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California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires. (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] Nojustice@lemmy.ml 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Lmfao at the absolutely classic .world responses in this thread. "Slavery is good actually". You guys play your role too a T.

[โ€“] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago

The ones in California are probably so glad they just voted in November to keep these prisoners enslaved.

Everyone who voted for that in LA deserves their home to burn, but I feel for all the working class casualties and people who were already homeless.