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text-decoration: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 38px;">Unskilled Florida Man Regrets Missing Out on Being Enslaved</span></a></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 20px 10px 5px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); line-height: 1.2;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">Governor Ron DeSantis said that forced labor would have been “a game-changer.”</span></a></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: auto auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "TNY Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">TALLAHASSEE (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The Borowitz Report</a>)—An unskilled Florida man said that he deeply regrets having missed out on the opportunity to be a slave.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: auto auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "TNY Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The man said that his “lack of access to enslavement” had made his acquisition of essential skills “impossible.”</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: auto auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "TNY Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“Every day when I mess something up at work, I wonder to myself, would I be doing a better job if I’d been a slave?” he said. “There’s no question that it would have been a game-changer for me.”</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: auto auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "TNY Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">He argued that being barred from forced servitude was a form of “white underprivilege,” and that Caucasians who suffer from a resulting skills deficit deserve reparations.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: auto auto 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "TNY Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“Something must be done to compensate people like me who were unfairly denied the chance to be slaves,” he said. “When I think about the personal benefits I was prevented from obtaining, it makes me furious.”</p></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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