• @[email protected]OP
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    346 months ago

    Either stay in your country or go through the proper channels. Or work as a field laborer for pennies on the dollar…sounds like there are a couple choices here, no one is forcing people to cross illegally.

    In your rush to dunk on folks who have made a difficult decision at a low point in their likely quite difficult lives, you failed to actually read what you replied to. But I’m guessing your response is now “they are criminals so they have no rights, and so who cares about their humanity.”

      • @[email protected]OP
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        66 months ago

        So you didn’t read the meme still, or are we changing topics now? I’m interested to hear your defense of slavery.

        • @boatsnhos931
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          -186 months ago

          First, riddle me this and I’ll decide whether to engage with you or not. Is breaking the law a choice? I’m not debating whether the laws are right or wrong.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            96 months ago

            First, riddle me this and I’ll decide whether to engage with you or not.

            Don’t worry, I’ve already made that decision for you. Good Day!

          • @AngryCommieKender
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            56 months ago

            Since there is literally no activity one can engage in without breaking some law or another in the US? No.

            • @boatsnhos931
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              -46 months ago

              Illegalizing??? Is that like I’m going to unalive the god damn shit out of you? If you really believe all that garbage fear propaganda you probably need to call 911 immediately.

        • @boatsnhos931
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          -246 months ago

          We treat our own people like slaves, what makes them so special?

          • @[email protected]OP
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            296 months ago

            We treat our own people like slaves, what makes them so special?

            You are super close to seeing the actual point.

            • @boatsnhos931
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              -206 months ago

              That it’s ok to let prisoners work to pay for their own housing and food instead of the taxpayers?

              • queermunist she/her
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                96 months ago

                Profits are being made off of prison labor! That can only mean the amount they produce is greater than what they receive from the state. So they’re not just working for food and housing - they’re working to make someone else richer.

                • @boatsnhos931
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                  I’m not saying this is not true but profit is made off all labor. Show me some good sources when you get time, I am genuinely interested

                  • queermunist she/her
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                    36 months ago

                    If you want an example, the hellhole prison nicknamed “Angola” (because it’s full of black people haha so funny) is a good case study for why this is slavery and not just prisoners paying their way through prison.

                    They’re forced to do work or get solitary confinement, make $0.02/hr under inhumane conditions, punish people who get heat stroke, don’t provide shade or fans or clean water (literally, they have to drink dirty water if they don’t use their teeny wages to buy water) or anything, in temperatures that exceed 113°F in Louisiana. They’re forced to water plants with paper cups, pick rotten fruit by hand, weeding by hand, it’s all totally pointless shit an the cruelty is the point.

              • NoIWontPickAName
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                86 months ago

                That maybe we shouldn’t be treating anyone like that and that if we are going to have people work, yes even prisoners, should be paid a fair rate instead of pennies on the dollar.

                • @boatsnhos931
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                  -86 months ago

                  I’m gonna pass on that and I’ve been locked up working those jobs. What are we treating them like? They have a choice…If you don’t want to, they don’t make you but believe me…you want those jobs…The fair rate is calculated after working in the cost of your housing, a victims compensation fund, your food and medical care… plus you get a reduction on your sentence and you aren’t institutionalized as bad…you never thought about that did you Toby? Now get to picking that cotton boy!

                  • NoIWontPickAName
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                    46 months ago

                    Yes, you just seem like such a good person.

                    I’m gonna stick with we should treat all people as people, not property.

                    Especially because in America there is a damn good chance they have done nothing wrong.