• Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Is that a Lib thing now? When I was growing up in a super rural conservative area I always heard if you don’t like America you’re free to leave. Like progressive change is a cancer or something.

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            Libs are just conservatives at heart who like to think they’re progressive so yeah that checks out.

            Instead of improving our country, these two groups tell you to go elsewhere.

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      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.

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        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.