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Thousands could be coerced into "unpaid labor" in Louisiana under new bill | HB 211 would make sleeping outdoors in public illegal and force unhoused people to "choose" between prisons and workhouses (www.newsweek.com)

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“HB 211 is a debt trap. It creates a population of people who are, by definition, unable to pay. And then converts that inability into a labor obligation,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek. “The ‘streets to success’ framing is deliberate misdirection. No legitimate treatment program requires the patient to work off their bill under threat of incarceration."

I'm morbidly fascinated by how carefully this article avoids using the obvious term. But slavery. It's slavery. It is a bill that would literally, legally, enslave a population (of predominantly Black men, fucking surprise) for the "crime" of being poor.

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[–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Every chance they get, they prove they are NAZIs

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

No need to look to Europe here. This is the black codes.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

this is 19th century english shit

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're one potato famine away from losing half our Irish population.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 day ago

That’s going to be a lot of people considering half of America calls themself “Irish”

[–] Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Some fits that.

All of it in context is what the Nazis did:

First the immigrants,

Then, the homeless.

Next, will be the disabled. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-war-on-disability/

After that will be the LGBT community.

This is apart from all of the other action LA that follow including destroying the country and it's institutions after purging the military and creating his own storm troopers