It’s not a “loophole” it’s explicit within the text of the amendment
“Loophole” lmfao like it’s a fucking accident, like it wasn’t purposefully structured to reclaim and expand a source of free labor
We never outlawed slavery in America. We simply transferred ownership of slaves from individual landowners to the government and large corporations.
Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:
-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.
-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”
-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?
-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include:
IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument,
Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies,
3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre
Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.
-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.
-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.
-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.
-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.
-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.
-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.
-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.
Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.
reminder that every person alive on this planet was carried, given birth, fed, and for the most majority raised by women, this is the labour women did for no pay, without being valued or appreciated for it, and result of this work created entire population of this planet. women created everyone who live. don’t forget who are the true creators.
Men: “You could be so pretty if you just put a little effort in, like just putting on some makeup and smiling! Why don’t you do that? Why won’t you smile for me??”
Also Men: “That woman is wearing makeup and smiling. She’s clearly a slut, and therefore deserves any awful thing that happens to her.”
Mujeres Creando are radical feminists who believe that men and women cannot work together because they believe that men and women will always have different agendas, so it would make no sense to work together. When I asked Maria Posada if Mujeres Creando worked with men, she gave me the example of a slave and a slave owner, as well as an employer and the boss, who in both situations have opposing needs and wants. They do not believe that men and women are necessarily enemies, but they believe that men cannot understand the women’s struggle and women need to live and fight their own struggles without the interference or manipulation of men. Mujeres Creando do not even ask for the support of men, they just want men to leave women alone to live and fight their own struggles. Maria Posada elaborated,
“Las Condiciones son tan diferentes en una sociedad patriarcal como lo nuestra q nosotras tenemos decir lo nuestro y ellos lo suyo. No podemos mezclarnos. Porque cuando se mezcla siempre acabamos diciendo lo suyo. Es absurdo. Entonces ahí nosotras necesitamos que ellos reconsideren su situación de privilegio, pero nosotras no se lo vamos a hacer. Nosotras no somos sus madres. Más adelante es su problema, nosotras tenemos lo nuestro”
[The circumstances are just so different in a patriarchal society like ours, that we have to say what we think and they can say what they want. We cannot get involved one with another. Because when we do, we always end up saying what they want. It’s absurd. So we need them to reconsider their privileged status, but we will not do it for them. We are not their mothers. From then onwards, it’s their problem, we have got our own]
Luzdary Hammad, Building Women’s Solidarity to Advance Women’s Rights in Bolivia
not to be sappy on main BUT one thing that i really loved when studying linguistics was that the more important a word is, the earlier the concept of this thing was given a word. for example, the word water is similar in many similar languages (aqua, agua, água). so, the more important a word is, the more languages it’ll be similar across and the older this word will be, theoretically and generally speaking (many other things also affect this)
AND SO in my years studying linguistics, there was one word that was nearly identical across so many regionally different languages (though there are outliers of course), from europe to most of asia to subsaharan africa to indigenous languages. across nearly all languages this is the first word people learn how to say and maybe the first word humans in general officially named and defined:
mamãe - portuguese
妈妈 (māmā) - chinese
ਮੰਮੀ (mamī) - punjabi
mamah - mayan (yucatec)
мама - bulgarian, russian, ukrainian
ماں (mäm) - urdu
মা (mā) - bengali
mẹ (may) - vietnamese
ママ (mama) - japanese
అమ్మ (am'ma) - telugu
mama - quechua
મમ્મી (mam'mī) - gujarati
അമ്മ (am'ma) - malayalam
amá - navajo
엄마 (omma) - korean
eme - native hawaiian
onam - uzbek
aana - yupik
mema - tagish
μαμά (mamá) - greek
mama - swahili
أمي (umi) - arabic
mayi - chichewa
माँ (ma) - hindi
mam - dutch
ម៉ាក់ (ma) - khmer
แม่ (mæ̀) - thai
அம்மா (am'mā) - tamil
අම්මා (ammā) - sinhala
amai - zulu
ama - basque
आमा (āmā) - nepali
အမေ (amay) - myanmar (burmese)
mamá - spanish
mom/mum- english
this isn’t actually the first word because we teach babies this word (most likely), but because the “mama” or “ama” sounds are the easiest things for babies to say, and it’s nearly always the only thing they can say at first, and adults across all languages defined their language around that.
babies all over the world for thousands and thousands of years all started out blabbering sounds like “mama” and mothers everywhere were all like Oh Shit That’s Me! I’m Mama!
The stories of women in my family who were forced into lives they didn’t want and didn’t utilize their passions breaks my heart. My grandma wanted to be a journalist and write about the injustices she saw inflicted on disabled ppl while she was volunteering at a state run institution as a teen. Her father decided that she was “too fat and stupid” for college and forced her to get married at 17 or else he’d make her homeless. As a kid she told me that she wished people believed that she had meaningful opinions on events around her. One of my great grandmothers wanted to be an artist but was pressured into marrying a man who beat her. She stayed up late each night when her children were in bed writing poetry and pasting it over elaborate collages she mad herself. We still have stacks of these notebooks she created but was never allowed to do anything with. My mother wanted to be an operatic singer and was considered a musical prodigy in her town because she taught herself three seperate instruments by 13. When she was 18 she met my then 30 year old father who emotionally manipulated her into giving up her dreams to start a family with him. As a kid I would hear her up at night playing the violin or doing vocal exercises until she became too depressed to practice anymore. Like idk y’all there’s a quiet type of violence in the way women’s talents are devalued and brushed aside in favor of bullying them into “traditional” roles that ultimately don’t fulfill what they wanted for their lives. We’ve lost so much art, music, writing, science, and happiness to misogyny.
And then men will smugly ask “Well where are all the great women artists, writers, scientists, etc, then?” while they think that they are so great despite not personally contributing to improve mankind in any way because other men have.
I feel like this is a great thing to learn from too. People like to write these kinds of events off as being in the past, but this still happens all the time. We’re taught from a very young age by society to put all of our passions and ambitions aside for our partners, because that’s what our mothers and grandmothers did before us.
men want the beauty standard to be skinny because they know that a big strong woman would really be able to beat the shit out of all the rapists, pedophiles, and abusers that have hurt us during our lives
Whether male violence is socialized or biological, it is utter and total bullshit to say “women have just as violent urges, they’re just too weak to do much”. How many women do you know fantasize about raping men? Want to join the military specifically because the idea of killing people excites them? How many women go around beating people? If it were true then the number of woman on woman crimes would be largely proportional to male on male crimes due to the level playing field allowing that violence. But that’s not the case. It makes up a miniscule fraction of all violence. If women were just as violent then why are 90% of child predators male? Women are stronger than children and even have more access, wouldn’t it be at least equal if not more women committing it? Not to mention that in proportion to exposure time to children, men commit child abuse on a vast majority scale (women commit just over 50% but handle around 95% of childcare and we can see this difference in proportional violence in proportion of abusive single mothers vs proportion of abusive single fathers). /I am a woman. Raised by a woman. Surrounded by girls in school. Surrounded by women online for over 6 years. I could count on two hands the number of times that any of the couple hundred I’ve been around mentioned anything about hurting innocent people. The only people most women hate enough to want to hurt are rapists and abusers and pedophiles because most of us have been victims of violence to them and it is an urge to protect other women and children from the same suffering. That is not the same as the sexualised desire for violence that males have. If rapists and abusers didn’t exist then that want to remove them would no longer exist. There are literally woman only villages and they have a violent crime rate of zero. That wouldn’t be the case if women are just as violent. Meanwhile men are doing the worst, sickest things you could ever imagine to women and children and even each other globally and revel in it. /If you’re a woman then I feel sorry that you’ve been brainwashed to think that male desire and actions = everyone’s desires and actions. If you’re a man then don’t talk to me, you have no right to tell me how I think and feel as a woman and how women as a group think and feel. You are doing exactly what you males have been doing for thousands of years and are not revolutionary or original or philosophical in anyway. You are just a man saying the same old boring mediocre things as any other man I have talked to about this topic and I suspect it’s the case for other women as well.
i’m so sorry for the block of text y’all, having it in drafts removed the paragraph separation for some reason
being poor is traumatic. even if you’re not homeless or starving. never being able to get anything nice for yourself, never being able to go out to eat without feeling guilty, never being able to do anything fun that isn’t free, making you housebound in bad weather because you can’t afford to go to a cafe or a movie. it takes a toll. being poor under capitalism makes your life a waking nightmare. this post must be reblogged by everyone.
The thing is, no matter how well and animal lives its life before it’s killed, no matter how swift or painless the killing of the animal is, if you’re killing the animal unnecessarily, it is still wrong. Yes, the videos of the slaughter houses and the terrible, terrible screams that you’ll hear are violent and terrible. Yes, the torture and restriction the animals face their entire lives is violent and terrible. But, the problem isn’t just how they die, but also the fact that they have to die when they really don’t have to. If a person is raised well and lives life wonderfully, but is killed solely due to someone else’s desire to kill them when they could have let them live, that’s wrong and disturbing. Even if that person barely felt it, even if it only lasted a few seconds, even if before that they never felt like that was their fate, they still valued their life and could have continued living it without issue, but it was cut short due to someone else feeling like they had the right to take it. Now, imagine this now happening to millions of the same every day. Thats disturbing, violent, and terrible. Don’t get me wrong, the reality of the situation is that a majority of animals born and killed for food do indeed life of torture. But, don’t then take that and mistake it as the core of the problem. It is, if anything, the result of it.
