• mustardman
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. They would find it hilarious that the meme this was based on thinks that North Korea is a bastion of freedom.

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        1 year ago

        Ok. I’m sure citizens in the gulag care how good the zoning committee is.

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            1 year ago

            Both are bad systems. What are you trying to accomplish here?

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              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.

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                The difference being there is a modicum of due process in the US.

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                    1 year ago

                    Every arrest isnt a homicide. It is problematic, but let’s not exaggerate.

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                    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.

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            1 year ago

            So you agree both the US and North Korea prison systems need reform.

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                1 year ago

                “Without knowing it’s actual conditions”

                Exactly, there is no freedom of the press there, ya know, like an autocracy.

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                  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