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minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoThey could finally live in peace and they could reintroduce the slave market in Iran like they did for Libya.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago the US could reintroduce the slave market in Iran
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·2 months agoYou should really look up the amazing freedom US brought to Libya by killing Gadaffi. If you wonder why Iranians are poor it is mostly because America is doing everything it can to cripple the Iranian economy and starve them.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoNATO was involved but the US didn’t kill Qadhafi. The Libyan NTC did that.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoIts not a matter of knowing the history or not (I do), its a matter of using extreme dumb hyperbole (‘slave market’) in trying to make a point. Its bad conversation. And it happen way too often here on Lemmy. This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·2 months agoOh wait you think I am exaggerating. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42038451
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYou need to make the connection that this is U.S. Government-sanctioned slavery. Slavery existed in Africa for hundreds of years (unfortunately). This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·2 months agoThis was not a practice under Gadaffi.
They could finally live in peace and they could reintroduce the slave market in Iran like they did for Libya.
You should really look up the amazing freedom US brought to Libya by killing Gadaffi.
If you wonder why Iranians are poor it is mostly because America is doing everything it can to cripple the Iranian economy and starve them.
NATO was involved but the US didn’t kill Qadhafi. The Libyan NTC did that.
Semantics.
Its not a matter of knowing the history or not (I do), its a matter of using extreme dumb hyperbole (‘slave market’) in trying to make a point. Its bad conversation.
And it happen way too often here on Lemmy.
This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Oh wait you think I am exaggerating.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42038451
You need to make the connection that this is U.S. Government-sanctioned slavery.
Slavery existed in Africa for hundreds of years (unfortunately).
This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This was not a practice under Gadaffi.