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What the fuck do people not understand? This is really fucking simple: repubs will extract as much value for themselves from society, while they’re alive, with not a concern for the costs to others or the future. That’s what motivates 100% of their shit. That’s why they’ve betrayed America. That’s why they’re cool if kids get shot up. They’re soulless ghouls, utter parasites.

Unions are the answer to this #GOP madness.

Not even businesses want this, it's just performative cruelty at this point.

I'm not baffled. Republicans love to punish people, the poorer and not white the better.

Are the experts actually baffled? Have they not noticed who is running Florida?

Alright, I got this one ….

Because most outdoor laborers are immigrants or illegal immigrants. Making that job more difficult is a oloy to get them to leave the state. Half of Miami doesn't even speak English, half of my family doesn't either.... But DeSantis just sees us all as "brown" and wants to show he's strong on immigration by forcing them to stop working and go elsewhere.

This goes for farm hands, other manual laborers too.

It's just cruel when you come down to It.

"bOTh sIdeS ArE thE sAmE"

The law will primarily affect low-income workers of color

I guess the experts missed the point.

Do you want your workforce to leave your state? Because that's how you get your workforce to leave your state. This is insane.

While it's coming across as active cruelty, what this really is, is collateral damage, and TBF maybe there's no real difference. Many municipalities in Florida and Texas skew more blue than the state government, and they had taken to trying to use municipal codes to make life less shitty in general for everyone. Many had stricter COVID rules, have tried banning fracking, have decriminalized marijuana possession, have de-emphasized immigration enforcement, and a dozen other little ways to take the sting out of these state governments' obsession with making everyone live in some sort of Orwellian take on Mayberry.

If cities can enforce water breaks, they can enforce all kinds of things that make life more expensive for rich people and/or potentially more mildly uncomfortable for Evangelical assholes.

Democratic leaders in Florida are unsurprised by the new law. Rep. Fentrice Driskell, minority leader of the Florida House of Representatives, said Republicans in red states have systematically been taking power away from local governments as part of an effort to limit the influence of left-leaning cities.

It's only baffling because of projection.

We all understand others in large part by projection. What's happening here is decent people are projecting their sense of empathy onto people that do not have the capacity to experience it and being surprised. We need to get it into our heads that these people are not going to see the error in their ways and change. We have to remove them power somehow.

We normally talk about projection when right wingers project their fears, ignorance, and crime onto people not in their in-group but that isn't the only place it exists.

What a garbage state. And that really means something coming from someone that lives in Indiana

Florida has joined Texas in banning such local rules for outdoor workers

How is it every time i hear humans rights being restricted or taken away Texas is always fucking involved?

Are there any NGO's that are supporting / helping relocate impacted Floridian immigrant workers to more friendly agriculture states like California? Florida is increasingly proving that the cruelty is the point.

They’re in favor of local government, but not if the local government doesn’t tow the party line.

Woof, thought I was having déjà vu for a minute. Nope, just republicans being republicans, yet again.

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-axing-water-breaks-texas-heat-wave-anger-1807538

I hate to see articles like this one. It's way more fun when these cap-pilled, golden-calf-faith-based articles make up crazy reasons or blames millennials/zoomers. Give me a funny reason! Give me comedy! Pretending one just doesnt understand what purpose unfettered, unrestricted capitalism has as its end game is just lazy. Cmon USAtoday, you used to have standards

Fucking Spacer’s Choice.

Sorry, children working in factories and doing hard labor outdoors, but we simply can't allow you to have food, water, or access to a toilet. What does this look like, a first world country?

Conservatives are cockroaches. Always have been.

Fucking Republicans

Yeah....I'm not waiting for a mandated break. If I am getting too hot, I am walking to the shade for a quick drink. The problem is that Florida heat is wet heat. Shade doesn't do much.

If you need to piss urgently, do you politely wiggle, or do you step away and come back in 2 minutes?

There should be a law that you can't make laws to block laws