DigitalTraveler42 @ DigitalTraveler42 @lemmy.world

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But let's be objective with this, most of prison work is voluntary, and the desire to do something, anything, sometimes gets the best of us and due to that we'll do the volunteering, it's important to make that distinction, especially when I've been there and done that.

Now the obvious differences are prisons like Angola in Louisiana, which still has the same chaingang that they were depicted to have in movies decades behind us, there's no voluntary work there, those are prison work camps/concentration camps, and are tantamount to slavery, if not outright slavery, and are violent as hell, and these types of prisons can be found all across the American South, but especially along the Gulf Coast.

Well there's absolutely a lot of real and actual slavery across the country, from domestic servants who are being held against their will, to sex slaves, and of course the numbers scale up with our population. So our population during the civil war was 31+ million, with close to 4 million of that being slaves, now we have 331+ million people, if you combine the instances of domestic and indentured servitude with sexual slavery, then add in those wrongfully in the prison system it scales to being much more than the sub 4 million in slavery during the civil war.

I know a lot of people would want to say "but the prison system is prisoners who committed crimes" but a lot of people are in prison because of failed justice, or on poverty based offenses, some of which compile with other petty offenses. Now also another caveat is that prison work isn't usually compulsory, it's normally voluntary, but one can argue that it's the prison that has the leverage over these people volunteering or not.

Overall these statistics aren't easy to calculate because modern day slavers want to hide and obfuscate their crimes, but it's there, it exists, and it exists in places you may not expect, like the next time you're sitting in a park in Manhattan consider the fact that one of the many domestic workers present may in fact be enslaved against their will, and this could be said in LA, Miami, Atlanta, anywhere in the US.

Slavery already exists in the US in various forms, and in greater numbers than prior to the Civil War, but no I would not be surprised if the right wingers legalize slavery again, or if Gilead/Texas tries first.

Either way fuck the Confederate wannabes, we should smash them now so we don't have to do it yet again later, which is what Grant failed to do during the Reconstruction era.

Sherman was right!

Ha ha ha arresting poor people is hilarious! /s

Fuck these cops.

are the kind of policies that republican and democrat donors do not want.

This in itself is BS, George Soros, yes Right winger Boogeyman George Soros, he supports many groups that advocate for socialism and Democratic socialism, there are a few other Democratic donors that do as well, however of course most rich folks aren't going to back candidates that operate against their interests, and pushing back against the wealthy, regulating against them and their businesses, and taxing their wealth is obviously against their own self-interests.

My point was more about the lifelong hold that cold war propaganda has on our boomers and my fellow Gen X'ers, and how it does dissuade people from accepting Bernie's stances qnd getting past how he describes his political ideology, and I say this as a 100% Bernie supporter, I'm just a realist, and the reality is that cold war propaganda still has a hold on our nation, and until we break we'll still have to deal with people like my conservatard father saying "hurr durr socialism is communism!!" despite being given shit loads of evidence to demonstrate the differences.

I bet you anything that the people behind this were conservatives before 10/7 and are just being opportunistic, well that and all of the Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and Qatari propaganda assisting them.

Edit: I love how any criticism of these protesters gets immediately downvoted, yet you guys criticize supporters of Israel for doing the same thing when they see criticisms of Israel, maybe you guys should realize that you're both not being very objective and that currently you both suck.

Taylor Swift dressed as Hulk Hogan: "listen up all my Swifty-maniacs, I want you to smash the Fash and punch Nazis, oh and PS: fuck MAGA to death!"

"The inherent sin of being born brown and non-Christian"

First step of being new to Taco Bell:

My favorite thing is the Chicken Baja Gordita, it's an older menu item that they will still make, love the baja sauce.

Conformity, the theory is that kids will behave better when they all look like each other and can't single each other out. Which is completely wrong, as we'll always find ways to separate ourselves from each other.

Schools are full of bad administrators who are poor at managing those they're responsible for, and a hallmark of bad management is blanket policies, dress codes are an example of this, and dress codes begin a slippery slope of what a student can or can't do, including hairstyles, extracurricular activities, what they read, and more.

"Whoa, we have a badass here"

They debunked her at every single attempt for her to double down on the "slashing" that was beautiful, she's definitely an attention seeking fascist POS.

"No you guys aren't allowed to search my Epstein room...umm I mean my closets...yeah my closets!"

For profit criminal justice system?

The only thing this garbage ensures is more corruption and abuses of authority.

Bro I'll let you try and explain the difference between communism and socialism to my boomer Conservatard father, this is your average Con, Neo-Con, and Neo-Lib, they simply often can't separate the terms, and with Bernie unabashedly displaying the socialist/democratic socialist moniker he scares the people who can't get over the red scare and the anti-communist/socialist programming they've been brainwashed with for decades, and it's specifically that kind of stuff that makes Biden the better and safer pick against Trump, plus Bernie is older than both Trump and Biden, so there is the age factor as well.

Yes because Russia wasn't involved at all /s

All this shits been debunked years ago, the only people that believe im any of this garbage about Podesta and Hillary are the dumb AF brainwashed Qanon people, and apparently you.

You would have thought you got a clue once Ruzzia started invading their neighbors again, but i guess not.

BUTTERY MALES

I'm pretty sure this is a picture of pornstar Jenni Lee after she became homeless and started living in the Vegas underground:

https://meaww.com/jenni-lee-ex-porn-stars-fans-raise-money-to-help-her-as-she-lives-underground-in-las-vegas-tunnels

It's the room from f'n Twin Peaks!!

Christopher Rufo is the f'n guy that Ron DeSantis put in charge of destroying New College in Florida, a bastion of liberal schooling in the state:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/new-college-of-floridas-board-starts-to-dismantle-gender-studies-program

Chris Rufo is on a crusade against diversity, equality, and inequality education, he works hand in hand with the Mom's for Liberty Nazis.