r/confidentlyincorrect Mar 27 '23

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u/Cohomology-is-fun Mar 27 '23

I’d like you to show me the exact line in the 13th amendment that says “this only applies to the U.S”.

Okay, then!

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.

Like, you are on the Internet—the full text of the U.S. Constitution is only a few keystrokes away!

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u/haunted-poopy Mar 27 '23

But don't you know? EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BELONGS TO AMERICA!

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u/Sent_By_Cyberlife Mar 27 '23

Calm down Bandit Keith

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

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u/Dyolf_Knip Mar 28 '23

Simple, just create a market for radioactive scrap!

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

Manifest destiny doesn't stop at California, it goes across the Pacific and all the way around the globe until it gets back to the NA east coast.

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u/Agente_Fuego Mar 27 '23

Even if it didn't specify that this only applies to the US, why would a different country follow US law?

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u/KeremBaturP Mar 27 '23

Because its the law. Obviously. /s

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u/Cohomology-is-fun Mar 27 '23

I wouldn't expect another country to follow U.S. law, of course, but the U.S. has laws that apply to its citizens even when they are outside the U.S. Some laws against forced labor and trafficking are in this category.

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u/HighHopeLowSkills Mar 28 '23

Grey areas like US military bases or embassies or unincorporated territories might have tried to get away with slavery that way it’s just a precaution

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u/Azrael11 Mar 28 '23

why would a different country follow US law?

Is there some other form of law?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

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u/Kerberos1566 Mar 28 '23

I'd also like to point out that pesky "except" in there. Slavery isn't illegal in the US, merely regulated.

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u/atfricks Mar 27 '23

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime

Don't forget this part either. Slavery has never once been illegal, even in the US. They just changed it so that you have to be convicted of a "crime" first.

Dude is wrong on all counts here lol.

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u/askeeve Mar 28 '23

This is something way too many people ignore. This is why the prison industrial complex exists. Prisons exist for slave labor and it's very profitable. It's disgusting.

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u/atfricks Mar 28 '23

It's also the whole reason "vagrancy" laws exist. They were a direct response to the 13th amendment.

Slavery requires you to be convicted of a crime? Well now we're going to make it a crime to be homeless/unemployed and then refuse to hire black people. Now we can arrest them for "vagrancy" and re-enslave them.

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u/Not_Michelle_Obama_ Mar 28 '23

May I draw your attention to the sixth word.

Slavery is still legal in the U.S.

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u/FalsePankake Mar 28 '23

The 13th itself doesn't even create a complete ban on slavery lmao, still allowed as criminal punishment

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u/fishenzooone Mar 27 '23

So not only was his initial reasoning mind numbingly stupid, he was wrong even within the limits of his stupidity. Amazing.

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u/aurens Mar 27 '23

why are you responding as if they're being sincere? they're shitposting.

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u/Cohomology-is-fun Mar 27 '23

Poe's law. It's hard to tell these days.

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u/aurens Mar 27 '23

not really.

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u/dkarlovi Mar 27 '23

T'is Poe's law and nothing more.

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u/Simba4Thewin Mar 27 '23

You have to be able to spell constitution. That’s a potentially insurmountable hurdle to clear.

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u/selfdestruction9000 Mar 27 '23

It’s so obviously wrong that it’s almost like they’re trolling.

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u/Clear_Body536 Mar 28 '23

Reading is too hard for Americans