random@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agothe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square168fedilinkarrow-up1482file-text
arrow-up1482imagethe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zonerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square168fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 month 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-up14·1 month agoAre you suggesting America isn’t authoritarian?
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month 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-up5·1 month agohow is that different from “an authoritarian state”
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 month 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-up3·1 month agoat least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoUS prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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-up3·1 month agoThe US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions
minus-squarerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agodon’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoThey’re currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoLol, further proof that the word “authoritarian” is just a meaningless snarl word for foreign adversaries.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoThe gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.
minus-square_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoAre you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoidk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoAnd does that apply to when transphobes decide that trans people being real is “misinformation”?
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoNo, because it’s not. Truth is not subjective.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoFor future reference if you find yourself saying this phrase you’ve already lost the argument
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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?
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.
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
Lol, further proof that the word “authoritarian” is just a meaningless snarl word for foreign adversaries.
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?
idk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community
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