• sgnl@midwest.social
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    1 hour ago

    If you don’t like the word authoritarian why did you use it? And why did you get defensive when someone agreed with your image.

    Even sarcastically I don’t see what you goal here was. To say the us and the soviet union are similarly inhumane? Or the us is slightly worse?

    Ok, and?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      56 minutes ago

      I was being sarcastic and poking fun at people using it. Congrats on taking the bait. What the picture says is that the US which libs championed as a ‘free and enlightened society’ in the 90s was incarcerating more people than USSR did during Stalin years. Rate of incarceration in USSR dropped significantly after that while it remains as high as ever in the US today.

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        48 minutes ago

        What the picture says <insert data missing entirely from the picture>

        …?

        ‘edgy undeveloped brains’

        Congrats on taking the bait.

        Lol aight man, you win, there definitely no projections and hallucinations here.