Proponents of this initiative want you to think it’s about keeping old people safe. We’re not sure how the SECB would have voted if the measure were really about protecting the elderly, given that the SECB is now dominated by a millennial majority ready to burn the elderly for warmth as they huddle together in the cold, dim light of their fucked futures. But luckily we didn’t have to find out! That’s because this thing is really about something other than keeping old people safe: an endless grudge match between two crazed interest groups, the Service Employees International Union (usually good cray) and the anti-union wankers at the Freedom Foundation (usually bad cray).

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