alt2@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGhana abolishes death penalty, with expected reprieve for 176 condemned prisonerswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down11
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minus-squareWilliamTheWicked@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoAs someone from the states, sometimes I’m shocked by how non-progressive the US is.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoI wish I could say I was shocked at this point. Ghana also has universal healthcare for all people within its borders.
minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoThe US is only considered a developed country because of its military.
minus-squareSaneless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoMurder is the worst thing you can do. For doing it, we will murder you So weird
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoAnd sometimes we know you didn’t do it, but we’re going to kill you anyway, because it looks good for our political campaign.
minus-squareWilliamTheWicked@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoAnd sometimes we’ll go ahead and kill you if it’s demonstrable that you can comprehend neither the crime committed or the sentence carried out.
minus-squareRaltoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoIt’s the classic metric issue. A third or so of the country wants America to “lead” and not “follow”. So they resist change they percieve as being pushed on them from outside, no matter how logical or beneficial.
As someone from the states, sometimes I’m shocked by how non-progressive the US is.
I wish I could say I was shocked at this point. Ghana also has universal healthcare for all people within its borders.
The US is only considered a developed country because of its military.
Murder is the worst thing you can do. For doing it, we will murder you
So weird
And sometimes we know you didn’t do it, but we’re going to kill you anyway, because it looks good for our political campaign.
And sometimes we’ll go ahead and kill you if it’s demonstrable that you can comprehend neither the crime committed or the sentence carried out.
It’s the classic metric issue.
A third or so of the country wants America to “lead” and not “follow”. So they resist change they percieve as being pushed on them from outside, no matter how logical or beneficial.