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Though he did clarify they don't have a worse police state than the US. He just both-sides it.

Edit - It's a law of hexbear that every discussion must turn into a struggle session. Especially if the discussion involves China.

  • JuneFall [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    either way, i just provided you with a video where someone was put into one of those chairs for even criticizing cops

    I would like to mention that while I am opposed to torture and thus forced lockdowns in chairs like that (also in mental hospitals btw.), the outrage about that video from the western online audience and existence of that video does tell a lot.

    The only thing I want to write about though is that it acts as if the US for example wouldn't have the praxis of punishing people with forced and stress positions - so with other words torture - people, be it in Guantanamo, be it in prison, be it in black sites, be it in jails, be it in police stations, be it in mental hospitals, be it in "private" prisons, be it in orphanages, be it in the Teenage-conversion-industry, be it in Chicagos black sites were they torture people without any liberal-cause at all.

    The chairs are widely used in the US and feature heavily in series of abuses, there are stress position torture, sexual abuses including pretty heavy stuff, forced feeding, general abuse and also murder associated with them.

    I will not talk about that the history of those US restrains is centuries old and did only get marginal better (and for many didn't get better at all), but ask - why is this not common knowledge and where is the just wrath against it?

    Furthermore the US has a history of torture to press out confessions, while the mode changed since the 1930s some police units didn't change much and threats are still essential to the US "penal" system.

    ACAB is very true within the US.