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Mar 21, 2025

What'd I Tell Ya?

What did I fucking tell you?

Since 1607, Americans have been wheedling and weaseling different ways to enslave people.

Indentured servants got to Jamestown within 10 years of its founding.

A couple of years later, in 1619, the first enslaved Africans were imported.

That shit went on, of course, thru the civil war, and beyond. Lincoln's proclamation of 1863 wouldn't take full effect until well after he'd been killed in 1865.

There was a brief period of a few years when freed black folks enjoyed some real liberty, but Americans (especially southerners) found their way around the law by enacting state and local ordinances that allowed white law enforcement to imprison black people and then rent them out as convict labor - in accordance with the 13th amendment  - or firebombing "black districts" - or just straight up annihilating whole towns.

All that Jim Crow shit went on for another hundred years, and we're still not done fighting over it.

Hopefully, you already knew all that, and now I can get on to the next part, which is that we haven't stopped wheedling and weaseling, we've just shifted the focus.

We're not concentrating on fucking over black folks (although we'll continue doing that, because of course we will), but now we're going to get after all those conveniently disadvantaged brown immigrants.



And this isn't just about coin-operated prisons. We need laborers, and we're rounding them up in order to rent them out to Big Ag or whatever.

Kill the family farms, snap them up at the tax auctions, and then pay your buddies in the convict labor business a few bucks an hour for workers you can actually shoot if they try to quit their jobs and run away.

This is "unfettered free market capitalism" taken to its logical extreme.
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