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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 233 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 111 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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".

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago

"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."

[–] protist@mander.xyz 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They've already scrapped mandatory water breaks for outside workers :(

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[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 73 points 1 week ago

"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."

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago

~~states~~parents rights!

Why is it always about slavery?

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Funny how you never hear them say “parental responsibilities.”

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 146 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.

This is a horrifying concept and a great way to keep kids uneducated so they keep voting for lying repubs when they get older.

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."

They also used to work in factories where they'd get maimed and other high-risk environments. Shall we bring that back too, Governor Dipshit Fascist? Seriously, get fucked.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They are framing it like plucky shirtless college boys might wanna go pick cucumbers for a weekend to make a few bucks for rootbeer floats down at the soda-fountain.

One of the things that infuriates me about our species broadly is how terrible people are at visualizing actual, real systems and their scope and scale.

If you don't know anything about the factory-farming our society requires to survive, you should probably take a short tour of the massive machine we've built and depend on so you understand the scale of the problem and why even the immigrants we have/had now aren't even enough to keep the system running. This is why aging populations are a huge problem, this is a foundational cornerstone of our whole civilization, much like medicine and vaccines, and it's being waved off like something we can just swap out demographics for funsies and to give bro's trying to afford their new baseball mitts and textbooks, all good, right??

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 111 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Do they even purify the drinking water in Florida? .... or are people there just this stupid?

[–] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This one goes in the mouth and this one... No, wait

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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."

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Large population of boomers with a lifetime of lead poisoning, and they vote.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 90 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 week ago

"I was beaten as a child and I ended up fine" says man who beats children.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 76 points 1 week ago (8 children)

lol do American politicians seriously try to frame child labor laws as taking away parents rights?

[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid, my mom was outraged that somebody made the statement, "children aren't their parent's property."
So, yeah

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So let me get this straight. The US needs Migrants so much that we're needing to replace them with teenagers?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, that's one way to look at it.

The more accurate way to look at is that the American right hates migrants and people of color so much that they would force their children into hard labor just to make sure nobody who sounds or looks different receives any kind of benefit.

[–] Poojabber@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Not their children.... other peoples children. You know... the poors... those kids can work long hours for low pay and since they are poor, they will be stupid enough to be happy about it. The people voting for this do not need to worry about it affecting their kids... or think they dont....

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the American right hates migrants and people of color so much that they would force ~~their~~ other people's children

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

This country has, throughout its entire history, relied heavily on immigrants to make up the shortfalls in its labor force. A full stoppage of immigration is going to collapse the United States economy. Sooner than later.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Yes, if we remove our migrant population then we literally lose the majority of our food production workers. I think it'll also impact our construction work force, much of our factory workforce, our waitstaff, and various other jobs US citizens turn their noses up at - because those jobs literally would not sustain them and would destroy their bodies over time. Most of these jobs are sustained entirely by the desperation of immigrants trying to escape their prior circumstances.

Edit- added more detail in bold to make it clearer the the issue lies in how these jobs are conducted rather than being with US citizens.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

On the same day this came out, University of Florida scientists announced a possible new treatment for cancer - not a type of cancer, ALL cancers. It works by stimulating the immune system to kill the tumor, and it's based on a treatment for glioblastoma that had highly successful human trials last year. Hard to believe these same two developments both came out of the nutbin of Florida.

[–] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You got me for a second there.

I thought you would make a "the onion" joke of florida plan's to send cancer patient to work the fields as a "treatment" for cancer.

I'm surprised (and kinda of relieved?) that your comment is actually about a new scientific discovery.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

1, 2, 3, 98 99 100 here I go!

Hey, found you! And yes, I can time and space travel to this comment out of this one https://lemmy.world/comment/18397250

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not surprising. They didn't plan ahead whatsoever and thought "it'll all work out" as if Conservative promises held more weight than the hot air required to speak them.

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[–] don@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Capitalist rule: If you can't exploit people, just find people who are more exploitable.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Next step: to the jails and concentration camps for slave labor.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

You should pay more attention because we've already been doing that this whole time.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good thing the north left a loophole in the constitution after the civil war just for a situation like this.

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[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago

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”.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why did the children keep falling apart? Were they made of wet cardboard?

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The front fell off

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Paw... I think I got the black lung

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