alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoIn Capitalist Americalemmy.worldimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1737arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1716arrow-down1imageIn Capitalist Americalemmy.worldalphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·10 hours agoI mean, this isn’t specific to capitalism. Pretty sure north Korea is similar. This is just baseline authoritarianism.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 hours ago Pretty sure north Korea is similar. The NYPD has a bigger budget than the DPRK. And New York hasn’t been under siege by Pennsylvania for the last 80 years.
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoI saw a meme that called Plainclothes Officers “Secret Police” and it made me realize how much we’re all brainwashed.
I mean, this isn’t specific to capitalism. Pretty sure north Korea is similar.
This is just baseline authoritarianism.
The NYPD has a bigger budget than the DPRK. And New York hasn’t been under siege by Pennsylvania for the last 80 years.
I saw a meme that called Plainclothes Officers “Secret Police” and it made me realize how much we’re all brainwashed.