“HB 211 is a debt trap. It creates a population of people who are, by definition, unable to pay. And then converts that inability into a labor obligation,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek. “The ‘streets to success’ framing is deliberate misdirection. No legitimate treatment program requires the patient to work off their bill under threat of incarceration."
I’m morbidly fascinated by how carefully this article avoids using the obvious term. But slavery. It’s slavery. It is a bill that would literally, legally, enslave a population (of predominantly Black men, fucking surprise) for the “crime” of being poor.
Bell Riots when? We are long overdue
There is a little thing I heard about some in the US doing tomorrow, May Day Strike. Sure it is one day, but it’s a start. Not from US but to show some solidarity I will not be using (within reason as I can’t not use windows at work) any US tech tomorrow, no Youtube, no streaming on youtube, not even going to play any steam games, lucky for me this platform is not a US thing so will be here.
Your gov’t is trying to bring on the riots, any riots, to cancel elections. Remember it is harder to control 20 groups of 1000 people than 1 group of 20000 people