random@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agothe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square165linkfedilinkarrow-up1490arrow-down155file-text
arrow-up1435arrow-down1imagethe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zonerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square165linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down11·1 year agoIf the point of a community is spreading misinformation, you have a moral obligation to distract from the point of the community
minus-squareGrainne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down9·1 year agoAre you suggesting America isn’t authoritarian?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·1 year agoThe gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoidk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down10·1 year 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-down4·1 year agowhy prison pop is so high then?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agohow is that different from “an authoritarian state”
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mlBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoRemoved by mod
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down6·edit-21 year 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-down2·1 year agoat least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig
minus-square[deleted] in lemmy@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoUS prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year 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-down3·1 year agoThe US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agodon’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoThey’re currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous
minus-square_cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·1 year agoAre you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·1 year agoAnd does that apply to when transphobes decide that trans people being real is “misinformation”?
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoNo, because it’s not. Truth is not subjective.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoFor future reference if you find yourself saying this phrase you’ve already lost the argument
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoCool, but idk since the truth isn’t subjective and the truth is I’m right.
If the point of a community is spreading misinformation, you have a moral obligation to distract from the point of the community
Are you suggesting America isn’t authoritarian?
The gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.
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.
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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
Are you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?
And does that apply to when transphobes decide that trans people being real is “misinformation”?
No, because it’s not. Truth is not subjective.
Lmao, my sweet summer child.
For future reference if you find yourself saying this phrase you’ve already lost the argument
Cool, but idk since the truth isn’t subjective and the truth is I’m right.
Nuh uh