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 😎 💕

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      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 🥲

      • scv@discuss.online
        2·
        11 months ago

        You’re welcome! Tankies are idiotic, I don’t understand the appeal, they think they’re edgy or something.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      11 months 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.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      11 months 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.