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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:33:28 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   after #abolition many Black people who had nowhere to go, were charged rents by their former plantation owners if they didn't leave. if they didn't pay, they were either re-enslaved thru prison OR indentured into financial servitude.

   when the numbers of indentured Black servants weren't enough, that's when poor migrant workers became key to this new form of renter slavery.

   this is what GOP fascists want to bring back with #prisons & #farms
   
   https://reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only-served-10-months-behind-bars-florida-still-slapped-her-with-a-127000-bill/

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     Cat C-B (megmuttonhead@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:33:58 JST Cat C-B

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     @blogdiva This is horrific. I’m actually stunned—and I had a very low opinion of Florida’s “justice” system to begin with.

     This is outrageous—and terrifying.

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     Grandpa Don RIP World (dbc3@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:34:39 JST Grandpa Don RIP World

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     @blogdiva this is obscene. The whole concept is bad, but the billing for time not served HAS to be illegal. The sentence was incarceration, not a fine. State is piling on. ACLU should be fighting this.

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     RalfWausE (ralfwause@burningboard.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:35:28 JST RalfWausE

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     @blogdiva Hah, in the late 90s i was fascinated by america and dreamed about visiting and even moving there... but after 9/11 somehow, year after year it seems that ever more fecal matter moves through the atmospheric accelerator and now i am glad to keep staying in good old germany.

     At least we are a bit slower on our journey to dystopia...

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     Richard Walker (rwalker1501@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:35:53 JST Richard Walker

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     @blogdiva My God. I thought there were limits to human stupidity and cruelty...But sometimes I have doubts. Is it really true "most" states do this?

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     Orion Ussner kidder (orionkidder@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:37:41 JST Orion Ussner kidder

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     @blogdiva It's taken me a long time to really admit to myself that America has never stopped trying to reinstate race-based slavery by other means.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:41:47 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     @blogdiva

     Gotta recoup the private prisons their financial quarter and pay for all that police overtime and all those fun GI JOE toys we give them, right?

     And to think liberals and establishment Democrats were praising DeFascist for briefly opposing Trumpster...