• nomy@lemmy.zip
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      I’ll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state.

      Do you think it is?

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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

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          at least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig

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              don’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough

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                They’re currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous

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              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

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

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