Don’t forget the war on drugs

  • RowRowRowYourBot
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    2 days ago

    "The 13th amendment created the legal groundwork for transforming a free people into a nation of de facto chattel slaves. Reagan accelerated this process massively.

    Mental patients 🖐️ (⁠눈⁠‸⁠눈⁠)

    “Prisoners with jobs” 👈 (⁠♡⁠ω⁠♡⁠ ⁠)"

    Where do you see the word “except”? If you intended to write it you did not.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

      That except. Though their wording about free people seems misguided in the context.