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That’d be like outlawing hammers because someone figured out they make a great murder weapon.

Just because you can use a tool for crime, doesn’t mean that tool was designed/intended for crime.

Not exactly. This would be more akin to a company that will 3D printer metal parts and assemble them for you. You use this service and have them create and assemble a gun for you. Then you use that weapon in a violent crime. Should the company have known better that you were having them create an illegal weapon on your behalf?

Someone please let a bear into his home while he’s at work.

Wish granted… a large, hairy man now waits in his bed.

You can teach them properly about capitalism by making them follow the rules to the letter and following slightly relaxed rules for yourself, such as starting with extra cash and the ability to take out interest-free loans on you properties while still collecting rent, and reducing the costs for you to buy houses and hotels because you can leverage market forces in you favor.

New chance cards only you could get would include:

You busted a union, collect $100

Shorted stocks and left everyone else holding the bag, collect $25 from each player

Caught Insider trading, pay $1 or go to jail until your next turn

You collected 36 pieces of candy.
Coincidentally due to forces beyond my control your rent this month is 35 pieces of candy. You understand I’ve got bills to pay too, right?

Unexpected Pink Floyd

Not sure how sarcastic you are, but I could see work camps being built. I think we’d see some deportations and some people sent to work camps, but not a complete crack down. Just enough to make it a threat.

It’s not just the logistics of moving that many people that is a problem. It would be extremely damaging to the economy. Undocumented labor makes the food we have as cheap as it is (along with government subsidies). If that labor pool evaporated we’d see more widespread issues with food rotting before being picked and food not getting processed.

The work camps would take the form of farms and food processing plants, possibly expanding to other manufacturing later. Free slave labor is how we’d compete against the slave labor in other countries. It’s important to note that managing that takes up a lot of resources, so I’d expect the majority to not be rounded up and sent to these camps. I’d expect the threat of being sent to a camp to be used to extract lower pay and more hours out of the existing undocumented population that works in those industries.

Having these populations still intact would be useful to instigate more crackdowns as political events to provide a boost.

The main problem with these camps (and existing populations) is that people have kids even under the worst circumstances. That is why we’re seeing the talking point to remove/overturn birthright citizenship. Eventually the camp population would be almost entirely us citizens which makes things less tenable. So they’d need to remain different so it’d be okay for them to stay in the camps they were born into.

I do this with my domain and it works great.
Only negative I’ve had is that people with a similar name have ended up signing up for things and misspelling theirs with it ending up on mine.

Oh we know what is going on already. The court has been stacked in a way that usually favors corporate and authoritarian interests, with justices frequently receiving gifts that aren’t always disclosed.

Gul Du J’bkat

He’s busy taking a shit.

I was curious. I did not find any specific listing fo le her, however since she sent the ballots to a Republican official who had been making claims of voter fraud (and is the person that reported the incident) I’m guessing she is republican leaning.

Say what you will about the American education system, but I know it’s a 1/4 lb burgers because you could get close(ish) to 200 lbs of meat from a deer if you were lucky in Oregon Trail.

Now, now, this isn’t Texas.

It’d be used as pretense to escalate police response.

They have been for a while. Weren’t there incidents a couple months ago with former IOF members using military-grade pepper spray on protesters.

What do Geno ever do to anybody? Put too much meat on a pastrami sandwich?

Yes all those people draining billions every year giving nothing any keeping the money.

You’re taking about corporate welfare too, right?

Yup

Not the movie that caused it, but during either the first or second Tobey McGuire Spider Man movie there is a scene where Peter tells Aunt May he is responsible for Uncle Ben’s death. Right during this dramatic scene in the theater a kid said pretty loudly (but not quite yelling) “I have to go poop!” Quite of a few of us burst out laughing during this heavy scene.

Can’t wait for “we are locking you up until you confess”

We already have that, it’s called not being rich and white.

People get strong-armed into confessing all the time. I personally know some one who confessed to arson they didn’t commit, forced to pay restitution, and serve time in a juvenile facility on the weekends.

Why would they confess to something they didn’t do? I asked the same thing from a mutual friend. It turns out they were feeling a lot of pressure because one parent had died and the other one would be left alone if he they were convicted and sent to jail. The plea deal made it plausible to love a semi-normal life.

This person isn’t alone. I’ve met someone else who pled to (as far as I know fictitious) child abuse claims from an ex-spouse to stay out of prison.

It happens all the time.