| > Mostly political prisoners, you can't say anything negative about the government. Have you ever heard about the US UNICORE program [0]? In some US prisons participation in UNICORE is mandatory for parole review and sometimes even part of the course to pre-release for prisoners. The UNICORE program consists of inmates manufacturing equipment for the US military for a pay that no free human being would ever accept for the work. Now, imagine you are somebody who opposes the US military, who's aware of the MIC, and thus part of your political convictions is not supporting an expansionist and aggressive military. What do you think is gonna be the outcome there? Exactly, people who will stick to their political convictions will be denied a way to be released early, and sometimes even released at all. Something that has been going on for literally decades, yet US Americans will gladly regurgitate the claim how "There are no political prisoners in the US!". [1] > You only get about 1lb of meat a month. Literally I will eat 1 month's of food in a single meal. That's not something to brag about, particularly when looking at what lengths US producers go to get the "meat" even cheaper, involving such tasty sounding additives like "pink slime", which is just rotten meat freshened up with ammonia or feeding the livestock questionable additives like Ractopamine. None of that is good or a reason to brag about, particularly as the US beef sector is heavily subsidized by the US government, so it's not even a good example for a "free market" [2]. > Why does communism(or whatever name) always seem to come with full employment and government slaves in gulags? It doesn't [3], but when you decide to label anything "communism" you don't like, while then projecting problems the US has on those places, it's no surprise that you end up seeing "communism" everywhere. While ignoring realities that don't fit into your definition. Case in point: The country with the most and biggest gulags, some of them even privately owned and operated, locking up people at higher rates than any other place, is not Japan, Cuba or Greece, it's still the United States of America [4]. [0] https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/unicor_about.js... [1] https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... [2] https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/animal-food-industry-ta... [3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/marinaleda-spa... [4] https://eji.org/news/united-states-still-has-highest-incarce... |