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by boomboomsubban 1789 days ago
>The US government commits far more atrocities on a yearly basis than the private sector ever has

This is one of those claims that's basically impossible to prove. I have no doubt you could link hundreds of constitutional infringements, but at the same time some reports suggest ~25% of workers regularly encounter some form of wage theft.

Or let's use this stories drone strikes as an example. Hale's revelation was that the military vastly underreported the number of civilian deaths to drone strikes. But I don't think private contractors would even be required to publish a bs number of casualties caused (I can't find any reporting requirements, but my search was hardly thorough.) Many private injustices can be very effectively hidden.
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xvector 1789 days ago
> This is one of those claims that's basically impossible to prove.

This is one of those claims that is self-evident after taking a highschool or college level US history class.

Also, wage theft is not nearly on the same scale as literal war crimes.

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boomboomsubban 1789 days ago
>This is one of those claims that is self-evident after taking a highschool or college level US history class

It really isn't. That class should also bring up the Pinkerton's, which is just an example of what shady shit the private sector engages in.

I brought up two examples, wage theft and private military contractors. One of the two very much is the same scale as literal war crimes.

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