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The US is larger than Turkey, but that's irrelevant to the argument; the US locks up a larger percentage of its population than practically any other country on Earth. The US has more people in prison than China, which has 4 times the population.

I'm not denying there's a lot wrong in Turkey, but the US isn't all freedom and democracy either.




Only China knows how many people are in prison/education.

Same as business revenue, which is mostly fake for the outside world.


Are you counting re-education camps and capital punishments? Pretty sure China will surpass most of the rest combined.


Quite possibly. But still, I don't think "not as bad as China" is a sufficiently high bar for what was once supposed to be the greatest democracy in the world and a champion for freedom.


We Americans hate the autocrític. Good argument




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