We should stop calling it “the west” then.
It’s always been a ridiculous name for a group that includes Australia, Europe, and USA.
We should think of a new name…
Likely referring to the millions of people who are subjected to forced prison labor either without pay or for less than $1 an hour by for-profit prisons. This system has direct historical roots in the chattel slave economy, and even served as a direct drop-in replacement for chattel slaves on the very same plantations after the 13th amendment prohibited slavery except as punishment for a crime.
To this day the profit motive creates a perverse incentive for the owners of for-profit prisons to fight against efforts to reduce recidivism, since recidivism is good for their business. Our prison system serves not to rehabilitate, or even to punish, but rather to exploit the waiver of prisoners’ rights that is enshrined in our constitution for profit.
Ahh yeah, because people in China aren’t free, they’re all slaves. Same with Russia. And all of the Middle East.
Westerners just have for the lowest wages their companies will pay them because if they don’t they’ll become destitute. Certainly not coercive.
Hey yo, isn’t there a little exception in our “abolishing of slavery”? I wonder why we have such a large percentage of prisoners here in America, compared to the rest of the world.
Go ahead, visit China and talk to anyone you see about how much you don’t like Xi Jinping, maybe even compare him with Winnie the Pooh.
Especially helpful if you do that to government officials.
Then, if you still can, visit Russia and go around telling people you are gay and that the war has to stop.
But, yeah, the US is also slowly working it’s way out of the list of free democratic countries, no question about that, I am lucky to live in Europe for that reason.
Japan and South Korea aren’t in Asia? I’d certainly count them as “western”, especially Japan. if I’m feeling especially generous I might provisionally include Brazil too.
We should stop calling it “the west” then.
It’s always been a ridiculous name for a group that includes Australia, Europe, and USA.
We should think of a new name…
The Last States of Democracy
Nice acronym
Kingdom of the billionaires.
They actually own a pretty small fraction of the total stuff.
I mean, obviously it’s grotesquely large proportionately, but they amount to <2000 individuals in a region of well over a billion.
Sure but they have all the power to influence what happens.
The free world maybe?
How do you explain this to the slaves in USA?
“The US is an enemy of the free world, just look at this Lemmy thread!” (that we’re currently in)
we know tbh
The who?
Likely referring to the millions of people who are subjected to forced prison labor either without pay or for less than $1 an hour by for-profit prisons. This system has direct historical roots in the chattel slave economy, and even served as a direct drop-in replacement for chattel slaves on the very same plantations after the 13th amendment prohibited slavery except as punishment for a crime.
To this day the profit motive creates a perverse incentive for the owners of for-profit prisons to fight against efforts to reduce recidivism, since recidivism is good for their business. Our prison system serves not to rehabilitate, or even to punish, but rather to exploit the waiver of prisoners’ rights that is enshrined in our constitution for profit.
Just kick out the “freest” country
Because if ya ain’t white, you can’t be free!
https://lemmy.world/post/26195831
What’s your point?
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The Free World
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Ahh yeah, because people in China aren’t free, they’re all slaves. Same with Russia. And all of the Middle East.
Westerners just have for the lowest wages their companies will pay them because if they don’t they’ll become destitute. Certainly not coercive.
Hey yo, isn’t there a little exception in our “abolishing of slavery”? I wonder why we have such a large percentage of prisoners here in America, compared to the rest of the world.
Ever heard of prisoner leasing?
Free world my ass.
There’s stops between free and enslaved. Seeing as we’re talking about not including the US, I think I’ll stand by it being freer.
Go ahead, visit China and talk to anyone you see about how much you don’t like Xi Jinping, maybe even compare him with Winnie the Pooh. Especially helpful if you do that to government officials.
Then, if you still can, visit Russia and go around telling people you are gay and that the war has to stop.
But, yeah, the US is also slowly working it’s way out of the list of free democratic countries, no question about that, I am lucky to live in Europe for that reason.
What is this, 2010?
the empire
the Imperial Core is already a more descriptive name, methinks
I guess “NATO and friends” might be a bit shortsighted?
NATO and Friends sounds like some Paw Patrol type cartoon.
There’s also Canada, NZ, South America, a lot of Africa and Asia
No country in South America, Africa or Asia is part of “the west”.
I admit I forgot Canada and New Zealand, as is tradition.
Japan and South Korea aren’t in Asia? I’d certainly count them as “western”, especially Japan. if I’m feeling especially generous I might provisionally include Brazil too.
The point was to stop using the term the west, because there’s a lot more
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