• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Cutting benefits for the poorest.

    Recipe for civil unrest, riots.

    Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.

    Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.

    Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.

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      Not only did the Soviets win the cold war, but the South won the civil war. Should we check to see if the Spanish somehow ended up winning thr Spanish-American war too?

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      Yes, of course. What they always wanted was cheaper labor; they cultivated hatred of immigrants among conservative voters as a way to enslave all Americans, including their own electorate. They will make everyone poorer so they are desperate enough to accept putting their children in the mines and factories.

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      You mean more minorities. The prison industrial complex has been about slavery in all but name since the Reconstruction era.