33% OC (I added the last 2). The other 66% was stolen from some history memes community somewhere.
bbl time for my morning flogging… I mean “customer service job”.
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why would I want your post deleted and why would you do it if I wanted you to?
but yeah please explain how you’re enslaved
Well I could start by explaining that I, as a Chilean citizen, am subjected to a legal framework which was built upon a constitution which was made by the people of a ruler that was put in power through a CIA Operation during the administration of Richard Nixon. This constitution, while slightly modified, is still the Chilean constitution.
Enslavement is a very nuanced thing, not a boolean variable. There are many ways in which one may be and not be a slave, but yeah, legal framework is a pretty big part of that.
sure that’s bad, but as long as you’re nobody’s property it’s per definition no slavery
Ok so are you saying that if I lock someone in a cage and make them do everything I want, under the conditions I want them to, and if they do not comply, they will face brutal punishment and i do this during their entire life… But I have no legal ownership over this captive person (which i PROMISE is hypothetical), it’s cool cause if I look at a dictionary, they’re not a slave?
I love how you think. You’re gonna go places, friend.
Have a blessed weekend.
that’d be something like deprivation of liberty, human trafficking, exploitation, physical assault etc but not slavery
I’d like to hire you as my attorney. What are your rates?
I haven’t finished studying yet
You have a promising future ahead of you, young human.
Now go out and enjoy yourself. It’s the weekend. :)
Not OP, but I’ll give my two cents anyway (I like the sound of my own voice… Or I guess the look of my own text in this case)
You came off a bit adversarial in the first comment. I would believe you meant to come off as curious, but unfortunately text doesn’t translate tone well.
Human decency. You could also block them, but that’s your perogative.
The US government does a lot of work to make sure slavery stays legal, they just don’t use that word. Private prisons are the most obvious example of this, but they’re also stripping freedoms and rights from individuals who have never been incarcerated. They make a show every now and then to make it seem like that that’s not what they’re doing, but if you really take a look at the policies that are getting pushed right now and have been pushed in the last few years, you’ll see it.
I can’t remember which state it is, but at least one of them are trying to pseudo-reinstate Jim Crow laws or whatever it’s called when they restrict voting. Married women, older people and the disabled are being intentionally pushed away from polls by making the ID requirements stricter. And that’s one of the tamest examples I’ve seen lately
imo all empires are built over the hunched, broken backs of many, many slaves. With any luck it might be robots in the future, i guess.