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[odinsblog]

Around 772,000 Florida workers, students, and community members are undocumented. And Governor Ron DeSantis wants to make it a felony for anyone to have them in their home or even give them a ride.

Senate Bill 1718, part of Desantis’s broad repressive legislative agenda this year, targets not just undocumented people but also anyone associated with them. The bill, which passed the Republican-controlled state legislature, criminalizes anyone who transports an undocumented person “into or within this state.” In other words, anyone—co-worker, friend, neighbor, classmate—giving a simple ride to someone they know or care about who is undocumented would be guilty of a third-degree felony.

The bill also criminalizes anyone who “conceals, harbors, or shields” (or “attempts” to do so) an undocumented person in “any place within this state.” Nearly 4 percent of Floridians are undocumented. The bill text, reading like an edict issued in Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series, foments fear about these hundreds of thousands of people. It isn’t hard to imagine law enforcement agencies conflating a house party or simple afternoon cup of tea with a secret migrant-harboring operation.

The bill also has a crackdown on healthcare, saying that hospitals must report the patient's immigration status if they are using Medicare.

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[emperornorton47]

[sidewalkchemistry]

SHEIN's repulsive greenwashing using influencers to promote fast fashion & lies (Shelbizleee Live Stream Discussion)

Also: I think we have a moral obligation to do what's practical and possible to not support fast fashion brands. Same as with the animal & human exploitation of animal agriculture. (SHEIN literally pulled a move that farms do to spread the humane myths). This is what capitalism does. It makes people feel that they need to keep buying trendy clothes (no matter how it was made), just like people are made to feel animal exploitation is necessary for human nutrition. Neither is a need. Some people in some circumstances only have accessibility & funds for fast fashion clothing, and some don't have enough resources to make their diet 100% plant based. But those individuals are doing what is already possible for their situation. What you do is a different situation. These rights issues under capitalism should be approached in similar ways.

[sparksinthenight]

Butcher’s Tongue

As a child it was the place names

Pushing at me as the first thing

How the mouth must bend and twist

Over hard and sharpened ore

To say Calgary or Windsor, or Prince Edward or Regina,

A home that never was your home at core

———

As a woman cursed to wander through the city

And have my foreign ears screeched at again, “we don’t want you around!”

To not know home and not know music yet try to understand

A butcher’s tongue that screams that we deserve the ground

———

They still starve my blood’s people

Kill the workers for bear and bull

They are buried in the bricks

Of the collapsed factories of our home

You may never know your fortune until the distance has been shown

Between what is lost forever and what may yet be grown

———

I never trust it when a stranger calls me darling

Because the worst of foes I’ve bled from sometimes said they were my friends

In a town that’s home for only them, with no knowledge of who they’ve bound

A butcher’s tongue that screams that we deserve the ground

[nando161mando]

Capitalism was built on exploitation, and it continues to thrive on exploitation

[politijohn]

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[thoughtportal]

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

saw some absolutely dogshit comments from westerners after a person from an ex-communist country compared some stuff the US does nowadays to what was common under communist regimes

because "communists stole 90% of what my grandpa had" automatically means that one's grandpa was a rich exploitative landlord or factory boss and not, say, a regular fucking farmer or a small local business owner amiright

fucking hate when people like this think they know better than people who actually live in the affected countries

[hussyknee]

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

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Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

Edit: friends, there's been some doubt cast on the veracity of Alisa's claims. The human cost to the Hispanos population caught downwind of the nuclear tests is very real, as was land seizure without adequate compensation. However, there's no record I can yet find about Los Alamos killing livestock and Hispanos being forced to work for Los Alamos without PPE. There is a separate issue about human testing in the development of said PPE that's not covered here. I'm turning off reblogs until I can find out more. Meanwhile, here's another more legitimate article you can boost instead:

[uncanny-tranny]

The bourgeois or "exploiting class" doesn't inherently include the person who gets their nails done biweekly, or the disabled person who has a carer, or the guy who got a $70 video game for full-price, or the person who relies on medication (yes even the ones you don't think they "need"), or anything else like this. None of these people will, on average, have the ability to exploit workers by means of ownership or whatever.

While you are busy fighting with fellow workers, you are still being exploited by your boss, by capitalism, by (potentially) not having healthcare, by being overworked and underpaid, and so are they.

[alwaysbewoke]

[emperornorton47]

[sidewalkchemistry]

Fast fashion wants to produce fast. So, the garment worker has to produce faster. And cheap. The garment worker is the only point of the supply chain where the margin is squeezed...But also, from the consumer point of view, is it really democratic to buy a t-shirt for $5 and a pair of jeans for $20? Or are they taking us for a ride? Because they are making us believe that we are rich or wealthy because we can buy a lot. But, in fact, they're making us poorer. And the only person who is becoming richer is the owner of the fast fashion brand.

- Livia Firth in The True Cost - The Truth of the Clothing Industry

[silvermoon424]

The fact that most European companies treat their non-European employees like shit- despite the fact that Western Europeans enjoy the highest level of workers' rights in the world- just because they can get away with it in the United States or whatever is proof why regulations are needed.

European workers are only treated better than their American counterparts because there are laws protecting them, not because European corporations are so much more humanitarian than American companies. Never forget that under capitalism companies will exploit you for all you're worth and all they can legally get away with.

[sparksinthenight]

If the economy NEEDS workers working in degrading, dehumanizing, dangerous jobs where they have very little power, then you need to get a different economy. Any world that relies upon the exploitation and abuse of the workers needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. We can make a society where no one has to work a job that’s physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally, or environmentally unhealthy or unsafe for them. We need to create that society.

[nando161mando]

Exploited Worker Discontent...