Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage
America is becoming the most vile country on the planet.
You fucking idiots voted in an orange muppet rapist who’s being controlled by a Russian dictator while sending secret communications between a drunk ex showman who now runs the military.
You get what you voted for. Enjoy having your kids in blueberry fields and coal mines to continue building wealth for the rich for penny’s.
Pathetic. America is pathetic.
Meanwhile, those of us that most definitely did NOT vote for this are faced with new horrors every day, right here in our own country. It's just a blast watching our former allies shutting the door and giving the entire population the finger when we are facing a crisis like this. I have to wonder, was this what it was like during the Nazi's rise to power? Did other nations turn a blind eye and say "not my problem"? Now the formerly so called leader of the free world has been taken down by the oligarchs and so many countries and people are saying good luck, get fucked. I guess it's fine to overthrow some back water country in the name of "democracy" but the US can rot right? Not like this will have any impact on global relations or climate change, right?
To be clear, I'm not attacking you, I'm just frustrated to see this happening around me and seeing so little support for the people here that want absolutely nothing to do with it. There are a lot of people here that don't deserve what's coming, that have voted, campaigned, protested and argued against it, and I really wish people took the time to understand that nuance to not just this situation, but everything.
To those that lend encouragement and support to anyone standing against this, thank you, whole heartedly, because we absolutely need it.
It's easier to roll into an underdeveloped nation than into the nation with the biggest military (and economy I think?) in the world!
Best we can do from the outside right now is help you guys help yourselves, by showing you that the last choice was a bad one so you may make a better choice next time. At least that's all we can do officially and publicly.
Also, there was a shit ton of shenanigans going on during the last election. Other countries boycotting our products will absolutely help us. If it costs the 1% money, he will be taken down a notch. The oligarchs are in this for the money after all.
I think our allies are doing everything they can do. They can't "help" us militarily. What they can do is help us economically. Then the US attempted to help itself during trump 45, what did all the censures, panels, investigations, lawsuits, and eventual impeachments amount to? Liberal tears. Prior to Inauguration Day, one of the democratic strategies discussed, was to let trump do his thing, without all the interference. Of course there are the lawsuits - anyone can sue anyone. Maybe the way to get MAGA voters to recognise how terrible trump (and MAGA) is, is to just let things happen, to the point where the MAGAs get pissed at MAGA.
Our allies are doing their part to come to our defense by retaliating on the tariffs, moving away from buying American goods, finding other trade partners, moving away from depending on the American Military, and potentially moving away from the US Dollar. No matter how this all plays out, it will hurt Americans, because in this case, the threat to America is coming from within America.
In the end, if our democratic republic survives, do we really need to be the "world police?" Do we really need a military that's bigger than the next 13 militaries combined? I'm not really saying that we should or shouldn't, but the "liberal world order" that has been enjoyed since WWII is expensive, but well worth it, considering what the cost of WWIII will be. Additionally, the expenses endured by the US in "running the show" also bought the influence of American Interests all over the world. Do we really need to run the show? Do the interests of the US align with that of our allies close enough, that we could simply be members of the team, instead of having to watch the "orange dipshit" shove his way to the center of the front row of every photo, where national leadership is gathered.
America has lost its way. Our allies are doing everything they can, to help our nation recover from the threat within. While President Turd-gurgler swings his bludgeon of tariffs, then no tariffs, then new tariffs, Canada targets its tariffs at the people who voted for the president and his tariffs. When the half of the nation who didn't vote for trump is joined by the half of the nation who did vote for trump, the trump problem can be solved. Until then, any objection to trump is simply another liberal tear.
The pearl clutching of many non-north American people is becoming nearly comedic.
It's always been "you shouldn't lump everyone on that label as the same because they aren't" up to now, so it sure is "confusing" as to why suddenly all Americans bad.
Other countries also currently have popular fascists problems. Its hard to help other countries deal with their fascist problems when you have your own fascist problems
There may also be a want for revenge
The people who purposefully didn't vote are the real fucking idiots.
There are a bunch right here on lemmy that took a "principled stance", and fucked us realllllll fuckin hard.
Anyone who didn't vote is fucking stupid as shit.
A few dozen bomb threats at polling places in the swing states makes it real suspect whether we actually did vote him in.
Musk buying his way into and out of everything should have always been a red flag into how the 2024 election was actually won.
Yeah, but his competition laughed a little too much or some other bullshit reason so we couldn’t have elected her.
Always has been.
Had you fooled for a while though, didn't we? 👉😉👉
Summary of what I understood:
- Florida work force: 27% born in foreign countries
- Florida farm workers: 60% born in foreign countries
- Florida state: eager to persecute immigrants
Proposal:
- allow child labour for unlimited hours, if home schooled or distance learning
- allow 30 hours per week during study sessions
- allow 6 days of consecutive work
- allow work during school hours
- allow early and late work, even if school next day
- allow more than 8 hours per day, even if school next day
That seems 19th century stuff. Back then, in the bad old times, anarchists shot politcians and workers had street battles with cops over this kind of minor issues.
You know those kids are pretty small as well, I'm sure they can work with chimeys a lot better than an adult.
*labor. Not lab our.
"Not lab our" isn't a complete sentence. Please conform to all rigid forms of prescriptivist communication if you'd like to continue nitpicking stupid shit.
"People don't want to work anymore." in one hand. "Children can help fix the labor shortage." in the other.
Just ways to beat people into submission with whatever words sound good in the moment.
"People don't want to work anymore [under these conditions and for this pay]"
Children though have less of an insight they're being screwed over, and if the laws and parents match up, they have no say anyway.
Kids would yearn for the mines if only they were forced to experience them.
Spoiler alert, nobody ever wanted to work, that's why you have to pay us.
And remember the follow up... If it's legal for kids to work overnight with no breaks, it'll soon be mandatory or you'd lose whatever social security survives...
And then it'll just be mandatory because there is no social security safety net and you are now officially an indentured servant of the Florida kingdom
Insane.? Yes. Shocking? No. Escalating? Yes. They've been doing this for decades with prison labor and youth "education" programs. Of course their gonna expand it under the Milkshake Nazis.
It's why every leftist with a brain has been shouting for decades against "work programs" to get food stamps and juvenile detention programs with private prisons. They build the structures for this to make is much easier for the population to accept.
I mean coincidentally they shut down the department of education. Kinda seems like a convenient time to put kids back to work.
Next; children leaving education at 10 to start working.
I'm so glad not to have been born in that shithole country.
The children yearn for the mines!
It's what Minecraft was made for, training.
All our elevators are garbage because the children refuse to mine straight up or down
They're gonna be shipped off to GreenIand
St. Augustine, 2027
(Yes the 'women' in the picture are children)
Jacksonville:
Well, this is America, and parents are free to make those kind of choices. My children will not be working those fields (especially considering they're in VA). As always, the poor and their children will be the most exploited in this endeavor, but considering these same people are orange voters, I really only feel bad for the children.
"The beatings will continue, until morale improves."
Or the poor stop letting themselves be taken advantage of, and the not so poor, but poorly educated or informed, graduate to better informing themselves. All the information is available out there. People simply need to open their eyes and consume it, instead of being told what to think from a talking head on tv.
It's incumbent upon every member of society to protect the weakest and most powerless, or else you are complicit in wielding the boot.
It is an unfortunate situation in that half the people who voted in the US, specifically voted against protecting the weakest and most powerless. Many of themselves ARE part of that group, but don't want help because it would also help other people.
At this point, those who DO want to protect the weakest and most powerless, are themselves powerless to help.
And don't forget the importance in supporting our institutions, the ones that DOGE is working hard to kill.
I am so fucking glad that fate lifted me from out of my shit hole home state to Chicago 15 years ago. I count my lucky stars everyday and night. I hope this shit inspires my younger brother and his fiancee to think of the future of my 3 year old nephew and get the hell outta there, but my brother is employed by the VA, so no telling how long he'll have the financial meane to do so even if he wanted
I think you would have to be extremely uneducated to be outraged about this now. It’s not a new thing, the party of child marriage and child labour gets elected and you’re shocked about child labour? Are people going to feign surprise when they try to lower the age of consent laws again?
Well, Americans are nothing if not terribly uneducated.
Fair point
Right, you should be murderously furious, not outraged.
Wanna be it'll be brown and black children that owe lunch money?
The party of "family values" was always referring to the value of their labor potential those greedy pieces of shit were longing to utilize.
MAGA “Conservatives” are either evil, stupid, or both. You cannot be a supporter of MAGA and also a good and intelligent person. The concepts are antithetical to each other.
