Reminder that slavery is still legal in the US, if theworker is incarcerated.

As the law requires US military gear to be made in the USA ... guess who gets to make it as repetitive cheapest bidder ?

Seems like the USA is really more like Sparta than maybe it wants to admit.

They're trying to build a prison for you and me to live in

$11b worth of goods and services sounds like a lot, except that there are at least 1 million people locked up. Even if they don't have to pay the prisoners for their labour, the cost of keeping them locked up is much, much higher than the value of any labour they perform.

Russia solved this problem

Fascism is colonialism turned inward.

If you include probation and parole, you don't even need to limit it to NATO nations. It's 300% bigger than anything else. It's over 300% bigger than the Soviet GULAG system at its height and they were holding Nazis in there.

Edit: downvoters just hate my instance I guess

22% of the worlds incarcerated people are held in the US iirc

Fun fact: the American Legion was founded after WWI and was intended to keep returning American veterans from becoming communists. Legionnaires were employed in their Legionnaire uniforms as strike-breakers, until public outcry forced them to stop ... wearing their uniforms while strike-breaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ZsYe5Uwg0

Been this way for a loooooong time

Fascism is when bad thing

America:Europe::Carthage:Phoenicia

when you have a colonial project eventually you'll make a colony so profitable it will shift the center of your empire. the indigenous collectivist elders i've talked to have generally been of the same mind that Europeans (including Americans) are a young people who refuse wisdom when it is presented to them because like toddlers we refuse to look at the world with open eyes, and instead rely on short term decision making. hopefully as America demonstrates itself to be an empire in decay we can look towards Pan-continental movements (Pan-Americanism, Pan-Africanism, Pan-Europeanism, Pan-Pacifica) to learn how past post colonial societies transitioned from subjugation to collective beneficiallity without creating false hierarchies based on national identity. however, i haven't been impressed with certain groups' ability to look outward for new (to them) wisdom rather than only looking within their local milieu for the same rigid dogmas they already practice, just with a new veneer

someday though, the world must be free and the greatest law of all will come from the land, and not from a hereditary succession of power. there is a 16k year old war against the land. the rich and the powerful convince us that they can win with more power, but the earth itself cannot lose this war. it is unfathomably powerful. to fight against it, as the petrostates do, is folly. only those who fight alongside the land, to protect our water, heritage, and rights, can be on the winning side