[bentt]

I mean on one hand we can do better but on the other, last I checked there's not been a time where citizens were hauled off to prison in the US for disparaging capitalism. Closest we came was the red scare in the 50s and that was tame in comparison to what Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and Castro and Ho Chi Minh and (do I need to keep going?) put their subjects through.

[skyyler]

>there's not been a time where citizens were hauled off to prison in the US for disparaging capitalism

There is a time where American citizens are hauled off to prison to do slave labour. That time is right now.

[bentt]

For disparaging capitalism?

[skyyler]

In many cases, for nothing at all! Fabricated charges are extremely common in the American southeast.

[gottorf]

Extraordinary claims require evidence.

[bentt]

Again, the US is not perfect. This doesn't invalidate my point in the top level comment.