Here's the slavery speed run:
Step 1 - Mass layoffs + Tariffs lead to mass homelessness. Step 2 - Criminalize homelessness. Step 3 - Arrest/institutionalize the homeless in for profit prisons. Lend inmates to private corporations for forced labor. Step 4 - Profit.
Where did the opioid crisis come from? Who caused it?
Padme: So the solution is a huge investment in public housing or state subsidised housing, right?
Anakin: ...
Padme: right?
If "public housing" is a euphemism for a football field-sized lye pit, then sure.
I gochu fam:
Not all of us. A lot of us will just be dead.
Like me! I'm trans and disabled. I don't think I'll last past stage 2.
L of the LGBT here. I am also scared. Also, BP but stable with meds.
They appear to be working backwards so you have 3 letters to figure out an escape plan before it's too late.
Hey, I've seen this one before.
Hitler said the EXACT same thing! But they lied!?! They didn't go to institutions to help rehabilitate them, they killed them in death camps!
I'm so surprised Trump would do the exact same thing! (/s).
The new iPhone factories in America will have the phrase "Arbeit macht frei" written in iron at the entrance.
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
(...)
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
(...)
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?"
Just a reminder this was the most heartless, most horrible man that could be imagined by a truly great author.
He did also follow that up with:
Scrooge: "I help to support the establishments I have mentioned--they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
The gentleman: "Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
And as it turns out the "surplus population" isn't really their concern, they just don't want to acknowledge the poor, sick, and otherwise different.
Or the fact that their shareholder profit above all world created these “homeless” and all the drug abuse and lack of mental health services. The billionaires, corporations and politicians will do anything to avoid personal responsibility for their actions
But not its root causes
Ohhh so close. It’s the thing John Oliver can’t say but gets a little closer to saying each night.
Yeah, they will never address the root causes of homelessness. The homeless are used as boogeymen for the lower and middle class working plebs.
Arm the homeless
You know
What's the worst that could happen?
Need to start handing out knives and 3d printed zip guns to the homeless so they can defend themselves from Trump’s gestapo.
They really want to turn the USA into the United Prison Systems of America.
We have the largest prison system in the world per capita four times over. You can thank senator Joe Biden for that. We’re already the United prison systems of America.
The prison industrial complex was the status quo long before Biden was even born. Why limit it to him? Blame Nixon and Reagan for both the drug epidemic and the criminalization of drug possession (accounting for something like 40% of the current prison population), and the near collapse of mental health and rehabilitation programs. Blame Clinton for enabling the corporations to grow even richer off of slave labor.
The "root causes" do need to be tackled its just this identifies the wrong ones; the ones that need to be tackled are capitalism, landlordism and a profit driven economy.
this isn't a shitpost... I agree its insane but not a shitpost.
I bet tons of Trumpers would tell me I'm full of shit and stuff like that will never happen, fake news; so I guess it would be a shit post for them.
fair enough.
Have a link? Don’t really feel like reading it exactly how it appeared on your phone.
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