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"The Party of the First Part (Owner), shall provide the Party of the Second Part (Worker), with food, shelter, clothing, and medical care as necessary, in return for not whipping the Party of the Second Part to Death"

Yup, Contract Labor

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This is why, whenever there's a mention of what we need to emphasize as Democrats, I mention education.

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To be fair, it also gave us the MC5, John Sinclair, and the White Panthers Party.

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When plans like these get implemented it gives the right another reason to declare the public school system a failure. American history is pretty well documented and the KKK was a big deal immediately following the Civil War and then again in the early part of the 20th century. They murdered, raped and surpassed the voting rights of American citizens for decades throughout the South. The Federal Government sent the military to shut them down in some areas post Civil War but people in the North didn't want to have another civil war and were also very prejudiced against blacks so politics prevented thorough intervention. This failure on the part of our government allowed the South to regain control of the Congress which has been the case pretty much ever since.

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Conservative claim that students in public schools and universities are being “indoctrinated” by “liberal curricula.” In truth, the curricula reflects historical facts (the KKK and NAACP existed) and modern realities (abortion is legal and gays have rights) that just don’t fit the conservative worldview. (Like John Stewart said, “facts do tend to have a liberal bias”—because liberals deal in actual facts and not “alternative facts” or conspiracy theories or narratives spun out of thin air.)

So conservatives are promoting obscurantism and ignorance in order to engage in the kind of brainwashing that they accuse public schools and universities of engaging in. And in claiming that references to the KKK are “anti-Republican,” and references to “core democratic values” are “too partisan,” they are, in effect, saying Republicans are pro-KKK and opposed to core democratic values. Since reality doesn’t fit with their viewpoint, they’ll just reshape reality to make it fit—like making a square peg fit a round hole by changing the hole from round to square.

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Party realignment is not a thing! Once a name, always a name! LA-LA-LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

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Former could be the most important word in the phrase.

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I’ve never done contract work, but a few people I know have. They did receive money and insurance, so I guess that would constitute food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. They are were not beaten to death. This checks out.

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Thank you for not including one of those annoying stickers.

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Over here in Illinois, we have two of the top American cities for gun violence and brutal poverty. Two of the last five governors were incarcerated. We are panhandler broke due to some dumb decisions we made in the past. We have a town named Dix(doesn’t have anything to do with it, but I’m forever twelve years old), and a career politician who only cares about Chicago politics is Congress is still more popular than our JOOOB CREATOOOOOR!!!! governor.

Indiana is not very appealing in the case of social conservative shitstains running their government. But at least they have drinking water.

Also too, stay the fuck out of Gary! All the violence of Chicago, none of the food and entertainment.

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She usually does.

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My sister had a boyfriend from Gary years and years ago, and it was a shithole place back then.

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Im wondering if there is some pattern in human evolution where a country decides to become fascist so that all the idiots that join the fascist party can be killed in the inevitable wars. Thus, the gene pool is stronger.

It would give me a sense of hope if it weren’t for all the innocent bystanders they will kill.

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That's pretty upsetting. Is the Bridge in charge of presenting it? I guess so from what you say.I didn't see this before. I'm writing this on 6/25. There's an article in the Times by a philosopher named Brian Van Vorden (or something) distinguishing between "free speech" and "access." It is exactly on this subject and if followed, would provide a way to keep out those stupid changes, because they're not grounded in truth, and they'd be wasting the public's money. It's good.

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They should have labeled it "space labia" if they wanted Pence to not touch it.

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Or that the SBC was founded because of a split over slavery? As in they wanted to continue to own people?

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