I mean, clearly the system is broken. Putting another dipshit in charge doesn’t even seem like a bandaid, even if it is a Democrat. Like, what, I’m supposed to believe Gavin fucking Newsom or whoever the fuck is going to right the ship and establish checks and balances?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      That wasn’t something all prisons in the Soviet Union did, many soviet prisons were actually more humane than their peers and had visitations or even the ability to leave on certain days. The idea of the brutal forced labor camp being the only form of soviet prison, as though the minority of prisons was the majority, is an example of how the Red Scare took kernals of truth and distorted them heavily.

      Moreover, assuming you’re from Germany based on your instance, your country absolutely had far worse forced labor camps, that was a major feature of the Holocaust. The Soviet Union also had prison reform as well, so I really don’t know what your point is.