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California would literally burn without slave labor.
Lol what? Do you have worms in your brain?
He's referencing the slaves used as firefighters while enslaved that are denied employment fighting fires if they survive and are released.
You know, that insanely fucked up practice of endangering incarcerated persons in the most dangerous job possible simply to save money since they're compensated less than $0.25/hour.
They're forced to do it, as well, or risk serving their full term and lose the basic human dignity that US prisons treat as though they were privileges and niceties.