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I think things like this do have a place, but need to work in teams of a sort.
Hyperbole works to rile people up and gain attention to a topic as long as your correction still demonstably looks worse than America. For example “Yeah this is an exaggeration but current modern american prisons do kill more than the gulag did [sources etc].”
The response “oh shit that’s bad” and the original hyperbole doesn’t undermine it.
This obviously hinges upon a good number of people being able to do the correction though.
If you described Guantanamo Bay to a naive kid who just graduated high school back in the 90s, I’d call your claims wildly hyperbolic and would dismiss you as incredulous.
If you waxed poetic about the relatively humane and egalitarian Soviet prison system, I’d call you a Konfusnik and politely ask you to leave my company. Then I’d find out where you worked and try to get you fired. Or SWAT you, as a joke.
The important thing is that I’d demonstrate a fierce blind loyalty to the United States of America, the best country on God’s Green Earth. Because I know better than to trust anything you might say to the contrary.
Its just not something reasonable people would find credible.
