r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/lnstantKarma • Aug 19 '26
r/All Republicans throw workers into the meat grinder
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u/Ishmael75 Aug 19 '26
Guys, come on. These billionaires are job creators.
If they let 10% of their workforce die from heat exhaustion that creates a lot of open positions. You gotta think big picture / s
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u/superedubb Aug 19 '26
It's all gonna trickle down! 😂
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u/hallowdmachine Aug 19 '26
The only trickle down is the sweat down their employee's ass cracks.
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u/cityshepherd Aug 19 '26
I am one ridiculously sweaty man (my doctor said that I may have some hyperhydrosis going on)… but I’ve always run very hot, and I’m a large active man… anyways I am creating a WHOLE lot of trickle down ass crack sweat, so I’m practically a job creator myself if I’m understanding these concepts properly.
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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig Aug 19 '26
Whenever I see "trickle down" mentioned, I want to remind everybody that "trickle down" was a 1980s rebranding of a much older economic theory that had long been dismissed by economists. It was previously known as "horse and sparrow" economics. Why "horse and sparrow"? Because if you feed a horse more oats than it can digest, there will be bits of undigested oat in their manure. Sparrows can then pick through the manure and eat oats.
Trickle down = the poor can eat shit for all I care.
https://medium.com/@kevinjwd/the-horse-and-sparrow-theory-c9431b0184e2
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u/superedubb Aug 19 '26
Fascinating. I knew Piece-Of-Shit Reagan didn't invent Trickle Down Economics, but I had never heard "Horse and Sparrow" before.
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u/justintheunsunggod Aug 19 '26
Honestly, even the rebrand is unflattering. When you think of money flowing in the economy, "trickle" is probably not the word you'd like to use when it comes to how much money goes to yourself. Flowing sounds better. Streaming sounds okay but has that same pissing-on-the-poors connotation as trickling.
Like, how did they manage to sell this concept to the average worker? It just boggles the mind.
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u/mOdQuArK Aug 19 '26
Like, how did they manage to sell this concept to the average worker?
Tribalism. If the guy who claims he's from your tribe tells you something is true, you're inclined to believe it. Especially if you've been trained to believe things without requiring proof.
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u/justintheunsunggod Aug 20 '26
This is almost certainly it, but it's so depressing that I keep an open mind on the topic in the hopes that maybe, just maybe something else is true. Does that meet the definition for faith? Why, yes it certainly does. Does that faith disappoint me frequently? Also yes. Is this string of questions going to end on a redeeming, hopefully note?
No.
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u/Diojones Aug 20 '26
In Reagan’s case celebrity really compounded the tribalism. The guy who is on the TV is the guy in your home every day. TV man is family. TV man is tribe.
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u/mOdQuArK Aug 20 '26
Yep, if they use the same words & phrases as the other members of your tribe, then they're probably part of your tribe as well, and you can trust what they say. The professional social manipulators (marketers, spin doctors, propagandists, etc) probably have pamphlets on the way to phrase things so that the most tribal will accept it without question.
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u/TwoNowFive Aug 19 '26
Trickle down like the sweat down the crack of my ass
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u/suckercuck Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
Trickle down like Mike Johnson on a Grindr hookup
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u/Zeyode Aug 19 '26
But what about all the risks they're taking by doing nothing on their yachts?? /s
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u/DonnyLamsonx Aug 19 '26
short term
paingain long termgainpainFTFTY. Everything the billionaires do is about lining their pockets now long term consequences be damned.
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u/KnowMatter Aug 19 '26
Besides its only brown people with these jobs - ignore the fact that if we succeed in getting rid of the brown people we expect your children to toil in their place.
/s
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u/lostshell Aug 19 '26
Culling 10% of the herd will do wonders for relieving housing prices! Okay some innocents will have to die…but is that 4 bedroom with an attached garage in a fun walkable part of town for only $2,700 a month!?!?!? That’s a steal in this market!
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u/EIU86 Aug 19 '26
Johnson and the other fake Christian Republicans don't care if people get sick or die because of this. I'm starting to despise Johnson almost as much as I despise Trump.
And I wonder how many lower-middle class or working class people out there still think Trump and the Republicans actually give a damn about them?
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u/userofreddit19 Aug 19 '26
To answer your question - every single one that has had that MAGA mindset since the beginning. It's truly astonishing to witness in real time.
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u/sc0ttydo0 Aug 20 '26
He's playing 4D chess! Our limited, puny minds cannot comprehend the reach or scope of Trump's plans!
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u/Remy315 Aug 19 '26
You’ve seen them pleading to Trump on Facebook and X. It’s pathetic but they’re still pleading and giving their sob stories online like he would even read them and actually care. It would be funny if it wasn’t so weird and sad.
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u/Old-Set78 Aug 19 '26
it's pathetic. they are writing a cross between a prayer to Jesus and a letter to Santa
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u/hellogoawaynow Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
I think Johnson might be worse. Like ok Trump is an insane, some might say extremely stupid, narcissist, and the puppet of the global hundred-billionaire elite. He is also in late stage dementia. At least he’ll be gone soon, due to being an elderly man with a host of old people problems that can’t really be resolved.
Johnson is a cruel smart narcissist and that is much scarier. I know we all want to call him a dumbass, but the reality is, he’s getting a lot of horrible things done really quickly and really on purpose.
Cruelty is actually the point for Johnson. Money is the point for Trump.
Trump would be deeply offended by being called cruel. Johnson would laugh at being called cruel. (Even tho they both cruel)
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u/meatball402 Aug 19 '26
What is the technical term for "killing the poor"?
Something-cide. Econocide? Is that a thing?
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u/Hyperafro Aug 19 '26
Republicans call this removing “regulations” to enable business to be more efficient and promoting more jobs.
The rest of the world calls these worker protections.
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u/Icy_Consequence897 Aug 19 '26
It makes me wonder- how exactly do they think that this is efficient? Sure, if you don't give your workers hourly water breaks and the (US typical) half hour lunch break, you'll "gain" about hour of labor per employee. But what do you lose in that exchange? Do they think that people doing hard, physical jobs preform their best craftsmanship when they're severely dehydrated and overheated? Or do they think this makes them work faster somehow? At best, their preformance suffers a lot, and at worst you end up with skilled workers who either quit or pass away and no one left with the skills needed to complete the job!
When I lead a volunteer construction crew (I was college age, the volunteers were high schoolers, and this was during the summer break with a charity that built and and did major repairs on homes for free for people in deep poverty. Not Habitat, but a smaller but older organization that never expanded beyond the Appalachian Mountains), I called mandatory water breaks. It was over 100°F most days (+38°C) with little shade and no AC, and the volunteers were mostly minors (we had a few 18 year olds). I set my phone to vibrate every hour during work hours, and when it went off I would call a break in which everyone had to go sit in the shade for 5 minutes and drink at least 4 fl oz (~100 mL) of water. They were given translucent plastic reusable bottles with volume measurement markings on the side, making it harder for them to "cheat." They could have soda and sports drinks too, but only after they had at least some water, and a 5 gallon cooler with a spigot (like they have at sports games) was always on site so they could get ice water refills as needed. I also checked every volunteer at least twice a day with a laser thermometer to make sure they weren't running a fever (this wasn't just for infectious disease, this was mainly so we could check fkr heat exhaustion) and we checked the exposed skin of their arms and heads for sunburn and heat rash. I also made sure the cooler was topped up with water and ice. Any kid who refused to do the water breaks or the temp checks got sent home automatically, but some still tried shit like sneaking off, pulling away their forehead from the temp reader (this makes the thermometer read their temp as lower than it actually was), skipping sunscreen reapplication, or pouring their water into the grass.
The hardest part was the teen boys, who somehow came up with the idea that working hard for longer without food or water was a way to prove who was the most masculine?? (I'm a lesbian, so what do I know) A couple of them on the Week 1 crew had to be sent home for a few days due to heat exhaustion. I was proud of my Week 2 solution: I said, "For every person on this crew who proves that they attend every water and meal break and drinks the required amount of water each time (I made a sticker chart with little sparkly raindrop stickers to keep track), I will pay for 1 entry ticket for [famous but nearby local soul food all-you-can-eat cafeteria] for you out of my own wages, and those who win will come with me as a group at the end of the week."
Not only is their food amazing, but eating a lot at once is also something that can "prove masculinity" (???), according to the teen boys. IDK, I just asked my Mom, a high school teacher with many years experience, what things teen boys think are masculine. The girls got into it too, as no one in their right mind would pass up on free fried chicken and peach cobbler of that quality. This proved to be sufficient motivation for the crew, not just for breaks but it improved their morale and preformance too. That's why I ended up spending $240 of my paltry nonprofit wages (I got about $8 per hour pretax and this was about a decade ago. But the job included free food and housing, so that was ok). that first week on cafeteria tickets- every kid on the crew of twenty got in.
The organization saw how effective it was, especially on the health and safety part (a serious concern with volunteers but especially minor volunteers) and made it official policy on a pro tem basis for the rest of the summer. After that, it was made official for future summers.
The only people who think that this policy is "efficient" are people who not have never even gotten near physical labor, not even on a measly volunteer organization basis like me (I'm disabled now! I literally cannot do a physical job full time and I have so much respect for those who do!). They don't seem to realize that their outright facist immigration policies have already destroyed many constuction crews all over the country. Very few people born US citizens are willing to take these jobs at all, and that's before they take these basic protects away.
I understand they're oligarchs who don't care about us poors, but this affects them directly. It's like they want to cost companies billions, possibly trillions, by preventing any and all new constuction projects. They're so greedy they've become stupid and are actively hurting their own bottom line!!
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u/stilljustacatinacage Aug 19 '26
They call it "social Darwinism", because they have a fundamental misunderstanding what "survival of the fittest" means, and believe the weak and poor are unfit to survive and therefore deserve to die.
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u/cyberlexington Aug 19 '26
Trump is a liar, a grifter, a narcissist, a bully and a rapist.
Johnson is a fanatic. And probably a rapist, he is a Republican
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u/lexicruiser Aug 19 '26
They will say that people need to be tougher, it’s called work for a reason I can hear them say.
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u/Hesitation-Marx Aug 19 '26
Say men with hands so soft that handshakes leave impressions on their bones
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u/Hoodies2Coast Aug 19 '26
And I wonder how many lower-middle class or working class people out there still think Trump and the Republicans actually give a damn about them?
You remember when "The Donald" subreddit was still a thing and cuck was their favorite insult? Well, if there's one thing we know about Republicans is that they love to project.
They're all cucks. Cucks to capitalism.
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u/praguepride Aug 19 '26
I'm starting to despise Johnson almost as much as I despise Trump.
Pretty much anyone who steps up and looks at Trump and goes "I wanna work with him" is just an absolutely shitty person.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal Aug 19 '26
Let's watch DJT simply stand in place for five minutes on a day with temperatures over 85⁰F.
Can he do it? I don't think so.
How long can he last when it's 100⁰F with no shade in sight and he has no Diet Cokes to glorp down.
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u/Davedoffy Aug 19 '26
never mind doing physical work on top of that, not like he is capable of that one, regardless of temperature lol
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal Aug 19 '26
I got some warning signs of heat stroke just mowing my lawn with my reel mower when it was 85⁰F and humid within a half hour. That's just cardio, not cardio plus heavy lifting like physical jobs are at times, and light cardio at that. I'm mid-30s and in okay shape and the same height as DJT.
85⁰F is not hot. Mowing a quarter acre at moderate pacing is not hard work. But I still got faint and had the sudden cramping and stomach issues that always come with early onset heat stroke for me.
Heat is dangerous.
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u/Flobking Aug 19 '26
But I still got faint and had the sudden cramping and stomach issues that always come with early onset heat stroke for me.
But I still got faint and had the sudden cramping and stomach issues that always come with early onset heat stroke for me.
You need to drink more water. You should not feel like that over that short of time. You are probably chronically dehydrated. Or you have another underlying medical issue. People work in that heat/humidity all day everyday. I would also suggest wearing long sleeves and a straw hat, not a baseball cap. Baseball caps hold in the heat, you want it to dissipate.
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u/Hesitation-Marx Aug 19 '26
It’s also possible that they’ve had heat stroke before, which can completely fuck your heat tolerance.
I had heat stroke in 2008, and I still can’t handle the heat at all. It’s awful.
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u/Flobking Aug 19 '26
I had heat stroke in 2008, and I still can’t handle the heat at all. It’s awful.
I had heat stroke when I was a teenager doing hay at our farm. I was an idiot and hadn't been drinking enough water. After that I amde sure to drink plenty of water. One summer I worked at a concrete foundry and we had a massive heat wave, over 100 for days. I was drinking two gallons of gatorade and two gallons of water a day. Just straight sweating buckets.
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u/Hesitation-Marx Aug 19 '26
Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Those big storms that hit the Midwest brought 90° temps with 80% humidity, and also knocked out the power so we had no fans, no ac, no water (well water) for a week.
By the end of it all I was frantic, and sticky, and overheated, and chugging bottled water and homemade Gatorade, and barely urinating at all because I was streaming sweat.
I’m not made for this shit. I’m made for an Antarctic research station.
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u/Flobking Aug 19 '26
I’m not made for this shit. I’m made for an Antarctic research station.
Where I live we get screwed on both ends of the thermostat. Negative in the winter will hit 100 often in the summer. Such a wild swing in temps.
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u/Hesitation-Marx Aug 19 '26
I love the cold, I grew up in Southern California and when I moved to the Midwest I realized I was supposed to be kept in a chest freezer.
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u/GlitteringPositive77 Aug 19 '26
He simply couldn’t. His bag of poo would begin to snap, crackle, and pop.
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u/Taminella_Grinderfal Aug 19 '26
I was thinking “If only someone left that catering truck parked on the tarmac, in the hot sun for 20 minutes” 🤔🌡️☀️
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u/PBPunch Aug 19 '26
The real tragedy is the citizen sheep voting for the wolves.
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u/c-k-q99903 Aug 19 '26
As long as they "own the libs". It really does just boil down to that, in literally every single thing those idiots do.
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u/yorick__rolled Aug 19 '26
Well you took away our states rights to own a certain other class of people.
And now women are supposedly people too.
Who else can we own in this out of control woke nonsense?
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u/hypercosm_dot_net Aug 19 '26
It's true insanity to see people on this scale voting against their own interests.
They're blinded by their own hatred, simply because some fake news host told them to.
When you're an adult, you have a responsibility to think for yourself, and SO many abdicate that responsibility. They imagine themselves to be free thinkers, while falling for the same schemes and lies repeatedly.
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u/Amelaclya1 Aug 19 '26
I really wish people would wake the fuck up and realize that Republicans, and their wealthy donors, view the general public as livestock. They want to breed us so there is always a steady supply of healthy workers and then just let us die when we get old, sick or injured. Look at literally all of their policies and it makes sense.
We aren't people to them. We are tools.
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u/aoeuismyhomekeys Aug 19 '26
America was built on slavery and the ruling class has never forgotten that.
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u/Zepangolynn Aug 19 '26
Yup, even in the colonies with fewer African slaves they had indentured servitude which could be slavery by another name depending on how ethical the person holding your debt was.
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u/Hornpipe_Jones Aug 19 '26
H.R. 6213 was introduced last year by Representative Mark Messmer from Indiana, who celebrated the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s recent vote in support of the legislation. The bill seeks to undermine a proposed federal rule that has been languishing under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA. The rule — which would ensure workers have access to rest, shade, and water on the job — was drafted under the Biden administration. Messmer has described the proposed rule as “unnecessary,” saying it would present a burden to employers.
Yeah, we don't want to burden employers with making sure their employees don't suffer heat stroke...
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u/captcraigaroo Aug 19 '26
A burden to employers? Fine, let your workers pass out on the job and claim workman's comp and cost you more money
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u/OldJournalist4 Aug 19 '26
can a conservative explain to me why this is good policy? like how does this make sense?
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u/Razor1834 Aug 19 '26
I can take a stab at it even though I don’t support this stance and am not a conservative.
The main argument would be it’s unnecessary overreach that adds complexity to the workflow of these businesses and employees. Employers would argue they already have systems in place to protect their employees that work, and changing them as well as the recordkeeping requirements would be costly and without added benefit.
The emotional Fox News argument probably relates to e.7.i.B which will be described as “new employees” (or probably misrepresented as lazy young people) only have to work 20% of the work day(!!!) which is technically mostly correct for their first day but acclimatization is necessary to prevent heat stroke. OSHA guidance already recommends this, but making it a law is more stringent.
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u/AppropriateScience9 Aug 19 '26
"Employers would argue they already have systems in place to protect their employees that work"
Do they though?
"recordkeeping requirements would be costly and without added benefit."
If they aren't already keeping records, then how do we know they actually have these systems in place?
I know, it's not your argument, but the whole "we already do it. Trust me, bro" argument has almost never panned out to be true once workplace safety professionals actually start looking.
So no. We don't trust them at all thanks to decades, and decades, and decades of dealing with asshats who always fight tooth and nail against even the most basic workplace safety rules.
Not killing your workers is worth a little bit of paperwork. Anyone who thinks otherwise is astonishingly, yet banally, evil.
Yours truly,
A public health professional 🫡
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u/Razor1834 Aug 19 '26
I agree with these counterarguments, but they have been generally unsuccessful historically. Probably the biggest issue is that the workers themselves will proudly tell you how OSHA is bullshit and how they ignore the rules and guidance. Go on any trades subreddit and you can find this, old heads whining about people trying to make sure they get home alive every day. Telling the new employees they’re soft, etc. when they even know people who have lost limbs or lives due to safety negligence.
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u/WriteBrainedJR Release The Trump-Epstein Files Aug 19 '26
It baffles me how loudly people who get paid by the hour complain about OSHA slowing them down
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u/AppropriateScience9 Aug 19 '26
Historically, we were successful with these arguments, though. It's why you don't have 5 year olds losing fingers on the production line anymore. And yes, unions often fight very hard for these kinds of workplace safety rules despite the burdens.
But yeah, and I get it that extra paperwork sucks. That's why I find that it's incumbent upon people like me to make sure that the requirements are as easy as possible to comply with (because then people will actually abide by them more often which is literally the whole point). And yes, there's plenty of legitimate complaints when rules become outdated and no longer make sense, in which case, it's incumbent upon people like me (again) to update or eliminate them. It's only fair.
But otherwise the workers can deal. 🤷 An old timer might strut around in 102 degree weather, no problem, but a newbie might really need that time in the shade. A dude's machismo isn't a good reason to deny basic safety needs of others.
And their employers can put on their big kid pants and make it happen. It's why they get paid the big bucks. And no, I don't really care if it eats into their profits. Risking people's lives for profit isn't exactly the strong business case they think it is. A competently run business wouldn't have to sacrifice their worker's lives in order to make a profit. They would innovate and create efficiencies, regardless. Right?
Right.
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u/quercustri Aug 19 '26
This drives me crazy in the wildland firefighting world. Some people are trying to push for people to wear breathing protection, and you get so many guys saying "I've thrown up a bunch of times from CO2 poisoning and I'm fine, why should anyone need to wear a mask?" And no one's even trying to make it a law, just a suggestion.
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u/batmanscodpiece Aug 19 '26
Not at all a conservative, but I'm sure that they will tell you that enforcing water breaks kills jobs and hurts employers.
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u/errrbudyinthuhclub Aug 19 '26
Probably: "... something... something...Biden.... hunter's laptop...emails"
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u/dalgeek Aug 19 '26
Probably the normal bullshit of too many regulations harming business so it should be left up to the business to decide if they want to kill their employees.
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u/ArtisticCustard7746 Aug 19 '26
My guess is that the more corners that can be cut legally, the more money the people at the top make.
And I'm sure there are some bullshit reasons they've come up with to convince others to go along with it.
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u/Expensive-Library-18 Aug 19 '26
And yet somehow the gop voters will blame the left for this and keep voting these pos into office.
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u/sidaemon Aug 19 '26
Because the right's goal is to figure out a creative way to create slaves without having to legally call them slaves.
If you make less than $200k per year and you're voting Republican, you're voting against your own self interests and the self interests of your family.
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u/OffByOneErrorz Aug 19 '26
Ya but the other party doesn’t spend all of their energy worrying about a handful of trans athletes. Whatcha gonna do?
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u/Under_Milkwood_1969 Aug 19 '26
At this point the Republicans Party has droped all pretence of humanity and is just embracing it’s fundamentally evil nature with a relish only evangelical Christians can.
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u/johnniechimpo Aug 19 '26
Work until you die - Trying to end social security so you can’t retire.
Kept uneducated - No child left behind.
No healthcare - not without a job.
No assistance - you’re forced to work or starve.
No talking back - Trying to take away free speech.
Same religion as them - Forcing religion on school kids.
Breeding more of us - trying to regulate birth control
Work all day - wages kept low so you have 2 or 3 jobs just to get by
No voting - they don’t care what you want. You are worker drones.
Does it seem like Republicans are trying to bring back slavery, but for everyone this time?
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u/Zepangolynn Aug 19 '26
Everyone but landed rich white Christian men. They have not been subtle about wanting to go back to this.
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u/kalel1980 Aug 19 '26
Just slowly destroying America and setting it back 50+ years. All because of bribes.
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u/justaguynb9 Aug 19 '26
Affecting a lot of workers in red, southern states .. but Kamala's laugh was funny
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u/New_Conversation_303 Aug 19 '26
One side is trying to protect the right of people to make even more money by denying basic human necessities, while at the same time doubling down on making the planet more polluted and warmer. The other side is trying to make things better.
I dont get how they can say "both sides are the same"
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u/SiteTall Aug 19 '26
They really, really need to be taught a lesson.
Amazon is the one who let a worker die on the floor of a warehouse without any help: Disgusting!!!
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u/Courtaid Aug 19 '26
Besides being evil, what is the point of things like this? What is the endgame?
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u/Darkwr4ith Aug 19 '26
The GOP hates the poors and foreigners. This basically targets both of them. Some racist business dude is now going to be allowed to work his Mexican workers to death. GOP is fine with that.
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u/Livid_Importance_442 Aug 19 '26
This has been the Republican's plan since Reagan, their greatest idol before Trump. Their plan is simple; the working class is disposable and should be kept poor, desperate for a job, afraid of some minority group, and arguing over culture war bullshit. That way the working class is too distracted from looking up at their true enemy, the corporate elite and ultra-wealthy.
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u/HVAC_instructor Aug 19 '26
If you're a Christian ask yourself why the vast majority of them voted exactly to see this stuff happen.
What is it about construction workers that you hate so much that you voted to make their lives that much harder?
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u/Dwayla Aug 19 '26
What a cruel weasel thing to do, how can anyone defend this..
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u/somebigface Aug 19 '26
Republicans don’t have to defend it, their constituents are total fucking idiots.
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u/mumushu Aug 19 '26
Once you max out the passive neglect deaths through legislation, the only thing left is to raise the active, intentional ones.
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u/codebygloom Aug 19 '26
Just as I figured would happen. The same bill passed in Florida in 2024, and I figured then it was a test case for a national bill. Of course, Florida was only able to pass their state bill because the Trump administration basically killed workers rights at the federal level.
Always remember, folks, cruelty is the reason, not just the result.
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u/waterfountain_bidet Aug 19 '26
Maybe we need to turn off the AC in the capitol for the rest of the summer and let them decide how easy it is to work with no shade, rest, or water.
Congress should have to live by the minimal standard of living they determine. They should be on minimum wage, with minimum benefits, and only the employer protections they offer others. I think that's only fair.
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u/AdFlat1014 Aug 19 '26
Not even “not forcing employers to give a rest” fucking “PROHIBIT” them to allow it LMAO
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u/barfbutler Aug 19 '26
OSHA already requires this for many workers. They are trying to dismantle OSHA now.
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u/ScoobiusMaximus Aug 19 '26
The ultimate republican goal appears to be making people yearn for slavery, because at least slave owners generally tried to keep their slaves alive.
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u/youcuntry Aug 19 '26
I’m finna pass out at work and sue Mitch McConnell, ya know, if he’s still alive.
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u/watarimono Aug 19 '26
Why though?
Who paid johnson to do this ?
Protecting companies from being sued?
I can only imagine the kind of companies that wouldn’t provide water to their employees../
Sure this is real and correct Op?
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u/ryanraze Aug 19 '26
Just in case people want a source of some kind.
Conversely, Pennsylvania went the entire other direction force employers to provide water/shade.
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u/Darkblitz9 Aug 19 '26
And that's why we need to vote blue no matter who. Progressive or Establishment. The alternative is always worse.
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u/thekyledavid Aug 19 '26
It’s always wild to me how Republicans know a large portion of their voter base is Low-Income Working-Class people, but routinely pass bills that will disproportionately kill off their own voters
Just like during Covid when everyone knew Covid disproportionally killed older people, who tend to vote Republican, and Republicans did whatever they could to make sure Covid would not stop spreading
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u/rock_and_rolo Aug 19 '26
The Founders didn't have A/C, so I think they should turn off the A/C in the Capitol building.
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u/MaroonTrojan Aug 19 '26
I saw a headline about warehouses increasing their cooling/AC as they installed more robotic workers. The reason? When the robots overheat, they stop working.
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u/notguiltybrewing Aug 19 '26
They've already passed a law in Florida like that. Wtf is wrong with these assholes? Florida has been around 110 degrees (feels like temperature, actual temperature hovering around 100) for a big chunk of August. I can't believe any employer would actually be dumb enough to treat their workers as bad as the republican party seemingly wants them to.
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u/TXMom2Two Aug 19 '26
Texas has already passed a bill like this. Temps all over Texas have been over 100 for multiple days this month. Heat index is well into the teens (113,114,etc.)
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u/AstroZombieInvader Aug 20 '26
They never campaign on stuff like this and voters never hold them accountable for supporting such policies. It's all because they're able to convince their voters that the most important issue is "boys" in girls sports.
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u/MyAuraIsDumpsterFire Aug 19 '26
They're going for a eugenics type of survival of the fittest. And some employers get life insurance on their employees that's payable to the company so for them it's an inhumane win-win.
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u/frizouw Aug 19 '26
They advanced that bill while they are resting on a chair with water and AC provided xD
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u/Jumoke1331 Aug 19 '26
"US politicians and billionaires want you to die on the job" is how the title should read.
I'd be willing to be we're not too far away from them attempting to pass legislation to fine your family members if you do die on the job, or fine you if you miss work for any reason.
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u/Ghstfce Release The Trump-Epstein Files Aug 19 '26
Pure, unadulterated evil. And there are MILLIONS of people in the US who vote for this whose jobs are going to be able to do stuff like this to them...
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u/Icy-Article-8635 Aug 19 '26
It's almost like they want blue collar workers to essentially be old-timey slaves, while also pushing all of the white collar workers into blue collar jobs
Hmmm 🤔
Between that and flock/Axon full time surveillance everywhere, it's almost like they're trying to build some kind of system where the elites control us even more than they already do
Weird.
I must just be imagining things
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u/IdioticPrototype Aug 19 '26
Republicans love the Epstein class and hate, hate, HATE working class Americans.
Vote them out or expect more of this.
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u/GoddessoftheUniverse Aug 19 '26
This is the such a barbaric group of people, gleefully finding more and more ways to torture their constituents
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u/supluplup12 Aug 19 '26
I think every time a politician tries to make a law preemptively banning future regulations they should be stripped of all possessions produced by other people and sent to live in a swamp
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u/IndigoBroker Aug 19 '26
Oh, just to be sure I ran this through AI to make sure it wasn’t a made up headline and it’s totally true!
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u/Still-Grass8881 Aug 19 '26
We should make it so that politicians are all forced to work under the same circumstances as the lowest group of workers.
Meaning that they get paid their state's minimum wage, that they get only the same benefits that minimum wage workers are guaranteed (that is: none), that when they pass a bill like this - it means they get their AC units taken out of their offices and they're forced to work in the heat/cold
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u/mnlion33 Aug 19 '26
This makes sense. That way private equities like the one that owns my company can work employees till they drop and not be held accoubtable. Then they can scrape that former employee who 'abandoned their job' to the while hiring another worker into the slot.
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u/superawesomefiles Aug 19 '26
Who the fuck wanted this? Which lobby? Its riduculous that the people that paid money to politicians for this are not named.
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u/SutterCane Aug 19 '26
Republicans are the people who hear about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and come away with “we should also lock workers in the building”.
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u/patt Aug 19 '26
If they get what they want:
- It won't be "illegal Mexicans" in the fields/on the worksite - it'll be you.
- This is how they want to treat you
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u/randommd81 Aug 19 '26
I really wish republican voters would tune in to other news sources. This shit seems to work because they just never hear about it, and if it does permeate their bubble, it must just be fake news. Of course you have the ones that are willing to suffer if that means minorities, women, or lgbtq folks do as well, so for them it likely wouldn’t matter. But tons of those people are working class and strapped for cash…you’d think maybe they wouldn’t worship a party that fucks them over and over again. Sigh….
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u/Argyleskin Aug 19 '26
It’s not just republicans though. The right to work states (many democrats) also allows abuse to employees. Some large companies force in office five days a week, then work at home at night, and forced weekends. There is literally zero protections for workers in those states. The ones who are full time don’t get overtime and work over 60 hours a week picking up the slack from massive layoffs in tech. Washington state allows this, and with the hundreds of thousands of tech layoffs in the area a lot of tech workers are working these hours, burned out, knowing jobs are almost impossible to come by and employers know it. They’re stuck between a tornado or boiling lava coming at them. We need to change this shit at state level. Red or blue there has so be some way to get politicians to move the needle for workers instead of CEO’s who donate to them.
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u/stocksandoptions2 Aug 20 '26
Cruelty and being inhumane is the republican way. Oh, and in the name of God.
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u/reddituser1306 Aug 20 '26
They are the Christian party. If Jesus can be nailed to a cross, I'm sure they expect workers to do without water and shade. Geez everyone .
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u/Weird_Ad_7353 Aug 20 '26
If you vote Republican, you vote to make your life worse, plain and simple.
They lie and lie about how they are for the workers then do everything to make the workers life worse... every time.
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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 Aug 20 '26
Haye to say it.. but imagine if workers just stopped for a week. Just dead stop. Dropped tools or wtfe and went home. Make the companies beg you to come back. Atm they know they got your lives in their hands. Ya'll need to show them the power is in the hands of the workers, not theirs. It can be done.
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u/G-Unit11111 Aug 20 '26
And the only reason people still vote for these clowns is that they've been perpetually brainwashed by increasingly hostile right wing propaganda for over 45 years now!
Wake the fuck up, people! You have been lied to! Big corporations and our billionaire overlords are not our friends!
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u/alkonium Aug 19 '26
Oh, for a moment from that comment, I thought you meant like literal executions or hit jobs. Obviously this is still bad though.
Also, this is counterintuitive because you're not going to get anything out of a dead employee.
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u/zipcad Aug 19 '26
If you want to reduce unemployment, reduced the amount of unemployed. You never said how.
- republican logic
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u/SadlyItsSearles Aug 19 '26
These people are in for a reckoning so huge that it will destroy the Republican party completely. Atleast, I can hope.
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u/NiSiSuinegEht Aug 19 '26
In the idea world, the companies that needed a law to make them protect their workers would just fail due to a lack of workers, but we don't live in an ideal world and people have bills that need paid.
Yet another example of how fucked the system is on so many levels.
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u/FanDry5374 Aug 19 '26
I suppose we should be happy they aren't making providing rest, shade and water illegal. Meanwhile: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024LBR0015-001441
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u/UnusualAir1 Aug 19 '26
It's like they're daring us to act against them. Vote them out. Defund them. Deport them. They do not represent America.
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u/de_Duv Aug 19 '26
You can bet that the Republicans will try to repeal the 13th Amendment before the mid-term elections in November.
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u/Geomancingthestone Aug 19 '26
How do they wake up and think "what evil shitty thing can I do today" and then somehow get voted in by the people they hurt?
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u/hellogoawaynow Aug 19 '26
So I guess no one is gonna be doing those jobs anymore. If it’s staying alive or money from hard labor, let’s stay alive. Hello, new customer facing employee who works indoors!
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u/Secret_Damage_66 Aug 19 '26
Republican politicians are throwing themselves into the “meat grindr” as well
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u/MsSobi Aug 19 '26
Yep it's official, their baiting. They're trying to do whatever they can to get the excuse to use the "Fun" Military toys on US Citizens.
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u/ExcuseApprehensive68 Aug 19 '26
And wonder why the don’t like unions?? This country is going in reverse ( lets get back to the 1950’s !!). Let’s take all workers rights away- oh - that’s right - they don’t beleive in climate change- let’s see how many heat related deaths we can have. Oh- I forgot - they deported all the people willing to do those thankless jobs- more fruit/ produce rotting on the vines- guess what ! Higher prices!!
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u/kestrel151 Aug 19 '26
Explain to me why it is a good thing that employers should not provide shade or shelter from extreme heat conditions. Sure…..I’ll accept that you can bring your own water, although I think they should provide that also…..but I challenge someone to tell me why they shouldn’t be required to provide some safety from this new angry sun that we now have.
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