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minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-227 days agoOriginally I replied to this: Imagine having a Government that uses political prisoners as forced laborers. It was about political prisoners not general incarcerated population. The aforementioned regimes did hold political prisoners for obvious reasons. Yes crime skyrocketed after the fall of those regimes.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·27 days agoThe US has plenty of political prisoners. Again, it’s not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher.
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·27 days ago The US has plenty of political prisoners Yes. Again, it’s not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher. I don’t know if it’s higher I just think it’s not zero.
minus-squareAria@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·27 days agoBut the people above you didn’t suggest zero, they suggested the officially reported numbers. Earlier it sounded like you were going to make an argument as to why Chinese numbers are more likely to be under-reported than USA numbers.
Originally I replied to this:
It was about political prisoners not general incarcerated population. The aforementioned regimes did hold political prisoners for obvious reasons.
Yes crime skyrocketed after the fall of those regimes.
The US has plenty of political prisoners. Again, it’s not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher.
Yes.
I don’t know if it’s higher I just think it’s not zero.
But the people above you didn’t suggest zero, they suggested the officially reported numbers. Earlier it sounded like you were going to make an argument as to why Chinese numbers are more likely to be under-reported than USA numbers.