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plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net to acab@hexbear.netEnglish · 15 days ago

Poor laws with amerikkkan characteristics

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Poor laws with amerikkkan characteristics

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plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net to acab@hexbear.netEnglish · 15 days ago
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https://housingnothandcuffs.org/2026/04/16/statement04162026/

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    Wow. They invented slavery again

    • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      meh, i think poor laws is the closest analogue, there is no right of conquest or kids being born into it. debt prisons as well, with debt being non-equity holder in modern world, apparently

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        14 days ago

        You don’t have to have chattel slavery for it to be slavery, the way enslaved people were treated as livestock by Americans was historically uniquely horrific

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          well, anglobrain associates american slavery in their brain with that word (and haiti weren’t americans). roman slavery or tribe war-related slavery were different from chattel slavery, but we have same word for them. while something like peasantry in russia was skirting very close to it

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        15 days ago

        so-far

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          it’s more not to downplay slavery horrors tbh, surely those prisons will be sight of many beatings and so on, yet they still wouldn’t approach the depravity of chattel slavery.

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            Sure, but there’s clearly a trajectory here.

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        How exactly would children not be born into it?

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          cause they would be stolen before by adoption/foster care. no, cause they aren’t financial assets on the books nor funneled into the system by itself, rather by material position

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            Ah okay thank you

            • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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              14 days ago

              on larger and probabilistic outcome scale it would be kinda sorta comparable (if these laws get implemented that is), but still the comparison makes me icky shrug-outta-hecks the class reasoning is also very different

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                14 days ago

                Makes sense

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      15 days ago

      LITERALLY slavery with extra steps stalin-stressed

      And also commit them, for what, for losing their home??

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