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Michigan Republicans vote to strip child labor protections

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨darkearth@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨workreform@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/michigan-republicans-vote-to-strip-child-labor-protections/

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah yes. Another episode of my favourite show - ‘Nearly Dead Politicians Making Decisions About Matters That They Know Nothing About, That Do Not Impact Them, and That They Will Never Have to Worry About’. Looks like this will be a good one.

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Speaking as a now old man that started working at 14 in factories to help my family keep a roof over our heads and food on the table and only had the bare minimum protection for kids that worked, fuck these family values assholes.

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  • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stripping child labour protection is essentially stripping workers and human rights away. This may be focused on children but it absolutely isnt - it also mixes in teenagers and adults, and those who support this are egotistical pricks.

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    like… ugh…

    ya know, it’s one thing when they’re just outright sexist/racist or warmongering or corrupt/theives. we all know they’re those things. shitty, selfish people.

    but when they do THIS SHIT, we know that they’re not just selfish, they’re cruel. they don’t do what they do just to take from other and enrich themselves… no…

    they want to be cruel. they want to hurt others they perceive as weak. it’s not enough just to take from you. they want to see you suffer for it. they want to see children suffer.

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    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And don’t worry, they also get off on the power of being hypocrites about it too

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You already have mom and dad working two jobs each, and it’s still tough to pay the bills. Now we can get the kids out contributing to the household, too. It’s not like they’re getting decent public school education anyway.

    If you get all the kids working a couple of jobs, your path to wealth will be assured, just work really hard, and don’t worry about the money, it’ll come.

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    • Inucune@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Best part is kids don’t vote so they can’t represent themselves.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Soon they’ll vote again to send in the army to cut down any protests against their family values

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  • NM_Gringo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Republicans have a weird fixation with exploiting children.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s really a weird fixation with exploiting EVERYBODY. They just don’t see why kids should get a break.

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      • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, children are an easy target, but they would also go after teens, young and old adults. Its a problem that concerns everybody.

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  • Aarrodri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you are a Republican… fuck you.

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  • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I fully support children getting violent against those who voted for or support this.

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    • OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would but I don’t think incarceration will be any kinder to them.

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      • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        At least there they could afford an actual meal and get a education.

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  • Philote@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They stopped reading any further after “strip child” and slapped the approved button repeatedly.

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  • RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As stated million times before, they only care about children before they are born. After they get born they are the last thing they give a shit about.

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    • Senal@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they don’t care about the children before or after it’s about fear and control.

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  • dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The experiment was going ok for a while

    So well in fact other countries adopted a lot from you, yet you never saw improvements on your systems to be emulated at all

    Weird suicide of a nation that never needed to happen

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    • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The experiment started with genocide, then slavery, and never really stopped doing either. They’ve been at war for all but roughly 20 years of their 250 year existence. Tens of millions of dead civilians around the world.

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      • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        England’s latch key kid after the divorce

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      • dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I would argue that’s a holdover from the Europeans and while they became more enlightened and peaceful the Americans took no lessons

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  • bagsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Republicans would sell their wives and children for a chance at cheap labor and no taxes. Just despicable people with no morals or principles.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are no Republicans any more, that was just the larval stage before they morphed into their final form - MAGA.

      The Republican party is dead. They are all MAGAs now.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But we need to protect them online, and in the womb!

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    • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Everywhere but real life it seems.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The party of “protect the children” by the way…

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Protect them from a proper education

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  • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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    • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Holy shit, you guys there IS a God, and he apparently doesn’t like this user’s comments.

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      • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wearing it like a badge of honour 😎

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