• Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 hours ago

    I’d like to remind fellow Californians or those outside of our state, last election we held a state wide Prop on if the state should keep using prison labor for things like forest fires and other government tasks like this.

    California overwhelmingly voted to keep it in place. I mean, I didn’t.

    So the firefighters who are understaffed, underpaid, catching new medical issues are all prisoners who might have some something as simple as be homeless next to a cop’s patrol to guarantee funding for next quarter.

    This is America. Arresting the minorities and poor, sending them to clean up the messes the government refuses to clean, and then funding the cops to make more arrests.

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      20 hours ago

      Fortunately Trump plans to fill the private prisons to the brim, so there will be no shortage of minorities to send to their deaths from the forced labor camps.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        19 hours ago

        Sending the poor to fight our allies, sending the poor to fight our enemies for the scare supplies, sending the poor to fight climate change disasters.

        Why do they always send the poor!