@sleepyguy said
Well, because it is mind poison?

A sense of self worth should be instilled by parents, not some "educator" teaching kids to hate society. Do you have a job? Maybe you are an entrepreneur? Do you take pride in the work you do for a living?

No you telling them that the system is equitable and if they fail they’ve only themselves to blame is the mind poison.
I realise telling kids the truth is an anathema to right ing types sine the MAGA crowd took over the GOP but there is no excuse for lying

@rajk999 said
Go get yourself a sex change and put on a dress.

It worked for you then?

@sleepyguy said
There's the bitterness coming through. You learned a lot of terminology to explain that life is hard because you're an oppressed victim. Did you learn how to do anything?

No bitterness at all just bemusement that most right wing yanks still cling to McCarthyism like an old well worn pillow they can cry into when reality smacks them in the face.
Preparing children for the real world is part and parcel of being an educator, rich folks send their children to schools that will give them a sense of superiority along with facts and figures.
Why shouldn’t public schools arm the less well off with a sense of self worth by explaining that the socioeconomic and political system is stacked against them by its very structure rather than instilling them with self loathing for failing to attain the American Dream / Fantasy

@suzianne said
I see now that Abbott recently signed a similar bill. Actually, it was last June, during a heat wave.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180748/republican-heat-labor-outdoor-workers

Didn’t someone in the last couple of years try / succeed in raising the number of hours a minor could work, I can’t remember the details though 🤔

@averagejoe1 said
So, you too? Don't understand the logic, common sense, rationale and the law with regard to the Roe decision?. What else could their findings have been? You are aware, I am sure, that their total deliberatoins are based solely on the provisions of the Constitution. Why, you seem to disagree with Constitutional law??

Your constitution is chimera Joe, no one ever comes to the same conclusion based on the text, they only agree with each other based their own political philosophies.
Do you find it suspicious at all that a right wing conservative dominated SCOTUS manages to interpret the constitution in such a way that it favours right wing conservative values and a left wing liberal dominated SCOTUS can interpret it in favour of left wing liberal values
I would argue that a liberal interpretation is more in keeping with the over riding principal of individual freedoms but then I’m obviously a left wing liberal 🤷🏻‍♂️

@wajoma said
Nope, my case is stronger the more we talk about it. And your dodge of my question bolsters it further. If there were no regulation against children in mines here in Aus, how many children would be working in mines in 6 months time?

lil sunstroke fella thinks there'd be hundreds back in the mines next week, operating thousand tonne excavators and dump trucks that have had ...[text shortened]... .

BTW check your dictionary before trying to use big words "misogynistic' what new dodge is this?

I don’t need a dictionary dummy I meant to post misanthropic but I post on here so much it auto filled misogynistic 🤷🏻‍♂️
As to your main point you have no case at all.
if capitalists are allowed to have children working down mines and in factories then they will, market forces and the profit driven philosophy of capitalism will demand it.

@averagejoe1 said
Why such a negative approach? One starts 'somewhere', and makes each day count...success will blossom at the end. I see no downside as long as proper choices are made along the way. Paychecks get bigger. And, there is no 'piece of the pie'. One makes his own pie.

Cheers Pollyanna 👍

@averagejoe1 said
Here again, you libs are always looking over the fence at people you don’t like, for whatever reason, but………
What have you got to do with them? I don’t like smelly Muslims, but I live my life ‘over here’. I don’t talk about them. And she is not only criticizing Trump, she criticizes his voters. She is so bitter.
Here is a question…who seem to be the most bi ...[text shortened]... ilymail.co.uk/news/article-13314663/katie-couric-claims-trump-maga-support-anti-intellectualism.html

Yeah that’s right Joe we are always posting angry rant after angry rant whilst the last of the ‘Wild Turkey’ dribbles down our chin onto our bib and brace

@sleepyguy said
I think what some are identifying as disdain for education is actually disdain for left wing "educators" who take perfectly good young people and try turning them into bitter Marxists with gender dysphoria instead of successful happy people. Conservatives do value knowledge and skill, but modern universities have increasingly become an unsafe place to send your kids to get ...[text shortened]... Peterson, Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman and son on, but I'll bet they don't count for some reason.

Hahaha a perfect example of how someone can be scooped up by a vortex of utter BS
Yeah them Marxists are everywhere, no one corrupts young minds like religion and right wing propaganda
For Marists educators read educators who teach reality as opposed to teaching them that every personal failure is their fault and they live in a perfect system.
No cyclical deprivation, no racism, no patriarchal misogyny, no corporations being allowed to run the country by literally buying the government and media outlets
If it wasn’t for them Marxist educators life would be peachy 🙄

@shavixmir said
It’s getting serious.
Obviously I normally couldn’t care less about the Earth warming, the US coasts flooding and islands sinking… but I have just stumbled upon some really serious information.

And I kid you not.
Due to global warming, spiders are getting larger… and more bloody aggressive.

Nope.
No.
This has got to stop.
What sort of an apocalyptic nightmare ar ...[text shortened]... ters are getting bigger…
Nope. Just plain no.

Throw out your aircos and buy a bloody bicycle!!!

Nooooo I was chased by a spider once, scarier than sporty spice
Let’s just hope global oxygen levels don’t rise with the temperature because then creepy crawlies get seriously big. Starship Troopers might become a training video 🕷️🦟😧

@spruce112358 said
Children can't just go 'get another job.' They have to do what their parents tell them because the parents give them food, clothing and shelter (and many other things - but let's leave love and affirmation out of it for the moment.)

If a parent tells them, 'go work,' they have to go. That's not free market labor.

That's slavery.

When you provide someone room ...[text shortened]... bor.

You arguing that we bring back slavery, AverageJoe? That is BOLD even for a Southerner!

Why do you think they ( MAGAs ) ban the teaching of the history of slavery in the US, it’s so they can tell enough lies about the system that they intend to reinstate.in one form or anther, and poor white folks had better watch their asses this time too.

@wajoma said
If tomorrow every law banning children from working in mines in Australia was repealed, how many children would be working in mines 6 months from now?

So your admitting that regulation came before ‘prosperity’, there’s hope for you yet
How does it feel to constantly cling to a life belt of nonsense in a sea of reality.
With the amount of people trafficking that goes on it probably would not be too long before your ‘libertarian’ fantasy of getting children back down the mines became a reality, don’t lose heart son one day your misogynistic dream will come true

@sleepyguy said
Oh well then. You win! LOL.

There is nothing to win or lose it’s just a statement of obvious fact which you can choose to ignore in your quest for the non existent win if you choose

@averagejoe1 said
Free! Free! Free! The most cherished of all concepts to the world’s liberals and socialists. That word is hammered out about 55 times in this video about free.
A true oxymoron, a video highlighting websites that are free, to show you how to get stuff from other people. Stuff for free. Free!Free!Creepy!

You do know that free is the natural state of things you dummy
People are naturally free and knowledge passing between them freely is the natural state of things. If you make knowledge a commodity your simply creating a bottle neck and slowing down the flow of knowledge which leads to the retardation of its expansion.
I mean you stupid MAGAs are getting your information from one very corrupt individual with a track record of outlandish lies

@sleepyguy said
You are saying the right wing doesn't want people to learn useful skills?

Yes the right wing are famous for dumbing down their target population, uneducated people are a lot easier to control with BS than educated people, it’s a very simple and well known fact and should probably be too obvious to debate.
A classic right wing target is the intellectual and intellectualism itself, it’s the same with so called communist movements they all hate actual knowledge being disseminated amongst the population.