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Transcription via user I CAST FIST >Quoting the text for easier read to everyone: > The desire to exclusively engage with media and art made by "unproblematic" artists is a direct result of Americans viewing media consumption as an inherently political act because that is the supreme promise of Western prosperity and the religion of consumerism, and that's because it's seemingly all that's left. We've been stripped and socialized out of any real political energy and agency. Our ability to consume is the only thing remaining that's "ours" in late capitalism, and as a result it's become a stand-in for (or perhaps the sole defining quality of) every aspect of being alive today - consuming is activism, it's love, it's thinking, it's sex, it's fill in the blank. When the act of consuming is all you have left and indeed the only thing society tells you is valuable and meaningful, the act must necessarily be a moral one, which is why people send themselves down manic spirals deciding what, who is "problematic" or not, because for us the stakes are that high now.
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If it makes you feel any better it’s like 70% just me. Don’t feel too good tho b/c I am here owing to police beatings and being held in solitary confinement. So. Yeah 👍


Update : I am permanently banned from the r/boringdystopia subreddit becaUse TheY wArNEd m MuLtIPlE TiMeS Okay so I would give you a link, but here’s why I’m not: self promotion-always gota be careful with that. 2 there is actually a school of thought that says a few people looking something up is as good if not better than several people clicking a link.-especially considering the not insignificant overlap there is between our communities just by the nature of the thing. M yes and Lemmy links. How do they even work. I don’t know :D — Oh and our spots are #16 and #17 , for Lemmy.World , sorted by monthly activity . Is p cool. On Reddit we may not see eye to eye but on here we do be having tippy toes 😅
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18437234 > Trigger warning. Video of arrestee having a panic attack after she realizes it’s not the real jail. [video](https://www.reddit.com/r/USAuthoritarianism/s/nO9hhIn7K0)
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Okay, so this is actually really interesting. It gets into how in the US, when we talk about slavery, we are specifically talking about chattel slavery as it was practiced in the Americas. And there’s actually a pretty strong argument that American chattel slavery is, if not unique in world history, it is more aberrant than other force labor systems throughout world history.

Absolutely mass incarceration, and the force labor system that goes along with it are incredibly distinct from American style chattel slavery, but this is because they’re arguably more in line with what slavery, distinct from chattel slavery, ‘usually’ meant. Basing a forced labor system off of race is more or less a modern phenomenon . There’s some nuance, but slave codes basically make up the core of available written records on the development of race as a cultural concept. [big ol’ FOR THE WEST label here]



Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
cross-posted from: https://r.nf/post/1572569 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23492059 > > > Part 1 of a 2023 Pultizer-winning article series by Hannah Dreier > > > > Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.
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That was the fucking point of all this, right ? Like ‘how dare the poors slip through some material change in conditions through gov power’. ‘We’ll show them’ and then they did all of this


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15035901 > [1985 MOVE Bombing](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing)
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This is actually an older news story, and it does appear as though she recovered from this before her death. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14389544 > [Follow for More](https://www.tumblr.com/cpntredbeard/747875768564088832/this-is-the-end-goal-of-capitalism)
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That’s great. I’m really glad to hear it. It’s not that they don’t exist. It’s that they are subject to violence under the law.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13932170 > This will have been drawn from the work of [Erin Reed](https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-legislative-risk-assessment-cd3) > Though its worth noting her only firm, DO NOT TRAVEL, so far, is florida. Though the rest are of course still dangerous.
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