I'm expecting this to be one of those American news stories where the public reaction is entirely dependent on the current party in power, right?

It feels weird for HN to be going to bat for a company abusing labor laws, am I missing something here?

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haswell 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

When the agency enforcing those labor laws is also blatantly violating the law while carrying out other highly publicized enforcement actions, they will be scrutinized for everything they do, including actions that were likely legal/necessary. That's part of the problem with the government breaking the law - legitimate actions are no longer seen as legitimate, because they have undermined themselves in the public eye.

I also don't think people are "going to bat for a company abusing labor laws" so much as they are highly suspicious of these enforcement actions given the complete lawlessness displayed elsewhere and imagine the possibility that there were more diplomatic solutions that still address the problem appropriately.

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add-sub-mul-div 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the respective parties are consistently welcoming and hostile to immigrants regardless of who's in power, I don't really know what you mean. Biden would have been hated by the left for doing this.

People are so both-sides poisoned they come out with these nonsensical takes reflexively just to virtue signal being "above" having a (public) stance.

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FirmwareBurner 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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eddythompson80 2 days ago | parent [-]

> If the current admin would cure cancer, HN and the media would find reasons why cancer was not so bad.

Uh, the reason is easy. Think of all the poor people who have legitimate reasons to distrust or fear the government. Now those poor victims, understandably, won't trust to get their cancer cured by the current admin. They should have contracted the cure to a non-partisan/non-political institute to not re-victimize those people. Now the rich and powerful will get the cure and the poor will not. /s

	▲	jacquesm a day ago \| parent [-]
		if there is one thing I'm pretty sure of then it is that under this particular administration cancer will not be cured. Now, about that next pandemic...