• @[email protected]
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    -310 months ago

    Tell it to the 13th Amendment:

    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

    Coincidentally, those convicted parties are predominantly Black.

    • Kata1yst
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      610 months ago

      Person A: it’s bad that China is bad.

      Person B: OMFG but USA bad too!

      Like, do you actually think this is a real defense for China’s behavior? Or are you just blustering because you understand there is no defense and that hurts your world view?

      • @[email protected]
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        -1210 months ago

        The OP claimed China has a competitive edge from prison labour. I disproved that statement.

        • @Maggoty
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          810 months ago

          Not really. Because China’a numbers are demonstrably false. It’s the good old “you can’t prove it’s happening if we just don’t count them” logic.

            • @Maggoty
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              010 months ago

              Satellites help.

                • @voracitude
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                  310 months ago

                  Yes, and prison camps and other structures, changes in landscape over time, and so on. I’m sure if you really think hard you’ll come up with all sorts of ways to get information out of a country when you don’t trust the numbers the government there is giving, especially if you think in terms of having lots of resources. Check out how people in North Korea get access to the unfiltered internet and western media, for example; similar techniques are used to exfiltrate data to piece together the whole picture.