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Its not like there are enough people in the country illegally to fill the concentration camps the budget bill is going to pay for

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

The bottom line is that they want to incarcerate as many people as possible.

What does a corporation do when they are already paying their people as little as possible, and replace as many as they can with AI? Imagine if slavery were legal, and they could force people to work for literally free?

The only legal form of slavery is prison labor, ensconced in the Constitution, so as long as people are in prison, the administration can rent them out to wealthy corporations. The corporations get cheap/free labor, and the government gets to maintain control.

In addition, that's how they will treat people who require any public assistance, like Medicaid or Food Stamps. You will be forced to live in a camp, and work for whoever they tell you to work for. In return, you will get a bed, basic food, and minimal medical care.

Same with homeless people. Put them in a camp, force them to work, and declare the homeless problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

So when are you yanks going to actually start shooting each other?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

First time I heard someone joke that Americans don't shoot up schools

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

MAGAs are the gun owners. Mostly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Whenever the fascists feel it's time to start shooting people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why would they when they can just kidnap people off the street with no resistance?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

And some point the question will be: "why not?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I expect it within the next 12 months. California is going to 3nd up withholding federal income tax and it's going to start a new civil war.

I work from home, and my wife has started looking for work from home or in California so we can move there. We want to be on the correct side of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

We're talking about going to California, or perhaps another country, if anyone would take us.

If elections end, and HitlerPig becomes dictator for life, then the entire west coast will probably break off, and sign an alliance with Canada and Mexico, surrounding 2/3 of America with hostile territory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

When did we ever stop?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Soon a critical mass will have nothing left to lose

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Happens every day already. Just not organized

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally what Stalin did.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Gulags at least had trials. Our system isn't even bothering to do that.

Turns out the sham trials were the excessive part.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Well... if you look a the history of the US you COULD argue that most of its inhabitants are offspring of illegal immigrants, sooo....

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