• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nothing like a good 12 hour shift at the Smoothie King to build character.

    At this point I can’t tell if these guys are seeing how far they can push things or if they actually believe this kind of thing is good for their state. Both are stupid but neither would be surprising.

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      7 months ago

      They believe that putting limits on what businesses can do to abuse their employees keeps the employees from learning to be better.

      Basically telling a bullied child that they’re on their own, and they need to learn to stand up for themselves.

      Nevermind that comparatively, its like the bully is sitting in a panzer tank and perfectly willing to keep rolling forward no matter the obstacle.

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      7 months ago

      At this point, i partially believe they are pushing it to the point that enough sensible people will leave the state, making those states republican stongholds for the congress and electroral college

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      7 months ago

      We just lost the democrat governor who has been blocking stupid bills like this for the last year. Our congress is revenge passing everything they can because the new republican governor blindly rubber stamps it all.

      So yeah, a lot of these bills literally are just seeing what they can get away with.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      At this point I can’t tell if these guys are seeing how far they can push things.

      There’s no opposition. Hell, everyone with oversight in Uvalde got reelected.

      Why stop when you have absolute power?

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      7 months ago

      Many of them are just old and have cognitive dissonance about their own experience as a child. They simply believe that children today have the identical, fantasized experience they think they remember. Not only is what they remember untrue and most likely a collage of half-memories, stories from other people, and propaganda, but they have no incentive to scrutinize their decisions and beliefs because they’ve been in a comfortable insular community for most of their life that rewards them for thinking this way.

      I say old but you don’t have to be that old to be brainwashed by a religious community and a comfortable job.

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        7 months ago

        If you’re talking about the voters, sure.

        The people writing the laws are doing it purely for profit. They get paid by businesses, the businesses get the cheapest labor possible.

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          7 months ago

          It’s a dangerous thing. Because if you talk to some of these legislators they can easily hand over the same excuse about it being their belief as the voters who believe in that. But the scary thing is, as hard as it is to admit, many of them genuinely believe in the thing they vote for.

          Maybe in places like the house or congress it’s a skew towards money and power, but it exists especially in local government. It’s easy to completely dehumanize them by saying they’re just paid to do it but the much more real situation is that it’s genuine.