• @[email protected]
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    402 days ago

    A man named Peter, who had escaped slavery, reveals his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while joining the Union Army in 1863.

    Yup, that’s far alright:

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      232 days ago

      Side note: ICE now has a bigger budget than the FBI, DEA and Bureau of Prisons put together.

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      71 day ago

      Sorry with all due respect I am curious how this ties to the topic of the post? I feel like I’m missing something.

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        We’re bringing slavery back. Edit: not that it ever went away. You’re allowed to enslave people as punishment under the 13th amendment. Hence the prison industrial complex.

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          71 day ago

          Right and I agree with that, but unless my client is bugged this post is about technological innovation boom in the 1900s?

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              Do just technological innovation? Don’t Google this but rockets and turbines and basically whole branches of propulsion, thermodynamics, encryption, flight dynamics, fluid dynamics, computing all had a start in this time frame all related to the old baddy Germany and all might have a rebirth? Not LOL but having all sorts of science groups ignored, refunded and marginalized along with the more personal gender identity, migration status and such, all of that is repeating history.