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It’s not a brutal regime. That’s what the media wants you to believe. Have you lived there and been treated brutally? The US is a brutal regime. Check the incar

It’s not a brutal regime. That’s what the media wants you to believe. Have you lived there and been treated brutally? The US is a brutal regime. Check the incarceration rates.

npteljes 5y ago
Why not both? Checking out one data point, the US is a shade lighter, but they're both in the negative. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-protection https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-protection
bogantech 5y ago
Americans don't throw you out of windows for criticising the President
- johnny22 5y ago
  you mean the American state doesn't (usually) do that. Individuals certainly might though.
- aww_dang 5y ago
  >Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist. >Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office. According to a description of Webb's injuries in the Los Angeles Times, he shot himself with a .38 revolver, which he placed near his right ear. The first shot went through his face, and exited at his left cheek. The coroner's staff concluded that the second shot hit an artery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death >The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. Why should anyone expect justice from a Supreme Court that covers up torture? https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-protect-us-agents-committing-torture https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-prot... If you looked, you could find a full page of citations like this. The difference is who's propaganda bubble you are living inside of. This doesn't excuse Putin or statists anywhere.

It’s not a brutal regime. That’s what the media wants you to believe. Have you lived there and been treated brutally? The US is a brutal regime. Check the incarceration rates.

npteljes 5y ago

Why not both? Checking out one data point, the US is a shade lighter, but they're both in the negative. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-protection https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-protection

bogantech 5y ago

Americans don't throw you out of windows for criticising the President

johnny22 5y ago
you mean the American state doesn't (usually) do that. Individuals certainly might though.
aww_dang 5y ago
>Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist. >Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office. According to a description of Webb's injuries in the Los Angeles Times, he shot himself with a .38 revolver, which he placed near his right ear. The first shot went through his face, and exited at his left cheek. The coroner's staff concluded that the second shot hit an artery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death >The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. Why should anyone expect justice from a Supreme Court that covers up torture? https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-protect-us-agents-committing-torture https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-prot... If you looked, you could find a full page of citations like this. The difference is who's propaganda bubble you are living inside of. This doesn't excuse Putin or statists anywhere.