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0 pointsmeiraleal2y ago0 comments

> The U.S. may have had bread lines at the time, but people weren't dying of mass starvation.

Only if you consider the millions that suffered mass extermination, incarceration and forced labor in the US not to be humans.

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chrisco2552y ago

Mass extermination never occurred in the United States, what are you even talking about?

Forced labor, in the 1930s through 1960s? No. Just no.

Half of the early U.S. had slavery up til 1865 when a brutal Civil War that cost 600K plus people their lives settled the question. That was all the way back in the 1800s when Russia was still a medieval serfdom indistinguishable from a slave based economy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia), which it had conducted for over 700 years.

meiralealOP2y ago

> Mass extermination never occurred in the United States, what are you even talking about?

You've made me curious about how the American media describes US history. It's interesting that the mass extermination of Native Americans is referred to as the "Indian Wars". It sounds almost patriotic.

> Forced labor, in the 1930s through 1960s? No. Just no.

Right. Because with the Indian Citizenship Act, the US magically transformed into a different country and therefore shouldn't be held accountable for anything that happened before 1930. But Russia...

carpet_wheel2y ago

Incarceration rates right now in 2023 too. Slavery is outlawed, unless...

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