The trouble started, he said, in 2012. His company was “invited” to contribute the equivalent of $1m to United Russia, Vladimir Putin’s political party. When he refused, a series of investigations was launched against his company, first by the civil, then the military prosecutor. Then began visits from the FSB, successor to the KGB secret police.
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My mother’s first teaching job was as a public middle school teacher in Leeds, Alabama - at the time a very rural school. She had a paddle and it was a point of pride for kids to be spanked by her. Every kid that got spanked got to sign her paddle. She had it for many years as a souvenir of that time.
As a person who was raised by parents that spanked, it was easy for me to see that it was a terrible way to raise a child. I absolutely refused to have any kind of physical punishment for my daughter. When my daughter was young, I did have friends who spanked their children. I saw that their children were compliant and obedient, but that they did not trust their parents. I am so glad that there was less acceptance of it when my daughter was young and that I made the decision to help her with any hard emotions and not punish her.
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But, with some good news once some noise was made…
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It’s a little long at over an hour, but interesting and well-explained.
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Oh, so that’s what they’re calling tenant farming/sharecropping/working for the boss now?
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It briefly mentions those in passing, but is more about stuff like convict leasing, debt peonage, the legal loophole that “slavery isn’t technically illegal, the 13th amendment just says ‘Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.’ but they never got around to actually making legislation.” So people kept on getting away with it. And then later stuff like how we went pretty much straight from the Civil Rights Act into the War On Drugs and mass incarceration.
Goes into some interesting details about the ‘black codes’ - laws that only applied to black people so they could be arrested and then sold or leased for labor and how corrupt that was. How ridiculous some of the laws were, stuff like “selling rice after sunset”. And if they couldn’t afford bail or fines, well some rich plantation owner would offer to cover it for them in exchange for work, except of course they’d also have to pay for their room and board and clothing and stuff, meaning their debt never ended.
Oh, and quitting a job. Yeah, someone who signed a job contract and later quit could be arrested and forced back to work. And some of those contracts were crazy.
Spoiler: “The end of neoslavery came as a direct result to the attack on Pearl Harbor. When President Franklin Roosevelt convened his cabinet to discuss retaliation, the main issue was propaganda and the Japanese ability to effectively embarrass America for the treatment of blacks in the South. Immediately President Roosevelt passed a congressional law criminalizing lynching. Four days after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. attorney general ordered a memorandum that instructed all federal prosecutors to aggressively prosecute all cases of involuntary servitude.”
Seems to be based on this book: “Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.”
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Euwwweuuughhh.
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Let’s mock the poobah!
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I think this is the same program that Josh Duggar had installed on his work PC - and that he figured out how to bypass.
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It’s a bit creepy.
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If you belong to a church that thinks it should monitor what you do in private, you should probably be questioning your choices, and I don’t mean about whether you look at porn or not.
And the whole “wink, wink” thing about law enforcement violating the terms of service of this creepy program is even more despicable than it existing in the first place.
Oh, and fuck the Utah Mormons who banned Pornhub, while I’m on the subject.
Ah, I feel better now.
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