Oh wow, so I need to get a car, camping supplies, and to take time off from work that I don't have.

This doesn't sound cheap, it just sounds like you have the means.

Be as apathetic about the state of the economy as you want. The rest of us will fight for a better life.

my point is that the exception carved out for punishment was not meant as slavery-by-other-means

Well, that's exactly what the 13th amendment says:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

It's pretty easy to conclude that using convicts as slaves was a part of the plan. Remember, this was 1865, 99 years before the civil rights act. Black people may have been freed from obligate slavery, but the completely unequal laws made it quite easy to funnel black Americans into chain gangs.

Just because some white people were also slaves now doesn't really make a difference.

I didn't even realize you were joking

This is a meme community

Edit: ...

I ain't reading all that.

Let me get this straight:

If a man removes a condom mid-sex, against his partner's wishes, and continues to have sex with her until his finishes inside her, you believe the issue here is her "regret" for having sex with a man that would violate her sexual boundaries, and not the fact that a man forced a woman to have sex with him in a way she did not consent to, that could have extraordinary negative consequences for her?

Fuck off with that sexist victim-blaming bullshit. Consent is fundamental to sex. Sex without consent is rape.

And don't argue that consent was withdrawn after-the-fact. Consent was granted on the condition that a condom be worn. The moment you insert your bare cock into her, you're fucking raping her.

I'm sorry I have to spell this out for you so graphically, but someone needs to explain consent to you since your parents never evidently never did.

A) Most everyone is going to interpret this in the context of U.S. politics given that we're a superpower on the brink of fascist accelerationism pending the results of an election 120 days away. You bring up Finland and Russia elsewhere in the thread, but Finnish elections already happened last month and I really don't hear anyone else talking about Russia's upcoming gubernatorial and parliamentary elections coming up in September right now.

B) I was being tongue-in-cheek about the fact that the only party that could logically "refuse to step down" is the incumbent, which in the context of U.S. politics would be Biden. It was a joke, don't be a baby.

Tl;Dr: OP is a troll who posts vague memes and then scolds anyone who attempts to interpret or joke about them.

20% is still 100% too many, and it doesn't matter if the prison is publicly or privately owned, or if the labor is profitable. Forced labor while in another's custody is slavery. It doesn't matter if it's the government that owns you. It doesn't matter if they are losing money on your labor. It doesn't matter if you are guilty of a crime. The definition of "slavery" is very straightforward.

Anyone arguing otherwise is arguing in favor of slavery. There are no acceptable defenses for slavery.

They claim to be, which is why it is important to remind them who they claim to be.

If they want to be the party of Lincoln, they'll need to do it more than just in name.

I can't tell if Trump and Miller publicly distancing themselves from Project 2025 is a sign that they are too disorganized to actually come up with a plan for a prospective presidency without scaring the shit out of their own voters, or if this is some sort of carefully planned fascist doublespeak so that they can have their plan for dictatorship while they continue to give lip service to "liberty and freedom".

You don't think Biden will step down if he loses the election?

Anybody using Signal for secure messaging is misguided. Any one of your recipients could be using the desktop app and there's no way to know unless they tell you.

That's why I only communicate face-to-face inside of a soundproofed faraday cage.

If the app manages the keys, then you can't trust the app.

If the recipient manages their own keys, then you can't trust the recipient.

Encryption is fundamentally insecure. Once I encrypt something, nobody should be able to decrypt it ever again.

It's true, anyone using SSH for secure messaging is absolutely misguided.

With SSH at least you can password protect the key itself so that you always get a prompt.