I “love” how the 13th Amendment carved out an exception for slavery for “criminals” and every red state runs schools like a pipeline to prison for young black folks…
I fact Alabama literally just built a prison complex (called Angola) on top of a slave plantation and to this day, unbrokenly since pre-abolition times, that cotton plantation is cultivated by predominantly Black slaves.
They also organize a ‘rodeo’ which is basically modern day gladiator coloseum with the Angola prisoners ‘incentivized’ to compete.
I think it’s useful to make note of the fact that life in the US has gotten progressively worse since the fall of the USSR. Basically the only reason anything got better was because they were afraid of people becoming communists. Those were concessions.
Expect everything old to be new again. All those bad old things that we got rid of will come roaring back. Like abortion bans.
The USA is better now than before in some ways.
Below are some changes that happened in the lifetime of my parents.
Most small towns no longer shoot minorities after sunset if they are still in the city limits unaccompanied.
Women do not loose their children and money if they divorce.
People live longer.
There are only a few legal ways to enslave someone, as opposed to the multiple traps many could fall into.
Mississippi-based civil rights group JULIAN identified 70 “modern-day lynchings” in seven southern states from 2000 to 2025 in a report released last month. https://www.axios.com/2026/03/07/lynching-south-black-americans-suicide-report
70% of Americans say they struggle to pay for food, housing and healthcare https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/70-americans-struggle-pay-food-171319769.html
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You guys must have a lot of common ground on China huh
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Aw why isn’t this showing up in the modlog? I wanna know what they said T_T
I “love” how the 13th Amendment carved out an exception for slavery for “criminals” and every red state runs schools like a pipeline to prison for young black folks…
I fact Alabama literally just built a prison complex (called Angola) on top of a slave plantation and to this day, unbrokenly since pre-abolition times, that cotton plantation is cultivated by predominantly Black slaves.
They also organize a ‘rodeo’ which is basically modern day gladiator coloseum with the Angola prisoners ‘incentivized’ to compete.
Actually, that’s no longer true on a year-to-year basis. Life expectancy peaked in 2014.
I really should not have put that in there; it was not a political change.
I was comparing from the 1930s -now.
Life expectancy is political.
I think it’s useful to make note of the fact that life in the US has gotten progressively worse since the fall of the USSR. Basically the only reason anything got better was because they were afraid of people becoming communists. Those were concessions.
Expect everything old to be new again. All those bad old things that we got rid of will come roaring back. Like abortion bans.
Both of this still happens and is getting worse. Life expectancy is lower than any comparable country.
Considering imperialism/colonialism US is responsible for the overexploitation of more people than ever.