techbros, finbros, christofascists organized in California to keep #slavery legal. knowing democrats would to shit, they got to workout their blackbox voting magic to keep that 13th amendment loophole.
the goal?
the minute undocumented workers are thrown in jails, they will be #slaves.
almost all USA agricultural land is controlled by investment banks; if not as outright owners, then as holders of mortgage titles.
THEY WANT TO TURN FARMS INTO SLAVE PLANTATIONS
https://newrepublic.com/post/190555/donald-trump-immigration-deportations-farm-workers
gotta remind y’all #techbros #finbros are ready to fuck up farming in the United States, let food rot and create famines just so they can bring back #slavery fully. that includes tech-turned-finbro Bill Gates.
y’all with homes and backyards need to grow food for the rest of us. we in cities without land nor space for hydroponics need to find ways to get direct access to food.
there is nothing the billionaires would love more but to make Americans bend to their will with a food crisis.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social sure is cheaper than deporting them, ču ne?
I haven't grown food for two years because I'm finding it too much work as I head into my fourth quarter century and looking after increasingly disabled people full time, but I'm hoping to get some younger friends to share the work in return for fresh food.
I'm ok to freeze and can stuff for them.
But in Canada. Which we'll need as Trump trashes our economy and plans annexation.
@EricLawton and don’t forget the tariffs. y’all need to have as much food independence as us down here.
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Oh, now with high yield LED tech, urban cavedwellers can still grow stuff. Y'all can start growing your own potatoes in a gunny sack under a full-spectrum grow lamp.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social imperial cores don’t often suffer from food shortages. That’s not to say huge numbers of Americans won’t be starving, that’s true of a lot of people right now. But America can and will export this problem so that food will be even more unaffordable in places that don’t print USD.
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No society is more than 3 meals away from revolution. So there's that..
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The relevancy and pertinence of this advice cannot be overstated.
@blogdiva Pretty sure you saw my writeup on this in November, but if anyone else is curious about the details of how it would work:
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/11/tariffs-mass-deportation-the-pieces-fit-together/
@blogdiva "blackbox voting magic" is one possibility. The more probable explanation is that California is chock full of liberals. And liberals have no problem with slavery.
@blogdiva This is horrible, in myriad ways. And the resulting food inflation will be at least as bad as the last 4 years (that was due to pandemic supply chain disruption, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and simple greed). It seems MAGA pwned itself.
Every city is three meals away from revolution, indeed.
@blogdiva This is what they want, but we need to hold firm that this is already unconstitutional. The exception is only for persons convicted of a crime, not detained pending trial, and immigration violations are not crimes.
@blogdiva Isn’t slavery saddled with inherent costs of maintaining, housing, and feeding the worker population? I know, horrible, but there’s a weird economic disconnect here.
not in california. here we use our state prisons for their housing needs. then the shuttle busses have an easy pick and and drop off.
i think, in nov., prop 6 failing hurt the most. i thought i was awake, but i keep getting woked up.
@melioristicmarie @blogdiva Prop 6 was the eradication of slavery one, right? Written terribly though, and with equally messed up, confusing lobbying. California always disappoints me, but I’m happy here.
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Having seen the difference between jails in SoCal and Tennessee, you're still better off in CA than TN.
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i’m pretty much terrified of anything outside the pacific coast. i offer temporary refuge to those who need to escape fascist states but there is zero chance i will cross a state line over yonder. no.
i’m leaving the country for a week in august, straight there, straight back. no other state layovers.
@melioristicmarie @Darkphoenix @blogdiva We might visit family in Philadelphia, but mostly keeping local. Hella uncertain out there.
@melioristicmarie @wendinoakland @blogdiva
I'm with you on this. There's no place like home.