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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Free as in Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Free labor is the cornerstone of US economics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

The drive of capitalism is to make slaves and kings

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Land of the unpaid

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You don't have to be in prison to be a prisoner

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Insert "Hey Jarvis" meme here

"Would you like to hear about the Panopticon Effect and its role in maintaining the Ideological State Apparatus?"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Largest prison population SO FAR.

Those numbers are gonna go waay up soon.

Also if you count the nazi concentration camps then those were probably bigger but idk the number of US prisoners so enlighten me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Also, raw produce numbers don’t really represent reality. Number of incarcerated persons per capita is a much better measurement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

which is also off the charts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We're at #5 worldwide with 541 per 100,000.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

China is #132. Iran #65. Russia is #33 with an even 300. So the US is nearly doubling fucking Russia's incarceration rates. although idk how that would change if you'd include the number of people falling out of windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

And even more now with prop 36 passing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I expect it will, but does that ranking hold true on a per capita basis?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

#5 worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Both things can be true. America is proof of this. Our freedom is the reason we ended up with the stupid fascist president two times. We had a (mostly) free and fair election and we used that to be really, really dumb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Our freedom is the reason we ended up with the stupid fascist president two times.

Nope. Blind belief that a 1700s system would adequately protect the will of the people against 21st century bad actors including the kinds of mega corporations that didn't exist for decades if not a century after the founding.

We had a (mostly) free and fair election

Nope. Very far from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We had a (mostly) free and fair election

Things said only by the the absolute muricabrained.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

muricabrained

Things said only by unserious people not worth trying to have a good faith conversation with 😅