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California votes down proposition 6, which would end slave labor in prisons (www.latimes.com)

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I thought fascism was a Republican thing 🤯

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[–] Melkath@fedia.io 15 points 10 hours ago

Its been 3 years of a casual stroll and a year of genocide and a mad dash to the right.

The Duopoly is fascist and they have hordes who will dutifully do whatever their masters tell them to.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Huh, I wonder what led to this failing? The source doesn't elaborate.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Probably related to this

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-state-ballot-measure-results

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 hours ago

Ah, yes. Hurting the homeless. Of course. Silly me.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 7 points 8 hours ago

Pfft, America has a Center-Right part and an Extreme-Right party. Just because Republicans call Dems "the left" doesn't make them leftists.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

California would literally burn without slave labor.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Lol what? Do you have worms in your brain?

[–] dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world 2 points 2 hours ago

He's referencing the slaves used as firefighters while enslaved that are dented employment fighting fires if they survive and are released.

You know, that insanely fucked up practice of endangering incarcerated persons in the most dangerous job possible simply to save money since they're compensated less than $0.25/hour.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

One of their prison labor programs is for fighting wildfires.

[–] TotalFat@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Alabama got rid of slavery in 2022.

WTF CA?

[+] jaybone@lemmy.world -8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

People are really getting sick of things like side shows, smash and grab robberies, car breakins. Small businesses are closing because of this. The Alameda County DA doesn’t want to prosecute offenders, victims feel they are not being represented. So given all that, it doesn’t surprise me at all that voters aren’t eager to do any favors for convicted criminals.

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The_Slavery_Enjoyer has logged on

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world -5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I’m making an observation. I didn’t say how I voted, now did I? But go ahead and downvote me. ML folks.

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago

why are you scared to say you think incarcerated people deserve to be subjected to involuntary servitude? feels too slimy to say out loud?

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 hours ago

You know what the most ghoulish shit is about libs? Y'all stopped pretending cruel and unusual punishment was only for rapes and murders and now stealing a sandwich is enough to get you to pay with your life's time for a few years.

Maybe demand all the media, agriculture and tech billionaires y'all have to stop wage theft, antitrust practices, rent/food gouging and outright contracting prison slaves and you wouldnt have so many homeless people that still have to eat and inner city youth desperate to make a dollar any way they can to escape their police-occupied communities.