it was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

No man a slave

heheh penal labor exists in the us checkmate its the exact same as the gulag system so you cant be critical

What a shit argument.

@Advocatus Diaboli deflection

It's a kind of punishment

Nothing bad here

so was slavery then

here's the thing

a criminal in the US can't be sent to prison for wrongthink

Well Stalin used the penal labor system more for its labor than for penalizing people for committing crimes.

@FLanon true

it's completely different

Wrongthink?

the gulag was a sham

1984 @Advocatus Diaboli

I'm reading and it's really good

it was created fraudulently to mask the fact that they wanted slave labor

Ikr

I've read it

dude

they sent released prisoners of war to the gulags for forced labor

but it's not slavery

you read 1984 and you don't remember wrongthink

Ever heard of filtration camps

I’ve read it too and it’s exactly why I don’t want a fascist government

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I can make 1984 look like a utopia

Most fascists are not totalitarian.

also 1984 was totalitarian

irma is right

I remember wrongthink, doublethink and so on

fascism is not what 1984 was about

Totalitarians are terrible

1984 is closer to Stalinism than fascism by leaps and bounds.

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Wrong

it specifically was written as a response to stalinism

George Orwell was a socialist who was critical of the Soviet Union. And you think he was writing about fascism?

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