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[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Are you suggesting America isn't authoritarian?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

idk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

The gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state.

Do you think it is?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

why prison pop is so high then?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how is that different from "an authoritarian state"

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz -1 points 1 week ago
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Lol, further proof that the word "authoritarian" is just a meaningless snarl word for foreign adversaries.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

at least the us doesn't have concentration camps ig

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

US prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 week ago

Are you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?