• BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    15 days ago

    We LOVE Fucking Children! Whether with GROWN MAN PENIS or DEFUNDING EDUCATION or Legalizing CHILD LABOR us Republicans LOVE Fucking Children!

    -LITERALLY, NO JOKE, EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN!

    • BossDj@piefed.social
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      15 days ago

      “If they’re old enough for sex, they’re old enough for work.” Republican logic.

      Also reminder that 100% of all Republican logic begins with a fallacy

  • sbbq@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    The idea of having to worry about my kids work schedule on top of school and my own shit to do in return for starvation wages? Nah, we’re good.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Kids can be easily tricked by shitty supervisors to do dangerous jobs because they’re not old enough to know any better. Adults are usually smart enough to see the danger in working with machines that can crush and shred you. Or with chemicals that will poison you.

    Parents who offer up their kids to these businesses because they “trust them to keep their kids safe” deserve to be kicked in the groin repeatedly.

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    There’s a side effect to this which I don’t think anyone is picking up: an inherent devaluing of the work that immigrants do here. They pivoted from “immigrants are criminals and rapists” to “OK, maybe some aren’t, but the ones who aren’t are doing work so simple your kids could do it”.

  • Dr. Oblivious@stranger.social
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    @Redditsux At what point do liberals realize Fox News is how conservative psychopaths float ideas? This one is beyond the pale. If conservatives had brains, they would realize the wealthy are trying to recreate slavery through inadequate education, low wages, and limited opportunities to move to better places to work. On top of that, they seem really fond of raping our kids, if the defense of Trump is any indication. Conservatives are the main problem.

  • fodor@lemmy.zip
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    What the fuck does he mean by “allow”. You think the kids want to work? Dear God, the kids want to be hanging out. Maybe playing some video games or going to the pool or shit like that.

    At least be honest. You want to jack up rent so high that their parents can’t afford to pay it so the parents make the kids chip in. That’s what you want, because you’re a sick motherfucker.

    • renrenPDX@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Allow, as in let them work like they used to, with little to no regulation. It was never about kids wanting to work.

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        In my area farms and branches that employ teenagers make sure to give them the easiest work. The reason being kids are vindictive little shits who will hold onto a grudge and only enact on it when you are at serious risk of mutilation or death, sure they could pull the emergency cord on the wood chipper or they can turn the other way and pretend to hear nothing. So teenagers do sales or porter work nothing strenuous.

        Also if my example seems weirdly specific that’s because it’s based off an incident in the 90s that is passed around as a cultural reinforcement of why you don’t piss off young workers. Not to say adults won’t also fuck you over but usually they have more autonomy allowing them to get it out of their system, more property damage less watching you die a pitiful death.

  • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org
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    15 days ago

    Funny how allowing the owner class to exploit children is phrased to imply it’s giving children a choice. 🤮

    • DNS@discuss.online
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      15 days ago

      This is Republicans soft launching “children yearn for the mines” rhetoric. USA is effectively regressing and removing what originally made this country “great.” I fear for my children as they grow older. I can only do so much as a parent to steer them onto a path of least hardship, but Republicans are increasingly making that difficult.

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    So instead of having the rich and powerful abuse and assault immigrants they should abuse and assault children? Maybe on an island? Is there a list?