California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.
‘Essential’: nearly 400 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires
The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCRSam Levin (The Guardian)
Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth
Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth
Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.Zoë Schlanger (The Atlantic)
Emmanuel Acho forced to evacuate home due to California wildfires
FS1 star Emmanuel Acho appeared on Thursday's episode of The Facility sharing that he had to evacuate his home due to ongoing wildfires.
Boy, 17, stabbed to death at Bedford bus station
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/21230869
Thomas Taylor was walking near Bedford Bus Station when he was attacked by a group of males who are yet to be identified by police.
Capitalist "Democracy"
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Some Background: History conditions much of our thinking about our political systems and most Western democracies resemble Rome’s in 60 BC when, as Robin Daverman humorously says, three aristocrats–politician Julius Caesar, military hero Pompey and billionaire Crassus–formed a backroom alliance that dominated the elected senate. The oligarchs ensured that proletarii votes changed nothing and that the masses remained invisible unless they rioted or died in one of the elites’ endless civil wars. Two thousand years later, in Britain’s general election of 1784, the son of the First Earl of Chatham and Hester Grenville, sister of the previous Prime Minister George Grenville, and the son of the First Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of Second Duke of Richmond, offered voters offered a choice of dukes. Today, in many European countries (even egalitarian Sweden) ‘democracy’ is a mere veneer over powerful feudal aristocracies that still control their economies. American voters recently watched a former president’s wife competing with a former president’s brother being defeated by a billionaire who installed his daughter and son-in-law in important government positions and ensured that, as John Dewey said, “U.S. politics will remain the shadow cast on society by big business as long as power resides in business for private profit through private control of banking, land and industry, reinforced by command of the press and other means of propaganda”. Most Western politicians are related by marriage or wealth and have, like all hereditary classes, lost sympathy with the broad mass of their fellow citizens to the extent that, as American political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found, ‘the preferences of the average American appear to have a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy’: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
From the article, What kind of democracy does China have?
What kind of democracy does the China have?
Godfree Roberts's answer: Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title.Quora
Shane Gillis shared how his 'College GameDay' joke legitimately angered Nick Saban
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Comedian Shane Gillis went viral for making fun of Nick Saban on College GameDay and it turns out the coach wasn't in on the joke.
Shane Gillis shared how his 'College GameDay' joke legitimately angered Nick Saban
Comedian Shane Gillis went viral for making fun of Nick Saban on College GameDay and it turns out the coach wasn't in on the joke.
Shane Gillis shared how his 'College GameDay' joke legitimately angered Nick Saban
Comedian Shane Gillis went viral for making fun of Nick Saban on College GameDay and it turns out the coach wasn't in on the joke.
David Samson 'promises' Tom Brady will not be broadcasting at Fox next season
David Samson expects Tom Brady to step away from his role at Fox after this season to become a full-time front officer member for the Raiders.
Pilet hits Kickstarter for $200 and up: Portable modular computer powered by a Raspberry Pi 5
The Pilet 5 is a Raspberry Pi 5-powered handheld computer with a 5 inch display, a built-in keyboard, and a set of buttons, joysticks, and scroll wheels for navigation and gaming. And the Pilet 7 is a portable computer with a larger display and a modular design: you can attach a keyboard, gamepad, or other accessories to the bottom.
Both are open source hardware projects that have been under […]
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Israeli ministers 'meet to discuss division of Syria'
The news outlet Israel Hayom reported that Defence Minister Israel Katz chaired a small ministerial meeting on Tuesday focused on Turkish involvement in Syria and concerns about the intentions of Syri’s de facto leader, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) commander Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed Jolani).
During the meeting, which was held before an upcoming discussion with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the ministers also reportedly discussed an Israeli plan first revealed by Middle East Eye in December.
Under this plan, Syria would be divided into provincial regions, or cantons, which Israel Hayom described as a way to “safeguard the security and rights of all Syrian ethnic groups”, including the Druze and Kurdish populations.
The plan to divide Syria highlights the concern among Israel’s establishment about Turkish influence in the country. On Monday, an Israeli government commission said that Turkey could pose a greater threat to Israel than Iran in Syria if it supports a hostile “Sunni Islamist” force in Damascus.
Israeli ministers 'meet to discuss division of Syria'
Israeli ministers have reportedly met this week to discuss classified plans to promote the division of Syria into provincial regions.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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This is shit. This is shit on so many levels.
It's especially shit because it signals to the world that Assad would have been right in the sense that he successfully defended the country against Israel's influence.
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Chad’s government says 19 killed during foiled attack on presidential complex
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‘Destabilisation attempt’ in N’Djamena blamed on ‘disorganised’ group of assailants armed with knives
Beijing says it’s willing to deepen economic ties with Canada as Trump brings trade chaos
Beijing says it’s willing to deepen economic ties with Canada as Trump brings trade chaos
Comments from Chinese embassy come as Ottawa prepares for possibility of 25-per-cent tariffs from U.S.Steven Chase (The Globe and Mail)
Beijing says it’s willing to deepen economic ties with Canada as Trump brings trade chaos
Comments from Chinese embassy come as Ottawa prepares for possibility of 25-per-cent tariffs from U.S.Steven Chase (The Globe and Mail)
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Lloyds to let customers use Halifax and BoS branches, raising job cut fears
Account holders at the group’s three brands will be able to use any of their locations, but unions fear site closures
jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?
jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.
Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.
Previous relevant discussion: lemmy.ml/post/78808
GitHub - jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net
Contribute to jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I agree 100% with this. The developers or the operators of lemmy.ml may be assholes, but the beauty of decentralization is I can simply not use their instance. I do not.
Thus, while a warning label is necessary, I think more good is done by making people aware of the alternative to Reddit than by sweeping the whole thing under the rug.
As for user privacy, I'm not sure Lemmy is any worse than any other Fediverse app. There were a couple of bad things like being unable to delete a hosted image, but that has been fixed.
Once again, warning label, not rug sweep.
Well, since you've vocally criticised the developers and they haven't bothered changing their ways, wouldn't you agree they deserve to be gatekept?
No. In fact, I strongly dislike that whole attitude of 'do what I want or else I will cancel you'. I am not the arbiter of what is ultimately right and wrong and neither are you and neither is parent commenter.
I believe people have the right to make their own choice. And since Lemmy has significant user base and significant active discussion and thousands of communities, I think the users have the right to make that choice for themselves. Make them aware of the situation, make them aware of the potential downsides, make them aware that lemmy.ml is run by tankie assholes, maybe recommend some better instances, and let them choose for themselves.
That is why I like Lemmy and the fediverse as a concept. I can choose the instance that has the policies that I want. Among those policies is which other instances to defiederate from.
I agree that ideally the concept of "main instances" is beside the point in a federated network. Let's call them "flagship" or "onboarding instances" then, the initial ones set up by developers as proof of concept that usually get the most traction by way of being open for registrations the longest.
I think it's disingenuous to classify the decision to omit Lemmy from a list of fediverse software as "a spat", though. Bringing it up again 1½ years later probably fits the bill better.
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I believe people have a right to make their own choice.
And yet you argue against the jointhefediverse curator's choice not to list whatever goes against their convictions?
As mentioned in another reply, Soapbox is an example of a Fediverse server software that often goes unmentioned because the developer is a giant MAGA hat. As the meme goes, they're the same picture.
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Of course it's their choice.
But I also think some people in some situations should recognize a broader responsibility. Because we get into a larger question of, what happens when the public square is privately owned?
With a website like joinfediverse, that domain becomes a primary resource for people looking to get into decentralized platforms. By not including something, the maintainer is not just making the choice for himself but for every new user who visits the site. That responsibility should be taken seriously and the choice not just made based on personal opinion.
Think of it this way, imagine I made a site called whoshouldIvotefor.com and it would ask you questions and then recommend a political candidate. Sounds like a good idea, right? Now what if I make it so the site always recommends a Republican candidate, and only justifies why the answers you gave to the questions indicate that vote?
I'm certainly allowed to do that. Free speech and all. But it could be argued that I also have a responsibility to the voters who come to my site who don't realize it is biased, in that I am pushing my personal opinions on them and causing them to make a decision that they wouldn't have made if they had all the facts.
(Disclaimer- I'm not a Republican, I consider myself liberal-libertarian. I'm using that as an example.)
I am just saying that a site which sets itself up as an authoritative on ramp to the fediverse should try to be unbiased and not based on personal opinions of its editor.
- That was something I specifically tried to fix in the last update (the posting button not appearing to work). After the update, almost all buttons that connect to the api have a loading indicator now. Would you be able to verify you are on the latest version: v0.7.1.
- I have seen that error before (null check), which I can definitely try to investigate, but I'll likely need more context (such as a post it happens on) to be able to figure out exactly what's causing the issue.
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I dont know what you mean. If you search for GDPR (including closed tickets) in both the Lemmy and lemmy-ui repos, you'll see lots of bugs that make running Lemmy illegal for instance admins.
Here's one particularly egregious example
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/i…
[Bug]: Delete Account should delete uploaded media (pictures) too · Issue #2384 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Requirements Is this a bug report? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a single bug? Do not put multipl...GitHub
Not listening to to community. We are the content creators on reddit. Reddit should have done as we asked. They threw us under the bus.
Lemmy devs dont listen to their community. Instance admins point out serious legal issues regarding moderation, and they say they don't fix those bugs because user privacy doesn't matter.
that usually get the most traction by way of being open for registrations the longest.
But lemmy.ml isn't the most active, nor does it host the most active communities
- fedidb.org/software/lemmy
- lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…
FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.fedidb.org
He admitted it at the end of the ticket
Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.
Lemmy.world has literal propaganda, too.
They posted a Radio Free Asia article and banned anyone who pointed out it's a government run CIA propaganda op. Even redditors know that's propaganda lol.
It's everywhere, you can't avoid it, you just have to learn to be discerning, media critical, and look into sources.
"I'm gonna stop using GNU/Linux because I don't like Richard Stallman"
It's valid to dislike the devs (I disagree, I've found them nothing but courteous, and have read their posts with interest), but it's ridiculous to exclude their software from this list.
Yea, but that kinda nails the pettyness of it, doesn't it? They don't even gain anything by having people adopt their software, nor do they suffer a loss by a boycott - and it's all because they have some questionable (to put it charitably) opinions about an entirely unrelated political issue.
The thing that gets me is that launching this diatribe over the developer's political opinions on an open sourced project that's built specifically so that no one group or person has control over the platform - that you have complete control over the instances you federate with - ends up looking an awful lot like protesting public libraries over providing access to 'woke' books.
Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?
Lemmy was removed due to:
- reports of how the developers handle certain types of content (post removed, view an incomplete archive)
- the behavior of its creator
- how the sotware itself handles users' privacy.
Keep in mind that software is by no means "neutral". The people who make it make decisions about how it works based on their beliefs and goals. That's why, for example, you can't quote posts on Mastodon (at least for now), but you can do so on other fediverse platforms.
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Would you drive a Ford? Because you should read up on Henry Ford’s beliefs if so.
How about BMW? Wanna talk about their history? Actually, give me a car company you like, and we’ll just dig into that one.
I wouldn’t drive a Tesla because they’re shitty cars.
at least pens don’t have a proprietary algorithm by said nazi to make it not function when you want to write something that is not nazi propaganda
Don't give them ideas.
At least one people involved with the ballpoint pen was Jewish, so there's that.
If anything is too bad, it's .world being so prominent.
Half this comm's activity is spreading FUD about the platform and being a gathering place for all the people developing their alternatives to huddle and advertise those.
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As soon as Sublinks is live I will.
Lemmy is making the same mistake as Reddit, and they'll be an exodus when we have an alternative
/c/fediverse?
More like /c/lemmy_FUD or /c/lemmyalternatives.
Does a week go by without posts here spreading FUD about the platform and developers and with the comment section advertising all the alternatives?
If you don't want to be on this platform, you can leave.
As soon as Sublinks is live I will.
piefed.social/ is more promising, and almost there except mobile apps. Feel free to try it out.
He admitted it he was wrong at the end of the ticket and fixed accordingly: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/i…
Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.
[Bug]: Delete Account should delete uploaded media (pictures) too · Issue #2384 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Requirements Is this a bug report? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a single bug? Do not put multipl...GitHub
I'm a bit confused then; there should be a loading indicator that displays once the button is pressed, which prevents you from tapping it multiple times. It should look like this now: 
If this isn't too much work, the next time you have the null check error show up, would you be able to comment back here (or dm me) with exactly what you did, including which post/comment it was you were interacting with?
The Interceptjournalist Roane Carey identified the "key element in the tankie mindset [as] the simple-minded assumption that only the United States can be imperialist, and thus any country that opposes the U.S. must be supported."
I think that’s a well done description.
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It uses postgres for the DB - I think that and redis are designed to operate at very large scales, so it wouldn't be them.
My guess would be that it's something in the interpreted nature of Python - this seems to be why a familiar dismissal of PieFed is a concern about how it will scale.
That said, this site shows that Python is the most popular language for Fediverse apps (just), the likes of Mastodon are written in another interpreted language (Ruby), and I think there are more big websites running Python (with Django or Flask) than people realise. So I don't know, really, I'm just following other people's lead on this. I don't imagine that any problems would be insurmountable though: an admin could restrict the amount of signups, or if new users mean a few more donations, they could just throw money at the problem (more cycles for one server, or splitting up tasks across multiple servers).
- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
Doesn't matter if you stay away from .ml.
And they are. They have delisted Lemmy as a recommendation.
Kind of valid, but open source and open license negates a lot of that.
It's really bad PR. I don't recommend Lemmy to people because of this shit.
You think anything else on the Fediverse is better?
If their servers delete content you want deleted, yes.
If their servers delete content you want deleted, yes.
It's the case for Lemmy
Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/i…
[Bug]: Delete Account should delete uploaded media (pictures) too · Issue #2384 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Requirements Is this a bug report? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a single bug? Do not put multipl...GitHub
- fedidb.org/software/lemmy
- lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…
FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.fedidb.org
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Where? the comments dismiss that statement, saying that it's just an instance among others
If there is anything as a default instance, it's Lemmy.world
I don't see it on that page. Going to "See all servers" lists "lemmy.ml" at a random position in the list. Looking at "Join a server" and using "Generic" or "All topics" also lists it in a random position. Am I missing something?
Their claims regarding privacy are really not surprising, it's very on-brand for the developer's ideology to eliminate transparency for users in the platform while keeping everything stored and federated in the back end for the ruling elite, which if and when they decide to, become the arbiters of who can and won't see it. They haven't even bothered to provide any form of recourse to contest it, you basically have to go looking for people yourself. At least until mod member lists are made private too.
I fully agree with their decision, Lemmy is transient at best. ~~They could still include Mbin, but why include a loaded deck?~~ Actually, decided to check, yep, they did, kudos to them, they really did think it through.
Downvote all you want, still ain't gonna change that jointhefediverse.net decision (based as fuck) 😂
They keep changing every few weeks, so I guess that's why people haven't summarized the differences.
Do you have any question in particular?
but they haven’t released anything yet
And with their current pace, it seems likely they never will. There's been no major development on it for months as far as I can see.
If you are worried about the Lemmy codebase, there is piefed.social/
It's still another codebase you need to trust, but in this case the devs don't have specific political views
Well, in theory sure. But you always lose people during migrations, it's inevitable. And it's cumbersome for users. It's not a nice experience. The fediverse has enough bad UX as it is, I'd prefer if we didn't pile on more.
If the fediverse actually held true to the promise of easy migrations, then maybe it wouldn't be a big deal. But unfortunately it's still not really that easy.
I see it happening gradually.
There might be a start with another Piefed instance (e.g. Piefed.zip, managed by Lemmy.zip admins). People who really don't want to use Lemmy would register on that instance, but would still be able to interact with the communities on Lemmy, the way Mbin and Piefed alreay do now. They start hosting a few communities onn Piefed.zip, locking other on lemmy.zip and redirecting people there.
Then over time some other admins want to give it a try. After a while a few Piefed instances make it to the top 10 most active instances, while the rest is Lemmy.
It doesn't have to happen overnight. We have time, people are not going anywhere.
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database says yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.George Lakey (Waging Nonviolence)
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They also list South Africa, where Westerners love to give themselves all of the credit via boycotts when in actuality fighting Apartheid used all means available and necessary, including escalating violent campaigns and associated political parties who were the main representatives at negotiations.
Most examples of "non-violent" liberation (in some cases I should say "liberation") are like this, it is a PR campaign putting a microscope on their preferred group or "movement" and failing to discuss the totality or criticize the incompleteness of outcomes and how this could relate to an adherence to nonviolence.
Example: MLK was notoriously incorrect about the propaganda power of seeing participants in nonviolent direct action arrestes and hurt by cops. Most people, particularly whites, disliked King, thought he and his methods were too extreme, and opposed the movement. They won impact through organizing ground game, by turning an increasing number of people out. But their wins were incomplete and King was martyred when trying to pivot to capitalism as the main racial oppressor that would live on after the legislative concessions. The groups he was active in fell apart or became a recuperated part of the system he opposed, many of his compatriots killed or houndes into silence by the FBI and local cops, and of course, black people still face mountains of discrimination and disadvage today, particularly by the "subtle" effects of the economic system. We should potentially blame nonviolence for the collapse of the movement, as it wed itself to bourgeois electoralist concessions and primed it to accept that as sufficient rather than steeling the public for a protracted fight that would not rest until liberation, e.g. New Afrika.
I'll go through some other examples from this database.
- Soviet Bloc Independence campaigns after the fall of the USSR. These were, by and large, primed by CIA-funded "civil society" organizations that congealed around liberalization (read: privatization) campaigns. Some employed violent coups to accomplish this while their states were weak due to a diminished Moscow. But in what world is the backing of the dominant superpower simply a win for non-violent action? The knife was already at their throats, they would receive the shock therapy treatment like Russia or Ukraine if they did not fall in line. Rather than an example of the power of grassroots non-violent organizing, these are examples of a great powers struggle. And once the liberal parties were in power, they enacted their privatization with brutal violence.
- The Arab Spring. This was not non-violent and it largely failed due to disorganization and a lack of militant discipline. It was another case of cooption snd defanging by "civil society" style groups, but different ones this time. No Arab Spring uprisings led to a better country for their people, for liberation, for the demands sought. They list Mubarak and then fail to mention Morsi and Sisi or explain why they head the new government or what the military had to do with it. They just vaguely tut-tut Egyptians about not "keeping" the "freedom" they had won.
- Latin American non-violent campaigns were essentially all crushed with violence via US-backed military coups or are otherwise misrepresented. Carlos Ibañez del Campo was removed via coordinated strikes and protests that were not non-violent. They had to fight cops. But all of this is simply called non-violence rather than organized class struggle. They list the overthrow of Pinochet without mentioning that Allende was deposed in a US-backed coups or that Chile more or less retains the Pinochet dictatorship constitution. The single man was removed from power (and allowed a comfy retirement in the US) but the system was left in place. And again, not a simply non-violent campaign and again one premised on class struggle and collective labor power.
- They incorrectly label the GDR a dictatorship and fail to accurately describe the outcomes, which were primarily the DDR illegally annexing the country, stripping it for parts, and impoverishinh the people there. They don't mention that East Germans preferred their own country and state nor that, with these conditions imposed and left parties bsnned, East Germany is still comparatively poor and is now far right. And, again, this was something pushed and funded by the US.
Note that this article was written by George Lakey, the academic behind this database. As a tenured professor for decades and now emeritus, he has no excuse for these gross cases of ignorance / omissions. He is literally paid to think about such things, to spend the time to skeptically investigate and question his own biases. But of course, such people are recruited and funded and promoted precisely bevause of their bias and selective incompetence.
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It's funny that there's one incident of class violence in the other direction, and think tanks suddenly start pushing drivel like this in attempt to control public perception.
Sadly, those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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The US currently operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least 54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor. Outside of agricultural slavery, Federal Prison Industries operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies. 1, 2, 3
- The US has the highest incarceration rates in the world. Even individual US states outrank all other countries.
Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States - CounterPunch.org
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Unknown parent • • •Not to mention other things like, is it actually true that most prisoners would want to get put in a life threatening situation?
And why are we not acknowledging that the US regime gives prisoners these "choices": go outside and die for the state, work on our prison farms, get contracted out to private companies, or stare at a wall in a cell. Truly an evil empire that should not be apologized for.
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This shouldn't be a controversial beleif in 2025.
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