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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 160 points 9 months ago

Slavery may have been abolished, but as politics proves, you can buy anyone in the United States.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 88 points 9 months ago

Also, slavery wasn't abolished

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 103 points 9 months ago

There you go saying prisoners are people again

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago

Disgusting thinking. Can you imagine

[-] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Let's quickly forget that and go back to joking about prison rape.

[-] veloxization@yiffit.net 39 points 9 months ago

Ah, the "except" in Amendment XIII.

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 55 points 9 months ago

Slavery is still legal in the US now, they just need to be convicted of a crime first. Easy enough to find crimes to put people away for, and you can even selectively enforce laws against the people/race you don't like

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Good thing the force behind enforcing laws and charging people as criminals is famously good-natured and held to the highest of accountability standards to prevent any possible corruption!

Oh wait.

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

That is not slavery, convict leasing was (worse) slavery.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

Okay but that still makes Taylor Swift owning Kanye illegal because she is a private person.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm sure she could put some of that $700M towards buying a private prison and then bribing the cops, the D.A., and the judge to get him sentenced there.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

Hell, for a mentally unwell black man they'll do it for free.

[-] Froyn@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Wait, so if Kanye gets convinced of a crime, T-swift could buy the private prison where he's serving his sentence and then effectively own Kanye? Is a billion dollars enough to buy a prison? They can't be that expensive, right?

[-] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

She could totally own him in Fortnite

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago

At least theoretically.

IDK about you, but I can picture Kanye playing that from time to time and low key kicking ass far more than I can picture her doing it.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Do you think Bloomberg could’ve won last time if he spent all his money?

With a net worth of $55.9 billion, 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg is more than 17 times richer than Trump

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I doubt it. People didn't like him much.

People don't like Rick Scott but he spent enough of his money to get elected. And Bloomberg is 50 fold wealthier. And Bloomberg seems much more personable. So I don't know.

[-] jtk 1 points 9 months ago

Not Kanye though, Nike couldn't pay him anywhere near enough to just shut the fuck up.

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