• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    Most diseases that would have killed you a few hundred years ago have been solved

    RFK wants to ban vaccines entirely in the US. They’ll come back frighteningly fast if he does that. They’re only “solved” as long as we keep up our vigilance.

    in most of the world slavery has been eradicated.

    There are more slaves alive today than at any point in history.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

        The 13th amendment specifically allows it, my friend.

        USA has one of the highest prison populations per capita in the world. Further, the only countries that outpace it are small, smaller than most US states. Cuba, Rwanda, El Salvador, Turkmenistan, and American Somoa are the only countries with higher prison populations per capita, and those are all much smaller counties than USA.

        Why do you think the right wing wants to criminalize everything? Because the more people are in prison, the more free labor you have.

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      But much much less as a percent of population.

      I don’t want to diminish slavery in any way, but the indebted servitude of now is very different to the, for example, Roman concept of slaves as property that you walk through the street with.