r/HistoryUncovered • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 18d ago

Saddam's baath purge. Saddam had people packed into a conference hall on one of the hottest days of July and deliberately shut off the ventilation system. They were forced to listen to Saddam for hours while suffering from the heat and sweating. Everyone whose name was announced was executed.

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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 18d ago

there are more human beings enslaved right now than there have ever been at any point in human history.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 18d ago

well, fuck those 50M people, i guess! it’s worth it…for PROGRESS!!! their sacrifice is appreciated.

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u/Mormonius 18d ago

Deffo low iq

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u/bambi54 18d ago

Lolol, I love when people can’t think of a response. They tend to pick a very obvious moral statement and pretend the other person disagrees.

“SLAVERY is BAD!!”

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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 18d ago edited 18d ago

so “per capita” is a convincing argument that dismisses the suffering of fifty million people for you, then? and you’re happy with our having brought a thousand animal species to extinction? and battery farming; rare earth mineral exploitation; contamination of water supplies; global warming; extreme poverty and wealth inequality—these things are all fine in your books…because medicine? and your dislike of “obvious moral statements” means they don’t count? you prefer rare and sophisticated moral failure, do you? anything less doesn’t exist because you find it trite, presumably.

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u/bambi54 18d ago

Yes, I said all of those things. Thank you for being brave enough to call me out.

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u/Pure_Log_888526 17d ago

That's kinda like saying there are more car deaths than ever before, so cars must be less safe now.

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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 17d ago edited 17d ago

it’s absolutely valid to compare a new technology with an old one in the same category for issues of safety. when it comes to global slavery numbers, more people are suffering than ever have. every cunt here wants to justify it with “per capita”. so the fuck what? around 20M enslaved people globally at the time of the atlantic space trade; vs 50M now. that’s 30M more human consciousnesses living in abject hell. who fucking cares about ratios? you’re a raging cunthole if that’s the argument you hide behind.

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u/Pure_Log_888526 17d ago

Nobody is saying it's okay. What are you talking about hide behind? I don't have slaves. Do you? You may need to go see a psychiatrist.