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Voting rights need to be made universal so that kids have more power to fight back when their other rights are under attack.

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If we fight for better working conditions for ourselves, we should also fight for better working conditions for our children. Let's not, for example, call for a 4-day workweek for ourselves while saying nothing about the children in the school down the street working 5 days a week.

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Children need political power to be able to fight for better working conditions just as adults do. Such as voting rights and the ability to unionize and negotiate their own working conditions.

For example, many children do not truly have weekends off when they can be assigned homework over the weekend. They are not paid, have very little power to escape abusive workplaces, and often have restrictions that adults would find barbaric, like on being allowed to go to the bathroom.

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It's important that we recognize the child labor that our children do as legitimate labor so that they can enjoy more of the benefits that adults enjoy that you listed above. Rather than pretending it's not even labor, which is an attitude that stifles improvements in their working conditions.

Green Eraser @greeneraser.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

To be clear, the educational labor that children perform is an unrecognized, underappreciated, uncompensated form of labor, just as there are many underappreciated forms of domestic labor.

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I also think it should be illegal to prevent children from getting vaccinated, but I don't really view it as an either-or. You should both try to make it more legally difficult for parents to prevent their kids from getting vaccinated and try to persuade them to be less crazy in the meantime.

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Green Eraser @greeneraser.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It doesn't sound to me like she's caving to MAHA, it sounds like she's trying to understand them and reach out to them to try to convince them to redirect their frustration with health care in a more sane direction like supporting Medicare for All. Seems worth a try to me!

Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage theonion.com/home-heeled-advantage

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties.

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Green Eraser @greeneraser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Religious freedom shouldn't extend to a right to kill others. Children should not be considered property but full human beings with their own right to get medical treatment.

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Green Eraser @greeneraser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The issue is that people find it normal for college students to be broke and desperate, and take that as a fun, quirky rule of nature rather than something to fix. We need basic income and free college. College students should have lives just as cozy and comfortable as those decades older than them!

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Green Eraser @greeneraser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And to be clear, Piker was just explaining the concept of blowback, that when you attack a place, sometimes some of the people there get mad at you and seek revenge. He never meant to say that it was good that people died. It was an argument against willy-nilly military intervention.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026

let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to

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This shields children from going hungry due to the financial issues of their parents. It also makes childcare more affordable for the poor, since the parental tax is a percentage of income instead of a relatively fixed amount per child, and all children receive the same basic income.

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The state then uses these funds to pay childcare directly to children as a basic income (which is likely then in large part transparently funneled back to parents for living expenses).

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As for compensation, it would basically eliminate child poverty if we instated a system of socialized child care. Under such a system, parents pay an additional tax rate for each child they parent.

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If you or I find ourselves in an abusive workplace, we can quit and find a different job, but children cannot easily leave an abusive classroom for a different classroom.

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You can poo-poo the lack of freedom all you want, but not having an internal locus of control is heavily associated with mental health issues, and makes it more difficult to escape abusive situations.

Basically, my point is that we shouldn't defend the current system too hard because in many ways it sucks. It would be better to spend time imagining a better system.

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A lot of the rights that a lot of adults take for granted like having weekends off are not a guarantee for many children in the current system, as many are forced to work weekends or long hours after school doing homework.

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While a step up in many ways from previous child labor, the current system of educational labor is not a perfect be-all-end-all either. Neither system allows kids to have much freedom over their own lives or fairly compensates them for their labor.

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They know that the anti-genocide left is going to rise and they're going to go down in history as the group who lead to Trump's re-election out of an inability to stop supporting atrocities. It's really not going to look good in the history books, so the lashing out is sort of understandable.

Which explains a lot of the saltiness and the posting of this sort of meme in the first place. They see the writing on the wall.

But if now the lie about electability is falling apart, which is the only thing centrists ever really had, I think centrists are going to struggle quite a bit in the future. If supporting genocide fails in generals consistently, why would you ever go for the pro-genocide candidate in a primary?

Ultimately, my takeaway is that centrists just are not nearly as electable as they so often claimed to be. And really, that's the only thing they supposedly had going for them, because their whole pitch was "We need to accept the slaughter of a few thousand innocent people to defeat Republicans."

And very few on the left in swing states didn't vote for her anyway, so it's like you're not even arguing against the left, you're arguing against such a small group of people that they probably aren't seeing your post and probably would be too small to have changed the outcome anyway.

Like, the meme just isn't as effective and hard-hitting as you seem to think it is. Why defend the driver so hard? Kamala could have simply hit the brakes and run over nobody whatsoever. That seems like the best possible outcome, no?

skarfs.bsky.social @skarfs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've made this response to this meme before, but the meme seems to imply that the trolley driver doesn't have perfectly functioning breaks. The trolley driver could simply hit the breaks and nobody would die. Why not yell at the driver to hit the brakes rather than those yelling at the driver?

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If we adults don't dismantle this system, the kids subjected to it will and the adults who implemented it won't like the way they do it

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Valet Parker * Las Vegas @valetparker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can’t scream my body, my choice with a footnote that says unless she charges for it. Either bodily autonomy is for everyone, or it’s just a slogan you use until the sex gets too uncomfortable and the agency too inconvenient.

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Green Eraser @greeneraser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It is absolutely essential that people under 18 have the right to get health care as recommended by real experts when this conflicts with the wishes of their parents. And the first essential step we need to take in this direction is voting rights for all, as recommended in the DSA platform.

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Green Eraser @greeneraser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's especially important to highlight that a lot of these people who trust RFK Jr are not just in charge of their own health, they are also in charge of the health of dependent children and can legally force or deny health care to these children based on RFK's recommendations.