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Who’s calling? Oklahoma prison inmates were making political calls for a conservative super PAC during the primary (www.kgou.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 40 points 4 weeks ago

Reminiscent of slaves fighting for the Confederacy.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

So your point is that now the majority of slaves in Oklahoma are poor white people?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The Science ACT kicked your ass, didn’t it?

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 27 points 4 weeks ago

It's their vision for the future of labor that conservatives are jacking off to.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

Slave labour is their whole brand.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 weeks ago

By force no doubt

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Guess Trump is going to have to tariff Oklahoma.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 4 weeks ago

That would be cool if they were able to organize and call for a progressive that would work on prison reform.

Oh, but this is just slavery

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Don't worry, we won't have to use slaves for this much longer. Soon we'll be able to automate this with AI

- Some tech bro startup, probably /s

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well now anytime someone calls me to tall politics Im going to remind them that I get to sleep at home tonight.

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