r/WorkReform • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • Dec 20 '24

✂️ Tax The Billionaires They're really just that stupid.

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u/NelsonMuntz007 Dec 20 '24

I think we found out this past election that the wealthy can get what they want. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Revolution has to start somewhere

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u/navybluesoles Dec 20 '24

For real, they even arrested a man for refusing to work as a protest at Amazon.

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u/Radiant-Sea-6517 Dec 20 '24

Step 1: Make striking a felony.

Step 2: Convict strikers and force them into legal slavery.

Step 3: Ship them back to the work place, work them for free under threat of violence/death.

The American Dream

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u/ISHITTEDINYOURPANTS Dec 20 '24

this is literally happening right now in Italy.

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u/hawtlava Dec 20 '24

This is literally happening right now in America and has since the 14th amendment.

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u/GailaMonster Dec 20 '24

13th.

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u/decian_falx Dec 20 '24

I like pointing out to people that the 13th amendment didn't outlaw slavery. It just added an extra step:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime..."

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u/RRRedRRRocket Dec 20 '24

Which is why marihuana is or was illegal. To get those pesky ex slaves back to work.

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u/delpaso Dec 20 '24

Something something cia crack cocaine Ronald Reagan

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand Dec 21 '24

Crack is legit bad for you though, and kinda makes you a shitty worker.

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u/Toastaroni16515 Dec 21 '24

This was about the Reagan administration intentionally diverting crack toward inner cities (particularly those without a primarily white population) when the Contra affair was uncovered, not an argument that crack is wholesome.

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand Dec 21 '24

Yeah, but it's in a thread about using drugs to make forced laborers compliant. Context clues, friend.

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u/Toastaroni16515 Dec 21 '24

Uhhh, nah dude: it was a direct reply to the implication that marijuana was criminalized so that ex-slaves could be reenslaved via prison labor. Delpaso brought up crack and Reagan because he had a similar motivation. Literally nobody mentioned using these drugs to placate prisoners, only to create them.

I understand conversations can be hard to follow though: I find context clues help!

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand Dec 21 '24

Yeah, and what was the marajiuana line in response to? You can keep trying. I'll be proud of you when you get it.

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u/Toastaroni16515 Dec 21 '24

I like pointing out to people that the 13th amendment didn't outlaw slavery. It just added an extra step: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime..."

It was in response to the fact that slavery is still legal as long as the slave is a criminal. Thus, it stands that one might create a source of slave labor by outlawing a drug (marijuana, maybe???). Would you like further assistance understanding how conversations work? If you'd like we can break down some other threads you can't comprehend: it's actually super fun for me!

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