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The United States has many political prisoners. Here’s a list | MR Online (mronline.org)
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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

These don’t count, silly.

When the US does it, each case is an individual, isolated, aberrant deviation from the norm, indicative of no pattern.

When “authoritarian” states do it, that’s completely different. Each of those cases is indicative of the malevolent norm.