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  • Why do these sorts of people think, "we can't stay in business if we're not allowed to description of abuse ," means they should be allowed to abuse instead of put out of business? Does it really never occur to them that they should be supplanted by better alternatives?

    Their heads are so far up their own asses they forget 'if' offers two solutions.

    • They usually don't even say it will put them out of business. They say something like "not polluting the groundwater with toxic wastes would place an undue burden on our industry". Which translates to "we won't maximize our profits". And the brainwashed among us think "oh yeah, I get it, they are required by law to maximize corpo profits on behalf of shareholders" (not true) "so of course they have to be allowed to {pollute, enslave, hire children, provide unsafe working conditions, lie, misrepresent, not clean up up after themselves (uncapped oil/gas wells, nuclear waste, mines leaching chemicals, "superfund" (public $) cleanup sites, etc} or the poor dears might be in big trouble all because of us Poors".

  • the New York Farm Bureau (NYFB), the state’s largest agricultural industry lobbying group

    “It must be mentioned that many agricultural workers come from very weather countries (sic), via the federal H2A program, such as Mexico and Jamaica, and working (sic) and would feel very comfortable working in New York in the summertime,” the memo stated.

    "very weather countries". These lobbyist scum have sub-zero IQs apparently.

    The NYFB’s claims are nothing new. Pseudoscientific theories about non-white laborers’ ability to withstand extreme heat date back centuries. In 1851, Samuel Cartwright, a Louisiana physician, justified the enslavement of Africans in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster, claiming that white people are naturally unsuited to work on hot cotton and sugar plantations but for the enslaved Africans the work “proves to be only a wholesome and beneficial exercise to the negro.”

    Chinese laborers in Hawaii sugarcane fields were also viewed as being more adaptable to the harsh climate than white laborers. Japanese fruit pickers in California were believed to “endure the heat found in a few localities better than most other races.” Mexican laborers who worked in the smoldering Pennsylvania steel mills in the 1920s were also believed to “endure heat well.”

    I think that wealthy white corporate management and its lobbyist flunkies would endure jobs in arctic gulags much better than anyone else. Efficiency is the name of the game, and there's already a big federal domestic terrorist-military org that can help these people get up there to the northern wastes, an org, appropriately enough, named after frozen water.

  • It sounds like what they're saying is that people from hot areas tend to be relatively comfortable in the heat, which IME, as someone from a hot place, does tend to be true. I used to work outdoors 16 hours a day with a 120 heat index. Now I live in a temperate area, and I see everyone wearing shorts and complaining about the heat when I'm still in jeans and a t-shirt and feel pleasantly warm.

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