• Paul@lemmy.esquiretheduke.nohost.meOP
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    11 hours ago

    Tinfoil hat time: is he manufacturing an economic crisis to return slavery? SCOTUS has already said prisoners don’t have to be paid for work performed

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      10 hours ago

      Just to be clear: the 13th Amendment says that prisoners don’t have to be paid for work performed.

      Why do you think the prison industrial complex exists

      Why do you think they make shit like weed illegal and why do you think they arrest minorities for it in greater numbers than white people

      What did you think “white privilege” meant? Not getting nervous looks from a Starbucks barista?

      America is a slaver state, always has been.

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        5 hours ago

        Weed is illegal and minorities get arrested for it more because Nixon wanted to create more felons to stop people from voting for Democrats. Because in his view mostly only hippies and minorities smoked weed or used other hallucinogens, and those people overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

        The slavery is a bonus, but that was the real reason.

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      11 hours ago

      I wouldn’t put it past him. We have massive potash reserves, but no stockpiles. Someone’s got to dig it up and refine it.

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        10 hours ago

        This isn’t the 1940’s. Mines are highly mechanized. This would be moronic, and achieve a much lower output than employing skilled workers.