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Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage.

The move marked a major victory for the state’s largest business group and a frustrating defeat for workers’ rights advocates, who had spent years — and millions of dollars — building support for the successful ballot measure. The repeal will take effect Aug. 28.

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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 102 points 2 weeks ago

What sort of ass-backwards State allows direct Voter-approved laws to be repealed by the politicians. The purpose of having that process is to deal with situations where the State can't get their shit together.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A state that is captured by the voting power of land over individuals. Missouri state government is completely beholden to the hoosiers in the boonies because there are more rural counties even though there are far less rural people. And then secondarily the rural people are propped up by dumbass McBee-wannabe suburbanites that vote conservative and wear cowboy boots recreationally.

Governor HeeHaw 2.0 is one such dumbass suburbanite who went to Chaminade in St. Louis, grew up rich, and now cosplays as the hoosier’s champion

Missouri at large is far more purple than the state government allows it to appear. It was purple for a long time and its still purple today, but a purple state that gives more voting power to land than people ultimately ends up red. Just look at our federal electoral system, its the same thing

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hear hear!

For those who don't know: Hoosier is Missouri slang for trashy rural dipshits.

Sorry Indiana.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And for Missourians who dont know, we call trashy rural dipshits hoosiers because the original trashy rural dipshits in MO came from Indiana.

Sorry again Indiana. Although modern Indiana is much better now after offloading your trashy dipshits on us back in the day

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

My parents live in Indiana, and I mostly grew up in either Indiana or California. I'm not so sure the state is better off even after offloading some of the racist hillbillies from around those parts.

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago

Don't apologize to Indiana they know what they're about

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 52 points 2 weeks ago

They'll probably VOTE him Out next Time because Republicans are KNOWN to VOTE OUT Representatives that Screw them Over!

-LoL!

"It's ok if you fuck me in the ass as long as you fuck the brown guys a little harder." --Modern Republican Voters

[-] CorruptCheesecake@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

They like being screwed over, it's their kink.

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 37 points 2 weeks ago

Republicans hate you unless you’re a billionaire.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

Even then they hate you, but they'll kiss your ass.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone hates billionaires.

[-] Goldholz 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] shplane@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Something tells me they hate themselves but they’d need some kind of self awareness or a soul for that, so maybe not

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

They perceive others having things as a failure of their ability to have it all. So they probably don't like each other.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 36 points 2 weeks ago

Ballot actions do nothing if Regressives are elected.

Ballot actions AND Progressives!

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Either way, it’s incrementalism. And as we’ve seen, any rights won will be clawed back.

The only good fix is revolution. The master’s tools will not destroy the master’s house.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno man, the master's sledgehammer and sickle can pretty effectively destroy both the house and the master respectively.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Those are our tools. The master does not labor.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would have thought that the obvious "hammer and sickle" reference would have made it obvious that I was joking.

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 weeks ago

Missouri does this all the time. The laws here are so bad.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

You should leave. It's not going to get any better and they will just use your income to pay for their shenanigans.

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

I wish I could. Can’t afford to live anywhere else. I’m just doing what I can to make my community better. It makes me feel a little less hopeless.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

It’s the same shit everywhere. You get to choose where you deal with it. If you’re in the right spot it’s much easier.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

This but America

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 weeks ago

He also just took away funding for child abuse protection.

He cares more about professional sports than child sexual abuse.

Which is ironic because much of the MAGA platform is stopping pedophiles.

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 16 points 2 weeks ago

It was never about child abuse. It was about cruelty to people they don't like.

[-] smashing3606@feddit.online 8 points 2 weeks ago

Only in public. Their only true platform is to get money and make money for billionaires.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Much of the MAGA platform is empowering and enabling pedophiles….there fixed it for you

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

stopping

Im not sure that word means what you think it means.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago

What a fucking clown. This motherfucker needs to be removed from his god damn office after denying from the people democracy like this.

These deadbeat politicians are sowing political upheaval, and sooner or later, the people will inflict their rage on the people that have caused their lives to go to shit.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

No, they won't. They'll inflict on the people they're told did this to him because they can't figure out who's really responsible.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly, you're right.

[-] Ton@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly this, most people these days lack any capacity for critical thought and will just straight up take the propaganda at face value.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Removed in a bag.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

sooner or later

LOL any day now.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 17 points 2 weeks ago

Our state is filled with a bunch of fuckwits who keep voting for progressive policies across the whole state, yet can't vote for anyone that doesn't have an (R) next to their name and are consistently shocked when their ballot measures get pulled.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

Repubs are excellent at working directly against their constituents interest and desires.

[-] jonesey71@lemmus.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like the next ballot action should be any elected official who offers up legislation to repeal a ballot initiative immediately loses their seat without any further action needed. If enacted by a ballot only a ballot should be able to repeal it and anyone who suggests otherwise doesn't belong in office.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Feel like the ballot has been tossed in the trash, and its time for missouri to go on to plan b.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Loses their seat? Not their head?

[-] jonesey71@lemmus.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta get this one through first so that we can then not have to worry about repeal when we add the lose their head part later.

[-] CPMSP@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

So fitting for the state of misery.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
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