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"Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse" (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/slop@hexbear.net
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Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors. What do you think?

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[–] 58 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Yeah like what the fuck? can someone with an account tell this person that the U.S. has, and has had for decades, the world's largest prison population both in absolute numbers as well as proportion of the population

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Doesn't Honduras have a higher incarceration rate? Last time I checked in Wikipedia it said Honduras and Cuba are higher by their rates. (obviously taking the Cuba one with a pinch of salt because the source is a Western NGO)

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The last breakdown I saw, only El Salvador had an incarceration rate to rival the US. It even broke down the union and listed each state individually, so the top thirty incarcerates were all US states, then El Salvador, then the rest of the US states and only then did other countries start appearing on the list.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    US used to be the highest, I believe it peaked in the early 2000s? As soon as they took the gas out of the "War on Drugs" machine it really plateau'd

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    Much like capital grows until its own contradictions push it outward to the imperial periphery, it seems the war on drugs met a critical point where it could only survive by expanding to LatAm and transforming into the avatars of neoliberalism like Bukele. But also the recent excursion against Venezuela was justified using "war on drugs" rhetoric.

    The punitive justice programs of dead generation weigh on the brains of the living like nightmares.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago*

    Empire of Borders gives some insight into this, that's around the same time that border policing transformed into a series of South-facing borders trained up by US immigration enforcement and build by US security contractors.

    The war on drugs is also a series of South-facing enforcement operations, operated in close connection with the US.

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