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California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 hours ago

The post they're replying to is nitpicking. What difference does it make to this argument if only some of the firefighters are slaves? The point is that slave labor is being employed to avoid paying all the people fighting the fire a reasonable amount.