this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
1058 points (89.8% liked)

Memes

45731 readers
1075 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All existing countries are police states, it's not a useful term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disagree.

In fact I find it is a better measure of oppressive goverment than most indicators.

What you really mean to say is most goverments are oppressive and authoritarian. Show me a country with a large prison population and I will show you an authoritarian country.

Please see the zapatistas. For non police state goverment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

How is it a useful measure of oppressive governments when it applies to all of them?

The Zapatistas are not a state government and they do police their territory.