random@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agothe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1452arrow-down154file-text
arrow-up1398arrow-down1imagethe us is an authoritarian statelemmy.blahaj.zonerandom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square121fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down4·9 hours agoI’ll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state. Do you think it is?
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 hour agoThey have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·8 hours agowhy prison pop is so high then?
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agohow is that different from “an authoritarian state”
I’ll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state.
Do you think it is?
They have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined
why prison pop is so high then?
Money.
how is that different from “an authoritarian state”
Oh its worse.