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GoCubsGo

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9. The Chinese Communist Party also loves to use prison slave labor.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2025, 07:35 AM

May 2025

They make them work in factories, making things like our cheap clothing. Wasn't Trump just screaming about Dems being the evil Commies? He and his party are no different than the CCP that they tell us all to hate.

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And so it begins. Some farms already have produce rotting in fields due to lack of workers. [View all] DetlefK May 2025 OP

child labor and automation lapfog_1 May 2025 #1

the dept of ed is defunded. Javaman May 2025 #8

No big deal enid602 May 2025 #2

Trump said that American farmers will have a "field day" once the tariffs kick in. Squaredeal May 2025 #3

G.O.P. damning the people who do the work, then shipping them to The G.O.P. Gulag in El Salvador BoRaGard May 2025 #4

no less than $25 an hour RJ-MacReady May 2025 #5

There are 12 states that still have prison farms nitpicked May 2025 #6

Doesn't California have a minimum wage higher than $11./ hour? questionseverything May 2025 #7

Farm work is often exempted... druidity33 May 2025 #10

The Chinese Communist Party also loves to use prison slave labor. GoCubsGo May 2025 #9

Georgia tried using prisoners to pick crops after running off immigrants in 2011. (didn't end well) Snarkoleptic May 2025 #11

I think it was Louisiana, not California progressoid May 2025 #12

Or take all those they're rounding up for deportation and force them to work the fields. mucholderthandirt May 2025 #13