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> It also gives a road map to more oppressive governments looking for ways to spy on their citizens. This is just sad. Western governments are the oppressive g
by guelo 13y ago
> It also gives a road map to more oppressive governments looking for ways to spy on their citizens.
This is just sad. Western governments are the oppressive governments. That we have the “moral high ground” is a lie that’s been used as a weapon by these same warmongering immoral people that have always been in charge. “American exceptionalism” is an immoral indefensible position.
To still be trying to state that our governments are the only ones morally worth to use these military weapons, after all the revelations of torture, lying into war, detaining people for life without trial, kidnaping, assassinations, spying, etc, is to willfully refuse to break out of the military propaganda that you've been subjected to.
- minimax 13y agoWestern governments are the oppressive governments. If you think Western governments are the oppressive ones, what do you think about the governments of China, Russia, and Iran?
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoThe US has 1.5 times the number of prisoners as China, with 6.3 times as many per capita. The US has 2.5 times the number of prisoners as Russia, with 1.2 times as many per capita. The US has 27.5 times the number of prisoners as the UK, with 5.0 times as many per capita. (Interestingly, China has less prisoners per capita than the UK.) So you can make a lot of points about the relative quality of those prison experiences (and they might be valid points), but in terms of sheer volume of people that are incarcerated by their own government, the US outstrips both China and Russia by a wide margin - in both absolute and per capita terms.