• brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The US has a higher proportion of its population in the gulag than North Korea does.

        • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          You pointed out North Korea's prison population as a counter to their superior urban planning to the USA, but they also have a lower prison population.

            • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Lmao cops will open fire on you and any bystanders for petty theft, there may be due process if you live to see court.

              • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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                1 year ago

                I'm not really in the business of sourcing things to users from an instance that is basically a Sealioning factory.

                Ultimately, I will get told I don't understand economics until I've read all three volumes of Das Kapital. Ironically, it's no different that libertarians saying you don't understand economics unless you've read the works of Milton Friedman, or more importantly, Ayn Rand.

                • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  You can't accuse people of sealioning in a conversation you chose to participate in; it's not sealioning to expect you to actually back up your assertion.

                  Ultimately, I will get told I don't understand economics until I've read all three volumes of Das Kapital. Ironically, it's no different that libertarians saying you don't understand economics unless you've read the works of Milton Friedman, or more importantly, Ayn Rand.

                  You literally, not figuratively, just made up an argument to refute. Want to talk about reddit debate fallacies, how about straw men.

                • raven [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  You've spent your life steeped in capitalist ideology, but have you read any socialist theory? Your comments continue to demonstrate your complete ignorance of what we're talking about, so why are you talking about things you fundamentally don't understand? Is something being complicated evidence of it being wrong somehow? Why do you think being given book recommendations is so unreasonable? Do you want to understand us or not? Is your brain too rotted by the internet providing immediate gratification at all times for you to read?

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Ignoring how funny it is to use the russian word for prison in Korea, in America you get gulag and no urban planning

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Where'd I say the DPRK needs prison reform? Hard to assert such a thing without knowing it's actual conditions.

            • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              What does "freedom of the press" mean here in amerikkka? Is it a freedom enjoyed by you or I or any other common person, has it ever been?

              The answer to these questions is no, the freedom of the press is freedom only for those who own the printing presses and that freedom is the freedom to use the press as a megaphone for views and ideas that help them and those in the same class

              It always goes back to the material conditions and who owns the means of production

    • Gelamzer
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      11 months ago

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        • Gelamzer
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          11 months ago

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