I really can't think of a quippy response to this. The cruelty is flabbergasting. They're actively campaigning for future generations to be worse off than they are.
I can't get over the quote from the bills author when he says "Give me a break". In my district in the last election there were 3 candidates running for the state Legislature and they all tried to out conservative eqch other.
First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsors the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said people have been too critical of his bill.
“The wording is ‘we’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he says. "These are young adults.”
He needs to be removed from office by force if necessary. And we need fucking law that you have give up your business to run and hold political office. Fuck this scumbag.
People don't have to be okay with it. Just the 20% of the population who votes for these assholes. Our system of government makes sure a minority can rule as long as their population density is sufficiently low.
Australia had a bad turnout once and the illegitimate government got tired of being rightfully called illegitimate and said from now on everyone votes, and it helped a little bit.
That might help here, except that Republicans actively label attempts to raise the voter turnout as a Democrat power grab, and Republicans are the only ones with any power. It'll never happen
I always wondered how it came about, Wws the govt that introduced it rewarded by being proven to be illegitimate? I could easily imagine they'd get pounded at the next election just for forcing people to come out and vote when they'd rather not!
Headline makes this look like a law was passed. It passed committee and is going to the floor for a vote. And then the Senate. And then the governor's desk. This is far from being a done deal.
9 of 10, or more, outrageous headlines are like this around here. Yet I would wager every one of you thinks a law was passed from reading the headline.
The point is to show the disgusting behavior of Republican politicians, that they would even THINK of proposing such horrible laws, while prancing around pretending to be good Christians and "protecting" the people
On a party line vote, this is a done deal. You haven't been paying attention to Louisiana politics, I take it? They're in a phase right now of revenge passing whatever right wing bills they can because, for the first time in 8 years, we have a republican governor who won't stop them.
Why the fuck are they even trying to pass it though? Shouldn't they be working on something to help people? How is this kind of law benefiting anyone but the employers?
Gotta love how these old fucks are pulling the ladder from behind and making decisions for us when they won't even be alive to see its effects on society. Fucking hell at some point something has got to fucking give.
Some people think making a threat followed by the words "... in minecraft" makes them immune to the consequences of said threat because they meant "only in the game *wink wink*". It's about as useless of an excuse as making veiled threats along the lines of "dear followers, wouldn't it be great if somebody assassinated JFK?"
The commenter either tried to make a joke on it or was actually being serious, and insinuating people should start a revolution. I'm not sure which, but both were unsuccessful.
This is giving so many Oliver Twist vibes that you’d think it’s a parody.
Usually these stories go like “Let’s give the child workers lunch breaks” and you find the mandatory “There should be no child labor in the first place” in the comments, next to a link to the orphan-crushing machine.
This feels like a meta-joke. Instead of adding a little good to something horrible, they add appalling to horrible. I actually checked if this was the onion posting or if the post is from April 1st, but no; it’s just the United States. XD Good luck to all of you.
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