Funny how the US doesn't tax itself for all of the for-profit prisons that don't pay any of the prisoners for their work. Sounds like corporate slavery to me.

[–] AGM@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

It has nothing to do with caring about forced labour. It's purely a vehicle of economic warfare with a moral contrivance as justification. It's just like sanctions regimes that are weaponized to impose suffering and degradation of economic and societal wellbeing as a means of breaking down countries that aren't compliant with their interests. They just want to weaken and destroy rivals so they can extract more benefits at lower cost.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Tariffs are not a tax that the other country pays. Feel like that needs to be repeated ad nauseum for any Americans reading.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I understand that, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the clown show.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

You might but plenty of others don't.

[–] ximtor@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

It's projection, it always is

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

There's also their H-2A program, which is used to entrap migrant workers into indentured slavery, much like certain reported abuses of the Canadian TFW program.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yup, all in the name of cheap labour. I didn't say that Canada wasn't entirely innocent, I merely said that it's hypocritical for a powerful pedophile to speak of forced labour. He raped children.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I was just agreeing with what you said about labour and adding that along with the literal slavery in their prisons, there's also indentured servitude for migrant workers. Mentioning Canada's TFW Program was something I did to balance what I said, and not in response to your comment.

I should also add that the US' ICE concentration camps also have forced labour. The current Delaney Hall hunger strikes (on the inside) and protests (outside) are about drawing attention to stop it in one of the many locations where that happens.

(I hope he somehow faces justice for his crimes and that the criminals they're protecting do too.)

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

No, just regular slavery as supported in the Constitution