Workers of the world unite. Sit in. Strike. Seize the means of production.
Eventually enough will be enough, and that will be a terrible day.
No war but the class war.
Yo gen alpha getting lined up for the slaughter rn jfc
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.
They’re actively campaigning for future generations to be worse off than they are.
Just the ones who weren’t born into massive inherited wealth gathered by systemic exploitation. Ie none of their friends or family be affected.
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.”
This is the quote and it’s appalling.
owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South
Ahhhh, so he’s just looking for fast food slaves. Got it.
Well, . . . yeah. These legislative gems don’t come from ideals or deeply held beliefs. Just continued smash ‘n grab.
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.
Oh got it so ya we’re saying this all wrong then, ya? It should be “we’re here to harm young adults”, right?
“There are no children [to abuse], only young adults ;-)”
As if that makes it better. “Oh it’s not children who are suffering but young adults who are suffering! Phew! Never mind, then!”
People are LYING! We’re NOT trying to harm Children! We’re trying to harm Young Adults!
-That guy.
Thanks. I went to get the quote and the article was behind a paywall. This guy probably can’t figure iut why he has high employee turnover.
Give me a break
What an amazing choice of words
I really don’t understand why they’re so sinister.
They hate themselves very, very much. They hate others even more. Et voilá!
i’m going to snap and i’m going to
Disgusting, our child labor force deserves lunch breaks.
As long as they pay for that lunch! I will not sit by and watch my government feed hungry children!
Yes it’s time to boycott smoothie king
Y’all can afford smoothie king? Last time I was there I think my smoothie cost something like $9, and that was pre-covid.
They dropped half their flavors too, you either get generic protein shake or banana based fruit smoothie in 5 variations.
Pro life, as long as those lives improve our stock portfolios.
How to bring back slavery without calling it that
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 it’s effects on society. Fucking hell at some point something has to go to fucking give.
The blades grow sharper in Minecraft
wtf does that even mean?
I don’t try to understand zoomer talk, I just accept I have aged
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.
Is this true? Man, some people are so dumb. It’s like those people who thought that nobody but them knew what they meant by saying “let’s go Brandon.”
That makes sense. Still, “time to sharpen the guillotines” is clearer and much more fun.
Swing and a miss.
This problem is easily avoided by using guillotines.
Wait… what were we talking about?
its* effects.
Must’ve missed that. Thanks.
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.
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.
Given the makeup of the Legislature and who our current Governor is this is pretty much a done deal.
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
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?
Just curious: what do you think of this law?
Republicans hate trans and cis kids alike. They were never pro life in the first place.
How are people okay with this?
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.
I don’t know if you’re from Louisiana but the percentage of voters electing these guys is much higher than 20%.
I’m from Louisiana. This person is referring to the abysmal voter turnout. They said 20% of the population, not 20% of the voters.
Given that only about 36% of the population even turned out to vote, this is accurate.
With that turnout, it literally only takes 20% of the population to enable shit like this.
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.
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!
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
Forcing kids to work without Lunch Breaks, Water Breaks or any Labor protections is called PROTECTING THE CHILDREN!
Only care about fetus, once born there is no reason to feedus
Remember folks: BoTh SiDeS!
…ffs
Careful, the right-wing propaganda network likes to get comments like this banned. At least in other political communities where they control the narrative.
Wait–i thought this was the work of Democrats. You’re telling me Republicans are trying to take away child workers’ lunch breaks and pay them less??!?
That actually makes a lot more sense. The fuckers won’t do anything to benefit the common citizen, they’re too busy coming up with ways to fuck children and fuck with children’s lives (I’m starting to understand their rationale behind the abortion ban, gotta keep the pipeline flowing)
