Well yeah, I don't think I need one, it's pretty common knowledge. Yeah they are not Switzerland prisons either not gonna says the stay will be awesome, and tbh it shouldn't be for some motherfuckers...

[–] voight@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If only I could think of a high profile example of a journalist imprisoned in cruel and unusual circumstances in the UK to contradict your "common knowledge".

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔💭

Can you think of anyone off the top of your head? One last chance.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I will be honest not sure, Assange? In any case I was talking about the prisons in general no specific individuals.

[–] voight@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So why doesn't Assange count? "Oh it's fine, he's just an unusual political prisoner, they wouldn't treat ordinary people like me that way."

Yet they haul in random TikTokers now. 3000 mfs arrested over politically incorrect likes and shares calling for an end to war.

So, why doesn't that go for Navalny? The guy talking about going school shooter on fellow citizens? Why is his treatment assumed to be the same as the 400 other people arrested in the whole country?

Assange literally worked with The Guardian and WAPO etcetera to protect NATO intelligence agents and they betrayed him anyways.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Man this thread was about the prisons not Navalni, it has been a while we stopped talking about him.

Yes Assange is another example of lack of freedom of speech. But the idea was an example of Russia on the original comment, which again down here we stopped talking about.

[–] voight@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Russia is an especially bad excuse for anything we do. We ripped up the USSR to create the decaying state which had to be rescued by the current clique of resource nationalists who aren't willing to just let the country collapse completely (those people are not politically aligned with me btw, i root for a different Russian opposition, the communists).

Our media has spun the Russians up into this ludicrous imperialist threat that interferes with our elections meanwhile the Zionists openly make addresses to Congress, Turkish politicians and charter school billionaires are using our fucking government for infighting. We literally have SLAVERY in our prisons

Russia is a peripheral country (lower on the NIKE shoe company supply chain, to make this easy to understand) a common insult in 2017 was that Texas had the same GDP (not that includes debts and rents, the backbone of the US economy, which is why in light of this their nationalized industries are a threat to us (especially military), GDP is inflated and stupid.