• XIIIesq
      link
      fedilink
      English
      7
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      most authoritarian countries

      In the US, 0.7% of the population is in prison. That’s nearly one out of every hundred citizens and the highest per capita of incarcerated citizens in the world. Higher than Russia, higher than China, higher than North Korea.

      Land of the free indeed. Propaganda works.

        • XIIIesq
          link
          fedilink
          English
          41 year ago

          I’m not saying China is great. I’m saying I’m sceptical of a country that throws it’s military power around the world whilst they simultaneously tell us who the enemy is.

          Last time I checked the Chinese didn’t kill 400K+ civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan or sponsor the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

          • @dynamojoe@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -21 year ago

            Does your comment count as “moving the goalposts” (changing the subject from CCP to USA) or an “Appeal to Emotion” (dead civilians) or a strawman argument (USA ‘sponsors’ collective punishment)? I got a bingo card to fill out.

            • XIIIesq
              link
              fedilink
              English
              -11 year ago

              Is there a section about “trust issues”?

      • @SCB@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -2
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        In the US, people vote on laws, and the laws that put so many people in prison were massively popular until we realized “oh fuck there sure are a lot of people in prison and this problem isn’t solved at all.”

        I’ll take people democratically getting things wrong 100% of the time over “authoritarian regime that hasn’t come for you yet”

        So yes, land of the free, and free people sometimes do dumb shit.

        • Jerkface (any/all)
          link
          fedilink
          English
          0
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          This is such a precious yet tortured interpretation. We can all see that you are just stitching together little bits of rhetoric until it goes where you wanted to end up. You might be right, you might be wrong, but whatever you are, it’s a total fucking coincidence.

          • @SCB@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -2
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            This is a description of actual events that actually happened. Nothing in my comment is an interpretation of anything whatsoever.

            If you don’t believe War on Drugs laws like the Crime Bill were popular, that’s simply because you’ve done no research. The 1994 bill now seen as “racist” had 58% support in the minority community, a trend that continued for some time.

            The cool thing about democracy is people can look around and say “oh shit we fucked up.” All you have to do is change enough minds.