@SrRochardBunson @ech not even an attempt at rebuttal. Just a anecdote about ‘some states’ that make summer jobs tough for 15 year olds and bizarre assertion that this is somehow harming them. I doubt he is going to read your evidence.
Let’s hear more of that defense about how CA is ‘just as bad’. Both sides, eh?
@skotchygut I read it; it sort of backs up the point that he's trying to make with his OP. But he doesn't seem interested in engaging with what I said; and that's fine, if he just wants to reply angrily and say his thing, let him do it. (It is right to be angry about it, so I'll get out of his way!)
@ech >But he doesn’t seem interested in engaging with what I said
you mean other then him directly speaking to and pointing you to evidence against your ‘both sides’ position?
You are clearly the one who is not interested in engaging with the discussion. Please do get out of the way and consider thinking twice before bloviating about ‘both sides’.
@skotchygut "engaging with the discussion" You sure about that? 😂
"pointing you to evidence against your ‘both sides’ position?" – he pointed to evidence of two things: 1) Violations of labor laws are on the rise and 2) some red states are relaxing regulations around kids getting after school/summer jobs.
(1) is about a different topic than the argument I made about political discourse (which was not in reply to OP, by the way). This is a much more important topic, and clearly the thing OP wants to talk about. Great. Let him. I'm glad that contractor was fined. His EPI article has some good recommendations: fully fund enforcement agencies, immigration reform, etc, etc. A+
(2) at least hints at trying to address my point, by making the claim (albeit unsupported) that red states are problematically weakening child protections. I responded to that directly, and his reply was to ignore that and instead just double down on (1), which, again, is clearly the thing he wants to talk about.
