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lemmy.world

Time to reset the "it's been X days since the last American slave was freed" counter.

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Yup, and if you find yourself lacking slave driven profit, just pass another law, it's not like the gerrymandered districts will be able to vote your guy out anyways.

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I was thinking more of the illegal kind, which according to this, was in 1942.

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lemmy.world

I wonder who they were planning on voting for. Hmm. Who could it be?

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lemmy.world

Haha, been a long time since I’ve watched that.

And I mean, there’s only 20 Unicode symbols for vulgar fractions, and they made ⅗ but didn’t even bother with all of the tenths.

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lemmy.ca

But I'm reliably told that racism isn't a thing any more.

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It's the argument the conservative supreme court used to eliminate many provisions of the civil rights act. Which other judges described as ''standing in the rain under an umbrella and throwing away the umbrella because you're not getting wet''

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lemm.ee

One tries to not ‘judge a book by it’s cover’, and then people ( like these folks) go out of there way to make their cover match their life’s book. smh

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nah that will never fly with the agricultural, meatpacking and manufacturing industries that employ thousands of these kids.

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Look, I understand that phrenology is racist junk science, but you can't tell me that if those two walked into the same coffee shop as you, you wouldn't at least be a little suspicious that they've kidnapped and forced some children into slave labor. They've got the look!

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