It didn’t even rebrand. The 13th amendment may have abolished chattel slavery, but it specifically retained carceral slavery (“except as punishment for a crime“). Becau$e.

Primarily because slavery is so damn lucrative and the prison industrial complex regulatory capture makes the corn lobby look quaint.

Indeed 😁

Dammit! Beat me to it by 30 minutes, you fiend! 😄

Yeah, I guessed as much, which is why I made sure to clarify 😄

Speaking as a former boy (current middle aged geezer), I know from personal experience that boys can fall out of trees too and that #NotAllBoys are better at climbing than girls 😁

Are you POSITIVE she didn’t just fall out of a tree?

Yeah, it must be quite jarring to go from this badass

to Kiwi Trump in just a couple years!

Idunno, probably some Purdue Pharma reps that would have preferred another source of income too 🤷🏻

Shh! Every time the question and answer is known at the same time, the universe is replaced by an even more baffling one!

This has, of course, happened several times before. As evidenced by gestures at everything

Maybe the real monster was the friends we met along the way 🤷🏻

Your MOM was Robert Paulsen!

So no new drawbacks, then? Sweet!

Master poet level fluency in all languages

Username checks out 😄

Silent Hill fuck?

this is better than 500 million sitting off shore bank accounts

You’d think so, but not really. In terms of pollution, a mega yacht pretty much makes a private jet look like a bicycle.

He might as well just hand most of the money directly to a refinery in Cancer Alley.

A big part of the problem is rich people don’t spend their money.

True, but a bigger part of the problem is that when they DO spend it rather than pathologically hoarding it, it’s often on things that are actively harmful. Such as corrupt politicians, AI nonsense, and mega yachts.

It’s near wherever you are.

Fair.