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This is kind of a crap article. Comparing Canada's count of 50 shipments being blocked to 6300 being blocked by the United States and not taking population or trade volume into account is very misleading.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 21 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

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 27 minutes 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 1 hour 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.

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

[–] ximtor@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

It's projection, it always is

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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 11 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 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 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 14 hours ago

No, just regular slavery as supported in the Constitution

[–] timbyte@lemmy.ca 30 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Most US states use forced labour in their prison systems.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The only forced labor allowed is to be domestic and bribed.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Otherwise it's just sparkling slavery.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

And American. America First /s

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

We should just stop sending them potash, see how well their economy goes when they cannot make enough fertilizer.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

"You're hurting someone else, so pay ME".

[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 26 points 20 hours ago

So we now use tariffs to distract from the war that we used to distract from the files because we tarriffed everyone trying to distract from the files?

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 25 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Does he mean forced labour in the US? One of us is confused..

/s

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 21 points 21 hours ago

over allegations the countries are allowing goods produced by forced labour into their supply chains.

Picard putting his head into his hands in frustration.

[–] teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

One trick pony

One trick bull in a china shop.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 17 hours ago

No no, different outfits!

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 20 hours ago

Β―\(ツ)/Β― Shouldn't be trading with them to begin with then it's not an issue.