Nah, I was thinking something along the lines of the Right saying that Young mothers are abandoning their kids because "they're selfish" or "they are avoiding responsibility" so some state passes a law that states that abandoned kids get DNA tested and traced back to their mothers so they can be forced to raise kids they can't afford/can't raise "to protect the family".
The US has a track record of fucking over women and girls, what with their war against contraception, abortion, adequate child care, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if the next move is "stop women giving kids up for adoption" under the guise of "protecting the family" or "personal responsibility" or some shit, but in reality is just a way to create cheap labour from underpaid women with a mouth to feed.
Reasonable. Now who's gonna bet that some dip shit in Washington makes it illegal because "mothers should face the consequences of their decisions" or some bullshit.
Call me a cynical old bitch but when the US does something reasonable I always think "how they gonna fuck it up this time?"
So we're going to see citizens and legal immigrants sent to random facilities miles away from their families and lawyers like we do in America? We're going to see random people getting shot for disrespecting poorly trained officers with violent streaks and an abusive past?
People: "I am NOT paying my barista a tip for this, what do you MEAN they DEMAND a tip."
Meanwhile the Barista is being paid less than US$3 an hour because in America, you can be paid that and be expected to reach minimum wage through tips if you work food service. Want to end that? Demand that food service workers be paid minimum wage at the very least. Don't want to do even that? Then stop getting fast food.
No, this will not raise the price of food in any meaningful way.
No, these are not all teens, the average age of a minimum wage worker is 40.
No, this will not raise the price of goods generally. Wages have remained stagnant and the price of goods have risen regardless.
You will be glad to know that HOAs are almost unheard of in the UK and where they exist they're usually nothing more than an organisation for tending to the village green, common areas and sometimes library book boxes.
Every time there's football matches between Rangers and Celtic in Glasgow, they send out the riot police because shit can get violent very easily.
On the other side of the central belt in Edinburgh, there were plans to have separators on the trams to keep Hibs and Hearts fans separate.
London tube trains have to skip some stations on match days to prevent certain fans mixing and fighting. Doesn't stop them banging on the tube trains. Arsenal tube station has bars specifically designed to stop rival teams fighting each other on the stairs.
Millwall fans are so notoriously violent when the Dockland's light railway was being built, rather than naming a station "Millwall" they named it "Mudchute". Do you know how bad you have to be to have your area's station named after a euphemism for arsehole.
