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reminder rule (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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edit: GUYS fuck stalin and fuck tankies, period. i understand that this community is more sensitive than most to pro-stalinist vibes, and i apologize for unintentionally twinging that nerve, but you need stop calling each other (and me) slurs

good heavens, happy new year, fuck incarceration and murder in all forms

(mods pls also do your job and help with the slurs thing)

edit2: big thank u 2 da mods for helping with the slurs thing u guys rock 😎 💕

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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm not a tankie, fuck Stalin, but the stat is correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

I don't know how well we know China's figures, though.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i also am not a tankie, fuck stalin, and thank you scv for doing my dirty work for me. tbh i didnt realize how bad it was here and i wouldn’t have posted what i thought was a funny little anti-copoganda meme if i had known. sorry yall 🥲

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    the United States has the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000

    That gives 0.5% of America by my math, which would be 0.02% of the world population. I have no idea where the 22% is coming from, it's off by 3 orders of magnitude.

    Edit: I missed that it said prison population, I thought it was taking overall population.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah, this is like how North Korea technically has the world's highest literacy rate. These statistics specifically exploit the transparency of western democracy on these issues by just lying about their own statistics. Anyone who doesn't think China has at least 2M people jailed is completely delusional. There's likely more than that in their Xinjiang work camps alone.

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