Trump moves to hit over 60 countries including Canada with new tariffs over 'forced labour' (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago

Funny how the US doesn't tax itself for all of the for-profit prisons that don't pay any of the prisoners for their work. Sounds like corporate slavery to me.

[-] ximtor@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

It's projection, it always is

[-] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

No, just regular slavery as supported in the Constitution

[-] AGM@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

It has nothing to do with caring about forced labour. It's purely a vehicle of economic warfare with a moral contrivance as justification. It's just like sanctions regimes that are weaponized to impose suffering and degradation of economic and societal wellbeing as a means of breaking down countries that aren't compliant with their interests. They just want to weaken and destroy rivals so they can extract more benefits at lower cost.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Tariffs are not a tax that the other country pays. Feel like that needs to be repeated ad nauseum for any Americans reading.

[-] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I understand that, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the clown show.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You might but plenty of others don't.

[-] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There's also their H-2A program, which is used to entrap migrant workers into indentured slavery, much like certain reported abuses of the Canadian TFW program.

[-] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yup, all in the name of cheap labour. I didn't say that Canada wasn't entirely innocent, I merely said that it's hypocritical for a powerful pedophile to speak of forced labour. He raped children.

[-] LostWon@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was just agreeing with what you said about labour and adding that along with the literal slavery in their prisons, there's also indentured servitude for migrant workers. Mentioning Canada's TFW Program was something I did to balance what I said, and not in response to your comment.

I should also add that the US' ICE concentration camps also have forced labour. The current Delaney Hall hunger strikes (on the inside) and protests (outside) are about drawing attention to stop it in one of the many locations where that happens.

(I hope he somehow faces justice for his crimes and that the criminals they're protecting do too.)

[-] timbyte@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago

Most US states use forced labour in their prison systems.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 2 days ago

The only forced labor allowed is to be domestic and bribed.

[-] bowreality@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

And American. America First /s

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Otherwise it's just sparkling slavery.

[-] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 26 points 2 days ago

So we now use tariffs to distract from the war that we used to distract from the files because we tarriffed everyone trying to distract from the files?

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Does he mean forced labour in the US? One of us is confused..

[-] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

This is kind of a crap article. Comparing Canada's count of 50 shipments being blocked to 6300 being blocked by the United States and not taking population or trade volume into account is very misleading.