The Senate voted on a bill allowing 14-year-olds to work six-hour night shifts, and passed it at 4:52 a.m.

The return of child labor is right up there with the loss of abortion rights in terms of shocking backslides but people don't seem to care as much about it.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    "Your honor there is no proof that my client, an esteemed businessman in the community, would tell one of his employees to pull a bone out of the meat grinder that was interfering with its typical operation."

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      okay, if I, if I chop you up in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out, that's left of you, is your surplus value– :unsus: