From the comments section of this clip from the TV show chernobyl
Just came home from christmas 
Refurnished my home 
Sat down for a quick (8 hour) break 
and this was the first that came up. Curious on how the vibe might have changed since the show was released 
I went to the comments and got blitzed 
with instant 
Damn that sucks. I liked the show, but it is very “le soviet union le bad” and normally youtube commenters are either based or deranged. This was just pure reddit 
>falsely imprisoned because the private prisons need to be filled
>earns pennies that they can only spend in the commissary to offset their inedible starvation diet
>works a week to earn a dog treat that doesn’t match the energy they burned to pay for it
>dog treat is immediately stolen by their cellmate, savagely beaten for trying to get it back
>indebted for a century of their wages by the copay of their treatment in the private prison
>
“but I’m one of the good ones”Further evidence to me that that series exists to spread anti-communist brain worms.
Sad because I’d like a good series about Chernobyl. One that points out that for the “biggest nuclear disaster ever”, only 60 deaths occured. Something like 5-10 thousand future diseases. Sounds bad, but don’t google how many deaths occur because of oil though. Or how many thousands of acres are uninhabitable because of coal. Or that the Soviets actually moved people instead of saying “oops, my bad” and leaving people to do it themselves.
Compare that to America. Lived in an area near a superfund site growing up. They buried radioactive waste in the ground (sandy area with no seal btw) and now the aquifer is/was polluted. Even had a kindergarten over the site for a few years until the radium (? I think I was like 7 when it was news) leaked out into the building. Site STILL is a massive white collar office space last I heard.
Granddad help point them to where the barrels were before he retired and died like 6 months later to cancer. He worked there like 40 years. This site wasn’t making power either, it was to nuke people. He said they made nuclear triggers but I know Beryllium was involved somehow.
To top it off, the government was like "yeah that was messed up, we’ll pay you $500k if you prove you got cancer and another $500k if you prove you absorbed so much of X or Y (I think Beryllium and some dose of generic radiation). People who were lifelong smokers got paid, granddad died while they dragged their asses, then the gov was like “oh get a doctor to agree it was likely a factor”. Except all the doctors who worked with him didn’t want to say anything because it was years prior at that point. Granddad and Grandma basically told the inspectors that they’d be happy if they’d pay medical bills (and hospice, etc) and admit they were wrong. But nope nothing.
Meanwhile those poor oppressed soviet peasants were evac’ed, rehomed, and the area marked as no go for the next 200 years (or however long it is). I’d bet there are suburbs in America with a higher radiation dose/hour then Pripyat at this point.
And thats all before looking at the content of the screenshot. If the gov is willing to screw over white middle class workers who are rabidly loyal, why the fuck wouldn’t they be willing to do it to anyone else?
In short, only people living the absolute most insulated lives, or who remain willfully ignorant could believe American lies.
Dopesick is kinda Chernobyl for capitalism
Pantex plant in Amarillo, TX?
The Colorado ballot initiative to make prison labor explicitly illegal as a form of slavery getting completely nullified by a judge comes to mind.
Except you can, because you can be held for months without a conviction in this country, and forced to work ‘for pennies’.
Someone should have told those plantation owners that all they had to do to abolish slavery was given their
slavesfreed employees a penny a week while continuing to hold them involuntarily and dictate every detail of their lives. They’re getting paid, so it’s not slavery, right?in some instances slaves did get paid. people really fucking misunderstand slavery especially american slavery
im not talking about you, i mean in general i totally get the point you are making
Forcing someone to work and giving them no freedoms at all is okay as long as you pay them a completely useless token amount of money! America! Freedom! Democracy! I’ve never heard of any amendments past the first 10! Yay!
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
no you didnt
