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ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 3 days ago

Teacher Asks What First Graders Want To Be Once Child Labor Laws Repealed

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ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 3 days ago
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LIBERTY, MO—After reading aloud a picture book about a puppy that works in a coal mine, local first grade teacher Brianna Montgomery asked her students Thursday what they want to be once child labor laws are repealed. “I want everyone to grab some crayons and draw a picture of what you want to be once […]
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    just wait until it’s “totally legal” for corporations to “adopt” orphans

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      Adopt Orphans?

      Your contract states that anything you create while employed at [COMPANY NAME] is the sole property of [COMPANY NAME], you’re lucky you’re allowed a generous 0.25% caretaker stipend for the child that’s been a complete leech on resources for the last 9 months…

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      Dude don’t give them ideas.

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        I’ll believe a corporation is a person when Texas kills one through lethal injection lets one adopt a child.

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      They are people…

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        The orphans?

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          Nah, not them…

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      Pretty sure this is what happened in Oliver Twist

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