• grue@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Well yeah: more cops means more arrests, which means more prisoners, which means more slave labor.

    Remember the 13th Amendment:

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    No sarcasm tag necessary; that’s what conservatives genuinely want.

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      If the US wasn’t spending more on its military, than the next 5 nations combined, it would be considered a terror state that belongs to the axis of evil and would be sanctioned into oblivion.

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        9 months ago

        I think you mean if the US had not become the global capitalist empire after the decline of the British Empire.

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        9 months ago

        it would be considered

        If you asked the majority of people on earth outside of the US it already is seen this way.