https://archive.is/wGp2F

So slavery as indentured servitude is the American future. Way to “new model” the old model.

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    The USSR didn’t have any limits to choosing an employment

    I’m sorry, do you seriously think the USSR lacked classes/stratification?

    and people weren’t forced to work anywhere

    Yeah if you ignore the Gulag system you can make a lot of the USSR sound utopian.

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      And the US still has millions of slaves to this day, completely legally. We use slaves to fight forest fires. How fucked up is that? Hell, the modern US has managed to create the absurd phenomenon of the full-time employed homeless person. Oh, and and the peak of the USSR? The US trapped millions of people in a hellish nightmare of a legally induced racial caste system.

      If you ignore the slavery, the homeless working multiple jobs, and the US’s historic racial caste system, you can make the US sound utopian.

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        I challenge you to point out where I praised the US. I’ll be super impressed if you can.

        This is a flagrant whataboutism. The US’s history of enslavement and atrocities don’t undo those of the USSR.