Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoThe children yearn for the farms.hexbear.netimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down10
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minus-squareDPRK_Chopra [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·9 months agoI am a little surprised they didn’t go the prison slavery route more first.
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·9 months agoPretty sure that dials already cranked up about as far as it will go. Plus I think it’s a lot less convenient to have your literal slaves working out in the fields, people might start drawing connections. Better to keep them in a giant windowless manufacturing plant.
minus-squareDPRK_Chopra [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-29 months ago Pretty sure that dials already cranked up about as far as it will go. Imo they’re going to eventually criminalize everything short of breathing to get the labor. Unfortunate side effect of that shit constitution.
minus-squareVILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 months agoThey could repeal the 13th amendment and half the country would celebrate, the other half would mostly stand around waving signs for a few weeks before going home, and those that riot would be summarily executed.
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoFortunately for them charging people with crimes they didn’t commit is always a reliable option.
minus-squareHo_Chi_Chungus [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·9 months agoI thought agricultural labor was what the prison slaves were (mostly) already doing
I am a little surprised they didn’t go the prison slavery route more first.
Pretty sure that dials already cranked up about as far as it will go.
Plus I think it’s a lot less convenient to have your literal slaves working out in the fields, people might start drawing connections.
Better to keep them in a giant windowless manufacturing plant.
Imo they’re going to eventually criminalize everything short of breathing to get the labor. Unfortunate side effect of that shit constitution.
They could repeal the 13th amendment and half the country would celebrate, the other half would mostly stand around waving signs for a few weeks before going home, and those that riot would be summarily executed.
Fortunately for them charging people with crimes they didn’t commit is always a reliable option.
I thought agricultural labor was what the prison slaves were (mostly) already doing