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Paw… I think I got the black lung
Great, a short joke targeting children!
They are children!/s
Governor Ron DeSantis said during a panel discussion in March: “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when, you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff? … What’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.”
And a lot of things were different for your great-great-grandparents, and yet here you are not living as they did, you cheesedick dumbfuck.
what’s the news here? They are basically using the same arguments the US used to not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Minors being the parents property is still an almost uncontroversial position in the US even if people don’t phrase it like that.
See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.
Every last one of those places needs to be burned down, the staff and investors should be hanged.
lol do American politicians seriously try to frame child labor laws as taking away parents rights?
In ancent rome there was a law,that went something like “you cannot sell your son into slavery a third time”. Americans would see that as a violation of parental rights
Third? The fuck did someone do to cause that?! Was there some dude who sold his son into slavery and then said son got out of slavery at least three times so the Romans had to pass a law to keep that from happening again? Why do I get the feeling Crassus was involved.
part of the conservative ideology is that children are property and should be molested, not heard.
When I was a kid, my mom was outraged that somebody made the statement, “children aren’t their parent’s property.”
So, yeahCurrently every politician making a name for themselves will frame anything they can in any way they can. Words have little meaning lately so you just say whatever the fuck you want and worry about the angle later.
It’s just embarrassing for people that this works on. So stupid.
Of course! Especially those from the party that wants crops to be picked, but doesn’t want anyone who would actually do it to exist or survive in our country. And because the term “child labor” in general is unpalatable to most people. For good reason…
Sounds like a right nightmare ya got goin on there bud
Yeah, it’s not great here… Unless you’re a billionaire and want to exploit people!
There’s I think a dollop on the brassero program that details a past program where they’d ship high schoolers to farms for the summer in an attempt to reduce migratory workers. The program failed immediately. Conservatives are insane in the literal definition of the word.
Actually surprising that the Republicans didn’t just push it through as they have a majority, but one can be happy about every news like that
Next step: to the jails and concentration camps for slave labor.
You should pay more attention because we’ve already been doing that this whole time.
Also, anyone who wants to access government services. Want Medicaid? Work in the fields. Want Social Security? Work in the fields. Want Food Stamps? Work in the fields? Want Medicare? Work in the fields. Etc.
If you already have a couple of jobs, send your children to the fields. It’s not like they’re getting a useful education anyway. Most of it will be MAGA propaganda about how much better it is for kids to work in the fields instead of the classroom, because it keeps the evil foreigners out of our country.
Good thing the north left a loophole in the constitution after the civil war just for a situation like this.
Oh, who could have foreseen that…
Why did the children keep falling apart? Were they made of wet cardboard?
The front fell off
I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.
The fact that “how it used to be” in your childhood produced a scumbag like you is a compelling argument to not let people’s childhoods be like that anymore.
“I was beaten as a child and I ended up fine” says man who beats children.
I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.
Also, this is complete and utter bullshit. I’m older than Ron boy, and child labor laws predate me. The folks picking crops in the fields in the 80’s and 90’s were the same immigrants that are (or were, I guess) doing it today. And anyone who attended Yale almost certainly wasn’t out picking crops as a kid. Like most members of the GOP, he has zero attachment to reality.
…what about DeSantis Dachau?..plenty of labour there…
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
Republican state Senator Jay Collins, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure was about parental rights: “We should let them say what’s best for their kids at 16- to 17-year-olds, that’s what we’re saying by this.”
Anyone who puts forth a measure aimed at “parental rights”, it’s always something that’s aimed at parents’ right to treat their children like property
It would also have scrapped required 30-minute meal breaks
It’s a parent’s right to make sure their child works an 8 hour shift with no breaks! Breaks are socialism!
They’ve already scrapped mandatory water breaks for outside workers :(
So let’s make the jobs nobody wants to do even worse while we deport the few remaining people willing to do them.
Then try and get notoriously hard working and focused teenagers to do it.
Every one of these is always “Parent’s Rights Act” and the text is like “murdering your gay/trans 10-year-old is now totally legal”.
"You should be able to give your child a job at a slave wage in awful conditions. That’s a parental decision.
“What if I want to give my child the opportunity to explore their gender identity? Thats a parental decision too.”
“Off to the gulag with you all.”
Like how is the female property to keep the children in line if the children aren’t also property?
statesparents rights!Why is it always about slavery?
The teenage babysitters I know demand a higher hourly rate than Target workers in my locale (at about $18/hr). I don’t think the farmers are ready to pay that for young people who are not work hardened and can’t keep their phones out of their hands for longer than 5 minutes. It is not like they will starve if they don’t pick enough. After all, their parents will be there, helicoptering, handing them bottles of lifewater and snacks and uploading pics and vids on their phones on their social media accounts.
Why don’t you go work in the field? We need all the top shots out there, get on it buddy.
Children should grow up and use their energy for learning, so that they aren’t doomed to become slaves for the prison industry in a future where people without solid education are not able to do more than work in the fields or clean offices.
But i know, y’all don’t need that, because all the stuff that made america great in the 50’s and 60’s was invented by farm workers and office cleaners… or might it be that all that made america great came from the minds of the top educated of their fields, you know, scientists - you will need new ones in the future, since the ones living right now are fleeing the US as fast as possible to escape the braindead fascism that has taken hold of the country.
You should start begging your children to stay in school, your future depends on it.
Congratulations. This is the most Boomer-ass comment I have ever read on Lemmy.
Signed,
A 40-Year Old Millenial.
Do they even purify the drinking water in Florida? … or are people there just this stupid?
The place is surrounded by sea and riddled with swamps, how dare you try to homogonize all the tasty natural flavors.
I hear mercury is a tasty exotic beverage in Florida.
Like from the toilet?
This one goes in the mouth and this one… No, wait
Your kids are starving. Carl’s Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr… “Fuck You, I’m Eating.”
Go away, 'bating!
Large population of boomers with a lifetime of lead poisoning, and they vote.
Maybe that was the case 20 years ago, but today there native son Gen-X and Millennial shits are voting just as hard R as the old folks used to. I’ve been here the whole time and watched the whole state transition from “haha” dumb to “dude, wtf?” dumb.
I’m not giving them lead as a pass. There’s a huge swath of Boomers who are just shitass, toxic, hateful people. They never grew out of their angsty, entitled bitter selves, and most are broadly uneducated, and resentful despite failing upwards for 30-40 years as a confluence of luck.
I never said it was a pass. But it is something you must take into account.
We added fucking lead to everything back then. Even the fucking water lines and gasoline pumping it into every breath they took whether they wanted to or not. An entire generation fucked by lead without knowing it at the time.
Lead exposure has been shown to things like increased aggression. Which propaganda then takes to the next level by stoking artificial fear.
The way you phrase and articulate your statements reads like you are suggesting that lead is the culprit of Boomer behavior, and not deep character flaws and a broad sense of entitlement and narcissistic indulgences. Hence my rebuttal.
Oh no there’s a lot of bullshit with the boomers. Lead is just one of many things. It’s not all just because they’re assholes, there are some legitimate contributors that result in the extreme bullshit pie.
DeSantis just outlawed fluoride in water and my city just… went along with it. It’s the dumbest state and I can’t wait to leave.
Wait what? you actually want fluoride in your drinkwater???
Yes because I don’t want to end up like Calgary and Juneau and I’m not a lunatic.
I’m not the one you asked, but adding fluoride to tap water was a revolution in dental health, so yeah.
Just like most things, concentration matters. A little fluoride is very good for you. A lot of fluoride is bad for you. They put a “very good for you” amount in the water, and if you don’t get it from the water you should take supplements.
You may have seen conspiracy theories about fluoride addition which have existed since the 70s, but those have about as much credibility as chemtrails.
Don’t know about any conspiracy theories, but my take is tapwater should be as clean as possible without any additives. Fluoride is in fish, fruits, toothpaste, make sure you eat healthy enough so you don’t need your water source to be “contaminated”.
But I guess in the US and the food quality its better than nothing.
Adding fluoride to water is not US specific.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
The introduction of flouride to drinking water saw a massive improvement in the public’s dental health across the board. It is still widely considered to be one of the greatest public health initiatives of the 20th century.
You should also keep in mind that drinking water always has some level of natural flouride in it. Just the concentration varies by region. Public health officials discovered that areas with higher amounts of natural flouride also had lower rates of cavities and tooth decay. So some cities have their water flouridated to bring their flouride content up to beneficial levels.
