Things that made you Facepalm today (Political Version)

[Suppressed Poet]

McDonald's extensive child labor violations for hours worked and minimum age laws speak for itself. Each state sets it's own maximum number of hours a child may work in a school week, which is designed to make sure a kid can you know.. study and do schoolwork, rather than work as indentured servants for their parents.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

[Parkbandit]

McDonald's extensive child labor violations for hours worked and minimum age laws speak for itself. Each state sets it's own maximum number of hours a child may work in a school week, which is designed to make sure a kid can you know.. study and do schoolwork, rather than work as indentured servants for their parents.

I don't know if I should blame your parents for how you turned out.. or just pity them for having to deal with you for 30+ years.

[Seran]

Oh okay. Because surely every driveway the child is about to shovel the owner is like "Wait, you haven't worked too many hours so far today/this week according to local and state laws right? We gotta make sure your parents aren't forcing you to be an indentured servant!"

Seran, can you just finally admit you're a fucking moron who just makes shit up on the fly when backed into a corner, which is 100% of the time you start typing.

Child abuse is child abuse dude, I'm sorry you think that the State has some sort of obligation to make it easier for parents to do it.

[Seran]

We don't take any money my oldest makes, nor do we stop paying for things we always paid for, such as food and clothes. He will be paying for his own vehicle insurance, but we are giving him the car.

It sounds like you just had shitty parents and a bad upbringing.

Perfect example. You're providing for your child, but also offering a privilege that they'll have to support by paying for insurance and presumably gas. If the child wants to drive, they'll choose to earn the money. Now if you'd instead told your minor child that unless they started paying for room and board, you were going to beat them and kick them out, that would be abuse. It's the later children need to be protected from, children are their parents meal ticket.

[Tgo01]

Now if you'd instead told your minor child that unless they started paying for room and board, you were going to beat them and kick them out, that would be abuse. It's the later children need to be protected from, children are their parents meal ticket.

This is literally the first time you are framing this discussion in this manner. Up until now you have painted EVERY "child" working as being "abused" by their parents.

Actually no that's not true. First you blamed the government for allowing children to legally work in the first place, and after it was pointed out that all states, even the bluest of blue states, allow teenagers to work you backtracked and said the parents were abusing their children by "making" them work at the age of 14.

Now here you are, finally admitting you are a moron, by agreeing with what everyone has been saying all along: if a teenager wants to earn some spending money to buy luxuries for themselves then that's okay and it's not child abuse. Literally NO ONE, except for you just now, has mentioned anything about teenagers being told by their parents that they must get a job to pay rent and pay for their own food.

Took you long enough to get there, but you got there eventually. Now just apply this learning method to the rest of your life and maybe someday you'll get a job too.

[Parkbandit]

Child abuse is child abuse dude, I'm sorry you think that the State has some sort of obligation to make it easier for parents to do it.

[Parkbandit]

Perfect example. You're providing for your child, but also offering a privilege that they'll have to support by paying for insurance and presumably gas. If the child wants to drive, they'll choose to earn the money. Now if you'd instead told your minor child that unless they started paying for room and board, you were going to beat them and kick them out, that would be abuse. It's the later children need to be protected from, children are their parents meal ticket.

I'm getting whiplash

[Suppressed Poet]

Perfect example. You're providing for your child, but also offering a privilege that they'll have to support by paying for insurance and presumably gas. If the child wants to drive, they'll choose to earn the money. Now if you'd instead told your minor child that unless they started paying for room and board, you were going to beat them and kick them out, that would be abuse. It's the later children need to be protected from, children are their parents meal ticket.

Seran, has anybody told you today that you are a stupid motherfucker?

[ClydeR]

Trump posted this today..

Under Ron DeSanctimonious as Governor, Florida was the third WORST State in Deaths by Covid. So why do they say that DeSanctus did a good job? New York had fewer deaths! Also, he shut down the State, and even its beaches (unlike other Republican Governors).

Florida is the third most populous state in the United States. New York is fourth.

To be fair, which I always am, it sounds like Florida had about average per capita deaths from Covid, despite being laxer than many states,

[Seran]

Seran, has anybody told you today that you are a stupid motherfucker?

Just you Republicans, which generally means I couldn't be more right.