The American capitalists can't use immigrant labor like they used to since they decided to use them as political scapegoats. This was done to appease the populists on their right and shore up the rotting neoliberal order for at least another generation. Their fallback plan in keeping the price of labor cheap is making child labor and convict slave labor more available.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just an incredible move, and i can't tell if they bit their own ass leaning in to it too hard, or genuinely believe it because in some ways they're blind to the consequences of their ideology. Remember when Obummer crashed the Georgia peach harvest by terrorizing so many farm workers?

I hesitate to even speak this in to existence, but eventually some gop goon is going to try to enslave migrants crossing in to the us, if they haven't already.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

This about Cop City, and other protests, I bet.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

or genuinely believe it because in some ways they're blind to the consequences of their ideology

Their ideology can't even pass the marshmallow test lmao