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House Bill 2127, which takes effect on Sept. 1, will do away with local rules that require water breaks for construction workers. The cities of Austin and Dallas, for example, require 10-minute breaks every four hours. San Antonio officials had been considering a similar ordinance.

“We are human beings who need respect,” Martínez said. “We really need to be allowed to work without problems, without any barriers … Believe me, we are dying inside those buildings when they take away our water and our [break] time.”

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It’s crazy to me that anyone could sit on their ass in AC all day and even consider speaking to take water breaks away from construction workers. I went in figuring they got 10 minutes per hour and it’s only 10 minutes per four hours?! Fuck that noise, they need more time to rest and hydrate. What the fuck is wrong with people.

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Bro, americans are slaves. I thought they abolished slavery.

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They also practice slavery in their gulags.

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They got chain gangs in Florida, in this prison where they eat meat scraps for alligators; the packaging says ‘not suitable for human consumption’.

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Watching Joe Arpaio proudly show off his concentration camp in Arizona to Chinese diplomats and with a grin talk about how they put women in chain gangs, earning hardly veiled disgust from the representatives of the second most brutal regime on earth.

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Only for everything other than punishment, and being poor is a crime in America.

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If you’re too poor you’re literally sent to a gulag and forced into slave work.

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Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.

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It feels pretty shitty to be a disabled person scrolling by and seeing comments like this. I don’t think that Abbott being a shitty person makes your statement any less hurtful to non-shitty disabled people

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Texas is learning Qatari World Cup stadium construction methods

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