• cdf12345@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    You forgot to include the chance of sweet sweet death from falling out of a window in the comparison.

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      4 months ago

      Oligarchs shoving each other off balconies is a post-Soviet capitalist Russian Federation thing.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      You might be surprised to know that the comparison is missing a critical piece - chance of imprisonment is way higher in the USA than in the USSR. The much referred by poorly understood GULAG system, at it's height, when it was literally housing Nazi prisoners of war from Germany who entered Russia, still housed less prisoners per capita than the USA does during peace time.

      There's another piece missing from the comparison as well, which is how many people per capita are homeless in the USA and how many per capita were homeless in the USSR, but I can leave that as an exercise for the reader.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      ? what are you referencing?

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 months ago

      I mean yeah it would be great to highlight how apartment construction quality is severely lacking in the USA compared to the USSR, but if you wanted to list all of the Ls that the USA takes the meme would be a mile long