USA should bring back slavery

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Debating the right and wrong of it misses the point by a country mile anyway. Feel free to try debating the right and wrong of suicide-with-an-audience with a suicidal person sometime, report back with results. You're so wrapped up in "should be" that you can't get out of your own damn way here. Bad shit happening is a universal fucking constant. A lot of the time the most you can hope for lies in how well you can keep yourself clear of the blast radius.

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You presume to tell me that you or anyone like you is of such great moral and intellectual fiber that you know my way better than myself? I ask that you leave me alone in my matters of self, and my second request for being left alone will be far less pleasant. This is not something to be argued over. I don't CARE what your intentions are, if I want help I will fucking ASK for it. I have had quite enough of authority with good intentions - they haven't gotten it right yet and they never will. External authority is a poor substitute for knowing how to take care of it yourself, anyway.

Do you perhaps know forms of argument beyond "titanium-hard cynicism" and "threats of physical violence"? Because neither of those work here. Here, if you're really sincere with following through with your threats:
-508 Riverview Dr, Asheville, NC 28806
Meet me here in one week, 7 PM. Bring whatever you deem needed to batter/kill me. It's sufficiently isolated that no one will notice, and I won't get the police involved. North Carolina still has mutual combat laws.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Do you perhaps know forms of argument beyond "titanium-hard cynicism" and "threats of physical violence"? Because neither of those work here. Here, if you're really sincere with following through with your threats:
-508 Riverview Dr, Asheville, NC 28806
Meet me here in one week. Bring whatever you deem needed to beat/kill me.

I'm not in the business of chasing people down to hurt them. I am content to live and let live. You and your type, however, are not, and therein lies the rub.

You'll have to find someone nastier than I if you really have that death wish, sorry.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

I'm not in the business of chasing people down to hurt them. I am content to live and let live. You and your type, however, are not, and therein lies the rub.

You'll have to find someone nastier than I if you really have that death wish, sorry.

And as usual for internet badasses, all talk, no walk.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

And as usual for internet badasses, all talk, no walk.

Like I would be proving anything by hurting you.

Listen to yourself for just a minute here. You replied to a very serious request to be left alone with the Internet equivalent of "PISTOLS AT DAWN". But I'm the edgelord. Lol, k.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

The sad irony is the modern sweatshop system is even worse than slavery.

When you're a slave your food, clothing and shelter has to come out of your owner's pocket and it's in your owner's interest to keep you relatively healthy, but if you're a sweatshop worker you are paid literally pennies and how you survive on that is all on you to figure out. Drop dead? no biggie, there's more workers lined up behind you, there's literally zero incentive for a corporation to care about your well being when you're not property.

So here we are in the 21st century reaping the benefits of a system even worse than slavery while hypocritically acting like slavery in the 1800s was the worst thing that ever happened to anyone.

I mean don't get me wrong, slavery wasn't exactly a good time, but a saner society would not be so utterly obsessed with it and more focused on what's going on now than what happened 150 years ago.

In the sugar plantations, especially the ones owned by the Portuguese, slavery largely operated that way. It was cheaper to work a slave to death and replace him than to make sure he survived. In the American South slaves were more expensive, so they actually wanted them to live. Instead of being a disposable workforce they were basically treated as farming equipment. It was also beneficial if they had children (since they could sell them), so the South purchased more women. For the Portuguese it wasn’t worth waiting for the kids to grow up.

The Portuguese and Spanish also enslaved native Americans but no one seems to talk about that. The mines of Potosi were hellish. I also find it amusing how few people are aware that the plains tribes also participated in the slave trade (of captives).

 

[Slap47]

In the sugar plantations, especially the ones owned by the Portuguese, slavery largely operated that way. It was cheaper to work a slave to death and replace him than to make sure he survived. In the American South slaves were more expensive, so they actually wanted them to live. Instead of being a disposable workforce they were basically treated as farming equipment. It was also beneficial if they had children (since they could sell them), so the South purchased more women. For the Portuguese it wasn’t worth waiting for the kids to grow up.

The Portuguese and Spanish also enslaved native Americans but no one seems to talk about that. The mines of Potosi were hellish. I also find it amusing how few people are aware that the plains tribes also participated in the slave trade (of captives).

American slaves were treated better because they grew Tobacco. Tobacco was a seasonal crop that was relatively low effort.

Sugar was a crop that was a burst of insane labor followed by a dry season. Slaves worked to death during the labor season and literally starved to death during the dry season.

Cotton picking in the 19th century was brutal but still not on the same level as sugar. The ban on the slave trade in 1807 made slaves more valuable but that happened everywhere because the British fleet was stopping slave ships.