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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 121 points 1 month ago (29 children)
[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Interesting how it's southern states at the top eh?

Can't have anything to do with the fact that the US legally allows prisoner slavery right?

Winder what the race ratio of the prison population is.

This is the country routinely accusing other countries of having "prison camps."

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Interesting how it’s southern states at the top eh?

Legit amazed California wasn't higher on the list. They've been doing mass-incarceration at an industrial scale since the 70s. But I guess the population is big enough that the per-capita statistics work out.

States like Alabama, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have such small and anemic populations and dedicate so much of their domestic budget to incarceration that they're basically giant publicly subsidized slave plantations.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's too hilarious it can't be intentional that the top country not America is El Salvador which is where you're questionably sending all your black and brown people.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nothing more American than privatizing and off-shoring our concentration camps.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The top score would be Gaza tho with 100% of its population being prisoners of Israel.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Israel is trying to zero out that number as quickly as they can.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Statistics are Khammaaaaz!!!

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

UHHH THATS JUST BECAUSE CHINA IS LYING HAHAA YOU REALLY BELIEVE THEIR OWN NUMBERS LOL??? oh third parties provided that data…. UHH WELL THEY DONT HAVE IPHONES AND THEYRE ALL POOR. oh… wait, they do have iphones now and china has a stronger middle working class than the US and canada?

hold on i need to go watch my tv for a couple hours to get a few more talking points but im gonna come back to this post and fucking own you

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 month ago

One is labeled as authoritarian dystopia while the other as a beacon of freedom, it's like we live in the upside down.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago
[–] ScizorCipher@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

Woah watch out. You might offend Red Scare propagandists

[–] veganbtw@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago

ITT: Liberals who assume that evil Chinese MUST be lying about their statistics but the above board whites of the USA are not.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

13th is a really good documentary. Indentured Survitude

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Your brain on for-profit prisons:

[–] bier@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago

Wow China really dropped the ball on this one.

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