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.

China’s revolution could be summarized as a war against the landlords. America’s revolution will be a war against the Franchise Owners.

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    I suppose the Louisiana democrats would like to strongly come out against this stuff but they won’t because they’re worried they’ll lose the all important dipshit centrist vote.

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    i really got to get around to reading Discourses on Colonialism. That one part where Fanon talks about the dehumanization of not only the colonized, but the colonizer? How completely and utterly depraved do you have to be to take away lunch breaks from your child laborers because it makes you slightly more money? How on earth could you ever even justify that to yourself? How rotten is your soul?

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      They think they’re doing kids a favor. It’s why the narrative of lazy youth persists as it does. They won’t reckon with the reality of children suffering and they have to believe that work is good for them.

      Doesn’t help that children are already treated like property and bargaining chips.

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      I hate how right you sound. If there were a non-shitty, communist version of Animal Farm where the pigs are the capitalists, they’d definitely say that line at the end instead of ´some people are more equal than others’ or however that dumb quote went.

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    Libs I know, after hearing me complain about capitalism, have told me “It’s not like we’re still living in the times of the Dickens novels. Oliver Twist wasn’t a documentary, moron.”

    I now present them with this headline.

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    Wonder if some kid will eventually snap. A bunch of poor, hungry, angry zoomers in the part of the country where a handgun and rifle cost less than a sandwich. Seems like a great idea. And if they do snap, I hope it’s fully directed at these demons.

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      The ones who’re most likely to commit extreme acts are 4chan Zoomers who blame all their problems on women and minorities while worshipping their actual oppressors in the hopes of someday becoming like them.

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      Americans are so incredibly beaten down by capitalists. In any other country with America’s situation, insurance companies would have to be fortified like citadels to stop people who have been denied cover from going out in a blaze of glory.

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    Why tf does any normal person live in Louisiana? I ask this as someone who came from a similarly miserable shithole. Yes, liberal areas are still hostile, but red states are literal hell with zero Medicare/Medicaid benefits.

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      it’s not exactly easy for most people to just move hundreds of miles away from everyone and everything they’ve ever known

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        I guess I’m biased because I came from an irredeemably hostile environment that had nothing worth staying for. The silver lining is that I don’t regret leaving. No support network > people who wanted me dead 🥳🎉