So slavery. Let's just arrest and throw people in prison for bullshit reasons to get slaves.
Great.
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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2024
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That's why we have police in the first place. After the civil war the South, in order to covertly recapture as many recently freed slaves as possible, created vagrancy laws, sundown towns, and armed police. In Alabama, where the video is set, the state made it illegal for black people to leave a job, once they took it. The police in the south, especially in Alabama and Louisiana, arrested thousands of former slaves and leased them out to local businesses, in some cases victims of that system would be put to work at the same place, for the same people where they were enslaved prior to the emancipation declaration.
It's one of the most fucked up and evil things America has done. It's made even worse because the practice has been in use for over 200 years and no one, outside a small percentage of Americans even care.
Private prisons and work-release programs need to be ended now.
Worlds still hasn't evolved past the 1960s
Progress happens, but it's a far slower process than most people tend to believe.
Because it's dragged down by conservatives and rich people who benefit off regressive policies.
Your statement is akin to "trickle down economics" where the elites control the fountain and gullible people think it's going to reach them up any day now.
". . . . except as a punishment for crime . . . ."
Slavery never stopped, it just evolved. There's a reason black men are so overrepresented in the prison system.
The US is a fascist country. If you live here and you don't feel it, you are benefiting from it.
No, I certainly still benefit from it, as do most Americans. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't fight against it.
I think it is time for the state governments of Alabama and Mississippi to be abolished and replaced whole cloth.
Texas checking in, can you Hulk smash my government too, please?
The warden of Shawshank blew his brains out when he was caught doing this very thing. Now they're doing it in the open with no consequences
This is how they plan on filling all the gaps left by all the immigrants they want to deport. Next up are new laws that put even more people / groups of people, in prison.
As a prisoner, what happens if you refuse? Like, in that position I’d just say no, then they’d likely throw me in the hole, but that’s a lot better than being a slave from what I can tell.
They could put you in the sun for several hours with no shade, ice, or water then pretend it wasn't manslaughter when you die from heat exposure at 27
Better dead than a slave any day.
You're so smart! You solved slavery!
Ok… 👍
Isn't that genocide? You think slavery conditions that are so bad people die is a good thing?
wtf are you smoking? I am speaking from my own personal opinion that I’d rather be dead than a slave any day. If someone else in the system wants to be a slave, that’s on them. But I would rather die than work for pennies or less of compensation just to line the pockets of some already wealthy corporation.
You were speaking about someone else's real death, actually, and saying "better off dead than a slave." It comes across callous.
If everyone lived by your recommendation, all employees would kill themselves because their lives aren't worth living as a slave. Do you really think all employees qualia is so worthless that it's better they kill themselves? They should be further abused by slavery by being denied what joy they can squeeze from it? Don't you think this just helps the people who want to harm us and genocide us?
Don't you find a joy in spitefully opposing capitalists and slavers? Every time you enjoy life without paying a penny for it, you thwart capitalism. Every time you enjoy life outside of capitalist bullshit, you break the trance and lies it's trying to market to us.
Autonomy and power work like roots in a rock. Let the little tiny parts work through and the bigger ones will come too to break it apart. Seize the little powers you can and then work on bigger ones. Use your rights.
I was talking about one single person, myself. I literally posed it as myself being in this situation. You are obviously literate enough to write that whole diatribe that I’m not going to waste my time reading, but you are too stupid to notice that I wasn’t talking about anyone but myself. Get fucked dude lmfao
Gee, it's almost like what you said was really callous and you failed to make your meaning clear as I am not the only one to take issue with it. And now that it's been made clear how fucked up your statement was (since you aren't a slave and since you're alive, have never been a slave), you are refusing to participate. Fine, I accept that you quit and were wrong in how you communicated at minimum.
Is it? At least you would have something to do other than sit there.
This is NOT me saying that this is OK in any way. Just that "the hole" would be fucking awful. Lack of stimulation is torture.
Who need stimulation? Sleep is stimulating enough. Also, I’m pretty adept at creating games and tiny things to occupy my mind and time. Being a kid pre internet with few homies around definitely prepared me for such an occurrence. And I get it, it’d be that but for months on end, but if it prevents me from being a slave, then such is life.
A friend of mine was arrested on felony charges while he was sick, so they put him straight into solitary for medical isolation. Once he had surgery and recovered, they relocated him to the panopticon area. He said it felt like getting out of jail, he was so happy just to not be in solitary anymore.
There is some analysis described here: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/us-prison-labor-programs-violate-fundamental-human-rights-new-report-finds
Yeah, as I said in another comment, better dead than a slave.
Our country is a giant work camp 🎶 👏 🎵
The slave trade.
Not that youtube is much better... But here's a non-xitter link:
It's a GOOD THING they didn't vote for the Black Rocket Scientist for Governor!
Are they being paid? Do they get “good behavior” added to the record and reduced time sentences for working?
Colorado passed a state constitutional amendment to ban this practice 6 years ago and it's been tied up in lawsuits ever since
At least they aren't Uighurs. (/s)