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Nothing like a good 12 hour shift at the Smoothie King to build character.
At this point I can't tell if these guys are seeing how far they can push things or if they actually believe this kind of thing is good for their state. Both are stupid but neither would be surprising.
At this point, i partially believe they are pushing it to the point that enough sensible people will leave the state, making those states republican stongholds for the congress and electroral college
Many of them are just old and have cognitive dissonance about their own experience as a child. They simply believe that children today have the identical, fantasized experience they think they remember. Not only is what they remember untrue and most likely a collage of half-memories, stories from other people, and propaganda, but they have no incentive to scrutinize their decisions and beliefs because they've been in a comfortable insular community for most of their life that rewards them for thinking this way.
I say old but you don't have to be that old to be brainwashed by a religious community and a comfortable job.
If you're talking about the voters, sure.
The people writing the laws are doing it purely for profit. They get paid by businesses, the businesses get the cheapest labor possible.
It's a dangerous thing. Because if you talk to some of these legislators they can easily hand over the same excuse about it being their belief as the voters who believe in that. But the scary thing is, as hard as it is to admit, many of them genuinely believe in the thing they vote for.
Maybe in places like the house or congress it's a skew towards money and power, but it exists especially in local government. It's easy to completely dehumanize them by saying they're just paid to do it but the much more real situation is that it's genuine.
We just lost the democrat governor who has been blocking stupid bills like this for the last year. Our congress is revenge passing everything they can because the new republican governor blindly rubber stamps it all.
So yeah, a lot of these bills literally are just seeing what they can get away with.
They believe that putting limits on what businesses can do to abuse their employees keeps the employees from learning to be better.
Basically telling a bullied child that they're on their own, and they need to learn to stand up for themselves.
Nevermind that comparatively, its like the bully is sitting in a panzer tank and perfectly willing to keep rolling forward no matter the obstacle.
They don't care about anything but profit dude. Children can be employed with less pay and no benefits so of course they prefer to employ children, same reason they like illegals but can't actually say anything to that effect.
At this point I can't tell if these guys are seeing how far they can push things.
There's no opposition. Hell, everyone with oversight in Uvalde got reelected.
Why stop when you have absolute power?
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”
That seems like an open admission he wants to harm "young adults"
Here's the thing: Lots of Republican leaning business owners see it as their right to retaliate against their workers without the gov intervening. So to them, the only thing they see wrong with this is the "child" part, because retaliation against children makes them look bad.
Hence the "they aren't children" rhetoric.
By the way, this part of the bill was explicitly included by a congressman who owns some franchises and says his underage workers "don't even want lunch breaks".
So this is one dude trying to squeeze 20 extra hours of labor from literal children who's dictating this for the entire state.
I guess they really never got over losing that slavery thing...
"Remove lunch breaks for child workers"
For those of you worried that we were falling into a dystopian nightmare... Congratulations, we're well beyond that.
"First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks."
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-children-yearn-for-the-mines
Does conflict of interest not exist in the US, or is it encouraged to get yourself elected and just be openly corrupt?
Why not just declare yourself a massive wage straight from the budget?
That was Tuesday. This is Friday.
If anyone knows children it's southern Republicans
Is this not a conflict of interest? String this motherfucker up in the gallows. It is downright corrupt to write laws that benefit your franchise. Fuck this asshole with a rusted spoon. Take all this online anger and shove it in his smoothie king lobbies.
Surely the voters will punish pols who brazenly help themselves at the expense of the public.
Any day now.
That won't happen until you can't buy food at the grocers. Because the threat of imprisonment outweighs the perceived threat of these actions. Even though, at the end of the day, this law is just as damaging to individuals as an actual prison.
Hey guys I have an idea let's punch this guy in the cock
Yes, "punch".
So Willy Wonka was a documentary?
Sounds like a terrible place to raise a family.
Can confirm. Louisiana is actively getting worse because our congress is in a phase of revenge passing bills that our democrat governor had been blocking for the last 8 years, now that we have a newly elected republican governor.
I wish Kansas and Louisiana had more long term memory. Brownback and Jindal were probably the worst governors of the last 50 years, qho did immediate and undeniable harm to their states, resulting in both states voting for Democrats right after. But they then proceeded to go right back to the absolutely terrible ideas.
I still remember Brownback's last campaign ad: "The sun is shining in Kansas and don't let anybody tell you any different."
That last bit's kind of prophetic now.
I think the bigger reason that Vitter lost was the prostitution scandal. Edwards then turned out to be not so bad in Republican eyes that he got a second term.
America? Yeah...
Republican Legislators: We are strongly opposed to child labor.
Public: Finally.
Republican Legislators: So we are going to severely punish any children found doing it.
Public: Wait a minute...
'Full throttle back to the Middle Ages!' - Republicans
Lmao shithole country
Holy fuck that title has so much evil in it
The voters who will approve this guy again think this law will hurt blacks and browns. These voters think "my white child will always have a good boss and get breaks."
This summer the lawmakers will try to suppress stories about any white children suffering from this.
By the end of next summer, white people will start to realize that they are not immune to this. And it will be too late by then.
Just republican shit.
Reading the title I thought they took away the lunch breaks of people working with children and thought "that would de heartless". Then it dawned on me what the title actually says...
Anyone who's name ends with "the third" should not be allowed to run for office.
Also anyone that calls themselves The X king should be banned from office... Heck, anyone that's ever owned a business of any sort should be banned from office. These are people not representative of the general public.
I've met the general public. They're cool, but pretty easy to manipulate. I don't think we want them in office.
I'd rather an easy to manipulate person in office than an explicitly corrupt suit.
But beyond that, wealth and prestige isn't granted to people based on intelligence or capability. There are plenty of smart capable people that have had lives far more relatable to the average person.
We have more than a few examples of idiot million and billionaires.
Clown evil
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