Oh Mike Lee, you so stupid.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    enslavement of convicts

    I of course am 100% against this.

    But its literally in the constitution. America still has legal slavery.

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    Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    Such a modern country

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      Yeah, so would it really be so surprising if big business sent lobbyists to push the government to get drugs into the country so more people could be arrested and forced to do slave labor for said big business? The lobbying would only need to me cheaper than paying the laborers. Slashing labor costs would yield record profits, and this is not news to the psychopaths who run massive companies.