They were not technically incarcerated (according to the law). They willingly (read: forcably) signed a contract to “work” despite most black folks at the time being unable to read due to laws not allowing anyone to teach them to read. This was before chain gangs existed.
Not so fun fact this was popularized by white sherrifs on freed slaves after the emancipation proclamation because the “free” black people couldn’t pay a fine of walking parallel to railroads, selling goods, QUITING A JOB, or whatever other stupid bullshit was pulled. So they were leased out by the state like tools and were often worked harder than when they were slaves because there was no incentive to keep them healthy as the state was charging less than a tenth of what they were “worth” as slaves. Anyway the process of settling continued and is mostly a way to reduce sentencing and cost. I hate this country 🙃
Why do you care? It’s not your life, don’t worry about it. Worry about yourself. There’s a reason domestic violence increases when the UK loses a futbol match and it’s not the “soft boys” you’re complaining about.
Go google the six skills of reading comprehension. You don’t know what you’re talking about and I’m not going to sit here to do the work for you when you’re not ready to listen. None of those skills have anything to do with taking something too literally, you’re being ableist.
“I don’t need to learn anything else in this world.” has the same meaning as “I know everything” imo. Logically, that tracks. If you don’t need to learn anything else, it’s because you know everything. “want” and “need” create two very different sentences. If she had said “I don’t want to learn anything else,” then fine, whatever, you do you.
That was the process of reading comprehension. If the reader is missing context, and/or is unable to integrate the reading to life experience that’s a different issue; that had nothing to do with reading comprehension.
I guess I was taking it too literally, based on your response.
Fuck tankies. I don’t think this thread makes Aiden look good as well… But they’re not wrong either? Who thinks they know everything? Like, if you hadn’t said they were a tankie I wouldn’t know what was wrong with the conversation.
Context: I’m autistic, am I missing social cues or expectations or something?
It’s more of a general meme instance that leans trans, but a good amount of anti-cap memes show up
I’ve seen a few bots that literally just link to reddit which defeats the whole purpose of moving here???
With that in mind, I wouldn’t mind if you had a backlog of reddit content you previously downloaded, because again… the point in moving to this platform was to stop giving reddit money. Like, yeah sure if you don’t post to reddit, you’re not providing an incentive for others to stay on the site but if enough people go to reddit for content, we’re just giving them money anyway via ads.
I’m sure the majority of users won’t care regardless.
I went to a super busy park while my wife was at a nearby doctor’s appointment and I picked up trash in a small area for 40 minutes. There were trash cans EVERYWHERE and people couldn’t be bothered. That was super rough on my back, I’ll have to get one of those grabby gun things next time.
Keep doing the good work!