So we now use tariffs to distract from the war that we used to distract from the files because we tarriffed everyone trying to distract from the files?
Funny how the US doesn't tax itself for all of the for-profit prisons that don't pay any of the prisoners for their work. Sounds like corporate slavery to me.
There's also their H-2A program, which is used to entrap migrant workers into indentured slavery, much like certain reported abuses of the Canadian TFW program.
Yup, all in the name of cheap labour. I didn't say that Canada wasn't entirely innocent, I merely said that it's hypocritical for a powerful pedophile to speak of forced labour. He raped children.
I was just agreeing with what you said about labour and adding that along with the literal slavery in their prisons, there's also indentured servitude for migrant workers. Mentioning Canada's TFW Program was something I did to balance what I said, and not in response to your comment.
I should also add that the US' ICE concentration camps also have forced labour. The current Delaney Hall hunger strikes (on the inside) and protests (outside) are about drawing attention to stop it in one of the many locations where that happens.
(I hope he somehow faces justice for his crimes and that the criminals they're protecting do too.)
It has nothing to do with caring about forced labour. It's purely a vehicle of economic warfare with a moral contrivance as justification. It's just like sanctions regimes that are weaponized to impose suffering and degradation of economic and societal wellbeing as a means of breaking down countries that aren't compliant with their interests. They just want to weaken and destroy rivals so they can extract more benefits at lower cost.
This is kind of a crap article. Comparing Canada's count of 50 shipments being blocked to 6300 being blocked by the United States and not taking population or trade volume into account is very misleading.
23 Comments
timbyte@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 66d
Most US states use forced labour in their prison systems.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 66d
The only forced labor allowed is to be domestic and bribed.
bowreality@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 66d
And American. America First /s
Dultas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 66d
Otherwise it's just sparkling slavery.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 66d
Does he mean forced labour in the US? One of us is confused..
/s
ContactClosure@lemmus.org · 25 pts · 66d
So we now use tariffs to distract from the war that we used to distract from the files because we tarriffed everyone trying to distract from the files?
teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 66d
One trick pony
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 66d
One trick bull in a china shop.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 66d
No no, different outfits!
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 66d
Funny how the US doesn't tax itself for all of the for-profit prisons that don't pay any of the prisoners for their work. Sounds like corporate slavery to me.
cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 66d
No, just regular slavery as supported in the Constitution
ximtor@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 66d
It's projection, it always is
LostWon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 66d
There's also their H-2A program, which is used to entrap migrant workers into indentured slavery, much like certain reported abuses of the Canadian TFW program.
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 66d
Yup, all in the name of cheap labour. I didn't say that Canada wasn't entirely innocent, I merely said that it's hypocritical for a powerful pedophile to speak of forced labour. He raped children.
LostWon@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 66d
I was just agreeing with what you said about labour and adding that along with the literal slavery in their prisons, there's also indentured servitude for migrant workers. Mentioning Canada's TFW Program was something I did to balance what I said, and not in response to your comment.
I should also add that the US' ICE concentration camps also have forced labour. The current Delaney Hall hunger strikes (on the inside) and protests (outside) are about drawing attention to stop it in one of the many locations where that happens.
(I hope he somehow faces justice for his crimes and that the criminals they're protecting do too.)
AGM@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 65d
It has nothing to do with caring about forced labour. It's purely a vehicle of economic warfare with a moral contrivance as justification. It's just like sanctions regimes that are weaponized to impose suffering and degradation of economic and societal wellbeing as a means of breaking down countries that aren't compliant with their interests. They just want to weaken and destroy rivals so they can extract more benefits at lower cost.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 65d
Tariffs are not a tax that the other country pays. Feel like that needs to be repeated ad nauseum for any Americans reading.
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 65d
I understand that, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the clown show.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 65d
You might but plenty of others don't.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 19 pts · 66d
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 66d
¯\(ツ)/¯ Shouldn't be trading with them to begin with then it's not an issue.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 66d
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 66d
We should just stop sending them potash, see how well their economy goes when they cannot make enough fertilizer.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 3 pts · 66d
This is kind of a crap article. Comparing Canada's count of 50 shipments being blocked to 6300 being blocked by the United States and not taking population or trade volume into account is very misleading.