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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Did they shoot and kill as many as in Tiananmen or less?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Translation: Threats of violence are fine for a government to regularly make as long as no one has died.

Not authoritarian at all

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If your basis for ethical governance is splitting hairs about relative body count, stop, go back, you fucked up. But also: give them a minute. It's the cops we're talking about here. They might be a little slow, but they'll get the job done eventually.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

... I'd say the body count for which your government murders you is pretty damn relevant without splitting hairs lmfao.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Emphasis "relative". The US govt and agents thereof (read: police) murder and brutalize often enough, and even get quite upset when people get upset over their doing it. That's why I say it's splitting hairs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bro we can all tell you’re just looking for excuses to justify government violence when it suits you.

You can pull the mask off now, we know what you are.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As far as i know the US state kills about thousand people each year on US soil

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Many police department don't report the deaths of people due to their actions or in their custody to any sort of national database as well, so estimates are likely undercounting. Corruption is rampant in departments as well, there have been cases of people dying and being buried by police without informing the family or anyone else.

So it's likely much worse than we realize. Many murders are unsolved, there are many missing people cases also unsolved. In 2020, there were dozens of people reported missing that were involved in protests that were never found.