XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: PFWTM@cumcast.net   
      
   On 1/3/2026 4:25 AM, chine.bleu wrote:   
   > I am not sure about Germany but much of the USA has vile, oppressive,   
   > ill considerred fire codes. They unfairly demand business have fire   
   > exits and reduce fire hazards. Liberals got all whiny about a few women   
   > at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.   
      
   The evil owners, most likely Eastern European immigrants themselves,   
   locked the doors to the fire escapes in some claimed effort to keep the   
   teenage girls they employed as virtual slaves from allegedly stealing   
   fabric and thread from the sweat shop where they slaved away. It's a   
   stretch for you to claim that blocking the exits was a conservative   
   position, politically speaking. The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist   
   factory were probably ancestors of Bernie Sanders or Chuck Shumer and   
   supporters of the Bolsheviks in Russia and the people wanting stricter   
   fire codes were persons like Teddy Roosevelt and the families of the   
   girls working in the garment factories.  It wasn't a liberal vs   
   conservative issue, but, rather, an issue of decency and human rights.   
      
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