Lawmakers on a Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to slash unemployment benefits — part of a Republican-backed
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    136·
    7 个月前

    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.

    • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world
      52·
      7 个月前

      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.

      • lost_tortie@lemmy.world
        74·
        7 个月前

        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.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      11·
      7 个月前

      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.

  • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
    108·
    7 个月前

    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.

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          5·
          7 个月前

          This problem is easily avoided by using guillotines.

          Wait… what were we talking about?

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
          4·
          7 个月前

          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.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      37·
      7 个月前

      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.

        • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
          31·
          7 个月前

          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 eligible voting 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.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    37·
    7 个月前

    Forcing kids to work without Lunch Breaks, Water Breaks or any Labor protections is called PROTECTING THE CHILDREN!

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    32·
    7 个月前

    Fun fact: the Democratic governor’s term ran out, the MAGAt governor is in and the brake lines on the republiQan Cruelty Machine have been cut. Expect more insanity than normal.

  • blarth@thelemmy.club
    29·
    7 个月前

    The extreme capitalists are just doing this kind of evil to see if they can at this point. They must get a good laugh out of it every time some crazy red state legislature hands them a victory they never even thought they had a chance of receiving.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 个月前

      The extreme capitalists

      I mean, capitalism is "profit at any cost".

      Market economies — properly regulated — are great. Capitalism is their malignant form. And the amount of regulation needed for then to function properly could arguably be defined as market socialism.

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 个月前

      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)

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
    26·
    7 个月前

    Folks in red states must love being shit on, but immigrants and blue city crime - never mind that there is way more crime in red states. So they get all scared and vote against their interests, over and over, and over.

    • Alto@kbin.social
      16·
      7 个月前

      Y’all can afford smoothie king? Last time I was there I think my smoothie cost something like $9, and that was pre-covid.

      • Z4XC@lemmy.world
        9·
        7 个月前

        They dropped half their flavors too, you either get generic protein shake or banana based fruit smoothie in 5 variations.

  • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    22·
    7 个月前

    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.

  • ConstableJelly@midwest.social
    14·
    7 个月前

    There is some absolutely hilarious material in here, were it instead fictional.

    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.

    “I keep trying to give them lunch breaks but they insist on doing what’s in the best interest my pocket lining!”

    And my favorite, also from Roger Wilder:

    “The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”

    Could you imagine the delivery of this line, with just the right amount of pause after “give me a break” and the right expression to the camera if this were said on something like Parks and Rec?

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      3·
      7 个月前

      Lmao my god… isn’t the implication then that they’re here to harm the young adults? He didn’t say give me a break we’re not here to harm anyone.

  • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    7 个月前

    Republicans hate trans and cis kids alike. They were never pro life in the first place.