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In reply to the discussion: If you don't think we're already living in a police state, consider this. [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It's interesting how white, established liberals so easily diminish the true problems in society by woefully inflating their own problems. There's a joke about a first world problems or white girl problems - and this fits it. In a true police state, if you said what you said, you, your family and maybe even anyone who's ever associated with you, would either be killed or jailed - if not sent off to a labor camp to spend the rest of your life.
My guess is that the biggest problem you faced today is what shirt to wear.
Not a dog on you at all - but reality. It's so easy for liberals living in the godawful United States to proclaim how shitty of a country we are. We're a third world nation! We're a police state! We're on the path to Nazi Germany! We have a 21st Century gestapo!
It's kind of offensive when you think about it and undermines the real atrocities that plague true police states.
Are we 100% free? No - but this idea we always were is a farce. Just look at Kent State in the 1970s or the jailings of civil rights protesters in the 1950s and 60s.
But it doesn't make us a police state.