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- Comment on The "Threat" to America. 2 days ago:
So many members have contacted me to warn that LocalAreaMan is in fact a Russian shill.
Are you mad that your internet got disrupted this week?
- Comment on The "Threat" to America. 2 days ago:
So you feel like Vladimir Putin? The stupidest “man” in the history of the world.
- Comment on The "Threat" to America. 2 days ago:
Nevermind that it’s punishment this is used for and not rehabilitation.
Lots of time work programs for prisoners are used for rehabilitation.
- Comment on The "Threat" to America. 2 days ago:
No, slavery generally is considered forcing someone to work for free and the person is generally enslaved as a matter of prejudice: sometimes because their considered inferior by race, sometimes because they’ve been captured in war, sometimes because they are considered inferior for some other reason like belonging to a different tribe. Some slaves are born into slavery, but the prejudice that enslaved their parents tends to be why they themselves are considered slaves as well.
The key here is it’s forced upon them and they aren’t usually paid for it.
Prison labor doesn’t fit that description. For one thing they’re almost always paid, granted at a reduced rate but this is typically because a portion of their earnings are used to offset their costs (prisons aren’t free to operate.) A prisoner might be forced to work but many prison labor programs are voluntary, at least the better jobs require some amount of cooperation by the prisoner.
Finally, a prisoner has been imprisoned because they violated a law, a jury of their peers found them guilty of that crime and the judge believed a fair and equal punishment was to incarcerate the individual. Though not always perfect in the USA criminal court is designed to favor allowing a guilty person to go free if the evidence is lacking verse punishing a potentially innocent person-the so called 99% certainty rule. This is much different than how slaves were generally come by.
- Comment on The "Threat" to America. 2 days ago:
To be fair requiring people who have been convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers through a fair and just legal system to do labor isn’t itself a form of slavery. Also worth noting that in some cases prisoners work these jobs to generate income for themselves (usually so they can buy snacks and things from the prison commissary.)
For-profit jails are the exception since such an arrangement encourages false imprisonment but this is more a matter of making sure our legal system operates justly and fairly. Have some places used bogus charges to imprison people to use as labor? Sure, but again we need to make sure that we don’t conflate that with all prisoners doing labor when it’s only some of them. The citizens ensuring that their justice system is working properly and free of corruption is the solution to this.
And we have historical examples of it working to remove corruption. There was a for-profit juvenile detention center that got caught trumping up charges in order to lock up kids which generated more fee’s and money for the jail and they found out the judge who had sentenced the kids was corrupt and working for the company than ran the jail. The individuals who engaged in this were caught, tried and imprisoned and fined millions of dollars for their crimes.
Of course the kids shouldn’t have been scammed like that to begin with. However, I’d remind you that our justice system punishes people who have committed crimes when we can prove it to a jury of our peers. A justice system isn’t designed to prevent crimes, we can try to deter them but thats merely our hope, the actual purpose is to remedy an injustice. While we’d like to not have had kids overly punished for minor crimes (most of the kids had done stuff like getting caught smoking weed and other misdemeanors) whats more important here is that the people who abused our justice system for personal gain were eventually punished for their abuse.
But at the heart of it the majority of prison labor isn’t really slavery. Heck, lots of prisoners enjoy such jobs, not only because it gives them a few bucks but it also gets them out of the monotony of being in prison all day. When done properly it can actually help to rehabilitate some of these prisoners.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 4 days ago:
When Epstein died I didn’t think much of it. What surprised me was lots of non-conspiracy theory friends were diving head first into the conspiracy. As the years have went by and more info leaked, yeah, there was definitely something big going on. We know Elon Musk lied numerous times about knowing Epstein and Maxwell, only to be proven by others testimony he did in fact know them, stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, probably meet with Maxwell for “kung fu” practice, etc.
I even believe that the whole “pedo guy” incident with Musk was actually a coy attempt to keyword search flood “Elon Musk Pedo” with search results for that nonsense. We’ve seen other famous people do stuff like that to keyword bury topics, I’m sure Musk was aware of the technique. And he won the lawsuit because he was rich enough to fight a freedom of speech claim.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 4 days ago:
And that cash cow also gives him lots of leverage to keep companies in line. Like if he wanted to prevent certain subjects or photos from going viral.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 4 days ago:
I got banned and the photo was removed when I tried to post it on Reddit a few months ago. Wonder why?
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 4 days ago:
The photo is likely from around 2012-2016 IIRC. Around the same time the photo of Ghislaine Maxwell and Elon Musk was taken.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 4 days ago:
Also certain AI say this is two images stitched together.
Nope. Its a real and verified image. Perhaps the AI detector means I’ve supplemented the original photo with additional text in order to make it a meme. That much is true, the original photo doesn’t have text in Impact font floating above and below them.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 4 days ago:
We all know he started Amazon but his real wealth and power comes from his near monopoly of internet hosting through AWS.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 4 days ago:
Remember: there are no good billionaires. You don’t become a billionaire by being nice, fair or anything we associate with being a good person. Even those who inherited billions from their family are often fucked in the head (John du Pont of Foxcatcher fame) as a result of it. Not to mention being born into such a family instantly gives you access to opportunities none of us plebs could ever gain regardless of our merit. Bezos ex-wife is sort of ok since she is adamant about giving away the bulk of her fortune, however, she is still complicit in helping to create the monster that is Amazon, which ironically destroyed the very thing she proclaims to love (literature and book stores.)
Treat them all as if they’re evil slime, the bulk are. That way you may be pleasantly surprised when you come across a “good” one like Scott.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
He is an ugly person down to the core.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
Last place anyone would look for it
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
They all knew and they all sought him out because they all were interested in the wares he was peddling.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
Yeah… what a coincidence that the owner of largest web host somehow keeps an incriminating photo of himself with a convicted sex offender from appearing more often.
Bezos also owns the Washington Post so he clearly wants to control the journalist narrative as well.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
He’s a dweeb thats for sure. When he had an affair he called the slut he was banging his “alive girl” in text messages. Like wtf is that kind of nickname?
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
Holidays are coming up if you’re looking for a good Christmas card photo to use.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
Oh so Bezos and Epstein had a “I invite you to my private resort weekend party and you invite me to your private resort weekend party” thing going on?
Would explain why Bezos has so many yachts, what with Epstein living on the secluded island.
- Comment on It's a very revealing photo of him 5 days ago:
And it’s worth pointing out that the photo of Ghislaine Maxwell and Elon Musk is everywhere but this photo of Bezos and Maxwell is much rarer to see.
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- Comment on Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science? 5 days ago:
Sample size and demographic makeup could skew things like that.
- Comment on Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science? 6 days ago:
Still insignificant. Solar storms and fluctuating magnetic fields have been happening for longer than humans have been here and have been happening while humans were here. Theres tons of pseudo-science gaining popularity online, can’t believe astrology is still so popular with people, and this sounds like one of them to be honest.
- Comment on Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science? 6 days ago:
Earths magnetic field isn’t even powerful enough to make naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) with. So no, it’s not anywhere near powerful enough to mess with your cells. There maybe some biological functions are an influenced or can sense the magnetic field (one theory why birds seemingly know which direction north is) but as far as I know these are all theories or myth (men have metal in their nose which they use to sense north which is why they never get lost.)
Naturally occurring magnetic rocks, for anyone who is curious, are created by lightning striking iron-rich deposits in the ground. You can make a ferrous metal magnetic in a similar way (quick bursts of electricity.)
- Comment on Andrew Tate Allegedly Had Bestiality Porn With Horse and Eel, Videos of Minors 1 week ago:
He still qualifies to be an agent of the FBI, goddamnit!
- Comment on Now that your an adult 1 week ago:
Right? No one is going to waste hardcore drugs on kids. Though with the proliferation of THC gummies and candies I wouldn’t be surprised if someone accidentally handed them out. Kids eating special candy has been a common issue in legal states.
- Comment on Now that your an adult 1 week ago:
It all started cause some dude put a razor blade in a kids candy but it turned out the guy who did it was a relative that didn’t like the kid or something.
The much more common problem with Halloween candy is how old it is. They start making Halloween candy months and months before it’s needed on the shelves so it tends to dry out. Now that every candy maker has eliminated real cocoa cause of cost cutting measures it also tastes like shit.
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- Comment on Armando needs to know which church to avoid 1 week ago:
I’m just saying, we let the church burn witches to test that theory out and they found out it was wrong and apologized. Why not let this pastor try out her theological theories and then evaluate the results before we rush into a hasty decision.
