• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    3 days ago

    Nah. They’re going to first start with prisoners. We already use prison labor; they start making prisons worse as an inducement to get people to work. Getting out early now requires some prison labor.

    Now that the homeless can get arrested, they get processed in the system as well. As states are now incentivized to arrest people, policing becomes much harsher.

    States then cut housing benefits to push more people on the street. Children are tried as adults to get them to work.

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      2 days ago

      That’s probably what they want to do… Luckily, this crazy first week was a great reminder the administration can’t actually govern. They can’t navigate the bureaucracy, they can move things around, but you can’t just sign a piece of paper with a sharpie and leverage the prison population… You have to actually organize things to make that happen

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          21 hours ago

          Okay… But like still, that doesn’t just happen. It takes coordination and planning, you can’t just deport the labor force.

          You can tell states to use their legal slave labor… But that doesn’t just happen. If your state isn’t ready for it, if they don’t have the details worked out…very literally everyone will starve. I don’t mean eggs are expensive, I mean you go to the grocery store and half the shelves are empty, and the rest are crazy pricey. People will die, we all will suffer

          It’s collapse of the Union level stuff