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  • Sorry bud, but you just can’t fly in hot with a dickish reply to someone else’s comment and expect them to extend you any grace. Especially when you’re not even actually replying to the actual comment but your gross misreading of it.

    Since apparently I’m blocked. For any body else who might stumble upon this one. Lovable’s assertion that any comparison between chattle slavery and prison slavery somehow diminishes the suffering and plight of the former is a real head scratcher. Especially since the prison industrial complex in the United States was built to be an institutional replacement for the systems of oppression that were banned by the 13th amendment.

    Edit: chattel for cattle, auto correct strikes again.




  • Now, now, just calm down there Charlie.

    I said nothing about prison slavery. You’re reading things into my post that are not there. The point I was trying to make is that the last the last living person who existed as property under what people think of as Slavery in the United States died in 1975. That’s either not even or just barely two generations ago.

    But the rest of your statement, yeah…idk. I’ll just say that people are still being kidnapped, shipped and sold in this country. The mechanisms are different, the justifications are different. The underlying reasons? Not so much.






  • Resisting Trump presidency is too short sighted.

    We need fundamental change in how our elected officials relate to the concerns of their constituents.

    Studies have shown that public opinion actually has statistically no impact at the federal level. That is, unless you have the money to afford a lobbyist.

    If money and the concerns of the wealthy are all they care about, we should do what we can to limit the supply.

    The US economy runs on consumption. That’s where we have leverage.

    We should organize a general consumption strike. Buy what you and your family need to survive and that’s it. Cancel your Amazon, cancel your Netflix, buy locally in cash, buy second hand.

    It wouldn’t take as many of us as you might think to make our presence felt.

    This will certainly cause hardship for some (I myself work in retail) but the pain y inevitably at this point it might as well be productive.

    Hit them where it hurts.