California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires. : usa

[–] [email protected] 4 points 51 minutes ago

Yikes, seeing people come out of the woodworks to defend slavery...

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lmfao at the absolutely classic .world responses in this thread. "Slavery is good actually". You guys play your role too a T.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

The ones in California are probably so glad they just voted in November to keep these prisoners enslaved.

Everyone who voted for that in LA deserves their home to burn, but I feel for all the working class casualties and people who were already homeless.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Slavery should be abolished.

This shouldn't be a controversial beleif in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There was a proposition to abolish it very recently in California that was rejected by the voters. Commiefornia my balls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Fuck I was so disappointed and ashamed reading that in the election results

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

It is for a lot of people below for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 hours ago

Wrong. They are slaves under the 13th amendment of the US, which explicitly allows slavery as punishment for a crime. Some more on this:

The US currently operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least 54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor. Outside of agricultural slavery, Federal Prison Industries operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies. 1, 2, 3

The US has the highest incarceration rates in the world. Even individual US states outrank all other countries.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It's literally slave labor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Seems figurative, but that's just the dictionary.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

It is slavery, as allowed for under the US constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_exception_clause

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