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[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

You forgot to include the chance of sweet sweet death from falling out of a window in the comparison.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oligarchs shoving each other off balconies is a post-Soviet capitalist Russian Federation thing.

[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

Thankfully, political assassinations and arbitrary violence & murders by state forces would never happen in the freeest Country of the world, because political violence does not belong in America

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 months ago

You might be surprised to know that the comparison is missing a critical piece - chance of imprisonment is way higher in the USA than in the USSR. The much referred by poorly understood GULAG system, at it's height, when it was literally housing Nazi prisoners of war from Germany who entered Russia, still housed less prisoners per capita than the USA does during peace time.

There's another piece missing from the comparison as well, which is how many people per capita are homeless in the USA and how many per capita were homeless in the USSR, but I can leave that as an exercise for the reader.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Putin’s assassinations, I assume, not the us government worker who was dosed with LSD and “fell out” a hotel window

[–] crime@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

I mean yeah it would be great to highlight how apartment construction quality is severely lacking in the USA compared to the USSR, but if you wanted to list all of the Ls that the USA takes the meme would be a mile long