Watching Joe Arpaio proudly show off his concentration camp in Arizona to Chinese diplomats and with a grin talk about how they put women in chain gangs, earning hardly veiled disgust from the representatives of the second most brutal regime on earth.
Cowardly backward redneck losers. When you have to block your opponents from office it really shows how much you fucking suck as people and representation.
This will sound like I am not supporting workers, but hear me out. The intention of this law has nothing to do with taking away breaks. There’s this picture being painted of “state and evil construction companies” vs “workers and municipalities.” There’s actually two different fights here: workers vs evil construction companies and, the state vs municipalities. Focusing on the first one is important outside of how the state and city are bickering.
If you know your construction company will take away your 10 min / 4 hr water break because the city can no longer enforce that, that’s NOT the state’s fault because they’re taking a common sense approach to consolidating laws and eliminating bureaucracy. That is an evil fucking construction company.
You want to blame a lawmaker because they assumed no company would be evil enough to do that, fine, but think about that, and the entire scope of this bill, when deciding who to protest against.
EDIT: Sorry to come off looking like a republican shill. That was honestly not my intention. I’ll try harder next time. ESH except the workers trying to stay hydrated!
We should remove all those laws barring children working in mines, because common sense is that mining companies would not employ children… You are conflating two issues here. What the world ought to do, and what is really happening. Folks in Texas are struggling in the sun, and we ought to give them any tool we can do they can fight back.
Nearöy every safety bill is written im blood. The blood of the workers , because corperations dont care about there workers, they care about a line ging up.
Without regulation workers would still be getting locked in factories, burning to death in care of fire.
Every large company will squeeze every second of productivity out of a worker unless it’s forced not to.
The 8 hour work day was fought for by workers, the 5 day work week was fought for by workers, child labor laws were fought for by workers. These things required protests and often time violence to get, because companies were literally killing people through work until these things became labor law.
Removing labor protection does nothing but remove safety for workers and increase profits for corporations.
The free market doesn’t work and has never worked. Anyone who says otherwise is willfully ignorant of history and basic logical reasoning.
I get that, and I support everything you’re saying. It feels like the workers are getting played by the companies though. Workers should be lobbying for rights to the state, federal and municipal levels, but this feels like a “red herring” of a bill to get behind.
Don’t blame our government, it’s the evil company that would take away breaks you should be mad at!
What kind of asinine logic is this? When has any profit driven corporation ever done “the right thing” without government stipulations? Maybe you should read up on Dupont, Shelll, Exxon, Enron, Rocketdyne, and about a million other companies that did the exact opposite of that as long as they possibly could and even then some.
I’m not sure who you are quoting, or trying to reason with, but I agree with your sentiment. A profit driven company will do everything it can to profit. Are you trying to say we should “only” be mad at the government and not the company, in this scenario?
Not the person you’re asking but we can be mad at both. Companies are evil, profit driven, employee exploiters. We know this, and we must force them to treat their workers like humans. Failure by the government to force companies to treat their workers like humans is something we should be mad at the government for.
We want the government to step in BECAUSE we’re mad at the companies and want to change the companies policies.
I appreciate you trying to explain a perspective, even if it’s possibly “wrong.” We do need to spend time trying to understand why rather than default assuming it’s because they’re awful human beings.
I don’t think the downvotes are deserved as I don’t think you’re shilling for corpo overlords or trolling.
Why does it matter where they're located. Trading is online and there's really no reason, aside from tradition, to have people on a floor trading securities.
So there are a ton of businesses that would be affected by this. Not that I’m a regular consumer of any of these, but for a state that constantly touts how “pro business” they are, this is going to destroy many small business owners who have invested in selling a legal product.
Nothing good in the history of mankind has ever come from conservatism. Nearly every major problem on earth is either caused or made much worse by the existence of conservatives.
Other proposed planks of the 50-page platform included proclamations that “abortion is not healthcare it is homicide”; that gender-transition treatment for children is “child abuse”; calls to reverse recent name changes to military bases and “publicly honor the southern heroes”; support for declaring gold and silver as legal tender; and demands that the U.S. government disclose “all pertinent information and knowledge” of UFOs.
In 2022, it called for a referendum on Texas secession; resistance to the “Great Reset,” a conspiracy theory that claims global elites are using environmental and social policies to enslave the world’s population; proclamations that homosexuality is an “abnormal lifestyle choice”; and a declaration that President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected.
Perhaps the most consequential plank calls for a constitutional amendment to require that candidates for statewide office carry a majority of Texas’ 254 counties to win an election, a model similar to the U.S. electoral college.
This year’s platform also calls for Thomas Jefferson’s “Letter to the Danbury Baptists” to be included in the list of “original founding documents” to be taught in history classes, along with the U.S. Constitution or The Federalist Papers.
Barton’s ideas have been a key driver of that movement, and were repeatedly cited by lawmakers last year during debates over the chaplains bill and in legislation that would have required the Ten Commandments to be posted in public school classrooms.
Barton’s group, WallBuilders, was also an exhibitor at this year’s Texas GOP convention, and the party has increasingly aligned with two far-right, fundamentalist Christian billionaires, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks.
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They’re not fooling anyone. They’re funneling money through campaign donor companies. There’s no way in hell that the phrase “induced demand” hasn’t come up in every meeting they ever made about the subject.
Yup, will tell everyone I know about Curves and not to use them. I already let everyone I know that the Buccee’s CEO donated to Abbotts campaign, so fuck them too.
And now I gotta look up this Monty Bennet guy to see which hotel chains he’s apart of, and avoid staying there as well.
The oil men…meh…they’ve always pieces of shit, so they don’t surprise me.
Edit: Well fuck me. Remington hotels manages 24 brands, including shit like Courtyard by Marriott, LA Quinta, Hilton, Marriott, Residence Inn, Hyatt, Westin, and Sheraton.
Guess I’m searching out independently owned boutiques and true-blue, old-school Bed and Breakfast’s. 😮💨
I don’t get the love for Buccees. The bathroom lines are long and the place is a madhouse every time I’ve stopped there. Is the gas cheaper or something?
I have no idea either. I’ll admit that they do keep their bathrooms clean, but so does Love’s, which is usually right across the street from a Buccee’s in my experience.
And since everyone and their brother simply must go to Buccee’s specifically, the bathroom lines and parking lot at Love’s is much more manageable.
Some people like their hot food I guess, but no amount of roast beef will convince me to support a brand that supports Abbott (once I find out about it, I swear I don’t actively go looking for this shit. I just do my research when the opportunity presents itself because we’re in a capitalist society, and if enough people voted with their dollars, shit might change)
They only manage ~130 specific properties within those brands (their website is hot garbage so I’ve provided an alt link).
Sometimes a brand will own the property, but hire an outside company to manage it, other times the mgmt company owns and manages the property, and even more other other times, the mgmt company will own the property, but the brand is (still) under contract to manage the property from the previous owner
Lit. Thanks for the clarification. And the better link!
I think being an informed consumer is hella important for change, so I’m super appreciative for better information. This is good news because the list isn’t as extensive as I thought, since I misunderstood their portfolio.
Definitely favorited your link (so I know which hotels Id like to do my best avoiding) as I travel around Texas! You’re a real one!
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