If you don’t return to school, you get a suspension, and can’t come back to school for a few days.

Oh, nooo…?

suppress wages in prison workshops, and exempt them from minimum wage

And how is that in any way form or shape a good thing?

I’m not saying that it is, I’ve even called it an abomination on many occasions, I’m just saying that the use of it in the past was limited to people who wouldn’t get much sympathy from society at large, rightly or wrongly.

And I am further saying that one of MAGA’s primary characteristics is finding loopholes in otherwise benign laws and policies, and they have identified 13A as one that ripe for serious exploitation. They simply can’t resist abusing every opportunity that comes their way. Slavery comes with the added advantage of being very lucrative, and Trump REALLY can’t resist that.

I called this years ago. I could see the Dopamine addiction happening, and knew these psychopaths would lean into it and try to weaponize it, and they have. Of course, they have.

It’s not the first time. Tobacco companies were found to manipulate their formulations to make theor products addict users quicker, addict them stronger, and make it harder to quit, all while denying the addictive properties, and even the obvious health issues.

Oil companies had their own studies back in the 80s, that clearly predicted Climate Change from fossil fuels, and yet they continue to deny it to this day.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the think tanks that fund and support the Conservative Propaganda Machine have also done studies to identify the addictive properties and triggers in their propaganda, and manipulate it for maximum effect.

WHEN we take back our country, and make major changes to get away from the ugly conservative society that they’ve tried to force upon us for decades, the addictive properties of “products” need to be identified and strongly regulated, to avoid exploiting unsuspecting citizens.

MAGA will ban it, and turn it into luxury vehicle parking.

So don’t do it from your house, go to a remote, unrelated location. By the time they get the video, analyze it, track back the signal, the camera is painted, and you’re long gone.

Of course there may be cameras near that remote, unrelated location, so be careful of anything identifying, like a vehicle or your face.

Add HIM to The List.

Valid, the 13th Amendment is an abomination, but it was mostly used as a rationalization to suppress wages in prison workshops, and exempt them from minimum wage. It was never intended to be the foundation for establishing a new system for our entire nation’s entire economy.

But we are approaching a labor crossroads in this country, and while MOST American workers haven’t been paying much attention to the upcoming revolutions in AI and Robotics, Sociopathic Oligarchs and the Corporations have been laser-focused on it for a few decades, and their objectives are finally at hand.

As if replacing much of their workforce with tireless tools like AI and Robotics wasn’t wonderful enough for their profits, now MAGA is dangling a shiny bauble that only the most psychopathic of Ferengi Oligarchs could dare to dream about - a return to literal slavery, a nearly free labor pool of workers who can be treated in any way. No worries about rights, benefits, safety, regulations, etc. Imagine how much more profitable they could be?

This is one of those Trumpisms that derive from his profound ignorance, because he beat up some nerd to do literally every homework assignment in his life. A famous one is “Bigly,” because he didn’t understand when he first heard it that they were saying “Big League.”

For a long time, I wondered what “very stable genius” meant, and it finally dawned on me. He must have heard someone described as a “veritable genius,” and he decided to apply it to himself, and it garbled out as “very stable genius.”

That doesn’t mean we have to keep accepting it.

This is the future of MAGA America. Imagine how much more profitable corporations could be if 90% of their workforce is AI, Robotic, or Federally-provided Slave Labor, privately managed by a Trump-owned company?

What do you think all those new regional concentration camps and an enormous paramilitary organization are going to do when the “immigrant problem” has been largely handled? Trump and Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller and Trump are getting into the slavery business.

Most AI is obvious slop.

When did the FCC become the final authority on “Space?” Doesn’t anyone else on the planet Earth get a say?

These Sociopathic Oligarchs could give every American a million dollars, and they’d never notice it was missing, but they’d rather throw it away, than help anyone.

Well, second to last. Amy MAGA candidate is last.

I can’t stand Newsome, he’s no better than a Clinton, or any other phony Democrat, but he’d be better than any MAGA.

Unfortunately, he’s never made any indication that he would crush MAGA, and purge them from government and society, so he’d just be a placeholder until they steal it back.

I like that, explains the situation succinctly.

A side strike to the knee will bring down anybody.

Good point. Take out the body guards quickly, deal with the Sociopathic Oligarch slowly.

They don’t even dream it up any more. They hire brains, sift through their ideas, and say “I like that. Do that.”

After that, they are experts in manipulating finances to makes their companies rich, and themselves richer, by paying the people who actually do the work, make the money, and create the shareholder value, as little as possible.

I wouldn’t bother. They’re generally soft and weak. They didn’t get rich working hard. You can whup them.

What are you talking about? Do you not understand the concept of TIME? What does the income of Dems vs Repubs have to do with it?

There is an obvious trend of investment companies buying up single family houses. This is not “objectively wrong,” it is the truth, and ALL those companies have publicly stated they intend to buy up so many single family homes that they will control the cost of housing in America. This is FACT.

Studies GAO reviewed found that no investor owned 1,000 or more single-family rental homes as of late 2011. However, by 2015, institutional investors collectively owned an estimated 170,000-300,000 homes. As of June 2022, institutional investors of varying sizes made up a large portion of the single-family rental market in many cities, particularly in Sunbelt states.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106643

So it doesn’t matter where it stands NOW, the important point is that they own a larger percentage of the market than they did a year ago, and they will own more a year from now, and even more a year after that.

Your solution is to ignore the growing problem, pretend it doesn’t exist, and then when it is too big a problem to ignore, wonder why someone didn’t do something about this a long time ago, say, when they still owned less than 9% of the market, like now.