It is legal for prisoners to be enslaved - perhaps you missed that little gotcha in the amendment.

The full quote, if anyone’s interested:

I think it’s going very well. It was an operation, like when a patient gets operated on, and uh, it’s a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is. Uh, we have 6 or 7 trillion dollars coming into our country, and uh, we’ve never seen anything like it. Uh, the markets are gonna boom, the stocks’re gonna boom, the country’s gonna boom, and the rest of the world wants to see: Is there any way they can make a deal? They’ve taken away advantage of us for many many years. For many years, we’ve been at the wrong side of the ball, and I’ll tell you what: I think it’s gonna be unbelievable. The thing that people have to talk about - we’re up to almost 7 trillion dollars of investment coming into our country, and uh, you’ll see how it’s gonna turn out. Our country’s gonna boom.

If the goal of prison isn’t to turn criminals into better citizens, then why not put all prisoners in a hard labor camp?

And then there’s Chuck Grassley, and Trump’s psychotic cabinet.

Donald Trump has posted a response to the matter on Truth Social.

I think it’s going very well—The MARKETS are going to BOOM…

He elaborated further with this:

I think it’s going very well. It was an operation, like when a patient gets operated on, and uh, it’s a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is. Uh, we have 6 or 7 trillion dollars coming into our country, and uh, we’ve never seen anything like it. Uh, the markets are gonna boom, the stocks’re gonna boom, the country’s gonna boom, and the rest of the world wants to see: Is there any way they can make a deal? They’ve taken away advantage of us for many many years. For many years, we’ve been at the wrong side of the ball, and I’ll tell you what: I think it’s gonna be unbelievable. The thing that people have to talk about - we’re up to almost 7 trillion dollars of investment coming into our country, and uh, you’ll see how it’s gonna turn out. Our country’s gonna boom.

Trump is one of those people who thinks that saying it enough will make it true.

It’s because the entire penguin species is plotting to overthrow the United States, and by extension, overthrow Trump. Obviously, Trump had to show the penguins that he isn’t going to tolerate their interference.

I’m glad we’ve come to an understanding.

DMT provides more benefit per dollar.

DMT is cheaper.

Controversial opinion, but I believe anesthesia is even better than sex. If you’re ever been put under for surgery, you know what I’m talking about.

And they say that DMT can top even that. Only problem is that you have to take a trip outside the US to get it.

Fanfic Girls’ Frontline.

It is an excerpt from a satirical booklet, created from the tendencies of people who power trip as a security officer in the game Space Station 13.

I am spreading it around because I have seen a remarkable similarity between those security officers and the people who run the US government. The only real difference is that the security officers are eager to do cruel things with their own two hands.

According to the Shitcurity Handbook of BeeStation:

• Rule 1: Everybody is guilty even when proven innocent.
• Rule 4: When in doubt, whoever you may be dealing with is a traitor. Execute him.
• Rule 5: If your weapon has a kill setting, use it. Only in death is a criminal truly stopped.
• Rule 8: Only through death is justice served.
• Rule 51: Anyone accused of being a traitor by a crew member must be executed on the spot. Do not give them a chance to weasel their way out of justice by talking things out. It’s the only way that you can be sure the traitorous criminal scum are all stopped.
• Rule 54: Theft, pornography reading, trespassing, and not liking you are all signs of revolutionary activity. Beat their skulls in until they remember their true allegiance.
• Rule 55: Any massacres, ethnic cleansings, purgings, underground permabrig prisoner fights, or general mass-murder orchestrated by superiors is to be immediately sanctioned and, if necessary, unquestioningly enforced.
• Rule 66: If you murder someone on the gulag, it doesn’t really count as murder.

I could probably do it if I really wanted to. Create a new account at one of my library’s computers, use a separate phone to access reddit with that account, etc. It’s not worth the hassle though, for me at least. Reddit sucked up way too much of my time. Honestly, it feels like January ended just last week.

If Reddit popped out of existence, not everyone would go to Lemmy.

• Most would go to Discord, Twitter, and BlueSky.
• Some would go to various forums (they still exist).
• Some would spend a lot more time on FB, Tiktok, and Instagram.
• Some would spawn their own copies of Reddit (Voat). The copies all die in a month.
• Some would stop bothering with social media entirely.

Reddit is an addiction. You must break yourself of it.

If Lemmy doesn’t have what you’re looking for, you can typically find what you need on Discord or forums (some still exist).

Remember: Reddit has a lot of Americans using it. So where do all the non-Americans operate? The answer is where you need to go.

They gave me one too, but I extended it to perma just to make sure I don’t feel tempted to go back.