If anything, this hopefully illuminates to all Americans how much of our labor is provided by the periphery.
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So MAGA isn't about the US being self reliant on produce and products after all?
No, they are just racist schmucks, just like we suspected
Mark my words Republicans will turn to using convict labor to harvest crops before they ever turn on Trump or admit any faults.
Step1: Round up undocumented immigrants and criminals.
Step2: Put them in prison for “crimes”.
Step3: Profit! Lease them to farms for $1 a day. Since slavery is legal if you are incarcerated. Republicans are going to build an entire underclass of criminals who will do these jobs.
Bonus: None of the brown people or criminals will be able to vote because they are now felons. Farmers will cry and vote Republican if anyone even suggests doing away with the prison industrial system.
That sounds realistic except how do you rent out slaves from Alligator Alcatraz. It’s not exactly commuting distance to any Texan farms?
Alligator Alcatraz is just the first. Republican governors will be tripping over themselves to build concentration camps to supply slave labor other states industries.
So slavery with more steps?
Not that many steps really.
Always has been
It is in our constitution, and we know how they like to cherry pick that.
13th Amendment, 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.”
It always amazes me that the amendment made it exactly five words before it put a gigantic loophole in place that has the ability to negate the whole thing.
Yep that is what I was referring to.
It's too bad that I don't give a fuck about farmers who voted to arrest their workforce. Put on a cowboy hat and harvest your produce yourself. This is what you wanted.
If you didn't notice, I also hate cowboys.
what about food security?
isnt the us even a net exporter?
I thought I was the only one who thought this. I've never met someone wearing a cowboy hat who had integrity.
Who could have seen this coming.
They were totally blindsided
Phase 2: Prison labor
It also carries the side “benefit” of getting farm owners (and, indirectly, anyone who cares about being able to eat food) complicit in and supportive of the “person who didn’t do anything wrong -> detention” pipeline as it ramps up and expands.
You heard it here first.
I have been predicting the return of slavery wide scale via prisoners for years.
It's already been going on, now it will just increase in scale. The ICE detainees are being used for labor in the detention centers for fuck's sake! At least prisoners are directly exempt in the law for being convicted of a crime (however corrupted the concept might be), detainees waiting for processing aren't convicted of shit.
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Predicting? I mean.....you're a little late, bub. That shit's been happening since the 80s. Blame Reagan.
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Even "better", only people with the right connections will have access to this slave labour, so only very wealthy or very Fascist farmers will get their harvests harvested.
Win, win, win for Fascism in the US.
No, that's phase 3. Phase 2 is foreclosures, bankruptcy, and buying at insanely discounted rates. THEN it's ~~slave~~prison labor.
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They voted for this.
Let them figure it out.
If you own property, start a garden. You’re likely going to need it.
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I wonder how many of these farmers in Texas voted for Trump? My guess is the majority of them. You reap what you sow.
Actually this year is "Nobody reaps what you've sown and it rots in the field" but that's not as succinct.
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Hope it hurts.
It's gonna hurt a lot more.
I'm sure there are plenty of Republicans willing to take a job for shit pay that is back breaking and dangerous right?
Good news, Texans: the tailor that makes bootstraps didn't vanish overnight
Did anyone else get ai vibes while reading the article? Idk if it's just me but the writing seemed so generic like something chat gpt spits out.
Yes.
I think ICE wellness farms will find the guards being murdered and the slaves being armed.
Texas can survive all on its own!
So that was written by AI, right?
You telling me that "Animal planet HQ" might not be a reliable political news source?
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