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But how will the companies who make money off the fact that people are forced to line up to get fleeced by them get victims now? Socialism! Communism! Terrorism! I thought this was America!
lol right. Same reasoning we need more traffic cops so we can write tickets to get money to pay for the traffic cops. Justice!
I resent your slandering of traffic cops as self-serving institution! If each village police force weren't funded with enough military hardware to win a war against a medium-sized country, who would provide the private industrial prison complex with such insane amounts of free slave labour? Do you think all those members of minorities would turn themselves in to provide free work for the owners of those prisons? They sure as hell wouldn't put themselves into the spiral of ever-deepening debt originating from arbitrary legal charges leading to prison stays where they can finally put all that freedom to good use as right-less worker drones.
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