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   ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:42:11 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

   Two of my Black lawyer friends considered this SC ruling on homelessness and regulations an easy on ramp to slavery and I'm twiddling my thumbs here.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:42:07 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Asta [AMP]
     that's not even theoretical
     thanks to my friend micky metts, who passed the book on to me, I'm reading "worse than slavery", by david m. oshinsky, and it's been shocking, painful and quite informative
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     Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:42:08 JST Asta [AMP]

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     • AnarchoNinaWrites

     @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse @jalcine@todon.eu plus the extra fun part: since the US basically has no actual labor enforcement, what's to stop companies who currently pay for labor that could be done in a prison from just laying off everyone, then opening a contract with a prison contractor? Given that most people are one paycheck away from being homeless, there might even be some familiar faces.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:42:09 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     @jalcine Your friends are right; it's a "poor law" and the next stop is forced labor - we already got the workhouses, we just call them correctional facilities.

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