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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Highest prison population w/ privately owned prisons, besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be a oligarchy, not a dictatorship.

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

So you admit the US has the same form of governance that Russia has? Also you could argue that all parliamentary ‘democracies’ are oligarchies or as Marx said ‘dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.

Is there any state, current or historical, that was not a dictatorship according to this metric?

Edit: ignore the question, I noticed the Stalin profile pic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dollar rules in the US. That is 100% true and is definitely not a good system. However, that doesn't make it a dictatorship unless you consider money to be their dictator.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money cannot be a a dictator, it’s just pieces of paper with value, however the people who hoard it in massive amounts and use it to exert influence on the system, resulting in laws that favor them and their companies, are.

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

That's an oligarchy, not a dictatorship.

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

It’s capitalism’s natural evolution, it happens in every capitalist country, regardless if it brands itself as social democratic, parliamentary democracy, etc.