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And that’s basically it!
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
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".
"My kids are in need of a proper traditional upbringing, which means locking them in a box and tenderizing them like veal, until they're old enough to be sold at auction."
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 :(
"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."
~~states~~parents rights!
Why is it always about slavery?
I can't wait to be out of Florida
Best decision I ever made
lol do American politicians seriously try to frame child labor laws as taking away parents rights?
part of the conservative ideology is that children are property and should be molested, not heard.
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
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!
When I was a kid, my mom was outraged that somebody made the statement, "children aren't their parent's property."
So, yeah
Currently 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.
Do they even purify the drinking water in Florida? .... or are people there just this stupid?
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.
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.
I hear mercury is a tasty exotic beverage in Florida.
Brand new sentence???!!!
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.
Some things never change.
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.
Actually surprising that the Republicans didn't just push it through as they have a majority, but one can be happy about every news story like that
Paw... I think I got the black lung
This bill is completely disgusting and exploitative. We’re talking about Florida, though, so I expected it to pass.
I want to shove bamboo under the fingernails of that asshole who was likening child labor to a “part time job”.