random@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months agothe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square165linkfedilinkarrow-up1489arrow-down155file-text
arrow-up1434arrow-down1imagethe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zonerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square165linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down10·4 months agoI’ll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state. Do you think it is?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·4 months agowhy prison pop is so high then?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·4 months agohow is that different from “an authoritarian state”
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mlBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·4 months agoRemoved by mod
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down6·edit-24 months agoThey have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·4 months agoat least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoUS prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoyeah, ik and I hate both the us and china, I just can’t stand it when people claim that the us is the worse than china, which isn’t true since in the us you at least get free speach and the right to own a gun
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·4 months agoThe US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agodon’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·4 months agoThey’re currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous
I’ll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state.
Do you think it is?
why prison pop is so high then?
Money.
how is that different from “an authoritarian state”
Oh its worse.
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They have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined
at least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig
US prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.
yeah, ik and I hate both the us and china, I just can’t stand it when people claim that the us is the worse than china, which isn’t true since in the us you at least get free speach and the right to own a gun
The US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions
don’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough
They’re currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous