random@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 days agothe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down155file-text
arrow-up1422arrow-down1imagethe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zonerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square171fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGrainne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down8·4 days agoAre you suggesting America isn’t authoritarian?
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoidk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down9·3 days 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-down4·3 days agowhy prison pop is so high then?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·3 days agohow is that different from “an authoritarian state”
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoLol, further proof that the word “authoritarian” is just a meaningless snarl word for foreign adversaries.
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·edit-23 days 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-down1·2 days agoat least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoUS prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days 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-up1arrow-down3·2 days agoThe US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agodon’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoThey’re currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·4 days agoThe gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.
minus-square_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·3 days agoAre you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?
Are you suggesting America isn’t authoritarian?
idk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community
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.
Lol, further proof that the word “authoritarian” is just a meaningless snarl word for foreign adversaries.
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
The gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.
Are you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?