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As the law requires US military gear to be made in the USA … guess who gets to make it as repetitive cheapest bidder ?
Seems like the USA is really more like Sparta than maybe it wants to admit.
Reminder that slavery is still legal in the US, if theworker is incarcerated.
They are not called workers, then.
They are called slaves, then.
Workers are part of the proletariat.
Slaves are part of the slave class which in the US is reflected in the carceral state as you have pointed out.
But call them slaves as that is what they are. We have taken their identity. And we have taken their rights. And we sell them into work. We do no favors calling prisoners anything but slaves because they have been erased institutionally.
Not every state has the ability to force labor (generally per their state constitutions), if I remember a conversation I had years ago with my dad who was a judge. Just they tend to structure their prison sentencing and early release programs such that you’re trading years more of your life if you don’t “voluntarily” cooperate. So you know, tomato tomato.
It’s one of the bigger problems my state has, its reliance on its prisoner-slave workforce for vital services.
Used to be that China was on par in that regard say… 10? 15 years ago? I remember seeing a comparison, it was more neck at neck, but I think they reduced it and the US massively increased it, so it’s high but not US high.
Similarly something about military spending; same US ballooning in the past few decades.
I used to joke that reagen spent the ussr to death (I’ve learned a titch more about that era of history since then, as i really didn’t remember politics beyond SNL at that age) and now I’m feeling the same squeeze from China.
What is your point? that China is more free than known fascist state Portugal and the UK?
Neat to see where China sits in this list, despite not being in Nato.
Kinda has an interesting perspective.
China is not a founding NATO country
Doesn’t stop them from incarcerating like one. Maybe they’ll earn an invite soon.
China isn’t in NATO
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Damn, this changes my emigration plans…
cope gringo
翻腾屎
“in founding nato countries”
They’re trying to build a prison for you and me to live in
Russia solved this problem
Can’t imprison corpses I guess.
bone meal crunches under each bootstep
“Yep, we solved it.”
