• TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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      So when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general).

      I don’t think it’s pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.

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      That’s not pedantry, it’s being correct. Slavery isn’t illegal in the United States. It’s used as a punishment for crimes.

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        And yet that little factlet has zero bearing on anything in this discussion, you just saw an opportunity to be snarky and jumped

        that’s very needy behavior son

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          The discussion is about things that are illegal today that could be legal in 50 years. Slavery itself falls outside that topic because it is already legal. That isn’t trivial or splitting hairs, nor is anyone being snarky by pointing that out. It’s just a fact.

          Boy, if you’re going to act like a know-it-all you should at least know a bit more.

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            The main thrust of my argument, that you seem so determined to ignore for imaginary internet points, is there isn’t press gangs roaming around and kidnapping people into slavery, and there will be within 50 years.

            This does not currently happen legally in the United States

            BUT

            You adjusted your cokebottle glasses and 'UM ACKKTCHUUUALLY’d the prison exemption

            Not because you had anything useful or interesting to say, but rather to see your own writing and get a reaction. I don’t think you really understand how irritating that is as a personality trait, and is likely the reason you are so lonely

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              The main thrust of my argument, that you seem so determined to ignore for imaginary internet points, is there isn’t press gangs roaming around and kidnapping people into slavery, and there will be within 50 years.

              A. You didn’t articulate that until just now so how could anyone know what you meant unless you actually said it?

              B. Are you aware of what ICE has been doing, because that sounds a lot like what ICE has been doing. More prisoners = more “prison labor” (to be clear, that means slaves). Although, to be fair we don’t actually know where most of their victims have gone.

              I don’t think you really understand how irritating that is as a personality trait, and is likely the reason you are so lonely

              Says the guy making personal attacks on an Internet forum over being corrected…