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Just a reminder that Republicans are just horrible people.

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fascist crabs in a barrel.

I worked for the federal government in Canada. When my wife was pregnant I went to my director and said, "I would like to take a couple of weeks or maybe a month off to help my wife after she has the baby." He asked, "What are you entitled to under the collective bargaining agreement?" I said, "The parents can share 9 months of parental leave but she doesn't work so that means I can take up to 9 months." he replied, "Then take the 9 months. It wasn't available when my wife had kids but I would love to have taken it. Take every day you're entitled to." So I did, once for each of my two kids. It wasn't a fucking summer vacation.

The fucking rich old white men are gaslighting you. The rest of the world has parental leave.

Vote better.

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 year ago

Inb4 the totally-not-shills arrive to add "No no no fellow poors! Voting changes nothing, do you know what I be saying, my dog? You should not even try to vote, surely it will not make a difference. Working within the "system" can never succeed, dude, so I just stay at home playing among us and catching pokeyman creatures. On no account should you ever vote, for rizzle."

[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Those shills really need to ask themselves: "Why do the policies I support not stand up on their own and need me to astroturf any dissenting opinions".

They won't obviously, as conservative policy doesn't benefit anyone but the mega wealthy. It would be nice though.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

Shills only care about getting paid. That's what makes them shills.

I suspect most of the people you're talking about are just unpaid idiots.

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[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago

Considering both state and federal Congresses take a third of the year off themselves, this just further shows that Republicans are absolute trash.

[-] AccmRazr@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago

Even if it was summer break for adults, which it isn’t, what’s the issue?!

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Can you please think of the shareholders for one second?

[-] Fordiman@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

I'd love to hear what argument these fuck-knuckles have that would make, "I voted against family leave" - or even, "I voted against summer break for adults" - not make them unelectable...

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[-] CryptoRoberto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

They do it all over Europe. So clearly it would never work, for insert dumbass probably racist reason here.

[-] jerome@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

GOP needs to be kicked off their corporate welfare for life.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: Congress is only in session an average of 146 days per year. Let’s talk about who gets a longer “summer break.”

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[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 year ago

remind me again how much vacation congress gets?

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't get it though. They have to sit on their butts for hours at a time unless they feel like not showing up for work that day. It's a very demanding job for only $174,000/yr (unless they work even harder to hide the alternative forms of income) and they only get to vote raises for themselves once every two years.

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

And they don't even have to bother reading the bills they vote on. They have staffers summarize them for them, and then blame their staffers if they don't know the details of a bill when called out on their vote

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 points 1 year ago

Staffers? Did you mean sponsors?

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

damn shame how we done them

[-] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Whatever you do don’t link a compilation video of all the members of congress sleeping on the job. That would be hugely inappropriate and counter to the message they would prefer get sent out.

Do they think that birthing & taking care of a newborn is like "summer break"???

For the billionth time: get fucked, GOP.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, because they are mostly old white men who offload that to their wife and/or nanny

[-] CryptoRoberto@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, they do. Because they have a whole team of people to take care of their kids and household for them. We're talking about people who if they've ever touched a cleaning product it was likely decades ago....

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I took two weeks off after my first son was born. That was definitely NOT a vacation. Obviously, I didn't have to go through the really hard part (giving birth). To help my wife rest, I'd take any nighttime crying sessions plus half of the daytime ones while I was home. Getting up at 11pm, 1am, 1:30am, 1:50am, 3:30am, 3:50am, etc was not a vacation by any stretch of the imagination.

I was exhausted and stressed having to take care of this little one whose very life depended on me. It was a rough adjustment. I'm very happy to have had my boys, but anyone who thinks having a baby is akin to a vacation either offloads all the real work to someone else or takes some really horrible vacations.

[-] hansl@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

Do they not have children?

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

They do. They just don't actually take part in raising them.

[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

They usually eat them upon birth. There's farm to table for restaurants and vag to devils gut with politicians.

[-] rdrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Do they have them? Technically yes. Did they raise them? Doubt it

[-] mashbooq@infosec.pub 37 points 1 year ago

Ngl summer break for adults sounds amazing; that's pretty good marketing for it

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'll take one of those please.

[-] keeb420@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

seeing all of f1 take august off is a privilege im too american to understand.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 27 points 1 year ago

What the hell is wrong with a summer break for adults? Presumably if the children want to summer break the adults also have to have a summer break if only to supervise the children.

What are these idiots expect things going to happen here.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping for camping and national lampoons vacations and spending time with your kids.

Am I close?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

conservatives be like "you only suck your bosses' dick??! How selfish"

[-] thesprongler@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

They'll force you to have the kid, then tell ya to fuck off.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly I'm starting to think that it's not important to them what they force you to do, only that they can force you to do what they want.

[-] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It’s not what they force you to do, it’s who they can force to do whatever, because conservatism’s just dressed up worship of established hierarchies.

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[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

summer break for adults

...AND?

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

How pro-life of them.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Party of “FaMiLY VaLUeS” my ass

[-] MedicatedMaybe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

They don't want a health society. If we are happy and fulfilled then we aren't as easily manipulated.

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Costs are already rising and wages are abysmall but at least 15 weeks paid leave would let new parents have bonding time with their newborn or spend the last few days with a loved one as they die. At least it would be a little sliver lining in a black and grey world.

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Republicans: Complain about regulation and red tape.

Democrats: Propose bill getting rid of regulations and red tape surrounding farmers converting to clean energy production.

Republicans: "No, not like that!"

[-] ToAllPointsWest@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Summer break for adults? Sign me up!!!

[-] Fordiman@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Incidentally, should I want it, I can take a paid month off at any time at my job.

I don't see why this is a problem, except that the GOP don't know how to run a business or a government.

Why not indeed

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That sounds horrible

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Is it just me or am I hearing about Whitmer a lot? She seems to come up often for someone not currently running for president.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve heard her name in that context too. Does the president need a new running mate? Will he step aside if a strong contender appears? Assuming he continues through a second term, who will stand up as future candidates? Maybe Whitmer.

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'summer break for adults'

Smells like a Frank Luntz phrase.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

But it's just summer break for adults

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[-] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

House GOP can kindly shut the fuck up.

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