Republicans will force a 10 year old to carry her rapist’s baby to term, let a 6 year old carry a gun, permit a 12 year old to work an 8 hour shift in a meat packing plant and allow a grown man to marry a 14 year old with a Judge’s consent, all while telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender affirming care and books about Rosa Parks is because they want to ‘protect our kids.’
Bullshit.
A sanitation company paid over $1.5M in penalties for having 102 children from the ages of 13 to 17 work overnight shifts at 13 hazardous slaughterhouses across America.
Packers Sanitation Services is owned by the private equity firm Blackstone.
Nobody will go to jail for this.
When we say "crime is a social construct", what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.
this might sound cynical but i’ve always wondered why no billionaire has singlehandedly funded the halting/reversal of climate change solely for the sake of satisfying their narcissism by being able to say they literally saved the entire human race
I couldn’t be her teacher I would’ve sent out a email “due to other children having seafood allergies I did have to confiscate your daughters lunch today “ while my breathe smelling like crab legs and boiled egg