[drewcoo]

> in the same way the US isn’t purely capitalist

The US has killed, jailed, blacklisted, and otherwise denied civil liberties to people for having leftist politics. Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not, it's still not safe to be a leftist in the USA.

[krapp]

It's never been safe to be anything but a straight white Christian male in the US, ever since the founding of this great white supremacist Republic.

[cgrealy]

> Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not, it's still not safe to be a leftist in the USA.

I don’t disagree.

Remember that “shocking” scene from the Newsroom years ago where the main character had the audacity to suggest the US wasn’t the freedom-est country in the world?

The rest of the world just nodded and said “yeah, we know”.

[lucozade]

> Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not

It's not. It's got nothing to do with capitalism, pure or otherwise. In fact, I think there's a case for saying that the US state is both very large and highly invasive in people's lives both in, and outside, the USA. And that's a very un-capitalist trait.

[readthenotes1]

As is using government resources to manipulate business proceedings in other countries. The USA was very active in that in the early 1900s.