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Our constitution allows slavery if you are imprisoned. So we already have literal modern garden-variety slavery.
by notaustinpowers 2y ago
Our constitution allows slavery if you are imprisoned. So we already have literal modern garden-variety slavery.
- vidarh 2y agoHardly a day goes by that I don't wonder why there aren't persistent, ongoing riots in the US.
- saagarjha 2y agoRioting puts you in jail.
- vidarh 2y agoAt some point things get so bad that stops being a deterrent. Why the US population is so placid remains a mystery.
- rustcleaner 2y agoThe level of surveillance makes it impossible to form coherent organizational structures domestically which can effectively oppose this system, because your organizations' and family's financial, communication, and social lives can be mapped out for strategic legal attack by the very same players they wish to protest. This is the price of KYC & AML.
- vidarh 2y agoThis presumes an organized resistance. That's not what I was talking about. I'm surprised there aren't more regular reactions out of sheer anger, like the BLM riots.