• Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Smol bean Democratic Party being forced to do the thing they wanted

    “The border crisis” has been and is the most manufactured, fake-ass narrative for way too long now.

    All of that capital is going to waste on putting children in concentration camps here and exploding them abroad.

    And liberals will argue, straight-faced, that America isn’t the most evil, most terroristic nation on earth. Fucking crying about Russia meanwhile we fund Israel. We fund this racist, border goon squad whose only job is to detain and hunt down brown people and demand to see their little pieces of paper.

    AmeriKKKa etc.

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      11 months ago

      it’s not a crisis, it’s an intentional policy to keep the price of “unskilled” labor (that the US needs) low by allowing the flow of labor but also making their situation extremely precarious.

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        Good example of the interaction between base and superstructure. Unskilled labor is a myth and borders are imaginary lines enforced by state violence, but they both serve to dictate who can be employed where and how much competition they will have.

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          also i dont know where and when but i remember seeing a video of agricultural landlords (i dont know what the fuck they’re called, farmer doesnt conjure the right image) begging congress to do something about exactly this problem already: they need workers from mexico to work their lands but the US govt makes it hard for them to recruit people. the video was from the early 20th century, like 1920 or something.

          and we’re still stuck in the exact same spot a century later

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            …agricultural landlords (i dont know what the fuck they’re called, farmer doesnt conjure the right image)…

            Kulaks

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          Unskilled labor is a myth

          I would say that the USA keeps the general status quo because only a tiny percentage of people born in the USA are even capable of field work, while simultaneously they want to pay field workers as little as possible