Hexbear

2 points

1 year ago

most authoritarian country on the planet

Are you by chance familiar with countries that kill LGBTQ people, beat women who don’t cover their hair, and kill drug addicts?

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cosecantphi [he/him]@hexbear.net

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9 points

1 year ago

Are you familiar with the sheer scale of destruction and death the United States has wrought on the rest of the world in its imperialist adventures? Nothing anywhere else in the modern day even comes close.

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OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM

7 points

1 year ago

Theyre talking about the US, of course they are. Well, the US just beats women without hair coverings coming into it, but the point stands.

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1 point

1 year ago

What are you even talking about? I know of no such instance, at least at the systemic level.

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OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM

8 points

1 year ago

Well, I’m sorry you’re ignorant about stochastic terrorism against lgbt people in the US, the epidemic of domestic violence facing women in the US, and the war on drugs.

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1 point

1 year ago

I am gay and have friends who are trans. Yes, I am well aware of stochastic terrorism against LGBTQ people, as well as how right wing politicians are exploiting nutcases to get votes at the expensive of our safety. Domestic violence I find perplexing. It happens, but it’s illegal and there are many institutions trying to tackle it. The US is far from the worst here, especially considering many countries still don’t recognize domestic violence as a real thing.

The war on drugs is bad, but the US has a set of policies that are left over from the 1990’s when things were really bad and no one really knew what to do. Even Black leaders went along with them, since their neighborhoods were the ones that were actually affected by the crime wave. Fortunately, we are seeing the slow unwinding of these polities. Now, compare the US’s war on drugs to Singapore (death penalty for drug trafficking) or Dirty Deuterty’s free-for-all on anyone who was even alleged to be a drug addict. Decisions by SCOTUS have limited the death penalty to murder only, and even then it is being slowly abolished.

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OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM

2 points

1 year ago

Okay, cool, youre defending the violence of the current regime. Gotcha.

Also the US is literally why singapore is like that, crack open a history book.

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1 point

1 year ago

Okay, cool, youre defending the violence of the current regime. Gotcha.

Nope. I’m saying that the original claim - that the US is the most authoritarian government in the world - is incredibly ridiculous.

Also the US is literally why singapore is like that, crack open a history book.

I don’t have an in depth history of every law of every country. That said, I did some searching and I found no real connections besides the underlying law being passed at the same time Nixon started the War on Drugs. But even if the US’s War on Drugs inspired Singapore’s laws, to blame that on the US denies agency to the government and people of Singapore.

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