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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

They think the poorest Americans won't have a choice. They dont realize theres actually not enough people to fill out all these freshly vacated "opportunities".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone will find out again what Georgia and Arizona learned and then forgot that it isn't that there isn't enough people, it's that White folks are snowflakes that can't handle the hard ass work.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

No, they don't realize why their strawberry packages are $2.

You are right, and OP is right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Here's how I think this will pan out:

Step 1: Mass deportation

Step 2: Mass incarceration

Step 3: Work camps

After all, the US legal framework allows prisoners to be used as slaves, does it not? And the beauty of a fascist system is that enemies are so very, very easy to find.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Incarceration is expensive, be more financially workable to leave the system as is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's only expensive if you care about prisoners' human rights

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And if they succeed in cementing the Christian theocracy they can control them through religion. They only want freedom for themselves to subjugate everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think you misunderstand the plan. See, a good portion of other jobs will be taken by robots, offshore help, and AI. This leads to firing those employees at those companies where the jobs were taken over, and since there is no UBI and the available jobs will have massive competition, the people will have to take those jobs, be thrown in prison, or be homeless and persecuted (possibly executed) by authorities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thrown into private prisons then forced to work in those farm fields as a way for the private prison industry to make more profits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly, yeah. I fully expect that. Uuuuugh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nope, what you said is exactly what I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah! I misinterpreted what you wrote. Sorry about that.

Ugh, I really hope it doesn’t turn into that at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Its going to. This isn't going away. The Rubes are back with a vengeance abd they're cementing their rule.