Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world

• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hold on. I’m not defending anything. I am outright stating that we are doing this.

  Our prison system is atrocious. It’s third world. It’s absolutely terrible.

  What country are you from?

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  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, because it uses slavery lol. We aren’t talking about my country, we’re talking about America, which is currently aiding a genocide in the middle east, and starting multiple wars this year alone, all while using slavery for manual labor.

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    • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We don’t use slavery for manual labor. That’s an extreme exaggeration of what’s happening in a small number of prisons in a handful of states.

      If you’d like to discuss wage inequality or the wealth gap, I’m happy to do that—but it’s a different conversation than the one we’re having here.

      So why aren’t we talking about your country?

      I think I understand why you won’t answer. There are only two possibilities: either you’re from America, in which case you’re applying a double standard, or you’re from another country with its own serious problems, in which case you’re hardly in a position to lecture anyone.

      There isn’t a single country on Earth, past or present, that hasn’t committed moral wrongs or isn’t currently grappling with serious moral failings. That doesn’t excuse them, but it does mean criticism should be applied consistently rather than selectively.

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      • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We don’t use slavery for manual labor. That’s an extreme exaggeration of what’s happening in a small number of prisons in a handful of states.

        No, you literally do, in most states. Honestly if you just deny reality like this much more I’m just not gonna entertain your bullshit.

        So why aren’t we talking about your country?

        Because this thread is about America being a shit hole.

        I think I understand why you won’t answer. There are only two possibilities: either you’re from America, in which case you’re applying a double standard, or you’re from another country with its own serious problems, in which case you’re hardly in a position to lecture anyone.

        No, it’s because this thread is about America being a shit hole.

        Wrong on both of your assumptions.

        There isn’t a single country on Earth, past or present, that hasn’t committed moral wrongs or isn’t currently grappling with serious moral failings. That doesn’t excuse them, but it does mean criticism should be applied consistently rather than selectively.

        K, and this thread is about America being a shit hole.

        Your attempt to steer the conversation away from America using slavery as a punishment is pathetic. Are we done here?

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