal income tax, and around 90% of federal income taxes are paid by the top 10%.
Most people get more back than they had withheld all year. It's most likely that these aren't YOUR tax dollars, and if they are, YOUR contribution is likely microscopic.