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Is this the so called "Land of the free"?
Yes, it is the country with the 5th highest incarceration rate on the planet, and the ~~second~~ highest total prison population
"Look guys, the people are really all ate up about this slavery thing...I know, stupid....but anyway, what if we instead allowed slavery as punishment for a crime and then just started locking the poors up?"
"My god man, thats brilliant! Why, if we do that we dont even have to pay for their care ourselves! We can even put that expense on the poor people through taxes, thus increasing the chance that they will end up in jail and be available for slave labor!!"
"Dude, I know!! We wont even be forced to enslave people of a certain color, we'll be able to enslave anyone!!!"
"But what if we dont have enough criminals to leverage?"
"Thats the best part! We make the laws so as long as we always have an easy way to lock people up, we'll have more slaves than we ever had before the 13th amendment got passed!"
"God bless these United States!"
Hey now, don't undersell them. Americans have always got to be #1 after all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Oh shit, I saw a bad source that said China was at 2 mil and thought "that makes sense, there's like 4 times as many people there so the number would be higher"
And it isn't even higher there lmao I hate my country
You're missing the asterisk with a footnote saying, "If you're a rich white male."
"They're Free to ask the right questions!!!"