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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Look, I don't know which country you live in but if you're worried it might make you a slave, you should riot (if at all possible, that is). Be part of the opposition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn I thought private prisons were a loophole and not in the constitution to punish people with slave labor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Since the days the first settlers landed here, the backbone of the US economy has been forced labor. It's only natural that we would enshrine it in our constitution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So what...?
Not everybody is living in the "default country" and also, with the US we see how well it all works for them and how slavery is not a thing there at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wow, you said you didn't know which country had legalized slavery, and I answered and you turned into an obstinate asshole for some reason. What a weird way to behave!

E: ah, wait, German. That makes sense.