The return of? It's been back for ages. You just called it the US prison system.
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It never left. The abolition of slavery never once included prisoners.
Why do you think they keep saying MAGA, slavery was when America was great to them.
return implies there was a time in america when slavery stopped existing
Honestly if someone tried flying a 747 into a US government building today, I think we would have a very different reaction than the last time they tried it.
And it's only because it's happening to Americans and 1st world nations. Otherwise we would still have the out of site out of mind mentality while people die.
The conversation would be less "why did this happen" and more "which, of the thousands of possilities, did this."
Shocking that the rich white dude and the other rich white dude from South Africa want to bring back slavery (Which by the way is still happening in the US. It's just less about race, supposedly, and more about crimes.)
Crimes that we make up on the spot and only enforce against certain ppl. Hell, this very post might send me picking cotton when the Reich reaches me
Hey, Elon Musk isn't rascist, he had black servants as a kid, you know!
"Some of my best servants are black!"
they already openly engage in slavery
That is a horrifying image.
Isn't slavery still normal in the Emirates?
And they want you to breed more slaves for them. That's why they get so unhinged about LGBTQ, childless cat ladies, growing popularity of childfree, and explains the recent surge in "we are actually underpopulated" bullshit propaganda.
I had a trumper sitting next to me on a flight tell me i need to have kids to do my duty for the economy and i told him to fuck off
Anti abortion and anti-anti conception are a big one too...
These people are so hungry for power and money they gladly throw away their humanity for it.
There is no reason to believe they deserve anything at all. Not even rights as they don't think anyone else should have them either.
Right...
Never left the US, just added more steps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
They're called "inmates", not "slaves". But the effect is the same functionally.
Prisons since the end of legal slavery
I enthusiastically convinced my 5 years old that a strawberry picking carreer will be awesome. "You get to eat all you want, as you pick, I promised her". I did not mention beatings from prison guards for such infractions, but if I deliver her to prison system, I am told MAGA will give me a $1000 cheque, that I can endorse to my favorite Trump charity. My fear though, is that her enthusiasm from strawberries will wane after puberty, and so deliquency and truancy must be her path into prison pipeline. I hope I can deduct any fines from her behaviour from my reward cheque.
Return? The prison system has been around for plenty long enough before this.
In that regard it never left
Return as in to what it was before
Real, no fucking around, no extra steps, no ACLU suing the state for legal violations slavery.
It's a primary goal of right wing "libertarian" "thinkers" and the Heritage Foundation as a result. They won't even need to change the Constitution, they'll just say crimes against the state are punished by slavery now.
They're going to push it somewhere, the Supreme Court will expedite it, and the "originalists" will nod their fascist little heads and say "yep, says it's fine right there."
And the problem will be that it does.
but this time it will be diverse and ppl of any color or religion can be slaves. kids will work night shifts before school and everything will be florida.
Fun fact! The Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery also made it legal.
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In a way, 97% of the workforce have been in slave like conditions for a long time.
If you quit, you lose health insurance. If you get fired you lose health insurance. Everything is outside of possible ownership. Home ownership is impossible. You can forget about buying land.
Consumerism is baked into our lives so we have less freedom to choose what we consume thanks to deeply studied psychology practices in marketing. The only way I have been able to reduce it is to eliminate my exposure to advertising on TV and Internet. But that's not enough.
Fuck, even physicians, averaging $250k/yr arent immune to this, it pales in comparison to hospital executives, bankers, financial institutions, etc. And they intend to make it harder still.
Prison labor is straight slavery. So many working people are probably a paycheck away from ending up on a path to prison.
And we have no time. It's work, chores, eat, clean, sleep. I guess outside of prison we can maybe arrange for a couple of hours of entertainment, while the rich can fuck off all day and collect more money in a week than we do in a year.
We've got to put our bodies upon the gears, upon the wheels. Pile upon the apparatus until it stops. Then we demand that until we are free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.
Consumerism isn't why the 97% suffer, the reason is our refusal to tax the 3% because people still fall for Republican lies.
I'm not saying consumerism is the reason we suffer.
We are entrapped by consumerism. It is fed to us daily. It is so hard to escape it. It's entirely on purpose - it feeds the 3% (btw I pulled that number out of my ass, it's probably 1%).
We are expected to consume, and reminded every day. It's just another added pressure on our backs.
If we did tax the rich, this wouldn't be a problem. But the rich maintain the reigns of power, so they keep feeding us bullshit to try and trick us into excess (when it isn't really close to excess compared to them).
Consumerism is a symptom, just like private healthcare insurance is a symptom. It's all meant to force us down, force us to worry about anything other that the grind that they push.