Message from @devpav
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IE promotes it and is therefore not an end to slavery, its just changing who can/cant own slaves
More or less.
The 13th amendment is the state saying they have a monopoly on slavery.
just like reality check, is anybody still seriously in favor of our fucked up prison system?
I'm enjoying the 50/50 split between "that dumbass" and "he kind of has a point"
Hes a dumbass and has no point
The 13th Amendment is just making an exception for penal labor.
repealing this would only re-legalize slavery across the board
I think maybe he's just taking a page out of Donald Trump's book: say something salient in a way which sounds almost too outrageous for your reputation to bear... then enjoy the free news coverage.
Pretty much
He corrected his statement to amend
Well, it's not like it would be legal to take new slaves though, in the U.S.
Minimum wage laws, for example, would apply.
You'd have to get people to uhh....
I would support penal labor even more if it funded restitution for the victims of the crime.
If minimum wage paid the bills. lol
Yeah I don't think there really is any legal way to create new slaves, nor to import them into the U.S. at this point.
I heard a while ago that they (the system? the gov?) can borrow money against a cetain % of people going to jail doing cheap labour.
The 13th amendment is actually redundant now.
It's probably the only amendment we don't need. Slavery is too unpopular.
Nowadays we have human trafficking problems that the authors of the 13th Amendment didn't even imagine.
Yeah, but it is usually completely unlawful to start trafficking somebody.
We need an amendment for prostitution.
You'd need some state willing to sell condemned people to americans for cold hard cash.
Libya?
Maybe this was Hillary's plan all along...
</mostly-sarcasm>
You can already buy a Mexican day laborer for cold hard cash and then confine him for years.
Ahh, that is true.
I mean, it's not exactly legal though.
forcible confinement laws apply etc.
The globalists in DC wink at it.
sure, but it's not _legal_ really
just... viable.
Until Trump it was taken for granted.
Hey devpav.
this is somewhat true.
Hey, what?
I'm gonna eat your boogers.
k.
👅