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Swerving into flamewar like this is not ok on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: we've had to ask you this multiple times before-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28885166 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28319175 (Aug 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26613766 (March 2021)

Which ones are truly authoritarian?

Russia and China both have authoritarian governments.

https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2024

That’s just a bunch of statements made by people in the US.. Maybe you should ask the Chinese and Russians for a list and compare lol.

I appreciate what you’re saying here, but it’s impossible to view the opinions of residents of an authoritarian state as unbiased and unaffected observers.

They know they cannot possibly openly share their opinions without the potential for severe penalty. This is exactly why Putin did what he did to Alexei Navalny; it reminds the populace to keep the opinions to themselves or die in the most horrible way possible.

The Chinese and the Russians could say the exact same thing about you and be just as convincing.

Trump and Biden are fucking useless and shouldn’t be in office. I think they both should be banned from the office of the president.

While we’re at it: George W. Bush is a war criminal and should be tried at The Hague.

Obama was the best Republican president we’ve ever had.

See? No.

What are you, waiting for a Chinese person to come here and post things about Xi? All you are practically doing is clowning around with those statements. Try doing what Assange did and see where that gets you lol.

And you don't think that what happened to some folks that said/did stuff that displeased the US and UK rulers might have a similar effect on their population? Like, for example, what happened to Julian Assange?

> Putin did what he did to Alexei Navalny

Using this logic we can say that Trump did what he did to Epstein?

Yes. Absolutely.

I think the country that imprisons the highest proportion of its own population in the world ought to qualify, but this list doesn't think so. Interesting.

Is it possible that they just commit more crimes?

Clearly it's not enough of a deterrent and we need harsher punishments, like prison camps in Alaska with a threatening name like "gulag".

So if a country has laws written by democratically elected bodies - and people break those laws, they shouldn't be imprisoned if the law calls for it?

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