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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 69 points 1 month ago

yeonmi-park in capitalist USA, burger slavery is constitutionally protected and you can be leased to McDonalds if you commit minor crimes.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

North Korea rapidly running out of bad things burgerbrains can make up about them that actually they do themselves in their own country.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

yeonmi-park the burger slave cannot eat burgers they make, only slave food of lower quality. when the burger slave is released, they have to pay back the state for imprisoning them. they cannot get the job they did at mcdonalds as a slave because they have a criminal record. they cannot afford the burger made by other slaves. they go back to prison for violating parole and are sent to the burger plantation again.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

I will fight and die in WWIII against CHYNA to defend this way of life.

[-] cdf12345@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

Holy shit, that sounds like the opening of a Law & Order spinoff in the very near future

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

If reddit had signatures I would use this

[-] miz@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Rom@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago

It used to be practiced in the United States. It still is, but it used to be, too.

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Cop City is being centered on the grounds of an old prison slave camp (that ran til the 90s I think) which fed a lot of the greater Atlanta area

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

Can't do the time (forced slavery at McDonalds) don't do the crime (wrongly convicted because you're black).

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Huh, that just reminds me. All the MRAs worried about “false accusations” will swear up and down that men of color will never worry about being falsely accused, only white men.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

I just want to be clear - if a legitimate court is not handy then the laws and customs of the sea state that any ship which captures a slaver vessel may hold a trial before the mast and needs only establish the bare fact that the crew were slavers engaged in the slave trade to hang them all.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What the hell even is that headline?

“Phew! What a relief! Looks like we don’t have to worry about uppity poors like you seeing a penny!”

Really cool and good that prisons are seen as a boost for the already massive reserve army of labor in the west.

This also takes away jobs from the “law-abiding citizens” that these hogs claim to care so much about. So we get the imperial boomerang too! Try using “they’re taking our jobs!” as a reason to oppose the private prison industry.

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

it's Jacobin. They're "Agreeable Left"(TM) but this is not an article or headline sincerely espousing that, but sarcastically satirizing the 1:1 attitude of the ruling class to do something like this, in agitprop form to highlight the contradiction between the capitalists' and their states' actions and what workers actually want, and so spark anger.

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen it in a while, but isn't this pretty much exactly the bad guy in Shawshank Redemption's evil plot?

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I'm just thinking about how a socialist penal system could use employment in a civilian workplace as a way of helping convicted criminals to reintegrate into society and how fundamentally different it would be from this American burger slavery.

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