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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

when you end up playing apologist for one of the small handful of major modern justice systems that was worse than the US prison system

Tankies are truly inexplicable.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One if my former bosses was sent to a gulag as a teenager. He committed no crimes as far as anyone knew. Soviet justice was often a farce.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The creators of their system believed that if they have to imprison a 100 innocents in order to catch one guilty person, their work is justified.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago