• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    So a guy got imprisoned by the most brutal government in the world. And then he fell into vegetative state. But said government has nothing to do with the vegetative state?

    Do people just do that? Do people just go “eh, I’ve had enough, maybe I’ll just turn my brain off for a while”.

    • Binette@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      No, because the most brutal government in the world is the United States’.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s Israel.

        ‘They used dogs’: New Al Jazeera film exposes Israel’s use of rape in jails

        Former detainees detail systematic torture and sexual violence, including rape, while in Israeli custody.

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          The United States used black children as alligator bait, allowed and encouraged dogs to rip humans’ flesh from their bones and eat it, until they died, made black mothers nurse their infants so whites could play “Hit the N****r Baby” with baseballs that were aimed either at the head, or stomach so they would vomit. This was before portable cameras, microphones and video recording devices were widely available. I’ll posit USA probably did it first.

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        The United States is pretty bad, especially for being a supposedly rich country. But no, it’s not the most brutal.

        Even though I would not travel to the USA under any condition, if I have to choose between USA, north Korea, Iran, or some other random authoritarian country such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, sudan or somalia, I’m going to USA. Even though I’m a non-gay male.

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          Go tell that to the black people living there that have been brutalized for generations. Or maybe to people living in countries that was destabilized by it. This pales in comparison to the contries you named, combined.

          Hell, go see what they did in North Korea during the war.

          Edit: And how could I forget. Go tell that to the indigenous

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            Yeah. Go tell that to the people/slaves of the countries I mentioned.

            As I said, USA is no good, but it’s not the worst.

            You don’t seem to understand the meaning of “worst”.

            “Bad” is absolute and can be judged with just the USA.

            “Worst” is relative and you have to consider the other ones.

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              Maybe KSA, Qatar. Dubai, UAE, are as bad or worse, if you’re poor. Not having resided or visited, it’s pointless speculation.

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              7 hours ago

              You don’t seem to understand the meaning of “worst”.

              The “Worst Country” is the country that the US Media tells us is the worst, as measured by US Think Tanks and US Epsionage Agencies and US Propaganda Mills.

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              8 hours ago

              FYI, the person you’re arguing with is from .ml, so good luck getting them to admit that the us is better than any other country, despite any and all available evidence to the contrary.

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                You people are seriously disgusting. No wonder minorities don’t feel safe in the Fediverse.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Literally, “you registered your account on the wrong instance so you’re the devil”.

                  There is no end to the bigotry in some people’s brains.

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                  Oooh yay! My first encounter of the day with an unhinged ml idiot.

                  Tell me, brainiac, how does pointing out that you’re on an instance known for denying basic reality to make arguments set in a fantasy land about how places like Saudi Arabia (who is actively enslaving people and working them to death to build their stupid mega-boondoggle) is worse than the US make minorities feel unsafe? Or are you mad because you can’t actually support the assertion you’re making with evidence sourced from someplace other than your ass?

                  Edit: you’re just using minorities as a shield for your awful positions.

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                    Naw I’m just gonna show this convo to my brothers and sisters who have dealt with generations of trauma due to American policies lmfao this is crazy.

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                  Brother you are cooked in your own juices. The fediverse is by far the most accepting and diverse large social platform I am aware of. And for somebody from ML to accuse the rest of us of being intolerant is a real hoot. Spin up a new profile on a less psychotic instance and people might be willing to engage with you.

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              And when you compared the atrocities comited, it doesn’t even scale close to everything the US has done and is currently doing.

              Also tell me who’s the one that profits from the slavery in Saudi-Arabia and supports it fully?

              You seriously think I just considered what the US did without comparing it to the other countries you mentioned?