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  • Machinist@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldDear slim
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    10 days ago

    The moral calculus of bombs is a truly fucked up thing.

    If the JDAM is driving a single conventional warhead, it is more ethical than a cluster bomb.

    It is common for some of the cluster bomblets to not detonate creating unknown minefields that persist for decades. A single bomb only goes off once.

    (This is the ethics of the bomb, not the conflict they’re used in)












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    1 month ago

    No worries. I’ve become a real stickler for the facts when someone on the left is calling out the fascists. The shit they’re doing is plenty bad enough that there is no need to inflate or exaggerate anything. Lying about reality works for them but they’ve given us so much ammo we don’t have to fabricate anything.

    We also can’t fall into the media hysteria like they did. The fear and anger is used to short circuit logic. We can’t let ourselves be manipulated like that.

    IDK, I think it’s all our job to keep each other honest.


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    1 month ago

    Prisoners are legally allowed to be enslaved. Which is not great, even though I understand the motive. It’s been pretty well proven that punitive incarceration is bad for the individual and society. Remove punishment from the equation and slavery is not justifiable.

    Most plantations continued to be farmland, some plantation houses still exist but wood maintenance in the south is a lot. Some of the old plantations overlap with prison farms. Most of the farm system has been shutdown as it isn’t economical.

    Anyhow, yeah. The US has a huge incarcerated population, mostly black/Hispanic minorities, they are used for profit by enslavement.


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    Okay, yeah, I knew about that. State pen where I grew up was a farm. The majority of plantations didn’t become prisons, it doesn’t take that many people to farm anymore. Modern farming is often a high skill job driving heavy equipment.

    A few plantations became prisons, but the majority didn’t. Slavery is totally okay, by the constitution, for prisoners. Too bad they didn’t put in anything about rehabilitation.