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ELIZABETH-JANE BAIRD's avatar

Teenage kid: “Why do I have to ask your permission?”

Parent: “Because I’m responsible for you!”

Dog: “Why can’t I roam freely?”

Owner: “Because I’m responsible for you!”

Employee: “Why do I have to run everything past my manager?”

Employer: “Because they’re responsible for you!”

Responsibilities come with corresponding rights. If a person is legally responsible for another then they must, in every instance - bar none, have the legal right to exercise control over them.

When Trump says that farmers will be “responsible for” their undocumented workers, it necessarily means that the farmers will have control over those workers.

The farmers will tell their workers where to live (most likely on the property so the farmers can keep an eye on them), where and when they will go places, who they will associate with, what they will do in their spare time, and how they will spend their money.

So when Chris says that Trump intends to bring back slavery, it’s not hyperbole. It’s fact!

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That is to say, anyone expecting elections are going to straighten this shit out is in for a grim surprise. I can promise you they won't, I seem, based on the predictions I've made for the precedimg decade, to have a real talent for recognizing patterns well before they are clear to everyome else, ffs, for example, I saw that trump was channeling Hitler immediately by simply replacing the word "immigrants" with "Jews", the pattern is instantly recognizable, today, it should be as clear as a bell to anyone. In 22, I said, over and over that Republicans were acting as though elections didn't matter, as though they had a "secret weapon" they would use at the last, ie, if you believe 24 wasn't blatantly stolen, I have some bad news. I am seeing the same pattern now, the elections will happen, but if the same equipment is used, the American Fascist Party (AFP) can't lose. I am telling you right now, if we don't rise up soon, it will be too late, by 26 there won't be much left, by 28, it will no longer be possible, or will be FAR more difficult. We have GOT to find a way to open the eyes of the apathetic, and if you got the means to prepare, now's the time.

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