More Perfect Union: BREAKING: An Indiana Republican has filed a bill that would allow kids as young as 14 to drop out and work on corporate farms during school hours. Kids would only need to complete 8th grade in order to work 40 hours a week as a farm laborer.

BREAKING: An Indiana Republican has filed a bill that would allow kids as young as 14 to drop out and work on corporate farms during school hours. Kids would only need to complete 8th grade in order to work 40 hours a week as a farm laborer.

Republicans want you dumb, poor uneducated and working yourself into early grave for their personal benefit.

Yes. An uneducated electorate is a GOP platform priority.

I knew someone who had to leave school after the 8th grade in order to work. He grew up resenting people who were able to finish school.

And the distrust of experts is born.

No comment. (Yes)

I knew somebody like this too but it was his parents he resented (that’s what he admitted to anyway)

He didn’t admit to resenting his parents, and it was a different time. Can’t believe we’re regressing like this.

It's almost like the ruling party has a direct incentive to put people who would otherwise share a goal into conflict.

Indeed. He would be very much in TFG’s camp.

I forgot that Disdain of the Intellectuals and the Arts is a bundle. They want people to keep people stupid, so they are unaware of their rights as they march to early graves while causing hollywood to disintegrate into formless goo.

Conservatism is incompatible with human dignity

I mean the Democrats do too, if we're gonna be honest about it

democrats want you to be slightly better educated!

Just enough that you can contribute to the capitalism machine

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Good time to remind everyone that the US is the only United Nations member that hasn't ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

Not surprising really, IM sure I read an article where one state changed the law. Saying children could work as late as eleven pm on a school day

Child abuse as public policy.

The return to 19th-century child labor norms is moving along nearly unopposed.

Their little hands are so much better for getting inside the machines.

Ooof.

That joke never gets old. Just like child laborers.

Ooof, indeed.

I think if I wanted, I could switch careers now and get into prosthetics making for the kiddies just in time!

They'll never be able to afford prosthetics on farm wages. Perhaps crutches made from broken table legs and bits of old cloth? Or maybe bindle-sticks?

Then I guess I’d have to learn how with what is available.

The job of making prosthetics will fall to midhusbands.

Those 75mm shell cases interiors won't just polish themselves

And staying there!

Reminder to vote for Democrats, elections matter.

fuckin home sweet home....

God Bless America

Good time to remind everyone that the US is the only United Nations member that hasn't ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

Amen, fellow Hoosier.

Glad I left everyday.

i moved BACK

Same lol

Unless I need to flee something, I hope I never do. There are things I miss, like family and family, but I’m good. No judgement.

eh no worries there. i moved home for family alone so i feel that, certainly. i do enjoy being back in indy, though, which surprised me!

I went to visit my family on the south side a couple years ago after not having been for six years and it depressed me how overdeveloped and dirty it was. Didn’t feel like the same place anymore.

And you know that, when these kids are adults too fucked up physically to do this work anymore, this same Republican will say they don't deserve help, because they are responsible for their own "bad choices"

"what I gave these kids was an opportunity, it's not my fault they ruined it! they should be so lucky to take jobs from immigrants, the nerve of these adolescents, it's almost like I shouldn't have introduced this bill in the first place"

Working our way back to the 1800s, one GOP bill at a time.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: when we used to accuse the GOP of trying to take us back to the Fifties, we didn't realize at the time they meant to return us to the 1850s.

Bro, if originalist interpretations won’t fit modern America, then it’s time to make America fit an originalist interpretation.

i have believed for a long time that the ultimate goal of republicans is to repeal the 13th amendment they are right on track with this law

Except for the girls who have to carry a pregnancy to term.

Oh no, they can work too

They can give birth in the fields and return to work, just like the other serfs.

And if they miscarry while working in the fields, someone needs to refer that to the District Attorney's office, stat. The only thing worse than a pregnant teenager without a menial job is a pregnant teenager who is too criminally negligent to quit her menial job for her maternal health.

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