• @rockSlayer
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    2511 months ago

    I hope IWOC-IWW can help organize around this bs. My first thought is sit down strikes. I feel like slave labor is particularly weak to that kind of action.

      • @rockSlayer
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        1311 months ago

        they can’t isolate every prisoner at the same time, and by engaging in a sit down strike, they can’t fill those spots with people afraid to fight back.

        • @[email protected]
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          1211 months ago

          True they can’t throw everyone into solitary, but they can enact a lockdown which comes with its own particular cruelties and inequities

          • @interceder270
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            211 months ago

            So they’re just going to lockdown everyone forever?

            Doesn’t seem like a viable strategy to me.

            • @sock
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              911 months ago

              its a prison. if they can’t do slave labor for a profit there’s no reason not to lock them down forever.

        • @Nurse_Robot
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          1011 months ago

          That reminds me of the words of Jews during the lead up to WWII. No one wanted to be the first to die, so they all died. It’s easy to say to sit down and protest when you’re free.

      • @Mango
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        -1611 months ago

        Counter counter point. I love being alone.

        I’m not trying to cover the point you’re actually making though.

        • Flying Squid
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          911 months ago

          Solitary is not ‘being alone.’ Solitary is being trapped in a tiny room for 23 hours a day with no stimulation, the lights never turn off, and you may not even be given a bed or a blanket. Solitary is torture. People need to know that.

          • @Mango
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            -811 months ago

            I know what solitary is. People are torture.

            • Flying Squid
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              611 months ago

              Well then enjoy them yelling at you through the air ducts because they’re desperate for human contact.

              • @Mango
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                -511 months ago

                They can yell all they want after I’m dead.

        • @LeafOnTheWind
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          611 months ago

          You won’t after 48 hours with nothing to do and no one to talk to for 48 hours.

            • _haha_oh_wow_
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              311 months ago

              Ok, go lock yourself in an empty closet for 48 hours with a bright light on the entire time and report back to us on how it goes!

  • @Nudding
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    2211 months ago

    Hopefully America can figure out how to end slavery for good soon.

    • @masquenox
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      1211 months ago

      You are assuming that the US political establishment has ever really wanted to end slavery. It’s a very shaky assumption.

  • @interceder270
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    711 months ago

    What would they do to you if you refuse to work for free?

    • Flying Squid
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      2411 months ago

      Throw you in solitary, which is torture.

      Feed you nothing but nutraloaf, which is torture.

      I’m sure they can come up with other ways to torture you for not doing what they say.

    • @masquenox
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      411 months ago

      What would they do to you if you refuse to work for free?

      Hello… it’s a prison?

        • @masquenox
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          111 months ago

          It’s a prison… they can make you do whatever the hell they want.

            • @Klear
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              511 months ago

              They shouldn’t but they can.

              • @interceder270
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                Not literally, no.

                At least not without repercussion.

  • @Random_user
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    111 months ago

    Shit, AITA that thinks inmates should be cleaning up trash on the side of roads?

    • ██████████
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      Inmates actively DREAM of those jobs lol

      Only people who have never had even a time out think work sucks when you are locked up